Muhō Nölke
Muhō ( Japanese (ネ ル ケ) 無 方 , (Neruke) Muhō , actually Olaf Nölke ; * 1968 in Berlin ) is a German Zen master . Between 2002 and 2020 he was the abbot of the Japanese monastery Antai-ji . In Germany he is also known for his translations of the works of Sawaki Kōdō , whose line of tradition he represents in Japan as ancestor.
Life
Muhō was born as Olaf Nölke in Berlin. He came into contact with Zen as a high school student in a Braunschweig boarding school. While studying Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin , he spent a year in Japan in 1990, of which he spent six months in Antai-ji. After completing his master's degree, he ordained there.
After the death of his master Miyaura Shinyu, he was appointed his successor in 2002 and has since been active as a Zen teacher both in Japan and abroad. He was the subject of the ARD documentary Der Abt von Antaiji (2005) and played himself in Zen for Nothing (2016) by Werner Penzel . Since 2016 he has also been teaching at the Chigen-ji seminary in Kyoto Prefecture .
Publications
In German
- Abbot Muho: Zazen or the way to happiness . Rowohlt, 2007, ISBN 3-499-62203-3 .
- Abbot Muho: A raindrop returns to the sea . Berlin-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3827013385 .
- Muho Nölke: Food for horses and donkeys: The Dôgen reading book . Angkor Publishing House, 2018, ISBN 978-3943839630 .
- Abbot Muho: The sea does not reject a river . Berlin-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3827013804 .
- Abbot Muho: The moon shines in every puddle . Berlin-Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3827013927 .
Contributions
- Zazen or the constant readiness to start over - now! In: OM C. Parkin , Abbot Muho, Andrew Cohen , Josef Reichholf , Doris Zölls u. a .: Die and Become: The Power of a New Beginning Advaita Media 2010 ( ISBN 978-3936718201 )
- My way to zen. In: Friedhelm Köhler , Friederike Migneco , Benedikt Maria Trappen : Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz for his 60th birthday. Edition Habermann, Munich 2016 ( ISBN 978-3960250098 ), p. 225 ff.
- How is it that non-free will forces us to live as if we had free will? In: Matthias Eckoldt : Can Consciousness Be Conscious? Conversations with Dirk Baecker , Markus Gabriel , John-Dylan Haynes , Philipp Hübl , Natalie Knapp , Christof Koch , Georg Kreutzberg , Klaus Mainzer , Abt Muhô, Michael Pauen , Johannes Wagemann and Harald Walach , Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2017 ( ISBN 978-3849702021 ), P. 119 ff.
In Japanese
- Muho Noelke: Mayoeru mono no Zen shugyou . Shincho-shinsho, 2011, ISBN 4-10-610404-0 .
- Muho Noelke: Hadaka no Bousama . Sanga, 2012, ISBN 4-905425-12-3 .
- Muho Noelke: Tada suwaru . Kobunsha-shinsho, 2012, ISBN 9784334036928 .
- Muho Noelke: Ikiru hint 33 . Asahi-shinsho, 2012, ISBN 9784022730992 .
- Muho Noelke: Otona ni naru tame no yatsu no shugyou . Shodensha, 2013, ISBN 4396113153
- Muho Noelke: Mayoinagara ikiru . Daiwa-shobo, 2013, ISBN 9784479012108
- Muho Noelke: Doge wo gyakuyunyu . Sanga, 2013, ISBN 978-4905425472
- Muho Noelke: Nihonjin ni shukyo ha iranai . Best-shinsho, 2014, ISBN 978-4584124321
- Muho Noelke: Yomu dake Zen shugyou . Asahi-shinbun-shuppan, 2014, ISBN 978-4-02-331321-7
- Muho Noelke: Mayoi ha satori no dai-ippo Shincho-shinsho, 2015, ISBN 978-4-10-610603-3
- Muho Noelke: Ari no mama demo ii, ari no mama de nakute mo ii. Best-shinsho, 2015, ISBN 978-4584136317
- Muho Noelke: Kokoro ni hibiku bukkyou no kingen 100, Takarajima-sha, 2015, ISBN 978-4800240248
- Muho Noelke: Naze nihonjin ha gosenzo-sama ni inoru no ka . Gentousha-shinsho, 2015, ISBN 978-4344983816
- Muho Noelke: Bukkyou no tsumetasa, Kirisutokyou no ayausa . Best-shinsho, 2016, ISBN 978-4584125090
- Muho Noelke: Magenai Doitsujin, kimenai Nihonjin .Sanga, 2016, ISBN 978-4865640557
- Muho Noelke: Kyou wo shinu koto de, ashita wo ikiru. Best-shinsho, 2017, ISBN 978-4584125489
Translations
- Kōdō Sawaki: A good day every day . Angkor 2008. ISBN 978-3-936018-57-8
- Kōdō Sawaki: To you. Zen sayings . Angkor 2005. ISBN 978-3-936018-40-0
- Kōdō Sawaki: Zen is the greatest lie of all time . Angkor 2005. ISBN 978-3-936018-30-1
- Kōshō Uchiyama: The Zen teaching of the vagabond Kodo . Angkor 2007, translated together with Guido Keller ISBN 978-3-936018-51-6
Web links
- Muhō Nölke's channel on YouTube
- Who am I? Muho's blog
- Literature by and about Muhō Nölke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Muhō Nölke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about Muhō Nölke on the homepage of the Antaiji Monastery
- Muhō Nölke in the archive of Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Master of Sitting Schwäbisches Tagblatt, August 3, 2010
- ↑ Antaiji - Abbot Muho. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Good luck . ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. MAY Magazine, September 14, 2011
- ↑ http://chigenji.com/oshirase.html
- ↑ Why we don't have to fear death . Huffington Post, October 12, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muhō Nölke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nölke, Olaf (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Zen master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |