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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Life Is like Mountainineering
Good evening! We don’t know when the impermanence takes over us. We may get involved in a traffic accident. One of our members went to meet her bosom friend who unexpectedly passed away in a traffic accident. Our … Continue reading
Zero-sum or Wholesome
Good morning! We could see the thin moon beside the morning star in the clear sky. The temperature is 24 degrees here, and somewhere else with heavy snow. The zero-sum games are from the small short-sight style and section. … Continue reading
Good morning! It is below the freezing point. When we come here, we come home, sitting warm and calm, with the candle flame burning straight, illuminating the rooms clear and calm. Ordination is ordering all by coming home, … Continue reading
Ordination for Ordering
Good morning! Today is our last day of Rohatsu sesshin and we are going to have Jukai – receiving precepts. Earlier this morning we had denser fog and cloud with rain. It is troublesome to travel under such conditions … Continue reading
Awakened One’s Awakening Day
Good morning! Today, the eighth of December, is the day of the Buddha’s awakening. So, all over the world Zen practitioners, after seven day intensive sitting, celebrate his awakening – an unprecedented feast that solves all problems of all … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and equanimity (upekhâ : lit. throwing away), awakening, beyond pleasure and pain/penance, Brahma's beseech, Brahmavihâra of friendship, Buddha, chan, compassion, defilements (klesha: zenma, dissatisfaction, everyday a good day (日日是好日：hibi-kore-koujitu), five coverings, four fluxes/leaks (âsava: 煩悩), global problematique, holy harmony/health/happiness, joy, lit. wrong going), meditation, meeting four people, nirvana, outing from four gates, shûnya (empty, six teachers/dogmatists/heretics (六師外道), substanceless), suffering, suffering (dukkha, Zen, Zen (jhâna, 染汚)
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Attaining Unconditioned Peace and Unsurpassed Awakening
Good evening! The eighth of December is the day when Siddhattha Gotama became buddha, awakened, to the ultimate truth, solving all problems and putting an end to suffering. He attained unconditioned peace, nirvana, and unsurpassed awakening, and he … Continue reading
Holy Harmony, Health, and Happiness
Good evening! When we sit, we stop our karmas – thus becoming freed from karmic bondages – and we function fully, becoming wholly wholesome. So, this is the way to become wholly wholesome in free full function. Otherwise, we … Continue reading
Sin = Separation, Holiness = Whollyness
Good evening! I forwarded “A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Between 1945-1998,” showing 2053 nuclear explosions from 1945 through 1998, to our e-list. The explosions caused radiation disasters and resource damage. These and other problems come from the … Continue reading
Stopping Separation and Suffering
Good morning! Now we see that the half moon has quickly changed from the full moon. But, there is always a full moon behind the apparent changes and shifting phases of it. It enlightens and embraces the whole world … Continue reading