Monthly Archives: April 2025

  Good morning!   The Buddha said, “I live on joy!” without returning to get food, when Devil whispered to him, “Go back.” How could we live on joy? We live on food, as we get jobs for our livelihood. … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Buddha was superb in the Spiritual Revolution. He was skilled in meditation to witness his inner and outer experience calmly and clearly. He was awakened to the dependent co-origination of sense organs, objects, and consciousness. … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   The Axial Age was the great turning on the axis by the people freed from the collective thinking, tribal habits, material values, and warring states to individual freedom, universal truth/ethic, spiritual values, and peaceful life. There … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Humans achieved three revolutions of production, social, and spiritual ones. The first stage of them were agricultural, urban, and religious revolutions. The second stage are industrial, national, and life revolutions. The third stage may be service, … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Role: Saving All   We are facing the global catastrophe of wiping all lives on earth any moment by a nuclear war. This could be done by one man due to national ego or a … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Our most urgent problems to solve are dictatorship, war, and nuke, which may wipe out all lives on earth any moment. This could be done by one dictator. This is due to nationalism. Humans survived and … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Civilization started from the Urban Revolution of city states with walls, wars, etc. It is an unnatural unidirectional pyramidal system fighting for money, matter, and might with the five calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   Our urgent problems are dictatorship, war, and nuke, leading to destruction and doom. So long as we stick to states, we can’t be freed from them. Civilization (Urbanization Revolution) starting from city states to nation states … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   April 8 is celebrated as the Buddha’s birthday or Flower Festival in northern Buddhist countries. Let us think about its significance. Civilization (urbanization, from Latin civitas) started 5,000 yrs. ago with the rise of city states … Continue reading →

  Good morning!   I shared the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities proposed by the Interaction Council composed by statesmen, scholars, religious people, et al, presented to the U.N. in 1996 for its discussion on it. We … Continue reading →