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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction
Good morning! Through the open windows we can hear the sound of busily racing cars, birds’ singing, and the water falling. Our life is like the constant flow of cars and currents, constantly flowing with ups and downs, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen
Tagged awakened life, birth and death, cultivation, dissatisfaction, gain and loss, life, limitless life, limitless light, limitless lover, nirvana, practice, provisional phenomena, samadhi, samsara, satisfaction, suffering, ultimate peace, ultimate refuge, unconditioned peace, unmoved, unsurpassed awakening, up and down, verification, vicissitude, witness
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Sitting and Samu (Work)
Good morning! After a long spell of rain, according to the weather forecast, we are still continuing rainy days. But, fortunately, we have a very bright Sunday morning today. After the beautiful, stable, soft, and serene bell sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen
Tagged ability, action unconditioned peace, actual action, appreciation, aspiration, awakened, awakening, Buddha, conventional, cultivate, Dharma, dharma world, Dogen, embody, fruition of the past, Gakudo-yojin-shu, goodness, great mind, harmony, hidden vertue, intoku, joyful mind, live on joy, mature mind, merit, mind, mundane, negative virtue, peace, practice, practice cycle, problem, samu (work), self, serene, sitting, skill, small self, soft, solid, stable, suffering, three minds, truth, value, wholly wholesome, withness
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Witness with Work
Good morning! When we get up early and come here to sit in zazen, we can enjoy the fresh morning air, the cool morning dew, and the bright morning sunlight. When we cultivate the soil, sow seeds, and transplant, they … Continue reading
Nature, Nurture, Nuke
Good afternoon! We are nature. We have been nurtured. We have been nuked. Are we nuking all with radiation constantly and continuously for millions of years? As we are witnessing nuke disasters and G8 separated for the future nuke policies, … Continue reading
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Tagged destruction, disaster, discrimination, nature, nuclear power, nuke, nurture
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Samadhi or Suffering
Good morning! As we get up early and come here, we can enjoy beautiful flowers, bright candlelight, fragrant incense, a beautiful bell sound, and the beautiful singing of birds, flowers, abundant green. If we don’t follow this way, we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia, amrita, Buddha, cultivation, immortality, mind, nirvana, nuclear disaster, samadhi, source, verification
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Equipoise (Upekha)
Good morning! We could see the bright, beautiful dawn before coming here, but now it is overcast. We can hear the sound of the waterfall running and cars racing incessantly – so is life. Dripdrops develop into streaks, streams, and … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, beauty, freedom, goodness, karma, limit, nirvana, peace, possession, purity, refuge, renunciation), resort, satisfaction, sitting, truth, Upekha (equipoise
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Samadhi Stages
Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading
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Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen
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Pure Peace
Good morning! Now we have a bright morning with the singing of birds. If we had woken up earlier, we could have seen the full moon and the morning star. The full moon represents the Buddha mind – full, round, … Continue reading
Sitting and Stilling
Good morning! We can hear the sound of raindrops dripping on leaves in our quiet sitting on this quiet weekend morning. Tatsuno Yutaka, an essayist, said, “I like rain so much, I think my ancestors were frogs.” All living creatures … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, advertisement, awakeningGakudoyojinshu, Brahma-abodes, Brahma-vihara, Dogen, equanimity, frogs, harmony, holiness, horse will, ikon-zadan, karma, limitless hearts, limitless minds, peace, peaceful state, purity residence, serenity, simplicity, sit and still will root, sitting and stilling, source of life, stillness, Tatsuno Yutaka, tuning in, turth
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Morning Rain, Morning Sitting
Good morning! The morning rain has refreshed the beautiful green, the surrounding atmosphere, the singing birds, the sound of the waterfall. The morning sitting renews all of them and us in purity, penetration, and freedom, right here and … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, cultivate, ecology, freedom, goodness, great mind, here now, humans, joyful mind, mature mind, nuclear disaster, penetration, Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakened way, purity, refreshment, samsara, shortcircuit, shortsight, society, suffering, system, truth, verify, vicissitude, wholly wholesome
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