While Catholics are struggling to keep their followers in church for Sunday services, Buddhism has become trendy during the last decades: Meditating Buddhas in between boxwood hedges of front gardens aren't unusual, joss sticks are a "must have" in every household and Yoga has taken its place as a trend sport a long time ago. But what does it mean to be a real Buddhist? In Zen River, an international Buddhist monastery in Uithiuzen (Groningen) a dozen monks practise Zen Buddhism. And spending a whole day there showed, how different this life is from what people might like to imagine Buddhism to be.
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Ludmilla Reisinger
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