Category Archives: Cultivation: culture

Culture: Constant Cultivation or Civilization: Constant Contrivance

Good morning and Happy New Year!   In Japan  we say, “Through Jan. 7, within Matsunouchi.” Matsu stands for pine trees and in this case refers to a New Year’s decoration (matsu-kazari, pine decoration) set up at the gates of … Continue reading

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Plants Planet Practice

Good morning! When I came here I saw the big brilliant sun already up in the sky. The moon is almost full now. With warmer weather we have a lot of flowers and abundant greenery around us. An NHK program … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome World and Way

Good morning!   When we get up early and come here, we can see beautiful things – this morning the just rising sun shining forth through clouds, but now overcast with dark clouds. So, we may have rain soon and … Continue reading

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Practice Patch

Good evening!   When we sit in zazen, it is priceless any time. I have been working in my newer vegetable patch. When I visited the older patch on the other side of the yard, I saw a lot of … Continue reading

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Synergy Spiral

Good morning!   When we sit here, we can enjoy birds’ singing and abundant green. Global warming has brought us more hot days and more rain, thus plants grow faster. Yesterday I removed a lot of honey suckles, vines. Slender … Continue reading

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From Triple Malady to Triple Treasure

Good morning!   We are going to have our sesshin. Sesshin means touching the mind (接心) or embracing the mind (摂心), of course not the ordinary deluded mind, but the Buddha mind, truth mind, true mind, tree mind, the truth … Continue reading

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Karma Cultivation

Good evening!   Spring is the season for sowing seeds. Without sowing seeds we cannot harvest good crops that, over time, become organic building blocks from present to future.   Awakening starts with aspiration and cultivation, which is different from … Continue reading

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Practice Plant

Good evening!   We had a hot day today and a record high temperature for the month in March. So I sowed seeds then and harvested lettuce, radish, and strawberries today. I transplanted some seedlings from crowded places. It is … Continue reading

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Penetrating Prognosis and Pure Peace

Good morning!   We have now abundant singing of birds, which we can enjoy only in the early morning. When we get into the yard, we can see a lot of honey suckle seedlings, which we can easily pick up … Continue reading

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Flowers Bloom in Cultivation

Good morning!   We have new flowers successively blooming and suddenly bearing fruit after a long year of no fruiting.   When we come here, we see that some houses are flower havens, and some are like a weed wasteland. … Continue reading

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