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  Good morning!   We saw how the body, breath, and mind in zazen work yesterday. The eighth store consciousness is in the brain core flowing into our actions, appropriating (upādāna) our body/mind as mine, and identifying I getting involved … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Gotama became Buddha, Awakened One, to solve not only his, but all suffering by zen, meditation. Zazen is to order body, breath, and mind into wholly wholesome way/world. Anyone can do the same solving suffering.   … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Key: Greatness   Human suffering is the greatest among species and causes the greatest suffering due to human knowledge with symbol handling of language, superstition, science, state, civilization, climate change, nukes, nemesis.   Its cause … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Nagarjuna clarified prognosis as prognosticating all phenomena as empty (śūnya) of entity to be neutral (madhyama) /unattached, in the mental fabrication stilled (prapañca upaśama), i.e. nirvana (no wind, of karma).   This was called Emptiness or … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Mahayana movement is realizing the true intent of the Buddha to become bodhisattvas to save all. It stressed the six perfections, especially prognosis, among them, the core of life and living world of his spiritual revolution. … Continue reading →

  Good morning! Emperor Ashoka was not only the first emperor to unify most of India, but also a cultural architect who deeply shaped the moral, spiritual, and infrastructural landscape of India and beyond with his edicts, envoys, etc.   … Continue reading →

    Good morning!   Many or most people must have read the legend that Vidudabbha destroyed Shakya clan, because he was disgraced and defamed by his mother being born of a Shakya chief Mahanama and his slave girl, when … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Everyone knows causality and consequence, even primitive people knew it in getting food. When we hit or stumble, we feel pain or fall. It is cause-effect, action-reward, action-reaction law, usually self-acting (into) self-rewarded. Dependent Co-origination law … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Conquest: Dharma   Alexander the Great made a campaign to India. His army mutinied, refusing to go further, fearing more Indian resistance. He gave up going further. After his death in 323 BCE in Babylon, … Continue reading →

    Good morning!   Gotama was said to be predicted to become a universal king or a holy teacher. He declined Kosala king Pasenadhi’s fund and force as the conquest by swords and punishing rods. Vidudabbha, born of Shakyan … Continue reading →