Japanese Funeral – Zen Master: The Awakened One Was Deep in Perfect Understanding!
In an hour of silence and farewell, I accompany you with an open heart and reverent mindfulness. As a freelance funeral speaker, I design a Japanese funeral marked by dignity, symbolic power, and love – rituals that offer comfort, build bridges between heaven and earth, and honor the deceased in gratitude. My ceremonies combine the clarity of Zen with the depth of Christian wisdom and monastic tradition. Thus, your memorial service becomes a conscious, symbolic, and unforgettable experience – from heart to heart. Whether at the cemetery, a memorial gathering in a familiar circle, or scattering ashes in the mountains, by the lake, or in the forest – the ceremony becomes a reflection of the personality of the person who has left us. Relatives of all faiths are welcome. Upon request, we weave symbols and rituals from different traditions together, so that every mourner finds comfort in their own language of faith.
As a funeral speaker, Zen Master Reding from the Nigredo Monastery in Switzerland designs your Japanese funeral traditionally and according to your wishes – a mystical ceremony that captures the essence of Zen and honors the soul's transition into infinity. In Switzerland, where Eastern wisdom merges with Western spirituality, this form of funeral offers a space for deep reflection, where the farewell becomes a spiritual journey, surrounded by the aura of the eternal that permeates all boundaries of the earthly.
Funeral Speaker – Zen Father Master Reding: A Life in Zen Tradition
After a ten-year monastic training in Zen monasteries in Japan and Korea, Zen Monk Brother Marcel Reding founded the Nigredo Order in Switzerland in 2014, in mutual trust between laity and clergy. In gratitude for his training as a Zen monk, he pilgrimed through all of Japan in the traditional alms walk (3,000 miles) – a mystical journey that taught humility and renewal, immersing the soul in the depths of the cosmos.
As founder and abbot, he presides over the rustic Nigredo Monastery in Reichenburg, a place of simple spirituality where the mystical presence of the divine is sought as a direct experience within. As funeral speaker and Zen Father Master Reding, he brings this wisdom into every Japanese funeral, turning the farewell into an act of enlightenment where grief flows into transcendent peace.
Japanese Funeral: Traditional and Individual Design
The Japanese funeral, inspired by Zen principles, emphasizes transience, mindfulness, and the unity of all being. As a funeral speaker, Zen Master Marcel Reding designs the ceremony traditionally: With incense that spreads the scent of eternity, silent meditations that guide the soul into higher spheres, and rituals that honor the cycle of life. Whether in Switzerland or at a location of your choice – the funeral can include elements like the recitation of the Heart Sutra in Japanese, to build a bridge between this world and the beyond. Mystically, the spirit rises above the illusion of form, and the farewell becomes an initiation into emptiness that encompasses and heals everything.
Heart Sutra – Japanese Funeral: Spiritual Depth and Prayer
The Heart Sutra is recited in Japanese by the ceremony master Zen Father Master Reding during the Japanese funeral – a mystical mantra that dissolves the illusion of separation and guides the soul into infinite emptiness. In the memorial service, it weaves an aura of enlightenment that offers comfort and reveals the connectedness with the cosmos:
Thus have I heard: The Awakened One was deep in the stream of perfect understanding. He explained the process that leads to the illusion of a limited personality. Recognizing its emptiness, he overcame all suffering. Hear, student, form is emptiness, emptiness is form, form is nothing other than emptiness, emptiness is nothing other than form. Likewise, sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness are empty of a separate self.
Hear, student, all phenomena condition each other - neither do they arise nor pass away. Neither pure nor impure, nor do they grow larger or smaller. Therefore, form, sensation, perception, mental formation, and consciousness are artificial concepts. The eye consists exclusively of non-eye elements.
The same applies to ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Therefore, there is no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no tangible, and no object of the mind. Emptiness is form. Since all things in their identity are indescribable, there is no arising and no extinguishing; no suffering, no origin of suffering, no end of suffering, and no path; no understanding and no attainment. Because there is no attainment, the Awakened Ones, through their perfect understanding of integration, find no obstacles in their mind.
Experiencing no obstacles, they overcome fear, free themselves forever from delusion, and realize complete extinguishing. All saints of the past, present, and future attain, thanks to this perfect understanding, full, true, and harmonious enlightenment. Perfect understanding is the highest Logos, the living word that transcends duality, lifts all suffering - the indestructible reality. This Logos should therefore be proclaimed. And this is it: Gone, gone, already gone over, gone over to the other shore! May this be for the welfare of all!
These words, recited in ancient tradition, underscore: The Awakened One was deep in perfect understanding! In the Japanese funeral, they become a mystical invitation to immerse the soul in emptiness, where all dualities dissolve and eternal peace reigns.
Why Choose Zen Master Reding as Funeral Speaker for Your Japanese Funeral?
Many families choose Zen Master Marcel Reding as funeral speaker because his Japanese funerals are authentic, empathetic, and mystically profound. His synthesis of Zen clarity and Christian mysticism creates spaces where grief flows into spiritual renewal, and mystical elements turn the ceremony into a journey into hidden worlds. The costs are 850 CHF plus expenses (0.85 CHF per kilometer) and a voluntary donation – transparent and fair.
Planning a Japanese funeral or memorial service? Contact Zen Master Marcel Reding as funeral speaker at info@trauerredner-beerdigung.ch or visit Nigredo Monastery at Ussbergstrasse 26, 8864 Reichenburg. Together, we will design a dignified farewell.