Monthly Archives: September 2011

Practicing Path or Playing Pastime

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Suddenly summer heat shifted to autumn chill, and soon we’ll have deadly winter with or without the harvest true life goal. When wintry wind blows our dew-like life, we don’t know on which grass it will fall. … Continue reading →

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Imminent Impermanence

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We have a very cool evening, with the temperature going down to 53, and up to 74 tomorrow. Summer shifts to autumn. Mountains rush and rivers gush upon people in the typhoon in Japan.   The Buddha … Continue reading →

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Mountains Moving

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Here we can sit calm, clear, and cool – almost chilly now, but in Japan typhoon No. 12 wreaked havoc: there was record damage, with more than a hundred dead or missing, and a downpour of 2,400mm … Continue reading →

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Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had a very hot day today, and we worked together amidst heat and humidity, sweating good sweat.   Now we breathe good breaths in zazen. Then we find our world in peace, harmony, and truth with … Continue reading →

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Express, Enact Equanimity, Equality

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have now a very warm morning, even in September. A warm morning expresses a very hot day coming.   The intense singing of insects expresses the insects’ winter coming. Nuclear bombs and power express the nuclear … Continue reading →

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Practice of Penetrating Purity and Peace

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had a very hot day today, but we can sit and stop our karma, going beyond heat and chill, even entering into a world with neither heat nor chill.   But, in a hot spot of … Continue reading →

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Advance Cure or After Care

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Even though we are now in September, with autumn like insects singing, we have a very warm morning with the temperature going above 100 the coming few days. We still have the hurricane aftermath here and typhoon … Continue reading →

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Wakeful and Wholly wholesome

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had 102-degree hot and dry weather today and are going to have similar weather tomorrow.   The Sino-Japanese character for autumn depicts grass on fire (秋). Autumn is like fire burning for plants.   Now our … Continue reading →

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