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  • Seishin
    Member
    • Aug 2016
    • 1522
    #31
    Lovely talk Jundo. I wonder are there any chants for the vegetable garden. I've been preparing our veg plot over the last few weeks and try to treat it as samu. Hopefully I'll be planting seeds and seedlings at the weekend so wondered if there were suitable verses. Just a little off topic. But ...

    Bringing it back a little can someone recommend a source .for Buddha images and their names. We have a collection of about 18 figures in and around the house. There's a few who I'm not sure who they represent. Web trawls haven't been to forth coming but thought someone here could help.

    Or I could just take some pics and post a "Name That Buddha" contest.


    Seishin

    精 Sei - Meticulous
    神 Shin - Heart

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      • Jundo
        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
        • Apr 2006
        • 40772
        #32
        Originally posted by Seishin-Do
        Lovely talk Jundo. I wonder are there any chants for the vegetable garden. I've been preparing our veg plot over the last few weeks and try to treat it as samu. Hopefully I'll be planting seeds and seedlings at the weekend so wondered if there were suitable verses.
        TNH has a couple of Gatha ...

        Watering the Garden The sunshine and the water have brought about this luxurious vegetation. The rain of compassion and understanding can transform the dry desert into a vast fertile plain.

        Gardening Earth brings us to life and nourishes us. Earth takes us back again. We are born and we die with every breath.

        Dogen had some more elaborate instructions for the Garden Manager of the temple, an important role so all don't starve. Very much like is instructions for the cook!

        Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community
        https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=N6oCU4-Yap8C&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=zen+planting+garden+chant&source=bl&ots=Oh2z3SPJMa&sig=CQJjbxvTb0FtsBWonW-KyB_bX1Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZjN6v3eLTAhXFfbwKHT7CCmoQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=zen%20planting%20garden%20chant&f=false
        This is a complete translation of Eihei Shingi, the major writing by the Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) on monastic practice and the role of community life in Buddhism. Dogen was the founder of the Soto branch of Japanese Zen, but his teaching was not limited by any particular school of Buddhism. His writings are generally regarded today as a great summit of Japanese Buddhist philosophy, meditation practice, psychology, and poetic insight into the nature of reality. Eihei Shingi contains Dogen's principal guidelines and instructions for everyday life and rituals in the monastic training center he established. Included are a collection of dramatic teaching stories, or koans, on the attitude and responsibilities for practitioners in the community, the only collection of traditional koans with this practical focus. In addition to the translation, the book includes detailed annotation, a substantial introduction, glossaries of Japanese technical terms and persons mentioned, and lineage charts, all providing relevant background in historical and religious context.


        More on Doji and Ryuten here.

        Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community
        https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=XJHAOIzUv_QC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=ryuten+and+doji+earth+temple&source=bl&ots=EmmQFO-NF3&sig=bszoA9dAzBVGnxHC2f8dY4w0c2c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn2LTL3uLTAhUJUrwKHa4gCJoQ6AEIPjAD#v=onepage&q=ryuten%20and%20doji%20earth%20temple&f=false
        This is a complete translation of Eihei Shingi, the major writing by the Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) on monastic practice and the role of community life in Buddhism. Dogen was the founder of the Soto branch of Japanese Zen, but his teaching was not limited by any particular school of Buddhism. His writings are generally regarded today as a great summit of Japanese Buddhist philosophy, meditation practice, psychology, and poetic insight into the nature of reality. Eihei Shingi contains Dogen's principal guidelines and instructions for everyday life and rituals in the monastic training center he established. Included are a collection of dramatic teaching stories, or koans, on the attitude and responsibilities for practitioners in the community, the only collection of traditional koans with this practical focus. In addition to the translation, the book includes detailed annotation, a substantial introduction, glossaries of Japanese technical terms and persons mentioned, and lineage charts, all providing relevant background in historical and religious context.


        Not really my style of Practice, Very 13th Centuries, but they still do these ceremonies at many Soto temples in Japan. I usually avoid that kind of thing. But, you know, we have a little "earth protecting" shrine here on our land in Japan. Once a year (especially after all the big earthquakes a few years ago) I do go over to say thanks for keeping us safe. Not my usual practice, but, hey, no harm, couldn't hurt. Wife insists too, and she is scarier than any earth god!



        Just a little off topic. But ...

        Bringing it back a little can someone recommend a source .for Buddha images and their names. We have a collection of about 18 figures in and around the house. There's a few who I'm not sure who they represent. Web trawls haven't been to forth coming but thought someone here could help.

        Or I could just take some pics and post a "Name That Buddha" contest.
        At least for Japanese ... the most reliable and comprehensive site I know, although often take some detective work to figure out a particular image ...

        GODS of Japan, A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Deities
        http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/buddhism.shtml
        Statues & Art of 400+ Deities, 4,000+ Photos. Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and Shintoism in Japan.


        Gassho, J

        SatToday
        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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          • Jyukatsu
            Member
            • Nov 2015
            • 283
            #33
            Thank you for a wonderful talk Jundo, deep bows.

            Gassho,
            Jyūkatsu
            sat today
            柔 Jyū flexible
            活 Katsu energetic

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              • Seishin
                Member
                • Aug 2016
                • 1522
                #34
                Originally posted by Jundo
                TNH has a couple of Gatha ...

                Watering the Garden The sunshine and the water have brought about this luxurious vegetation. The rain of compassion and understanding can transform the dry desert into a vast fertile plain.

                Gardening Earth brings us to life and nourishes us. Earth takes us back again. We are born and we die with every breath.
                These are both beautiful and I think I'll use them for my humble labours. I've also just rotovated 400+ metres in order to plant 300 hybrid poplar cuttings for future fuel but also with a view to co2 to o conversion for my little piece of France and the Universe in general. With the 24 cuttings I've already planted there should be 108x3 new trees, if they all take. Now there's some interesting numbers. I'll print these chants off and hang near the veg plot and "plantation" for good karma and when its finished will sit in my outdoor zendo and chant them both.

                Gassho for the A to Z link, I'll see if any match up with our collection. Most are (I believe) variants of Amida and Shakyamuni but there's a few I'm not sure about. Maybe I'll post some photo's of the one's I cannot identify.


                Will be sitting the last zazen and closing ceremony in the morning. Many thanks for this lesson and the opportunity to practice.


                Seishin

                精 Sei - Meticulous
                神 Shin - Heart

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                  • Kokuu
                    Dharma Transmitted Priest
                    • Nov 2012
                    • 6881
                    #35
                    Thank you all! Wonderful! Lovely to think more deeply about oryoki. I need to catch up on the videos on this.

                    Also, for those who have a love for both the German electronic music band Kraftwerk and the Hokey Cokey (as well call it here), I give you this:

                    Bill Bailey - Kraftwerk - Part Troll
                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0
                    Kraftwerk clip taken from Part Troll DVD. Filmed at Hammersmith Apollo, London in 2004


                    Gassho
                    Kokuu

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                      • Gokai
                        Member
                        • Feb 2016
                        • 209
                        #36
                        Hello everyone
                        I Sat with this beatiful zazenkai recording last week.
                        Wishing a wonderful and peaceful week for everyone.
                        Gassho, Gokai
                        Sattoday
                        David Cravidão Lopes Pereira

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