Pastor – Zen Master – Funeral Orator – The Art of Ceremonies – Life and death is a great mystery! Don’t spend your life in vain!
Pastor Marcel Reding is a Zen monk and abbot of the Honora Zen monastery in Reichenburg. Through his many years of training (10 years) as a Zen monk in Japan and Korea, he further developed the art of the funeral orator.
Reformation - Pastor Marcel Reding
Whether in Japan, Korea or Switzerland, Father Reding examined the elements in burial ceremonies that have not changed and are universal. So he could slowly approach the content, the core of the rituals. Back in his native country, Switzerland, the universal content is being reformed into our culture over the years. So that the content of a funeral service is understandable via the appropriate form.
Meditation
Without seeing your own nature, no matter how much you seek God day and night, it is absolutely impossible to see. Although we may say that there is nothing to attain originally, if you do not understand it yet. You must find and meet a master with sincere effort and work to open your mind. Life and death is a great mystery. Don't spend your life in vain. Cheating yourself will not help you in any way. Even if one has stored jewels as big as a mountain, or if one has many followers, one can only see these things as long as one's eyes are alive.
Wisdom - Pastor Marcel Reding
But when the eyes are dead; can you still see them? So it is a very obvious fact that everything we do is a fleeting appearance like a dream or a ghost. If you don't find a teacher quickly, you will waste your life needlessly because of it. Everyone already has self-nature, but unless you depend on the help of a teacher, no one can acknowledge and sanction your understanding. Therefore, it is almost impossible to gain a great understanding without a teacher.
But one who, through his own karmic privilege, has already attained the understanding of a sage. He does not have to go to find a teacher. Although everyone has a self-nature before birth, if there is even a tiny residue of misunderstanding left, he must go and meet with the teacher.
