Welcome. Wedding officiant and zen master Reding learned to reexamine life and death again and again during the monastery years with his Zen master in Japan and Korea. Back in Switzerland, a new form was developed over the years, which is understandable for us and adapted to our culture without changing the content.

Wedding Ceremony

In a culture, the content of a ritual or ceremony has often been lost and only the form remains. Since the Zen school in Japan is very traditional and has remained unchanged for centuries, the texts, prayers and ceremonies are very difficult for the layperson to understand. Zen Master Noritake Kotouku (Abbot Reding's monk father) simultaneously explained the content and meaning of the symbolism to those present at a ceremony in Japan. Abbot Reding now follows the Zen master's example and adapts this procedure in the wedding ceremonies.

Zen Patriarch

The nature of sudden enlightenment originally has no defilement. And the self-gnostic nature without confusion is originally accomplished. When one practices according to this understanding, it is called meditation of the highest vehicle (Zen). It is also called God's immaculate meditation. Cultivating one thought at a time will no doubt lead to hundreds of thousands of meditative absorptions, which is the same law handed down since Bodhidharma.

Enlightenment - Zen Master

After sudden enlightenment, one should cultivate gradually. The relationship between these is like the two wheels of a vehicle, one cannot exist without the other. Some people insist that mind cultivation is best achieved through immovable things. By controlling mind and body, like a rock and a weed. They call it cultivation of the mind. But this is a very wrong concept. And they don't understand the fact that the nature of good and evil is originally empty.

Wisdom - Zen Master

Murder, stealing, adultery, and deluded speech come from our own nature. As long as you look at this ascension with great awareness and re-examine it, the ascension is not the ascension. Since the one who raises a thought is already empty and calm. What else can you cut off? Therefore it says:

Do not fear the advent of delusion, but be concerned about your lateness in awakening. Awaken as soon as the thought comes; once awakened, immediately nothing remains. Don't fear the devil, fear God!

Therefore, for the enlightened person, all the various unnatural confusions become the most wonderful dessert. As long as the confusion is rootless. Is it like smoke before the wind and the illusory six sense roots like melting ice in hot water. If you cultivate each thought in this way without neglect, contemplate and re-examine.

As you maintain serenity and wisdom in equal measure, likes and dislikes will eventually diminish. And instead, the compassionate wisdom is naturally increased. Like the moon shining in the middle of the sky and appearing in every single pond, immeasurable applications will follow every single being.