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Right to Right Awakening: 正覚への権利

  Right and law are originally the same (dharma in Sanskrit, jus in Latin), and rights can be reclaimed and restored, when hampered. Otherwise, rights can’t be reclaimed or restored. Dharma (form/norm) is law, truth/ethic, right/responsibility. The root of dharma … Continue reading

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The Dharma Eye Stored in Nirvana:正法眼蔵涅槃妙心

Garyo, our member and favorite contributor here with her travelog with beatutiful pictures sent her picture of another beautiful picture of the full moon. It looks like the True Dharma Eye in Stored in Nirvana, looking down on our planet, … Continue reading

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Human Laws and Universal Dharma:人間規則と普遍法

  Today is Christmas Day, celebrated with lighted Christmas trees, which were borrowed from an older tradition of the tree festival, celebrating the coming new year after the winter solstice. Tree and true (dharma) came from the root of dhṝ, … Continue reading

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Fiction and Reality: 仮想と現実

  Yuval Noah Harari said, “Homo sapiens will disappear in a century or so.” He thinks the species rose due to creating society by fiction. He suggests its demise either by fiction – destroying the globe – or its genes. … Continue reading

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Solving Serious Stigma Seachange:由々しい不名誉解決の潮目変化

  The COVID-19 pandemic has made us conscious of the value of our life and the interrelatedness of all things. We have the global problematique of the pandemic, global warming, mass extinction, nukes, etc. We have actually the imminent gravest … Continue reading

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Universal Eternal Dharma:普遍的永遠なる法

  I informed our listserv of the renowned, full, mid-autumn supermoon. Seeing the full moon, Dogen made the following poem thirteen days before he took parinirvana, complete peace, in 1253 C.E.:             Even in the … Continue reading

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Vox Populi Vox Dei:民の声は神の声

  Good morning!   We have a still, serene Saturday morning, while the pandemic, wild fires, heat strokes, etc. are going on and hurricanes and typhoons are coming. As you may know, the Japanese PM Abe quit his position two … Continue reading

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Two Refuges, Dharmas, Truths: 二洲、法、諦

  Good morning!   We’ve been having many rainy days here, while in Japan people have a heat wave after heavy rains. All over the world we have pandemic problems, which brought cleaner air and more animals – frogs, foxes, … Continue reading

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Karma to Dharma: 業から法へ

  Good morning!   We have a calm, clear world after our zazen. Before coming here, I watched a TV program on the Shimanto River, one of three “free-flowing rivers in Japan,” called “the last pure river.” It enjoys abundant … Continue reading

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Realizing Universal Dharma: 普遍法の実現

  Good morning!   As most buildings were closed yesterday due to inclement weather and dangerous conditions, we also closed our center last night. This morning I saw two big boughs falling on our neighbor’s driveway, next to ours. If … Continue reading

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