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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Storm to Stillness
A storm and tornado hit upon us, Leaving trees, branches, fallen, Houses blown and shuttered, Thousands of homes blacked out. I came here to my old home, No one here to help or be with. The past has passed like … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, dream, future, home coming, nirvana, past, stillness, storm
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Cultivation=Verification
Good morning! After our sittings, we have a very peaceful world inside and out. We are very fortunate that we are walking in the Awakened Way and have the concrete practice to attain it. Zazen is the essential way and … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened way, awakening, awakening mind, belief, bhavana, birth, bodhi, bodhi-citta, bondage, Buddha, celestial beings, clear crystal world, cultivation, death, delusion, Dharma, Dharma eye, discrimination, Dogen, Dr. Suzuki, dropping off of body and mind, ecological, environment, equality, existential realms, exploitation, extermination, fearless, fighting devils, five blisses, five calamities, freedom, fundamental problem, good day everyday, hell beings, hungry ghosts, immortality, impermanence, insight, itch, Juchin, karma kinema, karma kinetics, love, mass extinction, master key, nirvana, peace, possessed, possession, practice, prognosis, purify mind, rat race, Shobogenzo, Shushogi, Six Paths, stop karma, suffering, supramundane, teaching of all buddhas, three poisons, transmigration, triple learning, true conqueror, unconditioned peace, universal truth, unmoved, unsurpassed awakening, verification, warmed frog, whole world uncovered, wholly wholesome, zazen, Zen
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Perspective – Priority
Good morning! Even though we have clouds and cannot see the moon, our mind moons settle down calm and clear. We sit in zazen, illuminate our world, and reflect our minds. The morning star is always bright, but small like … Continue reading
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Tagged Adassa, all living beings, awakened way, center of the world, common sense, Copernican revolution, Dao, Dei, delusion, Deva, Dharma, Dogen, Dyau, entire earth, full functionshort-sight, full moon, God, illusion, Ju-piter, karma, king Mirror, mass extinction, parallax, practice, problems, self-aggrandizement, self-centeredness, self-preservation, short-circuit, suffering, supra-mundane, universal truth, Zeus
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Cry or Conquer
Good evening! Snow covered the ground, but it’s almost gone now, with the spring sun warming, supporting sprouts shooting up and out. In the human world, suffering snow spreads over the globe, and the globe is warming with human minds, … Continue reading
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Tagged amrita, awakening, birth, Buddha, conqueror, cultivation, death, desire, goodness, immortality, impermanence, karma, samsara, self, soul, suffering, three poisons
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Still Sitting
Good morning! The snow fell over fields and forests, covering grass and clothing trees. The white snow purifies and brightens the world. Dogen made a poem: No winter grass being seen, A white heron in a snow field Hides itself … Continue reading
Life, Lost, Limited, Limitless
Good morning! We are fortunate to be able to wake up, get up, come here, and sit in zazen. We’ll see a lot of good things, beautiful things, but also bad things, ugly things. We encounter meeting and parting with … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, accommodation, adjustment, aspiration, joy, limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, meeting, parting, people, possession, sorrow, up and down
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Karma Kinema
Good morning! We now have clouds covering the world, with rain and snow threatening. We cannot see the moon now. When we have clouds inside us, we cannot see the mind moon, and see only tearful rains and suffering storms. … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, Dogen, fire wheel, karma, karma world, mind on fire, mind-moon, tread-wheel, true self, world on fire
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Live on Joy
Good evening! Most of us here had a delicious dinner at Shuri’s home, and now we sit together in zazen. In Japan, we say, “Onaji kama-no meshi-wo kuu, eating out of the same pan or rice cooker.” There is a … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, Buddha, cauldron, devil, fight, fish, hunger, joy, killing, life, onaji kama-no meshi, problem, satisfaction, sharing, starvation, yielding
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Truth Turns
Good morning! After some cloudy days, we can now see an almost half-full moon in the mid-sky. We couldn’t see how big and bright the moon was, but in the east we could see the beautiful morning star. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, dictatorship, economic meltdown, eyes on fire, full moon, global warming, impermanence, Lincoln, mass extinction, mind on fire, morning star, planetary scale, pyramidal system, revolutions, Ryokan, slavery, true conqueror, truth, war, world on fire
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Luna, Lost, Limited, Limitless
Good morning! We can now sit with our windows open, with a moistened atmosphere, warmth, and drizzling. When we have clouds, we cannot see the moon. When, however, we sit in zazen, our mind moons settle, stilling storms, clearing clouds, … Continue reading