Niklaus Brantschen

Brantschen ( born October 25, 1937 in Randa ) is a Swiss Jesuit, Zen master in the White Plum Sangha - line and founder of the Lassalle -Institut within the Lassalle -Haus in Bad Schönbrunn, Canton train.

Training

Brantschen grew up with six siblings in a traditional Catholic family; He is an experienced mountaineer.

The age of 22, he entered the Society of Jesus. After the novitiate in Villars -sur -Glane in 1964, he received a licentiate of the Munich School of Philosophy. As part of a Pedagogical internship he worked 1964-67 as educators in the Jesuit College in Feldkirch / Austria. Then three years studying theology at the University of Fourvière / Lyon (France ) and then a fourth year at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, inter alia, with Professors Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann, Walter Kasper, Hans Küng; Lizenziatsarbeit about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 1970 First Mass celebration in Randa. From 1973 diploma in adult education in Munich, assistant meditation teacher Clement Tilmann, meditation classes at Karlfried Count Dürckheim.

Zen training

As of 1976 undertook Brantschen regular teaching visits and Zen studies in Kamakura / Japan at Hugo Makibi Enomiya - Lassalle and Yamada Roshi Kôun. There he met, among others Heinrich Dumoulin, Jerry Brown, Willigis Hunter, John Kopp. In 1988 the teaching authority in Zen by Yamada Roshi, he was appointed, in 1999, he received the confirmation to the Zen master ( " inca Shomei " ) from Glassman Roshi. In Switzerland, he was a pioneer in this area of the first hour.

Tasks

Brantschen 1973-77 was assistant manager in the education Haus Bad Schönbrunn, then to 1987, its director. 1988-93 he worked as a student chaplain at the universities of Zurich, 1993, he positioned the formation of new house as a center for spirituality and social awareness, calling it now Lassalle-Haus. In 1995 he founded together with Pia Gyger the Lassalle - Institute for Zen - Ethics - Leadership, which they conducted until 2002. At the Institute, the two especially dedicated to the project Jerusalem - Open City for Learning peace in the world, which leads them regularly to Jerusalem and to the UN in New York.

Inter-religious dialogue

According Brantschen there is no alternative to interreligious dialogue, which term not only designates the call, but also the positive, constructive relationships between individuals and communities of other religions to the mutual enrichment. To be religious today hot to be inter- religious, not only bilaterally but multilaterally.

Position to Buddhism

Brantschen feels dialogue with Buddhism as enriching, not straight or completed way between East and West, resulting in the tension between real Zen experience and follow Christ. He sees a similarity (parallelism of the frame) between Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and Zen practice that has over the years with him to a synthesis.

In Zen practice, he sees a way to break down barriers between religions, nations and races - to becoming one humanity.

Partnership of man and woman

For Brantschen the partnership is an important contribution to a necessary planetary shift in consciousness. Really new is created only when man and woman a culture of partnership, equality maintain. For him, humanity is like a bird with two wings like husband and wife. When a wing is not developed equal, we have an oblique bird does not come from the spot.

Insights

For Brantschen is characteristic that he combines his insights into concise sentences.

  • Only someone who is selfless, is really happy.
  • He who loves his spiritual experiences and they want to conserve, destroyed and built their way to the new.
  • Man is not what he "does"; he is not what he " has "; he is not what he "is"; he is what he loves.
  • Ethics, which we believe is grounded in mindful perception of life in all its forms, in the wise judgments and in appropriate, sustainable action for the benefit of all. This is not possible without the full experience of self and world, without a deeper view of reality.

Works

  • Fasting Physiologically - religious - social; Moser, Lausanne, 1987, ISBN 3-907027-01-9
  • Mercy from the silence: Zen and community involvement; Ruben Habito (Eng. translator's and Edit Brantschen ) Kösel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-466-20084-9
  • Fasting in everyday life: guidance and encouragement to fasting in the group; ( First edition 1988) Paul, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-7228-0180- X
  • The way is in you: suggestions for meditation; Benziger, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-545-20116-3
  • You yourself are the World: Spirituality and social- political commitment; Benziger, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-545-20134-1
  • What is important: meditations for everyday life; ? ( First edition 1979) Benziger, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-545-20058-2
  • Not by bread alone: On the road to justice and peace; Benziger, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-545-20148-1
  • On the way of Zen: As a Christian, Buddhist; Kösel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-466-36599-6 Translated to Spanish: Por el camino del zen: Como cristiano budista; Mensajero, Bilbao 2006, ISBN 84-271-2650-6
  • Translated to Italian: il riscoprire digiuno; Queriniana, Brcia 2005, ISBN 88-399-1656-3

Sound and film carrier

  • CD: From good to be advantage: more virtuous - less morals; Kösel audio 2007, ISBN 3-466-45811-0
  • DVD: The culture of silence is the beginning of wisdom; Auditorium network, Müllheim 2011 ASIN B0052J5QB2
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