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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Path of Purity and Prognosis
Good morning! We got the news that our population is now over seven billion. Our population has doubled in half a century, increasing sevenfold in two centuries. It’s predicted that we will add two billion in a half century. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged King Mirror (Adassa) reflecting the whole: blind ones groping/fighting for parts, path of purity/prognosis, population/power plant/power pyramid meltdown, practice constantly /continuously, preventing problems, saving sufferings, sit/stop karma/see far/deep/wide, solve problems: return to origin (original peace/prognosis), uncontitioned/undefiled truth/peae
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System Shift from Shortsight, Selfishness
Good morning! We have a quiet, clear Sunday with bright colorful fall foliage. After a few sittings we now have pure peace, holy harmony, and total truth. In this peaceful state, like clear crystal, we see the world … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged America's dream, Buddha, buddhas (awakened ones), catastrophe, deluded/deceived:disillusioned/delivered, egoism explode all others, for life/living, highest dharma, holy harmony/joy in natural system, homeless/jobless/hopeless, immortality, karma limitless life, limitless friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity, meltdown, modern civilization, natural system, not for death/devastation, nuclear bombs/plants with mishaps/mismanagement/malice, nuclear wastes (death ash), Occupy movement: change of the world, OECDm sicuak hystucem U.S.A., optimism in potential/possibility, pyramidal power system, self-centeredness: shortsightedness, true peace/beauty/holiness/happiness, wholly wholesome way, without vanity/violence, world of awakened ones/wakeful living
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From Me-ism, Materialism, Militarism to Harmony, Holiness, Happiness
Good morning! We had frost fall on the ground in some places this morning. When, however, we came here, we could see the beautiful brilliant sun and clear colorful fall foliage. We could wade through a golden sea of … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged America's Exploding Pipe Dream, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), holy truth/beauty/goodness, limited life of me-ism/matrialism/militarism, limitless life in harmony/holiness/happiness, nirvana (unconditioned peace), OECD
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People’s Planetary Pure Peace and Prognosis
Good morning! Dogen left us a poem titled “The Original Face”: Flowers in spring, Cuckoo in summer, The moon in autumn, Snow in winter, clear and cool. Nature has wholly wholesome cycles and circulation. Nature knows no … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged bailout people and planet with purity/peace/prognosis, Dogen, nature, not power, original face, wholly wholesome cycles/circulation: no nuclear power pyramid
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All Becoming All
Good evening! With some rain the fall foliage keeps its colorful beauty a little longer, but the full moon is quickly turning into the new moon. Don is now in Kyoto, most likely enjoying beautiful autumn colors, but … Continue reading
Conquer Oneself not Others
Good morning! We had a warm, windy autumn day yesterday, so we can wade into a sea of fallen leaves and watch the flora and fauna intimately. Without watching, we cannot know the exact situations of the actual realm. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged and mind), body, catch (sound/person/mind/radiation contamin, conquering oneself/not conquering/conquered: true conqueror/conquering, ears, flora and faunaBuddhathe limit of the world, nose, tongue, vina: lute, world: six sense worlds (of eyes, Yajnavalkya
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Saving the World from Fire and Dangerous Deluge
Good morning! Nights are getting shorter and the air is getting colder. So stars shine brighter and the sun is more valuable. Buddha saw lotuses immersed under muddy water and blooming above muddy water and came out to … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Bodhidharma, Buddha, Dogen, gyoji (praxis), land of buddhas, lotus above/under muddy water, making holy harmony/total truth: saving from fire/dangerous deluge), Occupy movement (freeing occupied minds, the land with lotus flowers (pure land), wearing hair crowing horns (beastly living)
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Symbolism of Self, Society, and Species
Good morning! Now we see the beautiful clear crescent moon in the darker sky and feel crisp cool air of the approaching winter. We hear of the fifty year record flooding in Thailand with 356 dead and 2,500,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged abnormal climatic phenomena, Brancis Bacon, five stigmas (self/society/status/species/symbols): cf. four idola, four idola (cave/marketplace/theater/species), global warming, play ostrich, runaway catastrophe, sitting/stilling karma/seeing reality, symbol: singling-out/substantiation (of interdependent/impermanent phenomena), three poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness)
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Contacting, Communicating People, Plants, and Planets
Good morning! We have a beautiful Sunday morning with bright sunlight and a clear autumn atmosphere in peace and truth. The Buddha said, Better than the one who would live one hundred yearsnot seeing birth and death … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), artificial one-directional pyramidal power system vs. natural cyclical life system pyramidal system vs., birth/death, buddha (awakened one in all with all), compete/control vs. contact/communicate, contacting/communicating people/plants/planets, delusion (dictator/dominator)/discrimination/exploitation/extermination (five calamities), dictators/dominators/monarchs, enjoy pure peace/prognosis/holy harmony/happiness, highest dharma (form/norm), insitutions: fictitious bodies (states/companies/media/religions/educational institutions), learning: cultivation: gyoji: praxis: religion, limitless liberation/light/love/life/learning, live on joy anywhere any time even without food/military power/matter, nirvana: unconditioned peace: unconditioned by karma, ocean of blood/tears, pyramids/coffins collapse: enjoy open air/golden wind/golden leaves/bright sun/beautiful flowers, samsara/suffering, threefold maladies (me-ism/materialism/militarism), universal truth/peace
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