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Category Archives: Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade)
Full Moon Mind
Good morning! We cannot see the full moon now, but can see only all variegated forms and colors of the phenomenal world. Only in the depth of the night can we see the bright full moon, the Buddha mind. In our ordinary lives we even do not care about it. Even though we usually do not care about it or can not see it, but far beyond winds, clouds, and dust of this phantom-like world there is always the clear cool full moon beyond the phenomenal appearances, and behind all its phase changes. 4/26/13
Buddha or Bubble
Good morning! It is now drizzling. All kinds of flowers blooming (hyakka-ryōran,百花繚乱) and flower chill (hana-bie,花冷え) are also the Indra-net forms and functions. Springing spring, sunny summer, falling fall, and windy winter are all due to the earth’s movement. It makes rain or snow, springing lives or falling leaves. Sitting in the Buddha mind seal returns to the limitless light and life of the Sun. Sitting in the bubble move seal remains in the limited liberation and love of the earth. Sinking in the small selves can never solve the greater global problems, much less see unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. 4/24/13 Knuckles Range, Shri Lanka, photo by Lori Satterthwaite, National Geographic
Good evening! Zazen is the Buddha posture and the Buddha mind, which realizes nirvana, unconditioned peace, and anuttara-samyak-sambodhi, unsurpassed right complete awakening, right here and now. 4/19/13
Ultimate and Only Way
Good morning! When we sit with Buddhas and flowers, opening the windows all around, we enjoy the singing of birds, scent of flowers, spring scene, stars, dawning, … This is the Buddha world like the King Mirror seeing the whole picture of the elephant, unlike the blind people touching only their parts and fighting for them. If we want to solve our problems, we must practice the Awakened Way. Since the Buddha found the way to stop all sufferings, 25 centuries have passed. Still we have a lot of problems. We must practice and become like the King Mirror or Buddhas, witnessing one harmonious world in unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. This is the ultimate and the only way to solve our problems and sufferings from the very root and absolutely. 4/9/13 Picture by Robert o Bertero, National Geographic
Beyond Bondage and Boundary
Good evening! Now we can enjoy abundant flowers around us - daffodils, pansies, forsythias, magnolias, crab apples, and so forth, and also we can enjoy the spring air through our open windows - without the boundary of inside and out. Today is the Flower Festival Day or the Buddha’s birthday. The Buddha changed the total views and value systems like from winter to spring; from night to day; from samsara to nirvana; from karma to dharma, etc. Someone dumped all his money into the ocean. Some others said, ”You had better give it to other people.” He said, ”What is really wrong for me is also wrong for others.” Only those who know it know really. Only those who know the evil of karma know karma and dharma really. Then only we can go beyond all bondages of karmas, and enjoy true freedom and peace, enjoying amrita, ambrosia of immortality. 4/8/13 Photo by Noriyuki Otsuka
Right Realization Right Hereunder
Good morning! We had a light shower last night, so it is still a little cloudy. Thus we saw the very thin, dim moon. Today is the Flower Festival Day commemorating the Buddha’s birth. The full moon shines forth fully, only when the moon faces directly to the sun of clear and calm truth and peace. The King Mirror reflected the total truth of the great living elephant unlike the thin, dim image of it by the blind people, who insisted on their partial truth and fought for it. The realization right hereunder, stressed in the last chapter of the Collection of Cautions in Learning the Way by Dogen, is this coincidence the firm practice mind and the Buddha way right hereunder. This actual sitting is the direct contact with the Buddha way and the Buddha mind here and now. 4/8/13
Serene Satisfaction
Good morning! Let’s sit together, then we have the serene satisfaction. Just rest completely, this is called nirvana, unconditioned peace, not conditioned by anything. Then you can taste amrita, ambrosia of immortality - no death, no conception, no emotion, no volition. Then, you become buddhas, attaining unsurpassed awakening. 4/7/13 (family sitting) Photo by Michael Melford (National Geographic)
Beyond Billows and Beclouding
Good morning! We can now see the clear-cut half moon in the clear sky, changed quickly from the full moon after the spring equinox. If we are caught by the changing phases of the moon, we do not really get the full moon behind them. So, we cannot see the Buddha mind behind the superficial changes in the world and our minds. The full moon is always there. The Buddha mind is always here and now, beyond billows and beclouding. 4/2/13
Becoming Buddha Beyond Boundaries
Good morning! On this sunny spring Sunday, we sit together with a lion, a horse, and a kitty also sitting on cushions. When we sit in serenity and stillness, we go beyond the boundaries and differences among us, all becoming buddhas together in one world. So, let us enjoy our best body, brain, and breathing forms and functions. 3/31/13 (family sitting)