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Category Archives: Practice
Wakeful Practice in Peace and Prognosis
Good morning! Now we can enjoy cool, moistened air with the sound of rain dripping on the leaves. Plants and animals have been renewed and rejoice in their fresh forms and colors with the compassionate rain very early this … Continue reading
Practice Is Primary Power
Good morning! We are in a drought stricken disaster area. Bean and corn crops are damaged. Feed and food are becoming scarce. Plants and animals are distressed. When we lack water, life is lost and cannot be revived, … Continue reading
Holy (wholly wholesome) Practice
Good evening! We now have successive hot dry days. So, plants and animals are dried and in distress. They need water, not just on the surface, but deep and dense enough. Otherwise roots and limbs can’t develop well, easily … Continue reading
Wake-up Practice
Good morning! Even though we are going to have three digits temperature for a while, when we wake up early and go into open air, we can enjoy fresh and cool air with abundant stars, birds’ singing, beautiful flowers … Continue reading
Fresh, Free, Full Function
Good morning! When we sit with all the windows and doors open, we can breathe the fresh morning air, enjoying all kinds of sounds, smells, colors, contacts, freely and fully. Mahâ assâsa, great repose, literally means the great … Continue reading
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Tagged great repose, lit. great exhalation, maha assasa, triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis), triple maladies (me-ism/materialism/militarism): three poisons (delusion/greed/anger), triple poisons (delusion/craving/anger), triple treasures (buddha/dharma/sangha)
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Truth Grows with Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness
Good evening! On the way here I saw a big Sieboldi Magnolia tree blooming with bigger flowers than those in my yard. The bigger trees grow, the bigger flowers and fruit they bear. My apple tree didn’t bloom for … Continue reading
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
Posted in Cultivation: culture, Practice
Tagged triple poison (delusion/craving/anger)
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Three Worlds in One Mind
Good morning! We could see the bright spring sun and the beautiful spring scene this morning. Observations and reports were that we were one week ahead of spring season coming several years ago. So, maybe now we are ten … Continue reading
Posted in Cultivation: culture, Practice
Tagged mind=world (perception/conception/emotion/volition), practice cycle (aspiration/action/awakening/unconditioned peace), the three worlds (emotion-volition (kâma-dhâtu: lust realm)/physical (rûpa-dhâtu: form realm)/beyond (arûpa-dhâtu: formless realm), three worlds in one mind: san-gai yui-shin: 三界唯心
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Limitless Luck in Limitless Learning
Good morning! We have a nice drizzling with warm weather at the spring solstice, risshun (立春), raising spring. Who raises spring? The sun. Who raises us? The sun – truly, the total universe. Every day Rui-yan (瑞巌) said … Continue reading
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Tagged 10. Buddho Bhagavâ: The Awakened and the Fortunate : 仏世尊: butsu-seson, 2. Arahat: 阿羅漢: arakan, 3. Sammâsambuddha: Sammâ-sam-buddha: 正遍知: shouhenchi, 4. Vijjâcaranasampanna: The one provided with withdom and behavior: 明行足: myougyousoku, 5. Sugata: Well-being: 善逝: zensei, 6. Lokavidû: World-knower: 世間解: sekenge, 7. Anuttara: Unsurpassed one: 無上士: mujoushi, 8. Purisadammasarathi: The leader of persons to be tamed: 調御丈夫: chougyojoubu, 9. Satthadevamanussanâm: The teacher of divine-beings and human-beings: 人天師: nintenshi, ambrosia of immortality, amrita, bagabond (degraded from bhagavan), Buddha, liberation, light, limitless life, Limitless luck: limitless learning, love, practice makes possible/perfect, risshun (立春), Rui-yan/Zuigan (瑞巌), spring solstice, Ten names of the Buddha: The Worthy One: 1. Tathâgata: Thus-being: 如来:nyorai)
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