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Monthly Archives: April 2012
From Triple Malady to Triple Treasure
Good morning! We are going to have our sesshin. Sesshin means touching the mind (接心) or embracing the mind (摂心), of course not the ordinary deluded mind, but the Buddha mind, truth mind, true mind, tree mind, the truth … Continue reading
Posted in asamskrita, Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade), Cultivation: culture
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), and prajñâ (prognosis), atoms for peace, Chernobyl Legacy, crime against humans/all, cultivation = verification, Dogen, et al., friend: mitra, from triple malady (militarism/materialism/me-ism), karmaless, law/truth of dependent origination (similar to causality), Maitreya, Mazda, Mithra, money, nuclear bomb/power, samadhi (concentration), self-survival/interest/centeredness, Sesshin: touching the mind (接心) or embracing the mind (摂心), triple learning: sîla (morality), triple treasure (buddha/dharma/sangha)
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Must See: Chernobyl Legacy: Crime against Humanity!
After I posted “Saving Matter and Energy Is Saving All,” I saw this article and pictures. We must not just talk, but actually walk concretely in our daily living without electricity dependent on nuclear power causing such devastation on all … Continue reading
Saving Matter and Power Is Saving All
Good morning! Thank you for your preparation for our yard sale from early morning and earlier days, clearing inside and out, mowing our garden, cleaning things around us! Reducing is at the same time reusing, recycling, rearranging, and … Continue reading
Karma Cultivation
Good evening! Spring is the season for sowing seeds. Without sowing seeds we cannot harvest good crops that, over time, become organic building blocks from present to future. Awakening starts with aspiration and cultivation, which is different from … Continue reading
Posted in Cultivation: culture
Tagged awakened way's praxis/practice cycle: aspiration-action-awakening-unconditioned peace (gyoji-doukan: 行持道環：cycle of practicing the way), Dogen, unsurpassed awakening: unconditioned peace (nirvana: windless): uncreated (a-sankhata/a-samskrita): a-karma, zazen (sitting meditation)
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Prosper or Perish
Good morning! When we get up early, come here and sit, we can enjoy the abundant beauty of the natural world, and we can create beautiful abundance with it in harmony with all. In prostration the world prospers; … Continue reading
Union with the Wholly Wholesome Whole
Good morning! When we come here and sit in zazen, we can experience and enjoy the abundant birds’ singing, beautiful flowers’ blooming, and wind and water flowing. This is the time when birds sing the most and life function … Continue reading
Unparalleled Pure Peace and Penetrating Prognosis
Good evening! We have now abundant flowers blooming and green growing. It is difficult to keep potted plants with proper water, light, etc. separated from the ground. All great trees, however, are deeply rooted in the great earth to … Continue reading
Penetrating Prognosis and Pure Peace
Good morning! We have now abundant singing of birds, which we can enjoy only in the early morning. When we get into the yard, we can see a lot of honey suckle seedlings, which we can easily pick up … Continue reading
Posted in Cultivation: culture, Practice
Tagged triple poison (delusion/craving/anger)
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Rev. Daigaku Rumme Sharing His Aspiration and Action
The Buddhist Council of Greater St. Louis invited Rev. Rumme, Director of Soto Zen Buddhism North America, to share his thought about Awakening of America and other practice related matters as in the poster below. He recently met with other … Continue reading