Eiheiji Temple

Eiheiji is one of two main temples of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism. Its founder was Eihei Dogen.
Dogen founded Eiheiji in 1246 in the woods of rural Japan, quite far from the distractions of Kamakura period urban life. He appointed a successor, but sometime after his death the abbacy of Eiheiji became hotly disputed, a schism now called the sandai soron. Until 1468, Eiheiji was not held by the current Keizan line of Soto, but by the line of Dogen's Chinese disciple Jakuen. After 1468, when the Keizan line took ownership of Eiheiji in addition to its major temple Sojiji and others, Jakuen's line and other alternate lines became less prominent.
The entire temple was destroyed by fire several times. Its oldest standing structure dates from 1749, and the manuscripts in its treasure house are reconstructions from that era.
Today, Eiheiji is the main training temple of Soto Zen. The standard training for a priest in Eiheiji is from three months to a two year period of practice. It is in communion with all Japanese Soto Zen temples, and some temples in America, including the San Francisco Zen Center.
Eiheiji is located Fukui Prefecture.

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I would love to have all conversations between people looked like this 😍 So relaxing, open and serene

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I visited this temple. ❤

[@mercifultaxman]

Thank you. Good topic for learning.

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Please new ones, if possible.

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Happy New Year.
I hope to be in touch with you.

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In America we have Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery :)

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Can somebody send me a message with the name of the TV show !? I really love all this talks they have ! Thank you for posting !

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Trad Japan

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NHK tv. Google reveals much under that banner. I noticed their logo in the top right hand corner.

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The aim of the practice is not to attain enlightment and to be free from desire and attachment. This is the typical sentence what they say about buddhism and zen practice but it is not the aim.

[@wanderingfool7136]

Indeed.. They don't practice to "become" enlightened.. Practice is enlightenment and enlightenment is practice..

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Alan watts brought me here

[@morganolfursson2560]

Moving Zazen ?! And you call yourself an interpreter ?
It is called Moving Zen 動禅 , the Za in Zazen 座禅 means , sitting. So Moving Zazen means literally, moving sitting zen !

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I believe you get the idea, though.

[@wanderingfool7136]

Everything is zazen.. Moving, sitting, sleeping is all zazen.. Zazen is a way of approaching life.. It's used beyond its literal translation quite often in zen thought and discourse..

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@wanderingfool7136 NO. Moving, sitting and sleeping is Zen, but it is not Zazen. Zazen is Zazen.

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@Bruce Barrow Getting fired was just part of your karma, accept it and move on.

[@morganolfursson2560]

@Bruce Barrow There are no graces as such in Buddhism, or in Zen Buddhism, but there are mantras and sutras which you can learn and accept if you identify with it.
Start with the Lankavatara Sutra, the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra and the Sutra of the heart.
The heart Sutra is one of the most popular and you can start thinking about its meaning when meditating
"Form is empty, emptiness is form. Emptiness is the essence of unchanging essence. This emptiness is inherent to all phenomena, and not a transcendent reality, but emptiness is also an essence of its own ". Don't expect to come up with an answer after 5 minutes of medication, and finding an answer is less important than trying to understand the Sutra.
My favorite is by far the Lankavatara Sutra taugh by Siddhartha, the Buddha himself where he asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind. His teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself. This Sutra teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from those from giving up ignorance, freeing yourself from desire, and accepting causality.
Try with that and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask !
I am not a zen priest or monk. I just studied zen for 3 years at Eiheiji the temple on this video and lived in india where i studied different forms of Buddhism for a while, but i am rather agnostic because of my family heritage (ethnically diverse) and the religion i am the closest to is Jainism. Although i am Icelandic Danish, Norwegian and Greenlandic Inuit on my father's side, on my mother's it is a mix of French, Russian, British, Persian and Kalbelya Gypsy Indian and my mother is 100% Jainist.