Third summer camp 2025

Kusen from L.Tenryu Tenbreul

First day mornings Zazen (Sesshin)

Straighten your column well, support the sky with the crown of your skull, check the posture of your hands, let your gaze rest and turn inward into a slow, gentle exhalation. Mokusho - illuminate, clarify and clear your body and mind from within through silence. Opening the hands of thought happens unconsciously and naturally from this inner state. It means becoming transparent to the light of emptiness or the presence of the wholeness of being that constitutes and fills the actual moment. This is coming home after wandering for many years, many lifetimes, on dusty roads. And we actually always carry this home within us. We just tend to forget it and then we suffer in life.

Zazen means cutting through the root of this suffering and re-establishing a deep, strong connection with the profound background of our lives.