Author Archives: Rosan Daido

  How Gotama became Buddha became great concern for renunciants and lay people. This became concern of his career, Bodhisattva ideal and perfecting Buddhahood – worshipers around stupas, Jataka stories, perfecting ways.   Bodhisattva ideal lies in truth, friendship, prognosis, … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Way: Unsurpassed Way   Gotama attained unsurpassed awakening from the long night of nescience in nirvana and walked the unsurpassed way of holiness (wholly wholesome way/world) with all beyond the triple poisons.   He figured … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Organs’ names and numbers were not decided at the early Upanishad of the Bṛhadāranyaka and the Chāndogya. Prāṇa (breath, vital force) became the reason for the self-universe-unity, and the winner among the five organs.*   The … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   We usually think that we are composed of the body and mind. The Buddha divided them further into form, feeling, idea, formations, and consciousness to facilitate more concrete, clearer analyses and conclusions.   They are called … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Dharma of Dependent Co-origination (paṭicca-sam-uppāda) is considered to come from the dependent co-origination of the sense organs, objects, and consciousnesses, called conjunction of the three or contact.   When sense organs contact sense objects, origination … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Holy Eightfold Ways (ariya aṭṭhaṅgika magga) are right view, thinking, speech, action, livelihood, striving, mindfulness, samadhi. Ariya (Greek hagia: holy) is better translated holy to express “all harmonious.”   The right view is seeing dharmas … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   We with our karma for survival, first notice our bodies, then emotions, but seldom see the importance of the mind, much less the Dharma. The Buddha was awakened to Dharma of Dependent Co-origination of all phenomena. … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Saving: Awakening   The five powers (bala) have the same contents as the five faculties. The Buddha himself admitted this, saying that they are like a river divided by a bar in the middle of … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The five faculties (indriya) usually mean the five sense organs. The special Buddhist meanings are credo (saddhā), virility/strength (viriya), memory/ mindfulness (sati/smṛṭi), synthesis (samādhi), and prognosis (paññā/prajñā).   I gave cognate translations to see the original … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The four potency bases (iddhi-pāda) are will-, striving-, mind-, and investigation-potency bases attained by refined effort in samadhi. These decrease the unwholesome and increase the wholesome like the four efforts.   These increase potency or potential … Continue reading →