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Category Archives: Buddha Mind Seal: Zazen
Fly Freely Function Fully from Karma Cocoon and Cave
Good morning! After our sittings and service, we have a quiet, calm, and clear Sunday morning with blue sky overhead and green trees around us. We had the Mindfulness Day event at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts yesterday. I spoke about individual karma cocoons, social karma caves, and environmental karma catastrophe, using the story of the blind turtle sticking its head into a hole of a floating log in the ocean to discuss human evolution and the solution for it: sitting, stilling karmas, and seeing dharmas, etc. Regarding my comment on the common root of tree and true, enduring in time and space, harmonizing with the wholly wholesome system, another speaker told me about getting the core hardwood rather than the other parts of a tree. The Heart (wood) Sutta was given by the Buddha after Devadatta left, telling us to attain the heart(wood) or essence (sāra), not the leaves, branches, or bark. I told him about the empty core of plantain trees (Foam Lump Simile Sutta), which teaches that everything is empty (suñña) of substance, like a lump of bubbles or the core of plantain trees. The core, heart, or essence is nirvana, un-moved (a-kuppa, a-cala) in equanimity (upekhā, lit. discarding) or emptiness (suññatā). When we sit like trees, we become truth and peace in harmony with the wholly wholesome world empty of and unmoved by karmas. The Buddha’s awakening was first expressed by a tree and monasteries have been called sōrin (group or grove of trees). Becoming awakening trees is the systemic, sustainable, saving, safe, simple, straight, sure way to still mind monkeys and will horses and the Triple Poisons of attachment, aversion, and delusion. For a questioner asking about the way to cope with a busy life, I spoke of the two essential elements of concentration and continuity, like a water-jet cutting through metal and dripping water piercing through rock. We must continue concentrated practice to cope with the immense karma force accumulated through four billion years and acting through our movements and functions. In this way only can we break through cocoons and caves to fly freely and function fully in wholly wholesome, limitless life, light, liberation, and love. 9/14/14 … Continue reading
Sole Solution Salvation Satisfaction
Good morning! Tonight we can see the full moon, if it clears up. The full moon represents the Buddha heart, full and free in calm and clear conditions, illuminating the world. Two days ago we had summer solstice, the longest day and thus now we are having shorter and shorter days, though it seems like we are still having longer and brighter days. The Buddha heart is awakened to the three dharma marks of impermanence, suffering (duk-kha, going against wishes), and no-self (“self” substance), the fourth being nirvana (unconditioned peace). The Buddha taught us that to be born as a human being is very rare like a blind turtle living at the bottom of ocean coming to its surface once in a hundred years, which happens to stick its head into a hole of a floating log by rare chance; and that it is far more seldom to meet the Awakened Way. All creatures are blinded by karmas, and humans are further blinded by their evolved brains and bodies. That is why humans have been creating problems – pollutions of ABC (atomic, biological, chemical) weapons coming from the triple poisons. Humans with their hubris regard themselves as the best among creatures, but actually they can be worst among themselves and against the whole world. We are destroying the wholly wholesome life system and possibly annihilating it at any moment with nukes. Humans perpetually promote pollution and are prepared to precipitate mass extinction with the five calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. We seem to lack cognition, concern, and countermeasures, as if someone provided the worst weapons to mad men. We observe the Six Ways (or Destinies) of hell beings, hungry ghosts, fighting devils, animal beings, human beings, and celestial beings. We ourselves go through these Ways, and often worse than them, polluting all, individually, socially, and ecologically. The triple poisons of thirst (Pali: taṅhā/Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā), anger (dosa/doṣa), and delusion (moha/moha) essentially come from nescience (avijjā/avidyā, no witness), and not seeing the true nature of the Dharma of Dependent Origination (allphenomena dependently originated on causes and conditions, thus substanceless (suñña/śūnya). The sole solution of it is to sit still and serene, stop karmas, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma (witness the Four Dharma Marks), save it, and serve it. Thus only can we be … Continue reading
Only Actual Sitting Actualizes Nirvana Bodhi
Good evening! We cannot see the full moon through the thick clouds. However, we can witness the Buddha mind, which is compared to the clear cool full moon. Zazen is named “Buddha Mind Seal.” When we are sealed by it, karma winds and waves, and mundane dust and dirt are sealed off by it. Only actual solid sitting in the Buddha Mind Seal, can we actualize nirvana, unconditioned peace, and bodhi, awakening, to the true Dharma. Dogen’s saying that awakening is attained by the body, not by the mind, testifies this truth of actual embodiment. 4/26/13 Double Rainbow by Melford, National Geographic