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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Awakening and Amrita, Ambrosia of Immortality
Good morning! The fresh morning wind is good even though it is going to be a hot day. The flowing water is good even though it is going to be the stagnate and stale world. Awakening is amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Karma World
Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita
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Wholly Wholesome World and Way
Good morning! When we get up early and come here, we can see beautiful things – this morning the just rising sun shining forth through clouds, but now overcast with dark clouds. So, we may have rain soon and … Continue reading
Fresh, Free, Full Function
Good morning! When we sit with all the windows and doors open, we can breathe the fresh morning air, enjoying all kinds of sounds, smells, colors, contacts, freely and fully. Mahâ assâsa, great repose, literally means the great … Continue reading
Posted in Practice
Tagged great repose, lit. great exhalation, maha assasa, triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis), triple maladies (me-ism/materialism/militarism): three poisons (delusion/greed/anger), triple poisons (delusion/craving/anger), triple treasures (buddha/dharma/sangha)
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Sitting Singly
Good evening! When we sit solid and steadfast, we are in mahâ assâsa, the great repose (lit. great exhalation), like sitting singly on the Great Courageous One (Buddha) Peak. Ango (安居), safe satisfactory stay, is staying in safety … Continue reading
Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade)
Tagged Ango (安居), Baizhan (Hyakujo: 百丈), maha assasa, safe satisfactory stay, sitting singly (alone/unified/truthfully), Sitting singly on the Great Courageous One Peak (= Mt. Bai-zhan) (dokuza daiyûhô: 独坐大雄峰), Skt.: varsa) retreat, the great repose (lit. great exhalation), the rain (Pali: vassa, u-ango (雨安居)
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Disasterless Life
Good morning! When we get up early and sit, we have cool morning air with birds’ singing and flowers blooming, even if the temperature is going up to the nineties or a hundred. I forwarded an article about … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Uncategorized
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Chernobyl, Fukushima, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, nuclear disaster frequency: once in ten to twenty years, radiation contamination beyont 1000km, solar super storm, triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis), triple treasure (awakened/dharma/community), triple unrivaled (unparalleled freedom/unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening): triple treasure
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Free Full Function
Good evening! New flowers come up blooming successively in the large system of life – morning glories, day lilies, peace lilies, shooting stars, hostas (擬宝珠: pseudo jewel), … Zazen is the wholly wholesome, essential, embracing, free, full function. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged dharma body/world, limitless life, sangha: community of all, triple malady (me-ism/materialism/militarism), triple poison (delusion/craving/anger), triple unrivaled (unparalleled friendship/freedom, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, zazen: wholly/wholesome/essential/embracing/free/full function
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Triple Treasure/Learning
Good morning! Zazen, still serene sitting, is the practice of the triple learning of sîla, samâdhi, and prajñâ and the appreciation of the triple treasure of buddha, dharma, and sańgha . It is the essential function and the … Continue reading
Posted in cultivation: verification (修：証）, Zen
Tagged and all)., awakening beings, corresponding to volitional-physical/emotional/intellectual-intuitional. triple treasure: Buddha (awakened one)/dharma (truth/law, essential function/functional essence: core of awakened way/triple learning, lit. form/norm)/sańgha (community of awakened ones, lit. pillar)/samâdhi (concentration)/prajñâ (prognosis), living beings, unity of cultivation/verification (修証一等: shushouittou): practice/attainment, Za-zen (坐禅): sitting meditation. Chinese chan/Pali jhâna/Sanskrit dhyânatriple learning:sîla (morality, zazen
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Cultivation Is Verification
Good morning! When we get up early, come here, and sit in zazen, we can enjoy the fresh morning air with the sound of flowing water and singing birds. When we step in the garden, we can touch … Continue reading
Samadhi, Spaceless, Timeless, Limitless
Good evening! I had been working in the garden and, when I entered my house, found the time to leave for zazen had passed. When we are absorbed in what we like, we forget time. A million miles … Continue reading