Funeral Service – Speaker – Conductor – Zen Master Reding – Master of Ceremony

ZEN - Church in your own Mind and God in your Self!

Zen is mysticism in a fatherless time. It is the living core of every religion, in which the only thing that matters is practice - religious experience, realization. This way we can find our father again and free him from the belly of the beast. It's not about proofs of God but about experiences of God!

Zen meditation aims at a breakthrough of a consciousness limited by the I-form into the Non-I-like Self. An experience of religious transformation and a mystical experience, with its preliminary stages consisting of “letting go” and “emptying images and ideas”. The word that awakens my soul to life.

Prayer and Meditation - Funeral Orator

The sun rushes down to the evening, extinguishes the cool blue in crimson glow, twilight tranquility drink all peaks. The tide howls down foaming silver, waves calmly after spent youth, the image of the stars sways in the mirror of the waves. Hangs the eagle, resting high in the air, motionless as in a deep slumber. When no branch stirs, all the winds are silent. Smiling effortlessly in the rhythms of the gods, as heaven's splendor strides through the mist, Helios strides soaring across fields.

Moist with the magic dew of the holy lips, his song streams the spirit from all spirits, streams down the power from all forces. In times of fateful melodies that play harmoniously with each other like in flowers light and dark colors. And fresh peaks of rejuvenated wisdom, he lifts up from the chaos of old lies to the spirit of ideals. Then gently lulls the flowers on the shore, which his song of sweet slumber woke, to slumber again with a sweet song.

If I hadn't seen and marveled, if I hadn't listened to the divine, and I'd seen the holy splendor of the flowers, saw the early morning fullness of life, nature breathing like newborn, I'd know it wasn't a dream.