Author Archives: Rosan Daido

  Live Limitless Life: Triple Learnings   The Buddha, Awakened One, illustrated the rarity and value of human life and its awakened way by saying that it is more rare and valuable than a blind turtle living at the bottom … Continue reading →

The Rosengarten in the Dolomites The magic started already in Brixen, a town near the Dolomites in South Tyrol. There, we saw on the ceiling of the cloister beside the dome a depiction of the first elephant crossing the Alps … Continue reading →

Source of Suffering: Triple Poisons We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and also eight, adding to these the four common ones of parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, not attaining the desired, … Continue reading →

. Holiness Is Essence: Triple Collective Pure Precepts . Boddhi-sattvas, awakening beings, take the Sixteen Precepts consisting of the Triple Treasures, the Triple Collective Pure Precepts, and the Ten Grave Prohibitory Precepts. The Triple Collective Pure Precepts are unique in … Continue reading →

Triple Characteristics   The Buddha (Awakened One) was awakened to the truth that phenomena are dependently originated on limitless causes and conditions; this truth is called the Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (form/phenomena). All the Buddhist theories and practices are … Continue reading →

Our suffering comes from not awakening because we are karma-owners, and from not cultivating the right way or the Awakened Way. Our karma (action/habit/heredity) is instilled with the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion. These create the selfish self-survival … Continue reading →

Our suffering comes from not realizing the Dharma (Norm: Law: Holy truth/ethic), because our perspective and practice are partial, like those of the born blind feeling an elephant and then arguing and even fighting, convinced that their partial views are … Continue reading →

The Doomsday Clock is the closest, 90 seconds, it has ever been to doom due to nukes, wars, climate change, mass extinctions, etc. The world is expanding militarization with nuclear weapons, making it difficult to solve other problems due to … Continue reading →

How a World Federation Would Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (Talk sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter, Citizens for Global Solutions, May 7, 2023) By Lawrence S. Wittner From the standpoint of human survival in the nuclear age, I have some bad … Continue reading →

Here are flowers in the garden of Rofu and Myoku in New Mexico:     .   Pear tree in bloom. All the blooms were knocked off Saturday evening by 60 mile an hour winds. . .   Sandia Mountain … Continue reading →