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Zen Sesshin
A sesshin is an intensive practice in silence that serves the "concentration Setsu of the heart-mind Shin". The daily routine consists of eight to then periods (30-45 minutes each) of Zazen sitting meditation. This is accompanied by Samu, mindful work and lectures by Nakagawa Roshi, who also offers the opportunity for a personal meeting. A good physical and psychological constitution is required for participants.
Daily routine
Rohatsu Sesshin and Nirvana Sesshin
Both are intensive sesshins and consist of 13 periods (45 minutes) Zazen. This is only suitable for participants who have already personally participated in sesshins with Nakagawa Roshi and who has been given his personal consent to participate. It is required that participants will be seated in the half or full Lotus position for all periods.
Daily routine
Samu Retreat
During a Samu Retreat we are mindfully working throughout the day in the house and the garden. In the morning and evenings, Nakagawa Roshi provides the framework for the course with lectures and seated meditation.
Zen Retreat
The everyday use of the Zen practice is at the center of the Zen Retreat.
The daily routine includes Zazen, meditative walks in nature, round table talks and lectures by Nakagawa Roshi. Each retreat has a focal topic.
Daily routine
Study Groups
Textual work: Intensive engagement with texts by Dogen and lively dialogue with Dharma Nakagawa Roshi. The study groups can be visited separately and are based on the giving of Dana
(Benchmark: 15, - €)
Mon 4.1.- Sun 10.1.
San'nai-Sesshin (Sangha Days)
This sesshin is open only to Sangha members. In this framework, an intensive Zen training for the Sangha members takes place. All activities of the monastery will be practiced as Dharma.
Sat 16.1.-Tue 16.2.
Winter Ango
The Ango training period is an intense time of practice within the monastery daily life. It will promote inner peace and deepen your spirituality. The course fee includes participation in the study groups and the Nirvana-Sesshin.
The minimum participation is one week.
Thu 25.2.-Sun 28.2. 1.3.-Sun and Mon 7.3.
Sesshin with Furusaka Nakagawa Roshi and Roshi
Furusaka Roshi is a colleague and Dharma brother of Nakagawa Roshi, from the circle of students of Sakai Roshi and thus from the Dharma line of Kodo Sawaki Roshi. Studied Buddhism, Zen training in Eiheiji Monastery. Furusaka Roshi lives as abbot of the Myotokuji temples in Obama / western Japan, where he sits Sesshins, year after year, twice a month. Japanese and foreigners visit the Myotokuji to practice under his stringent and sensitive Zazen.
Fri 26.3.-Mon 5.4. Zen Retreat
Advanced Course in Wholesome Living
Them focus: Jin Shin Jyutsu book 2 and other proven ways of folk medicine
Prerequisite: Previous participation in the basic course in wholesome living.
Those who have not yet attend the basic course, but have already incorporated meditation into their lives and already have experience with a wholesome diet, can clear with Fumonji whether participation is possible.
Myochi Relia Wecker was in search of ancient knowledge of folk medicine her whole life, applying it to herself and to others, collecting experiences along the way. From this knowledge, she wants to convey some profound and simple methods. These are neither costly nor complicated, and this knowledge should all be usable again.
Basic direction for a healthy life is to come after inner peace. In order for our body and mind to have the inner and outer willingness to meditate in an upright posture, we can support it with this knowledge of folk medicine.
Sat 27.3.-Sun 28.3.
Jin Shin Jyutsu ® self-help book 2
JSJ is the art of ancient knowledge, which was made once more accessible to the people by Jiro Murai. His student, Mary Burmeister, brought the knowledge to the West. Relia Wecker was a student Mary Burmeister in 1982 and leads this course.
We introduce the 26 safety energy locks and simple current sequences that we apply to ourselves and each other. You will harmonize the life energy; blockages dissolve, so that energy can flow again.
Thu 8.4.-Sun 11.4. and Thu 28.10-Sun 31.10.
Mahayana Essentials 1
with Nakagawa Roshi and Genpo Christoph Hahn.
In this study group we try to provide an introduction into the teachings of the Yogacara, along with a view to their subsequent continuation in China and Japan.
"Who is it that gets into the nature of the knowable?
A Bodhisattva, whose mind-stream by the continued hearing of the doctrine of the Great Vehicle is saturated and is supported by unique devotion of the roots of the good."
These sentences are from Asanga, a monk from the 4th century. He is, along with his Teacher Maitreya and his brother Vasubandhu, seen as one of the great figures of Indian Mahayana. If there is no recognition of emptiness and no achievement (Heart Sutra) and when Nirvana and Samsara are identical (Nagarjuna), why should we then still at recognition of the knowable, and strive for the attainment of nirvana? Why do you need as the Noble Eightfold Path? But then - how to deal with the very real suffering in this world? "Many such questions were to Asanga employed. A lively response represents For him, the Bodhisattva. He goes on the "path of Yoga" (Yogacara), Towards active doing and practicing, which is also the way of knowing. awakening and compassion grow on the same ground as greed and ignorance in a world of "Spirit" citta.
Sat 17.4.
Hanamatsuri - Spring festival
Open Day with lecture by Nakagawa Roshi, and music.
Since 1996 this day has been an established tradition of the center, open to all interested parties from the area.
Beginning 3:00pm, donations welcome.
Fri 14.5.-Sun 16.5.
Zen introduction. For beginners and the curious.
Manfred Ichido Huber and Michael Kakunen Link.
What is Zen? Religion, philosophy or simply method? In Asian tradition, they will not give explanations. You simply “do”. This weekend we are striking a balance of lectures combined with elements of the everyday life in a Zen monastery, ie formal eating practices, Samu-work, meditative walks and Zazen. There is also the opportunity to ask questions and exchange ideas.
Manfred Ichido Huber, high school teachers in the subjects of geography, economics and law in Munich, first experience in Zen practice in the 80s, Zen training with Nakagawa Roshi since 1990.
Michael Kakunen Link, lecturer. Practicing since 1989, and a Zen student under the guidance of Nakagawa Roshi since 1996.
Fri 11.6.-Fri 25.6.
Open Monastery
Wed 21.7.-Sun 25.7.
Sangha Retreat (Sangha Days)
Theme focus: Jin Shin Jyutsu
Meeting of the Saddharma-Sangha. It is also open to participants, who practice Shila praxis with us and who want to become members in the longer term.
Zen practice and wholesome living, the path of healing and education, are the two pillars of Fumonji and for the life of the Shilapraxis ..
In this retreat, Jin Shin Jyutsu and Zazen will be experienced together under the guidance of Nakagawa Roshi and Relia Myochi Wecker.
Thu 5.8.-Sun 15.8. Zen Retreat
Basic course in wholesome living
The healing path is easy, but in this day and age this knowledge is largely lost.
- Wholesomely deal with oneself, with body, clothing, food, leisure, stress, media consumption
- Wholesomely deal with other people, in family, community, workplace and in society
- Wholesomely deal with the environment, with nature, animals, resources
We will look step by step at these basic elements of wholesome life and practice them together. Important and beneficial are the days of conscious speech and silence.
This course is run by Nakagawa Roshi and Myochi R. Wecker and supported by the monastic community in whose everyday life these elements are integrated and practiced.
Sat 21.8.-Sun 22.8.
Zen introduction for young people
What one learns when one is still young, can be carried right through life. If young people can experience authentic spiritual meditation, the impact is a treasure for a lifetime. Interested young people between 16 and 35 years old are welcome.
Sat 2.10.
Ahornfest - Autumn Festival
Open Day with lecture by Nakagawa Roshi, and music.
Since 1996 this day has been an established tradition of the center, open to all interested parties from the area.
Beginning 3:00pm, donations welcome.
Thu 4.11.-Sun 7.11.
Jin Shin Jyutsu ® Retreat, Strömtage
In the footsteps of Jiro Murai
In this retreat we take a step back from everyday life and practice JSJ and meditation in original form: silently, in a quiet, pleasant place, surrounded by nature - like Jiro Murai. He was the son of a Japanese family of doctors who himself was terminally ill.
He retreated into the mountains, meditated and fasted and held his hands in specific Buddha-Mudra positions. Deeply grateful for the healing he experienced, he devoted the rest of his life to this healing art.
In order for the healing streams to take full effect on us during the retreat, the body will be supported and nourished with light, healing fare.
19.11. Fri-Sun 21.11.
Zen introduction. For beginners and the curious.
Christoph Genpo Ichido Hahn and Manfred Huber
What is Zen? Religion, philosophy or simply method? In Asian tradition, they will not give explanations. You simply “do”. This weekend we are striking a balance of lectures combined with elements of the everyday life in a Zen monastery, ie formal eating practices, Samu-work, meditative walks and Zazen. There is also the opportunity to ask questions and exchange ideas.
Genpo Christoph Hahn, studied musicology, philosophy, religious studies and Germanic, training in the Buddhist ways since the early 80s, Zen practice with Nakagawa Roshi, 2004 ordination through Furusaka Roshi.
Manfred Ichido Huber, high school teachers in the subjects of geography, economics and law in Munich, first experience in Zen practice in the 80s, Zen training with Nakagawa Roshi since 1990.
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