Oberpfalz Zen Zentrum

Diese Bühne habe ich gebastelt als "Gutschein" für meinen Geschenk zum Musical (statt nur die Karten zu schenken).

Byong Oh Sunim came from Berlin to Oberpfalz Zen Zentrum to hold this workshop over the weekend.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare~

A day with Ven. Hyon Gak Sunim around Korea.

A day with Ven. Hyon Gak Sunim around Korea.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ~Author Unknown~

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways~ Soraksan -> Odaesan -> Icheon: Seong-won-sa Temple -> Traditional Korean Pottery Workshop

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown~ Yangyang -> Soraksan: Sinheung-sa Temple -> An-yang-am Nunnery

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright~ Uljin -> Gangneung -> Yangyang: Bulcheong-sa Nunnery & College -> Naksan-sa Temple

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir~ Cheongdo -> Gyeongju (Namsan): Chilbul-am Hermitage Nunnery

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"~ Busan -> Cheongdo: Unmun-sa Nunnery & College -> Munsu-seon-won Nunnery -> Sari-am Hermitage Nunnery

Walking is good for solving problems - it's like the feet are little psychiatrists. ~Pepper Giardino~ Yangsan -> Busan: Naewon-sa Nunnery -> Meeting with Busan Red Cross Representatives

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe~ Busan -> Guangali -> Yangsan: Beomeo-sa Temple -> Guangali Beach -> Peopmyeong Am Hermitage -> Tongdo-sa Temple

How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967~ Seoul -> Busan: Haeunjeong-sa Temple -> German Red Cross Memorial Site in Busan

If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865~

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler~

Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes~

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford~

My archery trainer Daniel Seong practising on his Kyudo skills.

Stone Tiger Archery Club: Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz~

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford~

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban~

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb~

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence~

Buddha's Eye Opening Ceremony at Westendstrasse in Munich. Venerable Hyon Gak Sunim from Korea and Venerable Seong Hyang Sunim from New York performed the opening ceremony of the Munich Zen Center of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Hyon Gak Sunim, the guiding teacher of this center, is one of the first permanent residents.

Creating a Path: A non-sectarian retreat led by Martine and Stephen Batchelor on May 20.-24. 2009.

After the World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Tradtitional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

World Traditional Archery Festival 2008

Von 1938 bis 1945 existierte in Flossenbürg (Bayern - nördliche Oberpfalz) ein Konzentrationslager. Rund 100.000 Menschen waren im Haupt- und den mehr als 100 Außenlagern inhaftiert. Mindestens 30.000 überlebten den Terror nicht. Heute erinnert eine Gedenkstätte an das Leid und den Tod der Häftlinge. Am Samstag, 13.Sept. 2008 verbrachten wir mit Erw. Hyon Gak Sunim einen Tag in Schweigen in der KZ-Gedenkstätte in Flossenbürg. Am TAG DER STILLE geht es nicht darum, dass wir uns wohl fühlen und ein möglichst gutes Gefühl zu haben. Es geht darum, Zeugnis von unseren Unterschieden abzulegen. Wir legen Zeugnis davon ab, wie sich unser Leben tagtäglich gestaltet. Und indem wir vor keiner Situation, vor die wir gestellt werden, zurückweichen, lernen wir und öffnen wir uns dem, was ist. In diesem Prozess geschieht Heilung.

Roving can be described in the most casual form as wandering across the countryside shooting at targets picked from random at various ranges and attitudes. This type of practice has been around as long as bows, has enjoyed much popularity at times and spawned many Rover's Clubs during the early portion of this century.

Aktion für Tibet im Raum Nürnberg / Bamberg / Erlangen Freitag 6.6. Nachmittag Friedenswanderung von Herzogenaurach nach Buch (6-7 km) Mit Aktion vor der Fa. Addidas und Briefabgabe beim IOC Präsidenten "Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ~Roger Baldwin~

The World Religion Festival, “Water – The elixir of life,” will introduce a variety of religious groups. The unique aspects of each religion along with each religions’ relation to water will be explained and the typical culinary delicacy of each religion will be served. The motto of the World Religion Festival is “Water –The Elixir of Life,” which will be the focus of the presentations taking place throughout the festival. The day will begin with a festive opening ceremony that will include all religious groups. The Festival will be organized by the Umweltstation (environmental station) in cooperation with representatives from the following religious groups: the Jewish Community of Regensburg, the Islamic Community of Waldassen, and the Buddhist Community “Oberpfalz Yon Hwa Am Zen Zentrum” from Altenstadt.

Photos by: Oberpfalz Zen Zentrum - Yon Hwa Am Egerländerstrasse 5, 92665 Altenstadt/WEN (Homepage: www.oberpfalzZen.de) (eMail: OberpfalzZen@aol.com) Jo Potter and Namhee Chon received transmission from Jacob Pearl (Zen Master Wu Bong) of the Kwan Um Zen Schule Deutschland on May 3rd 2008.

Special guests from Korea - three devoted Sunim visitng Oberpfalz Yon Hwa Am Zen Centre Date: 23.4. - 25.4. 2008

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama~

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen~

Tempelinformationen: Musangsa Provinz: Chungcheongnam-do Stadt: Gyeryong Kontakt: info@musangsa.org

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust~

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964~

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Hamburg in year 2007.

Walter 14 years old: Dharma name: Do Bul Waldemar 13 years old: Dharma name: Do Haeng

an inofficial visit of a friend....

KOREA 1954: The Federal Republic of Germany, not admitted to the UN until 1973, sent the German Red Cross Hospital (Deutschen Rotkreuz Lazarette), to Pusan, South Korea after the cease-fire. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Agreement concerning assistance to be rendered by a German Red Cross Hospital in Korea. Signed at Washington, on 12 February 1954 Official texts: English and German. Registered by the United States of America on 20 December 1955. VEREINBARUNG ZWISCHEN DER REGIERUNG DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON AMERIKA UND DER REGIERUNG DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND UEBER DIE MITWIRKUNG EINES HOSPITALS DES DEUTSCHEN ROTEN KREUZES IN KOREA