Willigis Jäger

Willigis hunters OSB ( born March 7, 1925 in Hoesbach ), with the Zen name Ko -un Rōshi, is a German Benedictine monk, Zen master and mystic.

Life

Willigis hunters came in 1946 in the Abbey Muensterschwarzach one. From 1948, he studied philosophy and theology at Saint Ottilia and at the University of Würzburg. In 1952 he was ordained a priest and was until 1964 prefect and teacher at the boarding school of the abbey Muensterschwarzach. From 1960 he has been a speaker for " Mission and Development " at the Federation of German Catholic Youth in Dusseldorf. In 1961 he founded the ecumenical missionary action. Travels took him to the Third World, Asia and particularly Japan, where he first came into contact with Zen. From 1969 he practiced Zen in Japan, first in the center of Hugo Makibi Enomiya - Lassalle in Shinmeikutsu, then from 1972 as a student of Zen Master Yamada Ko -Un Rōshi the Sanbo Kyodan school.

Hunter lived for six years in Japan. In 1980 he was awarded by Yamada Rōshi to teach the permission Zen. Yamada Roshi successor Kubota Rōshi transferred hunter 1996 full teaching license Inka Shomei that identifies hunter than 87 followers of Buddha Shakyamuni. Thus he is authorized as a Zen master, others to be confirmed in this succession. The now vacant boarding the Abbey Muensterschwarzach was redeveloped in 1983 to the meditation center of St. Benedict and directed by Willigis hunters until 2001. Around 1990, contemplative prayer had been formed under his leadership, the World Working Group, from the mid-1990s, the Würzburg school he founded, the contemplation was to revive with the goal of contemplative prayer and mysticism in the churches.

2003 Hunter Head of denominational education Benediktushof house, on the site of the former Benedictine Provost in wooden churches. In 2007 he withdrew from the operational direction of the Benediktushof and handed over this office to Doris Zölls and Alexander Poraj. In the same year he founded the West-Eastern Wisdom - Willigis Hunter Foundation, based on the Benediktushof. In June 2009, he founded his own Zenlinie Empty cloud. In October 2009, he received from Chinese Chan Grandmaster Jing Hui certification as a Chan master and 45th successor of Lin - chi ( Jap. Rinzai ).

2010 was the Master Hunter - power Inka Shomei Doris Zölls and Alexander Poraj. In June 2012, the newly founded by his own Kontemplationslinie was inaugurated with the name Cloud of Unknowing Willigis hunters. (See also The Cloud of Unknowing ).

Willigis hunter thinking

After hunters religions are directed to an " ultimate reality ", but only understanding aids, maps, models become obsolete if they are not always revived from the experience here. He believes - as the Catholic Church - all religions as important and necessary achievements, but complains that religions schwertun to overcome their rigidity in order to give the people answer to the old questions of humanity quite new questions can, and that the mystical prayer is not be taught. He believes that evolution new levels of consciousness will bring forth. He also says that God's experience is experience of love. Although the saying all religions; but as long as this remains a commandment, it produced no effect, as the history of religions and their aberrations showed. Every religion should be transcended to Sophia perennis, the eternal wisdom, which will now lived only a minority that each religion be known but one day as the true goal. Mysticism will always be alive when the spiritual experiences of the founders of religion solidified in objective, legal and dogmatic forms. If the law of life and the dogma of the personal experience begin to dominate, incur mystical movements that were looking for a direct contact with God. Therefore, the theistic religions with mysticism have always done heavy.

" Every religion has sacred scriptures, rituals and commandments. They are intended to help people to find what is referred to as God, divinity, nature nature, Sunyata, etc.. Writings and rituals can always suggest only to God. [ ... ] If you want to experience God, must exceed books, rituals and all mental comprehension. That is why all religions studied pathways that lead to the experience of ultimate reality. In Buddhism, Zen, Vipassana and Tibetan paths develop. With the Hindus, the various forms of yoga originated. In Islam, the Kabbalah and Christianity contemplation unfolded Sufism, Judaism. There are spiritual paths that will lead its in the experience of what the Scriptures teach and recommendations of the various religions. [ ... ] You want to lead in the experience of Urwirklichkeit. [ ... ] The transcendental realms of experience are provided in talent of our human existence, even if many people know nothing about it. "

Hunter's viewpoints are discussed, sometimes controversial. For a dissolution of the self in God, and against the view, according to which was only God and all the difference is radically negated is argued that the Christian experience of God by pointing to a personales you. Unrelated neither love nor freedom was possible. God should therefore not be thought of as a pure unity, but must as a unity in diversity and therefore Trinitarian.

Conflict with the Roman Catholic Church

Under the leadership of then- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2001 threw the CDF prior to subordinate truths of faith of personal experience and gave him a speech, writing and performance ban. In January 2002, he therefore forbade the Episcopal Ordinariate in Würzburg the exercise of any public activity. The other hand, hunters claimed ancient truths of faith for the present to re- interpret. As a result, he asked to be exklaustriert from the Abbey Muensterschwarzach; while it was a sort of leave of absence from the monastery. He is still a member of his monastic community. Their abbot and community stood by him.

Publications

• Walk the inner way: Texts of mindfulness and contemplation; Herder Freiburg, 1999, ISBN 3-451-05027-7
• The sky in you, the body practice prayer; ( with Beatrice Grimm), Kösel Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-466-20452-6
• Contemplation: Encountering God - Today; Herder Freiburg, 2002, ISBN 3-451-05278-4
• Dawn of a new country: the experience of a spiritual life; Herder Freiburg, 2003, ISBN 3-451-05381-0
• Where our desire leads: mysticism in the 21st century; Via Nova Peter Berg, 2003, ISBN 3-936486-21-2
• In each Now is eternity words for all days; Christoph Quarch eds Kösel Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-466-36640-2
• Search for the meaning of life; Via Nova Peter Berg, 2004, ISBN 978-3-928632-03-4
• Recurrence of mysticism: learn the eternal in the now; Herder Freiburg, 2004, ISBN 3-451-05399-3
• 27 pearls of wisdom; Keiko Nimura Eckert Hg, Via Nova, Peter Berg, 2004, ISBN 3-936486-44-1
• " ... Because here are gods ": wellness, fitness and spirituality; together with a couple Christoph Quarch, Herder Freiburg, 2004, ISBN 3-451-05457-4
• Song of Silence: Poems of spiritual companionship Willigis hunters; Via Nova Peter Berg, 2004, ISBN 3-936486-75-1
• Life is Religion: stations of a spiritual path; Kösel Munich, 2005, ISBN 3-466-36676-3
• In each Now is eternity words for all days; Knaur Munich, 2007, ISBN 3-426-87348-6
• Unlike speak of God; Via Nova Peter Berg, 2007, ISBN 3-86616-061-5
• Life never ends: on arriving in the now; Theseus Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7831-9529-3
• Walk the inner way: Texts of mindfulness and contemplation; Herder Freiburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-05999-5
• West Eastern wisdom: Visions of an integral spirituality; Theseus Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7831-9531-6
• Zen in the 21st century; Kamphausen Bielefeld, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89901-197-5
• All about love; Kösel Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-466-36842-6
• The flute of the Infinite: recitation mystical texts from East and West; Ways of mysticism Gerbrunn, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810310-5-8
• Eternal wisdom: the secret behind all spiritual paths; Kösel Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-466-36887-7
• Life never ends: on arriving in the now; Herder Freiburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06152-3
• The shaft is the sea: mystical spirituality; Cross Fribourg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7831-3460-5
• Contemplation - a spiritual path; Cross Fribourg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7831-8012-1
• Find your inner journey; Cross Fribourg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-61083-7
• Pearls of Wisdom - The most beautiful texts; Quarch ed. Christoph and Elisabeth Walcher, Herder Freiburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-07154-6
• Beyond God; Hg Beatrice Grimm, ways of mysticism wooden churches, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9810310-6-5
• The most beautiful texts of Willigis hunters; Quarch ed. Christoph and Elisabeth Walcher, Herder Freiburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-07154-6
• Recurrence of mysticism: Experiencing the eternal in the now; Herder Freiburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-06569-9
• Space and present: inspiration from Zen and contemplation; Kösel Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-37073-3