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September 28, 2008 |
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went to Aoyama Gakuin Hall to listen to the Session of Mark Rydell who is the director of NY Actor's Studio.
Yoko Narahashi, my acting teacher, interviewed him.
the Hall can accommodate up to 1800 people and it was almost full.
Mark came to Yoko's office 3 times before the day.
fortunately i had a chance to talk to him. the topic was about relationship between Zen and Acting.
to be an actor and to be an unsui.
I couldn't explain why the Unsui wants to be an actor properly.
Really would like to do it, express, act it out! soon...
the words which impressed me the most is about being an actor.
"If you don't NEED it, quit!"
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September 19, 2008 |
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my friend living in Hamburg told me about the site "ZEN ROAD"
She went for a sesshin for 10 days in the countryside.
She has a certain sangha in Europe and "ZEN ROAD" is the website of her sangha(it is also in French and German)
I saw many sangha in Europe, and it will be great if we can communicate each other through internet.
dozoyoroshu |
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September 12, 2008 |
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"Information" was updated.
There will be a chanting and candle vigil for the peace at Ryokusenji, Asakusa tomorrow.
Not only Tibetans or Japanese monks, but anybody will be welcomed to take part in.
dozoyoroshu
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September 9, 2008 |
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Doko(道光)-san, the priest who i met in Poland told me about the website of Antaiji.
There's an interesting article about Japanese Buddhism by Muho-Roshi(the abbot of Anataiji).
You will know the detail of temple registration system in Japan from the text.
this monastery is located in Hyogo prefecture(which is very near from my home prefecture, Tottori).
Anybody willing to create their own lives through bodhisattva practice is welcome here.
dozo yoroshu |
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September 7, 2008 |
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I stayed up late last night and i am terribly sleepy today...
by the way, Chinese characters are made from hieroglyph.
for example 木 means tree, 林 means grove, and 森 means forest.
and the word "busy" is written as "忙"
the left part, "心" represent "the heart(or feeling, mind)" .
and the right, "亡" stands for "to lost something"
therefore, in japanese, too be busy means to lost one's own heart.
i don't want to be that way.
dozoyoroshu |
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September 23, 2008 |
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We were told to place our shoes neatly in Eiheiji.Fresh unsuis learn to do it soon in a day, because we will be hit by our seniors if we don't do that.and it gets into the habit of keeping ourselves neat, unconsciously.
When we saw slippers in a public toilet for "eiheiji visitors" in total disarray, then we notice how we behaved before.
However, i feel it's really easy to break a good habit. as i wrote in the article "busy". when i become busy, not only my shoes but everything around me fall into disorder. when we carefully observe our surroundings, it will be a mirror reflecting ourselves obviously. it's not only just a matter of shoes.
if you come to Eiheiji, you will see a message from Dogen(there are some posters which i introduced in another article in japanese).
"Arranging our shoes neatly, we bring harmony to our minds.When our minds are harmonious, we arrange shoes neatly.If we arrange shoes neatly when we take them off,Our minds won’t be disturbed when we put them on.If someone leaves shoes in disarray,Let us silently set them in order.Such an act surely will bring harmonyTo the minds of people around the world." dozo yoroshu
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September 3, 2008 |
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I went to "Kouyasan Cafe(jap)" with Kaku-san(navigator of Higanji(jap)) today.
We can experience the national heritage "Kouyasan" in the center of Tokyo, Aoyama.
Shojin cuisine of Koyasan, Sesami Tofu and Cocktail made of HanyaTo actually used in Kouyasan, are served here.
There is a gallery to experience Ajikan, Shakyo, pictures, and movies, and a chance to talk to monks who actually practice in Kouyasan now. There were so many young people in the cafe and i felt that this will be a good chance for general people to feel buddism.
This cafe is open for a limited time until September 7th at Shibuya-ku Jingu-mae 5-51-1.
A monk at this site told me that he will go back to Kouyasan at the end of the cafe.
It reminded me of the days in Eiheiji, when i was able to get out of Eiheiji to go to Tokyo for 3 days to get my passport made; i was so excited to walk in the city.
this monk must have had a similar feeling.
Dozoyoroshu
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September 1, 2008 |
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One of my Zen brother, GoYu osho came to my house today.
He's from Kyoto. I had practiced with him for years in Eiheiji.
Now he's Jushoku of a small temple.
When we have a temple in Japan, we will have many problems that only Jushoku can understand.
For example, we have to pay some money to our Soto school government office.
If we have so many supporters of the temple, we can have a lot of offering for the temple.
however, we have to do too many ceremony's and we won't have much time to do Zazen and Samu.
Since I don't have a temple now, I have a lot of time to do my own practice.
There are so many situations now in japanese buddism.
there are priests who do not belong to a certain temple and temporarily help out with funerals, and those who practice in the mountains, away from the public.
but to have one's own temple is a great way to do practice in this modern world.
Dozo-yoroshu |
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