Monthly Archives: December 2023

Four strivings, services, supremes While cleaning our center, I found someone had cleaned the floors, shelf/stove tops, sink, etc., well and unnoticed by others. Some people mow, sweep, contribute, donate (even from afar), etc., all unseen. This is called intoku, … Continue reading →

  Ego Is Evil!   Suffering (duk-kha: dis-satisfaction, lit. wrong-going) are the inevitable four (birth, aging, sickness, death) and common eight (not having the desired, parting from the beloved, meeting with the hated, in short, the rampant five aggregates). The … Continue reading →

Karma Is Key!   Suffering comes from karma. Karma comes from self-survival strife since life started four billion years ago, driven by the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego). Egoism (Self-centeredness, individual, national, etc.) is the source … Continue reading →

  Wake up and walk up!   All living beings have the inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death. Why is birth suffering (duk-kha: wrong-going)? Because it is karma imbued with self-survival strife – sinful (separated) sickness. This is … Continue reading →

There is no sovereignty!   The Buddha was awakened to the Dharma (norm/law) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena), Dependent Co-origination, that all are interdependently co-originated. This means no sovereignty (of Self, State, Sovereign) due to no self-sameness (impermanence), no self-sovereignty (suffering, … Continue reading →