Make your visit to Japan a special one by achieving peace in your busy life with this Zen meditation in Hakata!
The monk at the Myorakuji Temple will teach you the step by step on how to do Zen meditation. Come and join this experience and escape from your busy life and relax in this calm atmosphere of the temple and achieve mental concentration.
The essence of Zen Buddhism is Zazen. Zazen is putting aside your everyday thoughts and concentrating on the "here and now". While doing Zazen, it is important to harmonize your posture, breathing and mind. Described as "Cho-shin (harmonizing the body)" "Cho-soku(harmonizing the breath)" "Cho-shin (harmonizing the mind)".
Cho-shin
Sitting in the posture of Buddha
Cho-soku
Inhale deeply into the lower abdomen, holding your breath briefly and exhaling completely and gently
Cho-shin
The mind in its natural state
Myorakuji Temple
Myorakuji temple is a temple of Rinzai-shyu. Their lesson tells us how to live in this nature, and concentrate yourself through a meditation. They call clarifying yourself "Satori"(spiritual awakening) and everyone trains themselves to achieve that level. Myorakuji was very important place during the term of transaction between Hakata(Fukuoka) and China.