柴田さんの6時の知らせ
太陽様が起きたばかり。
遠くから光速度おるの車の音が流れてくるし、電車がたまに通りますが、その量音は鳥の鳴き声の歌に負けます。
これは朝5時座禅＠開眼寺。
昨日は息子達と頑張って、早く起きて、開眼寺へお出かけしました。座禅は本当にどこでも、いつでもできるのですが、開眼寺の座禅堂で信州の最も静かの朝5時でやるのは最適です。
今回は久しぶりに行きましたが、この夏は夏休みで「若旦那と朝5時座禅プラン」で既に予約は入っています。これからは何度も開眼寺にお世話名なりそうです。
The sun has just woken up.
Birds are singing their morning serenade, their chirping drowning out the distant sounds of the freeway and the occasional train going by.
This is Nagano at 5am. Nagano at its most still. The perfect time for zazen meditation. And the perfect place is Kaigen-Ji Temple's zazen room.
While zazen can be done anywhere, any time, doing it in the quietness of 5am at Kaigen-ji just feels so right.
Yesterday morning I took our 2 sons for meditation. It was my first time this summer. Like anything else, meditation takes practice. We already have reservations for our "5am zazen with the Proprietor" plan coming up for summer vacation, so I am looking forward to more trips to Kaigen-ji soon.
開眼寺(Tel 026-272-5019)は千曲市の桑原地区にあります。信州お寺巡りの13番。歴史的の本堂の隣に、モダンな座禅堂がある。住職の柴田さんは毎朝5時に座禅をやっているので、自由参加です。
亀清旅館の若旦那の私も座禅が好きで、時々に柴田さん・開眼寺にお世話になります。我が宿の宿泊者で、行きたい方がいらっしゃれば、喜んでご一緒に行きます。
Kaigen-ji Temple (tel# 026-275-5019) is located in Chikuma City's Kuwabara district, approx. 15 minutes by car from Kamesei. It is #13 on the Nagano Temple Pilgrimage route. Next to the historical main building is a modern zazen room. The head monk, Shibata-san, does meditation their every morning at 5am. I, the proprietor of Kamesei Ryokan, practice meditation and every once in a while go to Kaigen-ji. For guests of our inn that wish to go, I would love to take you!
開眼寺のアジサイが綺麗に咲いていて
