Funeral Officiant and Eulogy Speaker – Zen Master Reding – The sower sows the seed, the earth receives it

Prayer and Meditation

The sower sows the seed, the earth receives it, and about a little the flower germinates. you loved her Whatever gains this life otherwise has, you considered small, and it slumbered away from you! Why are you weeping by the grave and raising your hands to the cloud of death and corruption? Like grass in the field, people are gone, like leaves!

Only a few days we go along in disguise! The eagle visits the earth, but does not linger, shakes the dust off its wing and returns to the sun! Ah, it is so dark in death's chamber, sounds so sad when he moves and now picks up his heavy hammer and the hour strikes.

Funeral Service with Eulogy Speaker - Zen Master Reding

I walk alone, my way is long. I look up at the sky so scared. No star from above looks down, dull the sky, dark my heart. My heart and the sky have the same need, its shine is gone, my love is dead. Separation is probably to be called death, because who knows where we are going. Death is just a short separation to see you again soon. Be carefree and carefree about being and not being. For of every being, however high, non-being is the end after all. Nothing lasts in the world. What comes must part, and so joy and sorrow always shake hands.

O human heart, what is your happiness? A mysteriously born, and, scarcely greeted, lost, unrepeated moment! Not old age, young people should be blamed if we don't like old age. Honor has never sought me. She would never have found me either. one chooses, in counted hours. A magnificent party dress to escape? I never coveted treasures either. what use is it to short distances. For thieves more than to cherish where one eats the least? How long does it take, I'm gone. And a posterity beneath your feet? What does she need to know when she kicks? I only know who I am.