Third summer camp 2024

Kusen from L.Tenryu Tenbreul

Evening - Zazen 

Hokyo - the “ancient treasure mirror” or “mirror of the depth of the spirit” actually shows us the deep dignity and richness of our existence. But while we identify with the contents of our consciousness, we lose this connection. Trapped in the world of the ego, we suffer from life. 

Zazen is the possibility, the transformation point, with which we can cut through this cause of suffering. By becoming familiar with the attitude of inside and outside, by entrusting ourselves to it, the hands of thinking can open and the ego thought is replaced by whole presence. This change or shift in our inner situation opens up the actual depth of existence and gives life meaning from within. We then do not need to search for something somewhere or always run after something, but the meaning is fulfilled in the now itself. 

It takes a while to become really familiar with the attitude, because at the beginning we often see it as a means to an end. But over time, we can internalize it so deeply that it almost becomes “unconsciously natural”. Body and mind work together in this posture and go beyond the external form. At the intersection of time and space, the individual and the cosmos interpenetrate. 

Simply this, simply that.