A lovely television feature on Tosho-ji Shuritsu Senmon Sodo, the Sotoshu International Training Monastery in Okayama Prefecture, Japan ...
Gassho, J
stlah
A lovely television feature on Tosho-ji Shuritsu Senmon Sodo, the Sotoshu International Training Monastery in Okayama Prefecture, Japan ...
Gassho, J
stlah
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Thanks Jundo
Tokan (satlah)
平道 島看 Heidou Tokan (Balanced Way Island Nurse)
I enjoy learning from everyone, I simply hope to be a friend along the way
Gassho
Washin
stlah
Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
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I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.
Gassho, Kotei.
義道 冴庭 / Gidō Kotei.
Being a novice priest doesn't mean my writing about the Dharma is more substantial than yours. Actually, it might well be the other way round.
STLAH
Gassho!
護道 安海
-Godo Ankai
I'm still just starting to learn. I'm not a teacher. Please don't take anything I say too seriously. I already take myself too seriously!
Thank you for this deep breath of quiet vastness amid activity. I am guessing the New Year's Blessing
event was turning a sutra into a prayer flag to send good wishes? I have not experienced that in zen temples
in the U.S.
Gassho,peace, Paul sat lah
Gassho, Onkai
Sat lah
美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean
I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.
This is "Tendoku" (転読, literally, "revolving reading") of the Dai Hannya, the 600-fascicle Large Prajña Paramita Sutra, and is done for many ceremonies including the Choka Morning Service at Eiheiji and Sojiji Head Temples in Japan. It would not be possible to read the entirety during a single ceremony. So, Tendoku ritual reading involves shouting the title and volume number of the sutra, then quickly flipping through the sutra book itself, which is much like the Tibetan practice of spinning a "prayer wheel" wherein each flip of the book and saying of the volume name equals in Karmic merit a reading of the whole Sutra. Several sects of Buddhism do so in Japan, not just the Zen folks.
Here is a video of Tendoku during a Morning Service at Sojiji. Notice the lovely fancy-footwork ballet of the books being returned (the same happens as they are first brought out) at the 2:10 mark.
Here is also a nice video, from the 20 second mark, of some young monks rehearsing that footwork ballet ...
Gassho, J
stlah
Last edited by Jundo; 04-28-2023 at 02:09 AM.
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Thanks Jundo, If I didn't have responsibilities I'd be there like a shot. Is it just me or is the narrators Japanese particularly hard to understand? Perhaps it was just the vocabulary used, or perhaps my ear tuning in to it more as I listened?
Sattday
Dan
Last edited by Myojin; 04-28-2023 at 02:05 AM.
Oh, when he is reading the quotes from Master Dogen at various parts, such as the very start and end, he is speaking 13th Century classical Japanese. That's probably the reason that it is a bit tricky.
There are many things to experience and much to realize in a place like Tosho-ji.
But there are also many things to experience, and the very same realization to have, right where you are.
Master Dogen said that too.
Why leave behind the seat that exists in your home and go aimlessly off to the dusty realms of other lands? If you make one misstep you go astray from the way directly before you.
Gassho, J
stlah
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
After watching the Toshoji video, I came across this short film. It doesn't cover anything new, but I feel that it fits well with our style of practice.
Gassho,
Shujin
-sat today-
I have seen a lot of ceremonies online but never been to a live 'bells and smells' - yet.
Gassho
MichaelW
sat
Michael -
This reminds me. A long time ago I lived in Throssel Hole for a little while - an OBC monastery near Carrshield, Northumberland (over 6 hours drive from Devon). The same ritual was repeated each day - morning service (including three sutras and the whole ancestral line), some quite long mealtime chants, evening service, vespers. I became familiar with sutras that we recited every day, but that didn't mean I understood them all.
Gasshō
Seiko
stlah
Last edited by Seiko; 04-30-2023 at 12:31 AM.
Gandō Seiko
頑道清光
(Stubborn Way of Pure Light)
My street name is 'Al'.
Any words I write here are merely the thoughts of an apprentice priest, just my opinions, that's all.
Saturday night at the zendo.
Get down with your non-self.
Gassho
MichaelW
sat