FAQ – In the monastic regime, where life is strictly organized, humor and irony is a welcome relief!

From the ashes of the betrayed, from the silence of the fathers and the pain of the children, the Nigredo Monastery arose – a place of purification, the rebirth of values ​​and brotherhood.

Misfortune is the measure of a person’s greatness of character. — Giuseppe Motta

The dropout rate is around 90%. The Nigredo monastery is not a comfort zone, but a place of inner work – a school of truth, maturity, and transformation.

Those who choose the Good soon encounter resistance. The devil – or the inner opposing force – places many stones of trial along the path. These tests reveal how sincere one’s choice truly is. Old attachments, especially to the mother (see Death Mother), often resurface. To transform them requires courage, perseverance, and devotion. Many can only sustain this inner work for a time and eventually return to their former life.

Yet some come back regularly – to continue their practice, to grow, and to walk their path toward freedom.

The monastery remains a place for those willing to face their trials – and to choose the Good again and again, even in the midst of light and darkness.

Piety and Chastity, so one has the two most important basic needs and powers (God and sexuality) in the right order.

It is martial! The Sword of Wisdom killed the old witch and her eunuchs and at the same time brought the king and queen to life.

Lord's Prayer!

• The Bible
• Parzifal
• Psychology and Religion (Carl Gustav Jung)
• Hansel and Gretel
• Peter Pan
• Pinocchio
• Sleeping Beauty
• Bambi
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Snow White
• Rumpelstiltskin

Basic military training.

Wokeism (toxic femininity) is the offspring of feminism and the '68 movement. The sexual revolution is devouring its own children and grandchildren. After 60 years of hysteria and delusion, we are returning to reason and morality: There were and still are only two genders, man and woman, and they are not equal, no matter what or who you feel like. Thus, king and queen rule again instead of witches and eunuchs.

What appears to be freedom is often the most subtle form of slavery.

In a society without initiation rites for men, men remain dependent on their mothers and are devoured by the mother of death. In a sociological matriarchy (there is no religious matriarchy), women are happy, fat whores who boss men around. And men are thin, submissive, and nervous mama's boys who work the fields and do the work for the women. Wealth, the instinctual world, sexuality without responsibility, and earthly happiness flourish. But there are no intellectual achievements at all, a world of utter stupidity, without religion or meaning. Peaceful but stupid. (Marie-Louise von Franz)

When man and woman are divided, the intelligent pagan rules. If the king is spiritually blind and absent, the queen inevitably becomes a witch (death mother), devours her own children and grandchildren, and needs eunuchs at her side to rule. When men are no longer men, women can no longer be women.

For the blessing of a father strengthens the houses of children, but the curse of a mother uproots the foundations. For the blessing of a father strengthens the houses of children, but the curse of a mother uproots the foundations. Do not boast by dishonoring your father, for dishonoring a father will not bring you glory. For a man's glory comes from the honor of his father, but a mother of ill repute is a disgrace to children.

When giving birth, women naturally grapple with death and their own transience. The contractions of giving birth (pain) are necessary to be spiritually born into motherhood. The child and the mother are born at the same time!

For a woman, the initiation into motherhood begins by giving birth as natural as possible.

The woman unites her own eros (physical love) with the philia (spiritual love) of the husband in order to experience divine love (agape). So the woman should make sure that she has a healthy body, not for herself, but for her children and her husband.

Zen is mystical, it is about religiosity (inner meaning). Zen is the tradition of mysticism, it is the living core of every religion in which the only thing that matters is practice - religious experience, realization. And here in the West, religious experience has the language of Christianity. This way we can find our father again and free him from the belly of the beast.

You!

You!

Be quiet and pay attention! Always take the greatest possible personal responsibility in your situation and role.

Welcome.

Anytime with advance notice. Whether for a cup of coffee, for sitting meditation, for a day, several days, weeks or months, you are most welcome.

7 hours and 1000 meters of altitude. And we will go hiking, daylong hikes!

Of course, but we will not make any exceptions when it comes to food. So think twice if this is the right place for you.

Pay for the oblations before your stay. Cancellation conditions: A processing fee of CHF 60 will be charged up to 2 weeks before the retreat; the total amount will be forfeited within 2 weeks before the retreat. If the amount has not yet been transferred, it must still be paid. In the event that the retreat is canceled on our part, we will refund the entire amount.

Do not cause additional inconvenience to those around you.

Sometimes you are alone (not during the retreat), sometimes there are several people. The daily routine continues continuously.

You are welcome

Yes.

Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.

No! The monastery is not a shared apartment, hotel, therapy location, day nursery and sanctuary!

No! It has cushions, chairs and various seating options.

We are not an Asian restaurant.

Perhaps

Nothing is free in life!

Pssst

During free time, personal needs can be pursued outside the monastery.

During free time, personal needs can be pursued outside the monastery.

No

Yes

The abbot determines the schedule.

Every Sunday we attend Mass at the local catholic church.

The abbot determines.

Of course, especially during the breaks. Only the bare essentials are spoken during work or the modules.

Chanting is a very old form of knowledge transfer (before we could read). The easiest way to remember a story is sung. Because we have only done it this way for thousands of years, it is appropriately familiar to us. The Lord’s Prayer is read in German and hopefully understood.

Contemplation! The contemplation of a spiritual, non-representational object in which one immerses oneself in order to gain knowledge about it.

Reexamine life and death with all what you have.

In the beginning was the Word, and the living Word was with God, and the Logos was God. When you understand that there is no way to say it, then you should know how to say it, because in the beginning was the word. Zen removes confusion and is not a way of teaching. Zen Master Pohwa Sunim

While everyone is meditating non-stop, standing or sitting, it's always together. If you don't believe this: look carefully! What is talking now all the time? Zen Master Myo-Vong

How should I be able to know that now?

I'm not a dead Zen monk, ask someone who has died.

Not for the sake of peace, but for the sake of truth.

What can he achieve to end this cycle? Until the questions are answered.

A fart in a leather bag! If you see a ghost, say "Hello!"

Please, do not insult my korean zen master.

3 Seconds

3 Seconds

Autch, Autch!

Yes, of course. You get no preferential treatment.

I can show you the way to the toilet, but you have to get on the pot yourself!

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The awakening, the law & the community. Sleeping Beauty slept because the community disregarded the law.

Adam and Eve are playing in the Garden of Eden.

A monk asked Zen Master Joshu, "What about if I don't chase for different things?" Master said, "Obviously, it is exactly like that." The monk said, "Isn't that the fact of my own nature?" The master said, "pursue, hunt, chasing."

Print a business card!

The factual error! When you confuse life and death, pain and suffering, compassion and pity, guest and host, men and women, equality of outcome and equality of opportunity, teacher and student, etc.

The food comes to the mouth and not the other way around. This is more important than making a knot in your legs.

No, guest and host are clearly distinguished. Leave your junk at home.

Yes, during the break.

Take it or leave.

Hansel and Gretel

Here you will find the etiquette for the monastery stay.