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Monastic Practice in Lay Life Talk Given by Ekai Osho Korematsu During Sunday Sanzenkai, 20 January 2013 JIKI054 6ŮWŮ=HQ%XGGKLVPLQ$XVWUDOLD Autumn, Volume 13 Issue 3, March 2014 Monastic Practice in Lay Life Talk given by Ekai Osho Korematsu during Sunday Sanzenkai, 20 January 2013 For me, the year is busy throughout, with Jikishoan PRUQLQJWZRKRXUVEHIRUHVXQULVH:KHQLW¶VWLPHWR activities, practice and family commitments. I wanted stop sitting, we stop sitting. We do the morning it that way and I need it to be that way to maintain service and eat. After eating, we do morning chores. my monastic practice. I no longer live in a temple. I After chores, we have a tea break, chosan; then live with a wife and two children ± it is different. My work, then noon service; then meal, then rest, then training was twelve years of monastic practice in back to work; then afternoon tea and afternoon Japan. I practised in three monasteries. The longest I service; then supper and evening sitting. It is very stayed in a monastery was for seven-and-a-half routine. years, the last one I stayed in was for two years. So if , GRQ¶W SURYLGH P\VHOI ZLWK WKDW VWUXFWXUH EHFDXVH , am married and have children, and if I resume the general kind of lay life, then I lose monastic practice. I become a fish out of water. I die (Ekai Osho laughs). It is interesting because when I moved from Japan to Melbourne, I was prepared to die. I knew nothing about Melbourne. I rented a garage for Jikishoan so I could survive, incubate in that space. That was my Photo: Azhar Photo: Abidi Azhar promise to my teacher too, that wherever I went, I would have a practice space, a zendo. So whether I For me, what characterises training in the monastery am married or not, I had to have a zendo. To tell you is not adding to the essential activities. It is the truth, I was fortunate that there was enough eliminating what is not essential. What is left interest in Zen practice in Melbourne, so when I becomes clear ± the clear eye and the clear vision. started, many people responded and I quickly What I am talking about actually has a lot to do with HVWDEOLVKHG P\VHOI LQ WKH QHZ HQYLURQPHQW , GLGQ¶W RXU IRUPDO SUDFWLFH RI =D]HQ 7KDW¶V WKH IRUP ,W feel that the continuity of my monastic practice was DOORZVXVWROHWJRRIWKHH[WUDVWXIIWKLQJVOLNHµ,DP broken when I came here and that is very good. ZRUNLQJ RQ WKLV PHGLWDWLRQ SUDFWLFH¶ µ:KHQ , ILQLVK ,¶OOWHOO\RXZKDWWKHGLIIHUHQFHLQPRQDVWLFSUDFWLFHLV ;ŽŶƟŶƵĞĚŽŶƉĂŐĞϭϯͿ Everything we do is reduced to the essential. There is very little distraction, so in other words, we are just In this Issue: Monastic Practice in Lay Life, Sewing WKH7HDFKHU¶V2NHVD7UDOHJ5LQSRFKHDQG,7KH OLYLQJ OLIH DV D KXPDQ EHLQJ ZLWK QDWXUH :KHQ LW¶V best laid Schemes of Mice and Men, A Wonderful time to get up, we get up. We would get up every Command, A Matter of Faith, Book Review... Editorial Myoju Publication²Autumn 2014 Editor: Ekai Korematsu Editorial Committee: 7KLV0\RMX¶VWKHPHLVµ=HQLQ(YHU\GD\/LIH¶,WUDLVHV Hannah Forsyth, Christine Maingard, Katherine Yeo some interesting questions about our definition of Zen Myoju Coordinator: Azhar Abidi practice and our ideas of integrating it into everyday Production: Johann Montet life. Production Assistance: James Watt -RKQ:DUGHOO¶VUHYLHZRIZen at Work, a book by Les Transcription Coordinator: Azhar Abidi Kaye, says that work is our practice. We can go Website Manager: Nobuzaku Kobayashi further and say that our whole life is practice and IBS Teaching Schedule: intellectually, that is very true, but Ekai Osho points Hannah Forsyth / Shona Innes RXWLQKLV'KDUPDWDONµ0RQDVWLF3UDFWLFHLQ/D\/LIH¶ Jikishoan Calendar of Events: Katherine Yeo that if we are not careful, then our practice can just Contributors: Ekai Korematsu Osho, Azhar Abidi, become a label for our own desires and wishful Hannah Forsyth, George Duckett, Marc Rabinov, thinking. James Watt, Kal Kingi, Vaughan Behncke, Shona Innes, Christine Maingard, John Walsh, To integrate Zen into everyday life without our own Lee-Anne Armitage͕John Wardell, Robin Laurie, ideas about it, we need guidance. The best possible Karen Threlfall. guidance is to participate in the activities of the Jikishoan Zen Buddhist Community. The community offers many formal opportunities of practice outside The views expressed in Myoju are not necessarily the zendo. By becoming a member of the Committee those of the Jikishoan Zen Buddhist Community or its of Management or by committing to work in one of Abbot, Ekai Korematsu Osho. the various ryos, students can practise everyday activities in a supportive environment, with the Printed by Documents on Call, 2B Parker Street, Footscray, VIC 3011 counsel of Ekai Osho and the mentoring of senior students. Next Issue Through this kind of training and through the practice The next issue of Myoju will be posted around the -experience, Ekai Osho says, we begin to eliminate Winter Equinox, 22 June 2014. Contributions that what is not essential, and what is left starts to support our practice are most welcome, including become clear. What is left is seeing things as they articles, book reviews, interviews, personal are. This process can be confronting and that comes reflections, artwork and photographs.«« through in several contributions here. Lee-Anne talks The content deadline is Sunday, 20 April 2014 and about the experience of just having to deal with a the theme is µ5HRULHQWLQJRQHVHOIWRSUDFWLFH¶. word ± faith ± and re-aligning her understanding and If you would like to contribute or advertise in the next ideas associated with it. Vaughan Behncke gives a issue of Myoju, email publications @ jikishoan.org.au. humbling account of how difficult he found things For article contributions, please use the template and when his plans for last year came undone. the advice in the style guide that will be sent by :HDOVRKDYHDZRQGHUIXOIHDWXUHEDVHGRQ.DO.LQJL¶V return email. talk from last September, where he talks about his role at the Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute and how Bright Pearl (Ikka-no-Myoju) he managed things after Traleg Rinpoche passed away. 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RQHEULJKWSHDUOLWVHOI¶²Dogen Zenji Ϯ us by Osho-sama, as our rakusus start to fade and $EERW¶V1HZV look a bit worn, we start to realise that the Robe ± the making, receiving, and wearing of it - is an HPERGLPHQWRIWKH%XGGKD¶VWHDFKLQJV,W¶VSDUWRIXV A Significant Year and not part of us, it is changing, it is priceless and worthless, and our lives are not the same without it. LVDVLJQLILFDQW\HDUIRU-LNLVKRDQ¶VJURZWKDVZH celebrate our 15th anniversary. Since Ekai Osho arrived in Melbourne with his wife, Deniz, and small baby, Sunao, we have seen Sunao grow into a young man and Jikishoan grow from a small group in a garage to a busy community approaching adulthood. At this turning point when we look back and consider our next moves, we notice some significant stirrings. The Integrated Buddhist Studies is becoming the core of our training activities, and our third Practice Period with Julie Myoe Martindale as Shuso draws on the experience of study, training and commitment we have amassed over the last few years. Jikishoan is increasing its capacity to join hands with the wider world through contact with other Buddhist RUJDQLVDWLRQV (NDL 2VKR¶V FRQQHFWLRQ ZLWK RXU URRWV in Japan remains the link with our tradition while his relationship with other Buddhist organisations is Photo: George Duckett increasing. In this early part of the year, he is a guest Skeining silk thread speaker at not only the Melbourne Buddhist Summer Last winter, Georgina Ekyo Duckett and I felt the time School at Maitripa Centre in Healesville, and the was ready for us to make a Sangha Okesa for Osho- Tibetan Buddhist Society in Yuroke, but also at Nyima sama and we approached him with our plans. It Tashi at their Buddhist Summer School in Auckland, seemed fitting to make a fifteen panel robe for New Zealand. Interestingly ± the topic he has chosen -LNLVKRDQ¶V ILIWHHQWK DQQLYHUVDU\ ZKLFK ZH ZLOO IRUWKHVHWDONVLVµ7KH5RRWVRI=HQ¶ celebrate this year. We wanted to make a uniquely The Building Project Team, led by Ekai Osho, is Australian robe for this very traditional Japanese Zen looking at ways in which Jikishoan could have its own practice, and we wanted to include as many people home. A physical presence for our community is from the community as possible.
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