Question

Kosen or Roland? One is not in front of a football match!! I dare to hope that the room is larger.

If we do not see what brings these 2 men together, then let’s shut up and sit. By pointing out, if we still do not see that it is love, and only love, let us start again...

Answer from Master Kosen

It is not a matter of a competition on a purely personal basis, to know who the best between Roland and I is, nor to know if I love Roland or not. It is a matter of making a dream live on, the one I shared with a great Master and for which I have given my life.
If this dream is what the AZI of the Zen of Deshimaru proposes to us today, then I have wasted my life, and I was cheated by an impostor called Deshimaru. Fortunately, this is not the case.

Mondo On the same theme : Dialogues with Roland

Sotoshu, Roland Rech's response.

Relations with Sotoshu Shumucho. In an answer to the question if his sangha is recognized by Sotoshu in Japan, Master Kosen Stephan Thibaut put forth negative judgements on the attitude of the masters of the AZI and mine in particular founded on erroneous information. I thus request the publication of the following statement which will be done ...

Kosen or Roland?

Kosen or Roland? One is not in front of a football match!! I dare to hope that the room is larger. If we do not see what brings these 2 men together, then let’s shut up and sit. By pointing out, if we still do not see that it is love, and only love, let us start again...
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The shiho looks to me to be something intimate and to make a celebration of it does not look right to me.

HISTORY OF EVENTS(Twenty years ago already Master Rempo Niwa zenji, the highest authority of the Japanese zen who was about to become Zenji of the temple of Eiheiji, temple founded by Master Dogen zenji himself, came in person to transmit the shiho - the transmission of the dharma - to three of the closest disciples of Master Taisen ...


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