Category Archives: cultivation: verification (修：証）

Penetrating Peace Prognosis Perfected

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   On the second day of the autumnal equinox we have a beautiful morning with cool air, and a calm clear world with all the windows opened.   When we climb a mountain and reach its summit, we … Continue reading →

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Practice Perfects

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   When we get up early and come here to sit in zazen, we can enjoy the beautiful moon, morning star, and other stars, with abundant singing of insects, dense dew, and hovering mist at some places.   … Continue reading →

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Residue Remains Rampant

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   The daytime is getting short, but summer lingers, with the temperature going up to 101 degrees. Practice may start smoothly, but our karma residues remain rampant. So, we must practice constantly and concentratedly to make sure we … Continue reading →

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Settling in Practice and Seeing Birth-Death

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   After a long spell of hot dry days with drought disasters, we now have a very cool, clear, quiet day – maybe rain will come soon.   When we have our original wholly wholesome state, especially when … Continue reading →

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Enter into Penetrating Purity, Peace, and Prognosis

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We will have very a very cool night after very hot dry days. So, enjoy the cool, clear, and calm evening, especially with your sitting.   The Buddha found the best, unconditioned peace, called nirvana, stopping all … Continue reading →

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Sowing Harvesting Here Now

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   This is the first day of autumn. It is the harvest season. Zen practice is sowing seeds and harvesting the results at the same time here now.   When we sit, we sit wholeheartedly with our whole … Continue reading →

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Sowing Seeds, Harvesting Harvests

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Today is the first day of autumn. We have now cool air and dense dew with abundant singing of insects and cicadas morning and evening.   Autumn is the harvest season of what we sowed in spring, … Continue reading →

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Body, Mind, World

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have nice compassionate rain now after a long spell of harsh hot dry weather. The essayist Yutaka Tatsuno said, “I love rain so much. So, maybe my ancesters were frogs.”   We are all from water … Continue reading →

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Cultivation and Care Is Flowering and Fruiting

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   This morning we have a respite from the long spell of dry heat, even early mist. I saw more wisteria blooming after trimming and watering.   Amidst turmoil and turbulence, we have rest and renewal, even amrita, … Continue reading →

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Knowing, Seeing, Becoming

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   Tonight we will be able to see the full moon. The full moon symbolizes the Buddha mind with its great, round, perfect light.   There are people who don’t know that there is such a thing. There … Continue reading →

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