Scatter ashes in the River at the Funeral Service – Limmat – Aargau – Baden – You who are from heaven, calming all sorrows and pains!
Funeral Conductor zen master Reding from the Honora Zen Monastery will help you arrange the funeral in Switzerland. Whether a burial in the cemetery, scattering ashes in the river or on the mountains is desired, Father Reding will find the right solution with you to pay the last respects to the deceased. The water flows steadily in the river, so your own life and death is in constant change. The wave and the single drop are part of a larger one.
If desired, the Mandala Ritual can be performed by the river or lake. A wooden plate with a Ying-Yang sign made of sand is handed over to the river. It symbolizes the change of life and death. So the wooden plate slowly drifts with the current.
You who are from heaven, calming all sorrows and pains, filling twice with refreshment those who are miserable twice. Oh, I'm tired of the hustle and bustle! What is all the pain and pleasure? Sweet peace, come, oh, come into my breast.
Prayer for the Deceased - Funeral Service by the River
In Your Word, Holy One, let us trust; strengthen our faith. Our saint, the word of peace still dies unheard. But he showed the way that alone leads to peace. We are there for one another like the many members of the body, because as sisters and brothers we are always close to one another. Therefore charity will show who counts among his friends. No one may hide his word for peace in the world.
The doves slumber in the house, but where do the evening birds fly? The waterfall muffles its roar, but where do the streams run? Peacefully the smoke takes root on the roofs, but where does the night cloud flow to? There are lights in a thousand rooms, but where are the stars sinking? Whenever we lie and sleep, ships leave the harbor in the dark. Above all summits there is peace. You hardly feel a breath in all the treetops. The birds are silent in the forest. Just wait, soon you too will rest.