Category Archives: Karma

Supramundane Serenity and Satisfaction

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Our wisteria flowers have bloomed. ”Flowers blooming, the world has arisen.” The world arising, flowers bloom.   Sitting is settling, with selfless serenity and satisfaction, in the wholly wholesome supra-mundane world.   Sitting is stopping the self sense and strife, the source of sufferings for all sentient beings in this super mundane world.   4/25/13   National Geographic _____________________________________________________ KARMA and DHARMA   Good evening!   I saw wisteria blooming which I planted recently in my garden. There is another one which has never bloomed for decades.   Whether blooming or not blooming depends on the transmitted dharmas, environmental, and one’s own karmas.   The nirvana flower and the bodhi (awakening) fruit depend on the transmitted dharma, social karma, environmental dharma, and one’s own karma.   So, let us make good karmas with the good dharma of Buddha Mind Seal to bloom and bear fruit like the maņi in the lotus flower.   4/25/13   Note: Maņi is gem, crystal, etc. It may be a dewdrop in the lotus flower, representing “the clear crystal ball” (ikka-myōju, 一顆明珠, a ball of clear crystal, cf. Jinjippō  … Continue reading →

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Straight, Strong, Balanced or Slant Sideways, Unbalanced

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   The bell, the bell ringer, and the bell listeners are all different according to different conditions. So are the heavy snow, trees, and snow damage.   I had two peach trees damaged by the recent heavy snow due to the different states of the trees, their covering nets, and covering snow.   One tree was broken at the trunk, the other fell down, lifting its roots. The latter was pulled back to survive, but the former is difficult to revive.   The surviving one had grown straight, strong and balanced, but the other was slanting sideways and unbalanced due to the neighboring trees.   We must see our karmas, individual, social, and environmental, to grow straight, strong, and balanced, unaffected by them, inside and out.   This sitting is to see all karmas and settle in holy (wholly wholesome) health and happiness in unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening.   4/4/13     NG wall paper,  Michael S. Yamashita,  trees-japan-yamashita_59071_600x450_

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Habits Halfway or Holy (Wholly Wholesome)

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   The predicted snow did not come. The moon, however, now waning almost to half, can be seen partially in the clouds.   I read a little bit of the best seller, The Power of Habit. We can create new habits, either good ones or bad ones.   We must, however, come and see deeply enough into our karmas. Good habits in the short term may be bad karmas in the long run.   That’s why we need to take care, cure, and cultivate our karmas without stopping our practice in sitting, stilling, and settling.   While we are in karmas, we cannot see the true nature of them. So, we must constantly and concentratedly come to nirvana and awakening.   4/1/13  

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Bodhisattva Bunny

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   On the way here I saw many bunnies scurrying around. Over and around here we see many Buddhas sitting still.   There was a bunny who was sent to the moon, saving a suffering servant of this world, and savoring amrita, ambrosia of immortality ever since.   Sentient beings are set in self-survival karmas (habits, actions) with short-sight, short-circuit, and short-spark.   They live with the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness led into the triple maladies of me-ism, materialism, and militarism.   Awakened ones are settled in wholly wholesome dharmas (truths, laws) with long-sight, long-circuit, and long-success (saving, serving, sewa, seva).   They live with the triple potencies of purity, peace, and prognosis led into the triple minds of magnanimous mind, mature mind, and joyful mind.   The boddhisattva bunny, great being, has been ever since enjoying amrita with limitless life, light, liberation, love, and learning.   3/18/13   Note: 1. The story of a bunny saving an apparently old hungry man actually the supreme being of this world was sent to the moon thanks to its selfless action was saved into the moon, as we see the figure now. (Please refer to this blog site posting the poem made by Ryokan, Mind Mirror, posted on August 14, 2011.)   2. Sewa (Japanese, 世話), seva … Continue reading →

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Sitting on Shelling off

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   Whenever we sit in Zazen, we have a good evening, good morning, and good day, going beyond our small stiff ‘selves’ - ‘selves’ of selfishness, like the shells of shellfish.   Today, I was caught in a traffic jam until I got off the highway. People in Peking, China are caught, daily, in smog, which especially includes small, particles, like PM2.4.   Daily, we are also caught in the shells of our selves, societies, states, and symbols. Thus, constantly, we are caught in the sufferings of birth, death, loss, parting, etc.   When we sit in Zazen in solid and serene state, we stop such habits as these - shells made from karmas - and cast off these layers of shells, settling in pure peace and prognosis.   3/1/13   Note: PM2.5 is Particulate Matter up to 2.5 micrometers in size, toxic organic matters breathed into lungs, etc., causing sickness.  

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Member Made Miracle

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Rosan Daido

The following is a post in our listserve about our resident squirrels at home, Spring Ave.: Saturday I met with the squirrels of Spring Avenue Forest and negotiated a settlement where they will no longer use the attic hatch as … Continue reading →

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Rain or Fine

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   In different areas, there is different weather, rain or fine.   Dogen said, “Walking in mist, one unwittingly becomes damp.”   There are four views of one body of water – or, so many minds, with so … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Here Now

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had light shower. So, now we could see the great, beautiful rainbow over the sky at the right opportune time and place.   Trees are true with the whole world, living long, together with all – … Continue reading →

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Spring Storms Summer Storms

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Last night we had spring storm with hale. So, we saw flower petals falling and the roads washed clean – the half moon being bright high in the sky.   We with plants have been and going … Continue reading →

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Endless Epidemic

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Even though we can not see the bright beautiful moon now being under the clouds, we can see it, if we fly or climb the mountains beyond the clouds.   This morning I forwarded an article titled … Continue reading →

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