Jump to navigation. The Golden Fingers Week is a unique opportunity to combine the practice of Zen and artistic expression by discovering a technique or by deepening it. Learning to let the creative act take place at every moment, beyond the conditioned representations of the "self" and its negative judgments, brings great joy and leads to inner tranquility. Accept what is presented, as it is!
With a little paint, a brush, a needle and a thread, with the hands, with the body, let the creative interiority express itself. It is neither the support, nor the means, nor the result that matters, but the conscious actualisation of the original nature that animates the gesture, contains and fills the form. Zazen is the sitting meditation without object, as practiced by the Buddha and transmitted through time by an unbroken line of masters.
It is the recollection in the silence and nakedness of the present moment. It is a return to what is "before" the thought unfolds to try to grasp what simply is. This is done effortlessly when attention simply returns to what is presence. The time of meditation escapes time itself because it is a return to the still source of our existence. When the original source is seen, each breath, each action, each movement spontaneously becomes the luminous expression of life itself, and the duality between subject and object disappears.
During the five days of the workshops, zazen will be practiced in the morning and late afternoon. He was ordained a Bodhisattva in and a monk in by Master Deshimaru. With our food, we feed our loved ones, our friends and ourselves. Cooking with a simple mind, making dishes in good taste, with regional and seasonal products, at a reasonable price: a cuisine with a minimum of waste and prepared with a clear mind.
Take your time, be conscious in the moment, at the service of others. This workshop is part of the gyoji of the temple: zazen, genmai, preparation of meals for the other workshops, elaboration of menus according to the production of the vegetable garden. For 18 years he was a vegetarian cook in the Koningsteen Centre. Since he has been cooking as a tenzo in many sesshins in Belgium, Germany and Italy. A traditional style of ikebana called kakubana can be a support for meditation, thus the basis of a spiritual path.
