Funeral Service – Memorial Service – Switzerland – Funeral Officiant and Orator – Master of Ceremonies – Zen Master Reding
Funeral Orator & Speaker - Dignified - Respectful - Devotional
Your funeral speaker Zen master Reding, warmly welcomes you. I would gladly guide you through the funeral service and farewell ceremony according to your wishes in a dignified and respectful manner. Each of us will eventually die through the natural process of birth, old age and death and therefore we should continually embrace the impermanence of life and death with all our hearts.
Funeral Service - Memorial Service
The funeral gives the relatives a spiritual, formal and public framework so that the event of death can be consciously carried out and processed. Since there are no obligatory and complex rituals for the funeral, the course of the farewell party will be decided in consultation with you.
We would be glad to discuss your specific wishes regarding the duration of the funeral, procedures, additional texts and speeches with you personally.
Funeral Orator - Zen Master Reding
After ten years of monk training in Japanese and Korean Zen monasteries, Zen monk Father Reding founded the Zen Order in Switzerland in 2014 with the mutual trust of lay people and clergy.
In gratitude for the ten-year training as a Zen monk, he made a pilgrimage through Japan in the traditional alms walk (3000 miles). As founder and abbot, he presides over the rustic Honora Zen monastery in Reichenburg and the Eremita Zen temple in Einsiedeln.
Phoenix Ritual - Rebirth and Resurrection
The Phoenix Ritual: In a godless and fatherless time, we are often aimless and divided, especially when it comes to dying. To symbolize transience, relatives and guests burn a pinch of incense and sandalwood before the grave and during the burial. They are the relatives and acquaintances themselves who are part of the ceremony.
Fire Ritual - Purification & Peace
The fire ritual: Keepsakes, memorabilia, drawings or letters can be burned during the fire ritual at the funeral and symbolically given to the deceased person on their last journey.
Mandala Ritual - Return to God
The Mandala Ritual: If the funeral service takes place near a body of water (lake, stream or river), the Sand Mandala Ritual is ideal.
Annual Commemoration - Mourning & Gratitude
Anniversary (annual commemoration): We would also be happy to guide you through a memorial & remembrance ceremony. This can be held at the gravesite or at a location of your choice. Here you can find out more about customs after death...
Place of Burial - The whole Earth is a Flower
Switzerland-wide & internationally: Determine the location and type of burial that best suits you. Whether in the cemetery, scattering ashes on the mountain, at the lake or in the forest, the ceremony will be carried out according to your ideas.
Non-Denominational - The church in one's own MIND and God in one's own SELF
Although Zen Master Father Reding is Catholic, the ceremony is non-denominational (-free), meaning members of all faiths are welcome. Prayers and rituals from different religions can be included in the funeral according to your wishes.
Cost - Oblations for the Monk
You can have a say in the final donation. We would be happy to discuss the details in personal. The following applies as a guideline:
Ceremony: 800 CHF
+ Expenses (Reichenburg - Location - Reichenburg = ??? kilometers x 0.85 CHF/km)
+ Voluntary donation: ???
CHF final amount
Dear Funeral Speaker Father Reding,
it's been a few months since my daughter's funeral. Last year I had to bury my wife and now my daughter too. Both took their own lives. Of course, the question often came up as to why all this happened to me. Had I done too little? Could I help? What I have done wrong?
At first I didn't really want to come to the funeral and didn't know if I could go through with it. But now I am very happy and grateful. Because through the funeral service and your words at the ceremony, I was able to put everything in a larger context and slowly bring some order back into my life. I now see the grieving process as a great gift. I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for what they do. With best regards,
Josef K. (85)
Dear funeral speaker zen master Reding,
It was a wonderful, gifted atmosphere that we were all able to experience in forest graveyard. The good Lord and karma gave my deceased wife wonderful weather, beautiful light effects, beautiful forest sounds and enchanted all friends in a relaxed, loving mood.
Many thanks for the calm and dignity that you radiated and sent to everyone and spiritually accompanied my wife with dignity on the way to the afterlife.
I would be happy to send you a little extra and wish you, your family and your work and projects all the best, lots of joy and many warm encounters and experiences. You're still so young, you still have so much ahead of you and that's wonderful.
H.H (72)