Good morning!
A week after the equinox, higan, yonder shore, nirvana, we have weather neither hot nor chilly due to global warming. The Buddha said that the limit of the world is not reached by walking. Nirvana is reached by sitting. Nirvana is beyond global warming and nuclear winter, reaching the yonder shore beyond a surging sea of suffering and the kinetics ken of karma.
About a week later we can appreciate the renowned full moon of mid-autumn. The full moon represents the bright beautiful Buddha heart, clear and cool. Just before he entered pari-nirvana, complete nirvana, Dogen made a poem on the 15th of August (lunar calendar):
Even in the autumn, when
I’d expect to see it again,
I could not have slept
With the moon of tonight.
He left us the Fukanzazengi, Universal Recommendation for True Zazen, saying, “You should not be concerned whether you are a person of lofty intellect or lowly foolishness, nor discriminated as being a sharp person or a dull one. If you strive singlemindedly, that itself is the realization of the Way.” This is the universal way for nirvana/bodhi, awakening, for all.
9/30/17
