Monthly Archives: April 2025

    Good morning!   The triple vehicles are Hearers (sāvaka), Solitery buddhas (pacceka- buddha), and Bodhisattva/Great (mahā) Vehicle (yāna). Bodhisattva/Great Vehicle is to save all or even to save others first and oneself last.   Pacchekabuddhas were thought to … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Triple Worlds (loka, √lok: look) or Realms (dhātu, √dhā: put) originally meant the triple realms of lust/desires (kāma), form (rūpa), and formless (a-rūpa), dependently originated on our sense organs and objects.   They later became … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All; Zazen Treasure: Triple Treasures   Good morning!   Mankind can now destroy the whole world with its life systems by a dictator, war, nuclear holocaust or even its mishap. This is due to individual ego and … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The three poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion poison individuals, societies, and environments. The starting point is the delusion of ego, which divides self and other, desires to benefit it by all means, sacrificing others.   … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   “All formations are impermanent. If one sees thus with prognosis, then one is weary of suffering. This is the way of purification.” This is due to the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination. Impermanence ends in sufferings.   … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Awakened Way admits the two truths: conventional (common) and ultimate (universal) truths. Humans are prejudiced by their views, values, languages, etc. The geocentric view was corrected by heliocentric one.   The same would apply to … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Buddha said, “Take refuge in yourself, not others. Take refuge in the Dharma, not others.” The Dharma (norm: law) of all dharmas (forms: phenomena) is the Dependent Co-origination law similar to the causal law.   … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Confucius said, “Unjustly rich and powerful are like floating cloud with me.” He traveled teaching his ideal of humanity (jen, jin) to correct the human relations among rulers, et al, sometimes endangering his life.   The … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Fruit: Happiness   “Wise ones think of the tree and obtain the fruit. Petty ones think of the fruit and don’t obtain the fruit.”  Yozan Uesugi   We want happiness. People want money, matter, and … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The pyramidal civilization (urbanization) enables dictatorship, war, nuke, leading to the world doom, violating the global ethic. Those who endorse this are complicit with massacre, invasion, demagogy, rape, and intoxication. It causes limitless savagery, slavery, sacrifice, … Continue reading →