Monthly Archives: May 2025

Ruin to Revolution!: 破滅から革命へ!

  Awakening for All: Zazen Revolution: Spiritual Revolution   War, nukes, and dictatorship epitomizes the present civilization sufferings. If humans continue the hegemony of species, state, and self, the world will end with nationalism, arms race, nuclear holocaust, ecological failure, … Continue reading

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Four Universal Vows: 四弘誓願

  Good morning!   The four universal vows (praṇidhāna) are vowing to save all beings, sever all defilements, study all dharma gates, and succeed in the unsurpassed awakened way. These are universal applications of the four holy truths.   Such … Continue reading

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Four Universal Vows: 四弘誓願

  Good morning!   The four universal vows (praṇidhāna) are vowing to save all beings, sever all defilements, study all dharma gates, and succeed in the unsurpassed awakened way. These are universal applications of the four holy truths.   Such … Continue reading

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Four Embracing Matters 四摂事

  Good morning!   The four embracing matters (sangaha-vatthu) are giving, loving words, beneficial action, and sameness. Giving is the first step to go beyond self. Giving is material, dharma, no fear with the purity of giver, given, and gift. … Continue reading

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World as Village of 100 People: 百人の村の世界

  Good morning!   I forwarded a FB comment on “If the world was a village of 100 people” to our listserv. The village was ominously pyramidal one with so many living in poor conditions without housing, food, water, medicine, … Continue reading

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Six Paths: 六道

  Good morning!   We become happy like celestial beings and may become unhappy like hell beings next moment. So, we become something and become anything next moment. This is called samsara, constant flow from moment to moment.   Dictators … Continue reading

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Life Tree: 生命樹

  Good morning!   The last ultimate common ancestor (LUCA) of all terrestrial life forms was made up of 20 amino acids, so have been all life cells. LUCA divided and merged to evolve into the life tree of different … Continue reading

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Awakening for All: Zazen System: System Shift 一切の為の覚醒:坐禅 組織:組織転換

  Awakening for All: Zazen System: System Shift Human civilization is doomed. Civilization (=urbanization) is an artificial, uni-directional pyramidal system fighting for money, matter, and might with the five calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction. This is because … Continue reading

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Global Ethic: 地球倫理

  Good morning!   The Parliament of the World’s Religions with more than seven thousand people from all religions and from all over the world attending issued the Declaration for a global ethic in Chicago in 1993. It is based … Continue reading

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Five Precepts: 五戒

  Good morning!   Our pressing present day social sufferings are dictatorship, war, and nuke putting the doomsday clock at 89 seconds to the doom. Wars create millions of fleeing, dead, crippled, homeless, starving people in despair and doom.   … Continue reading

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