For my english speaking friends
Schreiben gehört natürlich dazu, zu den Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation, des Teilens, des Publizierens. Eine eher kurze, spontane Form, die meinen Bedürfnisse sehr entgegen kommt.

Tempel-News – 02/2023 (English version)
Dear Seekers, Sitters, Sangha Friends, Here is a summary of the Zen and temple offerings available until Christmas: Current Offerings: Hybrid Zazen: In the summer, daily mornings from 6:30-7:30, followed by 7:00-8:00. Saturdays and Sundays: 8:00-9:00. Wednesdays and...

Video: Issho Fujita – Outstandly clear talk on Zazen of a Dharma-gate of Peace and Ease
Outstandly clear talk on Zazen of a Dharma-gate of Peace and Ease - This practice is about 'Harmonizing Mind and Body': POSTURE: Harmonizing the relationship with the ground BREATHING: Harmonizing the relationship with the air MENTALSTATE: Harmonizing the relationship...

She is whispering
Today. A year ago my Mom had a stroke and was taken, after lots of phone-calls between Bonn, Stuttgart and Bad Nenndorf, to a clinic an hour away from her home. She got three stents in an emergency surgery. Exactly a year ago on a Monday I booked a room in a hotel...

Real Encounters – on the tram
On my way back in the tram, from Detmold and dear Hajdi - I told you, it was crowded -, and it is a long ride with this tram, but as so much repairing work is done in our streets, it was the only solution to get home, or wait more than one hour. At my left a young...

Perhaps it is writing, Eve Marko. (the safe place)
Perhaps it is writing, Eve Marko. (the safe place) Your text is so wonderful, in so many aspects, I want to put it on my website. The arc as the loving action, fully inclusive, yes, I always loved it, every child does, and now we have to recall this action as a...

500 Shipwrecked Refugees… Again
A déjà vu: In 2013, there were also about 500 refugees who capsized within sight of the Italian Coast Guard near the island of Lampedusa, in a completely overcrowded boat and drowned miserably, arms stretched high in the air above water. Paintings, photographs, and...

Mourning the death of my friend Don Singer
Don Singer has died! I almost want to say that he died "suddenly and unexpectedly". For me! For me the death announcement came out of the blue. For himself maybe not at all, maybe he had seen it coming, the death, maybe sometimes wished for it - and his relatives and...

Perceiving Threshhold Experiences, in Appreciation and Joy
Possibly this is my favorite topic, because in my life, apart from the threshold experiences that belong to us as humans - difficult birth, moving, hospital and children's home, divorce of parents, accident with near-death experience, etc., etc. - I have had...

Honoring Bernie Glassman roshi – died on Nov 4, 2018 or: Until the last name has been chanted
The closer that day comes the more I am thinking of him, the inventor of the Auschwitz-Bearing-Witness-Retreats. Probably it has been a co-creation with his Polish friend Andrzej Krajewski, his second wife Sandra Jishu Holmes and others. I have to write about him,...

The Palermo-birthday-pilgrimage, April 13-20, 2022
After the spontaneously planned US trip to a Zen sesshin and a subsequent street retreat around my 70th birthday did not work out (too many imponderables, also because of COVID), I was looking for a place with a strong statement. And that's what Palermo gives! I...
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