I tried zazen in Ryosokuin located in Gion district this time.
Price is 1,000 yen
Time : one hour
Zazen starts at 8:30am and a chief priest explain the position of the body in the beginning
to stable our legs to the ground and upper body should be relax.
Then we work on ourselves by counting the deep breath to keep our mind from wandering.
I thought it seems yoga.
If we think something during meditation, we apply ourselves to chief priest by bowing to beat our shoulder both right and left.
This is a big difference between Yoga and zazen. We are not beaten in Yoga.
There is a short recess in 25 minutes session but we are not allowed to talk with somebody.
25 minutes must be hard for beginner.
My both legs have pain and it was vert difficult to keep my mind without any thinking in 25 minutes but chief priest said everybody can do this by training.
I thought meditation will make our mind strongly and we need sometimes to clean our mind like a room cleaning in our busy life.
I also thought we might need zazen meditation to keep pure and high mind in many various unexpected things happening going on in our world.
It was a great relief for me to hear by a chief priest that human being is also one of nature.
So naturally we will be changed day by day. We are not the same one tomorrow.
We can be changed in any situation by the way of thinking.
I recommend zazen meditation all people in the world then we can be strong in any unexpected things.
Unfortunately, a chief priest talks in Japanese only.
If this is not problem, staff at http://www.yado-web.com/ will check zazen schedule for a guest at http://www.yado-web.com/ and book it in advance. Please ask staff freely.
We are able to enjoy beautiful garden in Ryosokuin and luckly I enjoyed the flowers in full booming.
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