Same video, more pixels → • Life in a Japanese Zen... Website of Antaiji: www.antaiji.org/en Muho's English blog: sendaba.hatenablog.com Muho's Twitter: / muhonoelke
This is a very good and honest interview. So often 'religious' people try to come off as being some kind of 'perfect' beings who have transcended all worldly problems or whatever. Muho Noelke comes across as someone who just does what he does, nothing more, nothing less and doesn't present himself in any other way.
A genuine guy who expresses himself wonderfully, and presents an inspirational picture of his belief and commitment. A beautiful documentary and lovely family.
This man and the work done there has helped inspire my practice to be done for the sake of doing it alone - there is such a charm of transparency to these practitioners who align with the world in this manner. In the coming years, I hope to be a contributing part of this wonderful community. I give a big thank you to Antaiji all the way from Atlanta.
even sounds of chewing aren’t allowed. Enter Zen from there. You are hard core brother. Thank you for sharing this. Peace and blessings from NYCity. 🙏❤️
Congrats - Master Muho Nolke - what a wonderful life you have created for yourself and others ... you are buko ... a opening to stillness, action, and contentment ... Wishing you and your community growth, rest and peace!
@@muho greetings. As someone who has embraced the culture, philosophy and spiritual values of a "foreign" people (in my case Hinduism), I can understand you better than most.
Those mealtime 'rules' are not really rules - they're just what's been found to work well and the group is fully into them so it's not as austere as it looks. Almost everything is cunningly designed to support solid practise, which is what everyone is there for at the end of the day. Practising in an environment without that sort of strict format is much harder work, the 'rules' actually make it much easier.
This is the second time I've watched your documentary. Brad Warner did a video on Muho. I didn't remember Muho's name when I seen that video. When I watched it tonight I was happy to see this documentary again, now that I recognize it.
Thank you for such an honest & respectful treatment in this video. As such, it becomes informative & inspirational/motivational too, at a level very rarely achieved by non-Buddhist & almost never achieved in YT videos. I wish them continued successes at Antaiji, & many blessings, & I hope very much to visit Antaiji
@Anonymous No questions are stupid... It means :laughing out loud laugh out loud, used as a response to something funny or as a follow-up to something said only as a joke: You can see from the pics that my dog did not appreciate how we dressed him up for Halloween this year. LOL!
Hi. Very nice living... :) I read zen first time about 6-7 years ago. Then i start my meditation and find my real and only style living better everyday. Lot is to do, so i can say i am better man then in young age or when i was children... Bless all munks and gurus. By: Zen Johanness
I really hope more ppl will start living self-sufficient life ! I wanna become a zen Buddhist but in my own house in my heart in my soul 🙏🏻 thank you for this video. I learned so much more 🙏🏻 Danke Schoën 🙏🏻
*loving kindness for small herbs trees and bushes, zen is a life in harmony with nature seeing all being as one and ultimately a dream - zen enlightenment*
There's prayer and meditation in Zen Buddhism, I like your activities, I'm a Buddhist monk from Bangladesh, we want to free from suffering and Nirvana, Muho thanks, You are right way in Dharma, I support your daily life works,
only one lord exist in all the times and we exist only in the waking state.....he is formless but he is all the form.......he is not the subject or object but he is the witness for the obejects and subjects....he shines all the times........hari: om......whn i hear the word " we meditate 5 hrs daily " my heart full filled with love.......thanks for the word to hear.............
In Japan Monks are only required to be celibate during training. After that it is not un-common for priest to get married and have children. Though there are still some sects where priests remain celibate after training, most no longer require it. In fact there was a time when the Japanese government pressured the monks to get married and have a family. It's considered being a part of society instead of apart from it, Training in life, not separate from it.
Wunderbar. Ich bin ein großer Fan von Peter Barakan und bin über Kevin auf den Kanal aufmerksam geworden. Sehr schönes Interview hier und auch tolle Gespräche mit Nihongo
in Japan, it's normal to take baths like that, young children bathe with parents and wash, scrub, and enjoy the tub together. Usually the tub is larger then that, much larger then western bath tubs but that tiny size bath is typical for rural/very old buildings. to a non-Japanese it may seem very weird but it is our way of life and is often seen as character building thing, i scrub my fathers back he scrubs mine, mutual respect etc.
Come on , I grew up like that with my brother and father .we were very close ,strong bonded and it was part of character building. glad I have spent those days with my father and brother, as they both had died today , I did have beautiful childhood with beautiful memories for life to remember.
I only wonder how much could I learn from living this kind of life. But I'm meditating only for about half a year and I cannot imagine what five hours of sitting would feel like.
It is pretty strange to have him called "Noelke Muho", as Noelke his his former german family name. Correct would be Olaf (first name) Noelke (Family name) or just Abbot Muho.
How can anyone admit to your training centre?? I am very much eager to join your training centre. What are rules and process to join your Soto Zen Training centre ?? Please let me know. Please.
I am thankful for oxygen.... oxygen is the best thing!!! Breathing it feels so good, appreciating breathing is meditation. Feel the oxygen... appreciate its gift, in your lungs... breathing is qi gong.. nothing more.. though we envision movements of bodies.. it is only the breath... be a great breather! Even just breathing is praying.. heaven is oxygen... heaven is all around us... Air molecules, are angelic beings... there are trees in the air... become oxygen... by meditating on breathing.. breathing is actually becoming oxygen... Oxygen is always.. it teaches us and in doing so... we attain ecstasy.. not a pill.. but chi... Chamtzon Oxygen is amazing.. it is lifestream.. oxygen is worth our attention... it is the power of now... We can say oxygen is our first ancestor.. yet by appreciating oxygen, Aeris.. we can know more... bringing back ancient parts of the wind ... And helping all life on the planet. Its oxygen that is lifechanging..
הזדהות רגשית בְּהֵמָה hazdavut reegsit behemah Animal בְּהֵמָה - behemah Empathy - הזדהות רגשית hazdavut reegsit Empathy for animals and plants means letting them go free not trying to control them
It is beautiful that the Japanese Culture and Chinese culture allows others to practice their ways with them. I was under the impression for so many years that all other races were restricted from becoming practicioners of their ways. In Martial Arts, Customs, etc.
"The greatest support people can give to Antaiji is by actually sharing the life and practice of the community on a long term basis. This however involves a commitment that few people will be able or willing to make." "Are there other ways to support the community?" "Yes, another way of helping us is to support Antaiji financially. We have annual expenses which range between 1.200.000 Yen and 1.800.000 Yen (about 15 thousand to 22 thousand US dollars)." Seems pretty straightforward.
I wish you all the best too Sam, and that you realise we are all one and egual with all the beings on these Earth. All with the same rights to live their lives with love and peace.
We cut our hair to symbolize that we are working on our attachment to self, of which image is a large part, and that we are not different to any other member of the Sangha - the community in any Buddhist center or monastery.
Thank you Camelot886. And me25422: I think it's very important to look at any kind of teacher or authority figure with some measure of skepticism. I don't think there's anything bad with people smiling (duh), and of course (I think this is apt in our little youtube convo), any measure of discomfort one exhibits reflects more ones own situation or perspective than it does convey any real measurement of the item of discomfort. But being uncomfortable is not always bad or undesirable. It just is.
Not exactly. To find something close to Bushido, the most advisable would be to seek a dojo where one of the samurai martial arts is taught... there is also Rinzai Zen, which is a form of buddhism known to be followed by the late samurais.
How to meditate - First become aware of all language/English that is in your inner mind in this moment for seven seconds in a row. Then you fully silence all language/English that is in your inner mind in this moment for eleven seconds in a row. Repeat for three times and do that a few times each day and you will see fantastic results! :)
They seem surprised about those potato peels being cooked. Season them well and they’re delicious! They’re traditional in my Mexican, not at all zen family.
@@muho How Soto line test their disciples? ...if Dogens approach is: "just zazen is englightnemnt". This can leads people to misleading. Desolve ego enough to get kensho can be in the both schools, right? But Riznai line use Koans where masters can test their students in order of evolve - deepened mind.
@@einarjungmann273 Testing disciples? I wrote a series of articles on that topic, starting here: antaiji.org/en/english-what-does-it-take-to-become-a-full-fledged-soto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/
@@muho thank you for link. I will read it. I ment test the insights/ kensho od students. Does Soto examine this? (“To open Dharma Eye”- to know what to say and do at the exact moment).
Poor soul, not enough blessing, not knowing what to do and end up more being more confusing than layman. "Of the ten thousand evil acts, lust is the worst"
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I was at this temple for one week, very interesting experience.
This is a very good and honest interview. So often 'religious' people try to come off as being some kind of 'perfect' beings who have transcended all worldly problems or whatever. Muho Noelke comes across as someone who just does what he does, nothing more, nothing less and doesn't present himself in any other way.
ReadyMindsetGo very nice...very great
Sounds like a buddha!
From my understanding that’s what Zen Buddhism is, we are what we are, nothing more, nothing less
*zazen practice* - empty your bowl so it can be filled
A genuine guy who expresses himself wonderfully, and presents an inspirational picture of his belief and commitment. A beautiful documentary and lovely family.
Thank you.
This man and the work done there has helped inspire my practice to be done for the sake of doing it alone - there is such a charm of transparency to these practitioners who align with the world in this manner.
In the coming years, I hope to be a contributing part of this wonderful community. I give a big thank you to Antaiji all the way from Atlanta.
"Why do I have only stupid students?" lmao
even sounds of chewing aren’t allowed. Enter Zen from there. You are hard core brother. Thank you for sharing this. Peace and blessings from NYCity. 🙏❤️
"Use everything. Waste nothing." Thank you for this teaching. 🙏🏻
Congrats - Master Muho Nolke - what a wonderful life you have created for yourself and others ... you are buko ... a opening to stillness, action, and contentment ... Wishing you and your community growth, rest and peace!
the first seconds of music are perfect nostalgia japan wave
Really interesting mini documentary, enjoyed every second of it and learnt something also
A German who devotes his life to self discipline, rules and order. How unusual.
Muho the Zen Nazi!
sendaba.hatenablog.com/entry/2011/03/01/000000
@@muho greetings. As someone who has embraced the culture, philosophy and spiritual values of a "foreign" people (in my case Hinduism), I can understand you better than most.
@@muho You, Muho, are a legend!
Germans are very disciplined, in general.
low quality comment
One of the best things I have ever seen. Such a beautiful life.
Those mealtime 'rules' are not really rules - they're just what's been found to work well and the group is fully into them so it's not as austere as it looks. Almost everything is cunningly designed to support solid practise, which is what everyone is there for at the end of the day. Practising in an environment without that sort of strict format is much harder work, the 'rules' actually make it much easier.
You are right -- the practice is much more difficult without the support of a Buddhist Comunity🙏
I have participated in Rohachi Sesshin here in 2010. I still keep training since then. Thank you!
This is the second time I've watched your documentary. Brad Warner did a video on Muho. I didn't remember Muho's name when I seen that video. When I watched it tonight I was happy to see this documentary again, now that I recognize it.
Thank you for such an honest & respectful treatment in this video. As such, it becomes informative & inspirational/motivational too, at a level very rarely achieved by non-Buddhist & almost never achieved in YT videos. I wish them continued successes at Antaiji, & many blessings, & I hope very much to visit Antaiji
Amazing interview
So wonderful!🙏
This was great , not unamusing, but all the better for that,
many thanks.
He sounds like Terminator ;)
+Bojan Jaklin Polić 25 minutes of hearing his accent and then I read this comment. LOL XD
XblacksocksX LOL ;)
@Bojan LOL :p
Lol
@Anonymous No questions are stupid...
It means :laughing out loud
laugh out loud, used as a response to something funny or as a follow-up to something said only as a joke: You can see from the pics that my dog did not appreciate how we dressed him up for Halloween this year. LOL!
Great documentary, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi. Very nice living... :) I read zen first time about 6-7 years ago. Then i start my meditation and find my real and only style living better everyday. Lot is to do, so i can say i am better man then in young age or when i was children... Bless all munks and gurus. By: Zen Johanness
Always heartening and inspiring to watch this dedication to the Dharma life
Very nice interview
Would Love to stay at Antaji someday.
Thank you so much for the great documentary. I just subscribed your channel.
Sending much respect from a Japanese🙏
Thank you for watching!
thanks for this video
great post, thanks
I really hope more ppl will start living self-sufficient life ! I wanna become a zen Buddhist but in my own house in my heart in my soul 🙏🏻 thank you for this video. I learned so much more 🙏🏻 Danke Schoën 🙏🏻
Buy a book called: ‘A Monks Guide To A Clean House And A Clean Mind’. It’s written by Shoukei Matsumoto. ✌️
*loving kindness for small herbs trees and bushes, zen is a life in harmony with nature seeing all being as one and ultimately a dream - zen enlightenment*
Loving kindness for meditation and insight
Earth Water Air Spirit Fire Lebanese Buffalo Love you
Wonderfull, thanks for sharing.
There's prayer and meditation in Zen Buddhism, I like your activities, I'm a Buddhist monk from Bangladesh, we want to free from suffering and Nirvana, Muho thanks, You are right way in Dharma, I support your daily life works,
Who's here after he announcing he's retiring from antaiji?😭
only one lord exist in all the times and we exist only in the waking state.....he is formless but he is all the form.......he is not the subject or object but he is the witness for the obejects and subjects....he shines all the times........hari: om......whn i hear the word " we meditate 5 hrs daily " my heart full filled with love.......thanks for the word to hear.............
In Japan Monks are only required to be celibate during training. After that it is not un-common for priest to get married and have children. Though there are still some sects where priests remain celibate after training, most no longer require it. In fact there was a time when the Japanese government pressured the monks to get married and have a family. It's considered being a part of society instead of apart from it, Training in life, not separate from it.
Muhō seems like an amazing human. I am wondering when it will be possible to come to Antaiji during this pandemic.
Thank you for this interview. It's a hard life, but everyone can see its beauty whether they want to become monks or stay lay. Sadhu.
This is just amazing telling of the story of living in a zen monastery.
Really is how it is.
he is great monk🙏
Umm guess I didn't need my eardrums wearing headphones almost killed me
Respect!!
Beautiful documentary 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another recommendation (NHK documentary about the present Antaiji):
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016100/
@@muho Thank you very much! 🙏
amazing
What was that first beat in the video that was really funky!!!
I bet these guys are the best at staring contests.
magnificent
thoughtful
Wunderbar. Ich bin ein großer Fan von Peter Barakan und bin über Kevin auf den Kanal aufmerksam geworden. Sehr schönes Interview hier und auch tolle Gespräche mit Nihongo
🙏🏻namaste Sylvia🕊
listening to the air
wish the quality of film was better, still I appreciated the video... arigato ! _/\_
This is true living, loved it. The only thing that pushed me off a bit was a scene wherein he sits in a very small bathtub with his 2 daughters.
One son, one daughter.
in Japan, it's normal to take baths like that, young children bathe with parents and wash, scrub, and enjoy the tub together. Usually the tub is larger then that, much larger then western bath tubs but that tiny size bath is typical for rural/very old buildings.
to a non-Japanese it may seem very weird but it is our way of life and is often seen as character building thing, i scrub my fathers back he scrubs mine, mutual respect etc.
Come on , I grew up like that with my brother and father .we were very close ,strong bonded and it was part of character building. glad I have spent those days with my father and brother, as they both had died today , I did have beautiful childhood with beautiful memories for life to remember.
I can’t see any problems with it..
What was happening in your mind then? ...were you seeing something that upset you...why?
I only wonder how much could I learn from living this kind of life. But I'm meditating only for about half a year and I cannot imagine what five hours of sitting would feel like.
+Hrnek Bezucha Like one second at a time. ;)
This cou be my dream live. It's affordable and it suits me perfectly
It is pretty strange to have him called "Noelke Muho", as Noelke his his former german family name. Correct would be Olaf (first name) Noelke (Family name) or just Abbot Muho.
How can anyone admit to your training centre?? I am very much eager to join your training centre. What are rules and process to join your Soto Zen Training centre ??
Please let me know. Please.
antaiji.org/en/practice/
antaiji.org/en/residency/
I am thankful for oxygen....
oxygen is the best thing!!!
Breathing it feels so good, appreciating breathing is meditation. Feel the oxygen...
appreciate its gift, in your lungs... breathing is qi gong.. nothing more.. though we envision movements of bodies.. it is only the breath... be a great breather! Even just breathing is praying.. heaven is oxygen... heaven is all around us...
Air molecules, are angelic beings... there are trees in the air... become oxygen... by meditating on breathing.. breathing is actually becoming oxygen...
Oxygen is always.. it teaches us and in doing so... we attain ecstasy.. not a pill.. but chi...
Chamtzon
Oxygen is amazing.. it is lifestream.. oxygen is
worth our attention... it is the power of now...
We can say oxygen is our first ancestor.. yet by appreciating oxygen, Aeris.. we can know more...
bringing back ancient parts of the wind ... And helping all life on the planet.
Its oxygen that is lifechanging..
'Why do I only have stupid students here ?!' 👍😂🌻🐧
הזדהות רגשית בְּהֵמָה hazdavut reegsit behemah
Animal בְּהֵמָה - behemah
Empathy - הזדהות רגשית hazdavut reegsit
Empathy for animals and plants means letting them go free not trying to control them
...I'm glad that I'm not the only person who sees this!!!
amazing monk
Im going to be a student there in the near future.
It is beautiful that the Japanese Culture and Chinese culture allows others to practice their ways with them. I was under the impression for so many years that all other races were restricted from becoming practicioners of their ways. In Martial Arts, Customs, etc.
"The greatest support people can give to Antaiji is by actually sharing the life and practice of the community on a long term basis. This however involves a commitment that few people will be able or willing to make."
"Are there other ways to support the community?"
"Yes, another way of helping us is to support Antaiji financially. We have annual expenses which range between 1.200.000 Yen and 1.800.000 Yen (about 15 thousand to 22 thousand US dollars)."
Seems pretty straightforward.
on the tree of life, that came to us from the plants themselves for this purpose
I wish you all the best too Sam, and that you realise we are all one and egual with all the beings on these Earth. All with the same rights to live their lives with love and peace.
Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery is the American version of this place
I cracked a laugh when he said "why do I only have stupid students here?". So humane.
though muho can for sure.
Well i wish you the best of luck with how you live your life and hope for your enlightenment one day, Sadhu sadhu sadhu
We cut our hair to symbolize that we are working on our attachment to self, of which image is a large part, and that we are not different to any other member of the Sangha - the community in any Buddhist center or monastery.
So when he's reciting Hannya Shingyo and needs to take a breath, does he just take the breath on one beat of the drum?
What music on the start ??
Monasteries tend to disallow relationships for some initial period of residency, but most orders throughout the world are OK with it.
amazing bell @1.12
true jedi
thx thanks danke dik dankujem peace
We should do our best to look for that "true self", and not worry too much about what humans do.
🙏
Thank you Camelot886. And me25422: I think it's very important to look at any kind of teacher or authority figure with some measure of skepticism. I don't think there's anything bad with people smiling (duh), and of course (I think this is apt in our little youtube convo), any measure of discomfort one exhibits reflects more ones own situation or perspective than it does convey any real measurement of the item of discomfort. But being uncomfortable is not always bad or undesirable. It just is.
🙏🌷❤🌺🌼great great
Not exactly. To find something close to Bushido, the most advisable would be to seek a dojo where one of the samurai martial arts is taught... there is also Rinzai Zen, which is a form of buddhism known to be followed by the late samurais.
5:04 what to try that
He has made his own form of ZEN. It is not the way they accepted practice. He has incorporated many of his own rituals which most schools disavow.
love from thailand
Must you cut your hair to practice at a zen monastery?
How to meditate - First become aware of all language/English that is in your inner mind in this moment for seven seconds in a row. Then you fully silence all language/English that is in your inner mind in this moment for eleven seconds in a row. Repeat for three times and do that a few times each day and you will see fantastic results! :)
They seem surprised about those potato peels being cooked. Season them well and they’re delicious! They’re traditional in my Mexican, not at all zen family.
Part of Zen too!!!!!!
I too want to live in monastery in Japan and practice zen. Is that possible?
thatssozen.blogspot.com/2016/06/so-you-want-to-practice-zen-in-japan.html
&
thatssozen.blogspot.com/2018/07/so-you-want-to-practice-in-japan-part.html
@@muho Hahaha, awesome!
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
I really want to meet Muho I really have come to a place in my li
Is teaching at Antaiji Soto or Rinzai Zen methodology? thx :-)
Calling it a "methodology" would be an exaggeration, but it’s Soto.
@@muho How Soto line test their disciples? ...if Dogens approach is: "just zazen is englightnemnt". This can leads people to misleading. Desolve ego enough to get kensho can be in the both schools, right? But Riznai line use Koans where masters can test their students in order of evolve - deepened mind.
@@einarjungmann273 Testing disciples? I wrote a series of articles on that topic, starting here: antaiji.org/en/english-what-does-it-take-to-become-a-full-fledged-soto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/
@@muho thank you for link. I will read it. I ment test the insights/ kensho od students. Does Soto examine this? (“To open Dharma Eye”- to know what to say and do at the exact moment).
very interes thank yuw.@6.33 the woodchukerz cant quite chuck wood.
"Zen is the direct destruction of ignorance."
❤
It's a very difficult life actually
Not difficult for the ones who are ready , or ready to detach or already detached and seeking enlightenment.
Poor soul, not enough blessing, not knowing what to do and end up more being more confusing than layman. "Of the ten thousand evil acts, lust is the worst"
hilarious sense depiction/evolution of proportion.. very psychedelic, but also humorous
Th awkward silence 18:24
The beautiful thing is that it isn't awkward for them. Modern society has poisoned our minds so badly.
yes, in japan you can