Good evening!
Now beautiful colored leaves have fallen and tree trunks are exposed to the crisp, clear autumn air. Yunmen said, “The entire body is exposed to the golden wind.”
When we sit, all karmas fall away and limited ideas, perceptions, emotions, and volitions fall away. We reach limitlessness, a limitless world, in our solid serene sitting.
The fourfold limitlessness or brahma-vihâra, pure abode or pure living, expresses this state with limitless friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
The original word for equanimity is upekhâ, throwing away. Throwing away everything reveals limitlessness, the limitless world.
When we practice sitting, we can witness limitless liberation, light, love, and life. When we come back to the world the fourfold limitlessness becomes the four embracing dharmas.
The four embracing dharmas or matters are sameness, beneficial actions, loving words, and giving from this limitless source and resource.
We can solve our individual, social, and environmental problems in this way. Everyone can attain this awakened state and can live on joy.
Anyone can and should live with the fivefold blissfulness of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace with all and for all.
10/18/11
