Author Archives: Rosan Daido

  Awakening for All: Zazen Path: Purification/ Participation/ Peace   The triple characteristics of the world are impermanence, suffering, and selflessness because of the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are dependently originated on limitless causes and conditions. Our … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Value: Truth-Goodness-Beauty-Holiness   We have lies-evils-uglinesses-sins, which collide, corrode, corrupt, and collapse individuals, societies, and environments, with the global problematique and suffering, making the doomsday clock tick to the midnight of catastrophe.   These vices … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Living: Living Dharma   Karma-born/owner/machines imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion live with samsara-sufferings of four inevitable and four common sufferings in the triple ways of individual, social, and environmental living … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Living: Dharma Living Anyone’s individual inevitable suffering is that of samsara (birth-death, representing the eight sufferings and the four sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, including the rest). This is magnified by social and … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All; Zazen Life：Awakening Life   Everyone wants to live in peace and happiness, because everyone has stress and suffering – birth, sickness, aging, death, not getting the desired, parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, the … Continue reading →

Beginning Monday, Jan. 6, Missouri Zen Center will be holding — online — morning sittings, 6:30-7:10am CT (5:30am MT, 4:30am PT, 7:30am ET), Mon-Fri. If one of your resolutions is to have a regular sitting/meditation practice, this may be the … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Necessity: Awakening-Action   We all have problems and sufferings – individually, socially, environmentally – now intertwined as the global problematique, growing greater and graver, expanding to all and ever-endangered to extinction.   This is due … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Conquers: Greatest Conqueror   Better than conquering thousands upon thousands Is conquering oneself. It is the greatest of war conquerors. (The Dhamma-pada, truth-word.103)   The Buddha said the above. Conquering oneself is conquering karma with … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Treasure: Buddha Life   Tokudo, attaining salvation (transcendence, lit. attain crossing), is living Buddha’s life beyond one’s karma life. In the Zen tradition it is to get Buddha’s robe (kaśāya: decayed in material / color), … Continue reading →