going into the mystery

  Sesshin schedule 2021 (all sesshins are 7-days) 13.-20. February 17.-24. April   5.-12. June   31. July - 7. August   9.-16. October   4.-11. December Schedule Sanneji  5.15 Wake-up 5.40-7.10 Zazen and chanting  8.00 Breakfast (formal, in silence) 8.40 Work meeting 10.10 Tea break 10.40 Work continues  12.10 Lunch (formal, in silence) followed by dishes and other work until 13.10. 15.00-16.30 Zazen 19.00-21.10 Zazen All zazen is formal (we use robes if we have). The zazen rounds are 40 minutes except for in the morning when we sit 1 hour. There is a bell in the middle of the round when it’s possible to stretch the legs and change posture if needed.  Between the afternoon and evening zazen people can serve themselves supper from the leftovers from lunch.    Our training temple Sanneji, located in Karjaa, has been up running for the whole autumn. There have been two talkoot and two sesshins arranged. A lot of work has been done ins...

The name A few words about our temple’s name here in Sannäs, Karjaa. After going through some possible name variants we decided to give the name Sanneji for this Zen-training facility. Now for some weeks we have called this Sanneji and it just feels right.   As you may notice it sounds much like Sannäs, the geographical name of the place, and that was what we hoped would happen with the new name.  So, it became Sanneji.  Sanneji  = 参根寺  San  参  means e.g. ”going” and ”visiting” (same kanji is in my name ;).  Ne  根  means e.g. ”root”, ”source, ”origin” and ”one’s true nature.  Ji  寺 stands for the Buddhist temple. ”Sann” in Swedish means ”true”. Ps. I updated our new name also for in the two previous posts.