Claude Durix

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Claude Durix (born August 19, 1921 , † June 24, 2012 ) was a French medic and Zen master .

Life

Claude Durix studied medicine and had to take part in the Second World War. He served as a medic in a unit where the Premonstratensian Norbert Calmels also served, whom he met and became friends with and remained friends with him until the end of his life. Calmels later became Abbot General in his order and nuncio to Morocco .

After the end of the war he met Suzanne, whom he married after only three months. He continued his medical training and became a specialist in ophthalmology and eye surgery . Because there were few doctor positions available in France, he applied for a position in Casablanca , then a French protectorate, where he got a position in 1950. After the war, in 1945, Claude Durix became interested in Japanese martial arts. He practiced Judo , Kendō and Iaidō like Aikidō and reached the 4th Dan in Kendō, the 3rd Dan in Judo, the 3rd Dan in Iaidō and the 2nd Dan in Aikidō. Durix was an athlete at the Kendo World Championships, 1970 in Tokyo , 1973 in Los Angeles and 1976 in London . He was a co-founder of the African Judo Union, and co-founder of the International Federation for Kendo. Two of his relatives had gone to Japan as religious women and were running an orphanage there, which made Japan interesting for him to learn and deepen the martial arts there. When he was in Japan, at a kendo practice event, he was told that he was going to learn Zen . Zen is the spiritual background. Durix came to Manpuku-ji monastery near Kyoto , a monastery of the Obaku lineage, through a recommendation . Master Sengoku there held him in high regard. After Durix was there for a period in 1956, he was authorized by Sengoku to teach Zen in 1959 and received the stick Nyoi-bo as an outward sign.

Claude Durix then founded Zen groups in Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakech . He worked with Deshimaru for a while, but then separated from him. Until his retirement in 1987 as an ophthalmologist, he lived and worked in Casablanca. He left Casablanca and lived all year round in his summer house in Cabo Negro, across from Gibraltar. Later that summer he spent more years on the Côte d'Azur , where his wife had inherited a house from their parents, after which they were in Cabo Negro in Morocco that winter.

At the end of the 1980s, Durix got in touch with the Roman Catholic. Pastor Karl Obermayer in Vienna and Durix agreed to come to Vienna with his wife in 1989 and have a day sesshin , which then became an annual tradition and was supplemented with a calligraphy day until 2005.

Suzanne and Claude Durix were married in 1945 in a Joseph church in Lyon.

Publications

French
  • Célébration de ľ Œil. éd Robert Morel, 1963.
  • Notre ami commun. éd Robert Morel, 1963.
  • Cent clés pour comprendre le Zen. préface de Taisen Deshimaru Rôshi, Le Courrier du livre, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7029-0029-1 .
  • Zen. Ni lotus ni robots. 1981.
  • Zen ou l'esprit de l'eau courante et du rayon de lune. 1983.
  • Zen. Ou comment nourrir le bébé-tigre. 1983.
  • Le sabre et la vie. 1985.
  • Zen. Être intime avec son âme. 1986.
  • Norbert Calmels, histoire ď une amitié. 1986.
  • Zen ou comment passer sur ľ autre rive. 1987.
  • Le mystère de ľ œil. 1990.
  • Zen. Éternel pèlerinage. Nouvelles formes ďenseignement du zen. GUY TRÉDANIEL, Éditions de la Maisnie, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-85-707-360-7 .
  • Le Vieux Maître et ľ écologie. Trédaniel, 1991.
  • Evidences. Ou ľ Éveil en instance. Trédaniel, 1992.
  • Les temps sont durs ... mais la lumière est en nous. Le Fennec, 1994.
  • Le Potier de Kyôto. Les Belles Lettres, 1999.
  • De la Gaule au Japon par les chemins de Dieu. L'aventure herroïque de quelques femmes. Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-204-06302-9 .
German translation
  • Lively zen. ... like the moonlight and the flowing water. Translated from the French by Marie Dominique Leitner, Kristkeitz, Leimen 1991, ISBN 3-921508-43-6 .
  • Nyoiba. Passing the baton. , As to be when it is necessary. ' Time still doesn't count. , How to help others. In: Helmut Kinder, Else Macho, Susanne Schaup (Ed.): Open width - nothing of sacred. From the practice of an open Zen community. A reader. Preface by David Steindl-Rast , Theseus, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89901-596-6 .

literature

  • Karl Obermayer: Teishō on the occasion of the Claude Durix memorial. Vienna, October 13, 2012. In the supplement In memory of Claude Durix. to the Sanghabrief Mu-gen issue 35 December 2012 of the Zendo Vienna 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notice de personne , Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on May 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Page on Claude Durix ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of Zendo Wien 5, accessed on May 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Durix published in 1986 Norbert Calmels a book story of a friendship.
  4. ↑ Durix published a book about his relatives in Japan in 1999
personal data
SURNAME Durix, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic and Zen master
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1921
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2012