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Category Archives: Zazen
Wholly Wholesome World-Body-Mind
Good evening! We say, ”A moment in a spring evening is worth a thousand gold pieces.” When we sit like the Buddha, with the best upright posture, assembled hands, and deep breathing, clearing all karmas – physical, verbal, and mental, conceptions, emotions, and volitions – with full power like a water jet cutting metal, we, too, are in unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. If we sit absent-mindedly, our minds become confused and diffused and our bodies not straight, strong, and balanced. Dogen said, ”Awakening is attained with the body, not the mind.” Awakening is attained with the total body, mind, and world in free full function, the dropping off of bodies and minds, so truly wholly wholesome with all, and thus the Buddha mind and body. 4/5/13
Straight, Strong, Balanced or Slant Sideways, Unbalanced
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_
Stable Sitting Confers Comfort
Good evening! The spring evening sitting is priceless, with unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. Otherwise we must pay the big prices of the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness. Today I read the news that babies born within 1 to 16 weeks after the Fukushima meltdown in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington were 28% more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism, which causes psychophysical problems. We have been experiencing nuclear tests and nuclear power problems or radiation with unsolved nuclear waste problems, etc. Haste makes waste. Haste makes hasty death and destruction. Stable sitting confers comfort. Stable sitting confers comfort for all always. 4/2/13
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Mind Mirror Moon
Good morning! We could see the beautiful bright full moon this morning. Seven hundred sixty years ago, Dogen made the following poem just before passing away: Even in the autumn, when I’d expect to see it again, I could not have slept With the moon of tonight. He made the following poem also, meaning that his poems were really on the Buddha mind and its ways and worlds: In the spring wind My words were strewn – People may consider Them as poems on flowers. Even though we can seldom see the full moon in the clear sky, we can see the Buddha mind always, if only we sit in this Buddha mind seal. We hope we can see the beautiful brilliant full moon tonight again in the clear calm spring sky with our Buddha mind seals. 3/27/13
Witness Wonderful Way and World
Good morning! On the way here I listened to an NPR program about solitude and separation and how to solve such problems. It advised answering phone calls and meeting friends. When we pick up the phone, it is often a robocall. We may meet friends and make more foes. Essentially our small separated selves make small separated worlds. So, we need to stop it by solid serene sitting and sustained steadfast sesshin. Then, we wake up and witness the wonderful way and world, which makes it worthwhile being born as humans. We can enjoy limitless, beautiful world, tasting awakening and amrita, ambrosia of immortality. Thus, we can find and foster the holy home and host. 3/26/13
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Tagged holy home/host, solid serene sitting, sustained steadfast sesshin
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Holy Nirvana Here Now
Good morning! We are now in the spring equinox, which is equal in daytime and nighttime, chill and heat – well-balanced harmony in time and space. Thus, it is equated with equanimity, beyond the dichotomy of perceptions, emotions, and volitions – nirvana or the other shore, beyond human karmas. It is not another world, place, or time, but here and now, just like this early morning sitting, as serene and solid as the deep sea beyond surface surges. Especially when we sit in solid serene Zazen, we become still and stable, safe and separated from the sway of suffocation and suffering, inside and out. 3/22/13
Unconditioned Peace Unsurpassed Awakening Here Now
Good evening! Today is the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war. Recently we had the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We say, ”See to the end.” If we truly see to the end, we could not have started wars and nukes with countless casualties, costs, and conundrums. Not seeing to the end, we become irresponsible and infamous, creating all kinds of problems and sufferings in endless karma ripples, consequences. Not a mountain moving, with a mouse or mindless mice emerging, but the whole world trembling in joy and tears at the Buddha’s birth and death. Seeing to the end, the Buddha showed us the ”come and see” way, good in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end, for all always and all places. Zazen is the unity of means and ends, the cultivation and verification of unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening here and now with all. A proverb says, ”There are horses running a thousand miles a day, but few find them.” There are treasures, but who actually acts and appreciates them? 3/20/13
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Tagged Buddha, goodness, nukes, true treasure, wars, zazen
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Body, Brain, Breathing in Best Beatitude/Order
Good morning! All our shoes are in the best order in the shoe rack. We are now sitting with other animals. Let us sit in the best order with our bodies, brains, and breathing. 317/13 (at family sitting)
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Introduction to Zen and Awakened Way Classes Offered
We will adjust our classes to meet the participants’ interests, requests, background, progress, etc.
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