Good morning!
On the way here I saw the big bright red sun already higher than the one just rising from the horizon last Sunday. The full moon is now crescent. When we come here and sit, we can enjoy the fresh morning air with the sound of water, birds’ singing, and green leaves rustling. This is the world of nature with beauty and bounty. We, however, see only a fraction of the universe in the dark invisible world.
When we sit in this vast world in the long history, we can enjoy peace, truth, harmony, health, and happiness, and become awakened to the universe – one world. Just before I left home, I watched the NHK Special Program of Fukushima. Just after the nuclear disaster, Fukushima declared abolishion of nuclear power. Now they have the program of shift to renewable energy – solar, wind, geothermal, etc.
They expect to produce 5,000,000kw, equivalent to five nuclear reactors. By 2020 they will have 40% renewable energy, and by 2040 100%. They say that all can proceed step by step, even 1mm each person is 10,000+km globally, unlike the pyramidal gigantic way of nuclear power, etc., which produce the most poisonous substance, plutonium, for nuclear bombs, conveniently produced by nuclear power.
Even without disasters, nuclear fission constantly spews radiation, irradiating workers, nearby residents, other lives, and the environment with waste unknown for its safe storage – 1% discriminating all others in space and time, but eventually all affected. So, we must go back to natural, cyclical, wholly wholesome system. Such system must be sustainable, safe, simple, and saving all (global system: 5Ss).
Our center has the three pillars to achieve Awakened Way, Global Ethic, and Voluntary Simplicity to protect life, liberation, love, lielessness in the law of dependent origination (global ethic: 5Ls). Then, we can live in limitless life, light, liberation, love, and learning step by step. This Fukushima plan is the new way of life – natural, cyclical, distributive, local, participatory, sustainable, and saving.
We must return to the original natural way and be awakened from delusion, desire, divisiveness, doubt, dread. Then, we can function free and full in wholly wholesome truth, goodness, and beauty with the fivefold bliss. Let’s practice in cultivation, caring culture, and stop the short-sight and short-circuit way, creating civilization of unnatural, pyramidal power system with the fivefold calamity.
5/13/12
Voluntary simplicity: global ethic:
Five Rs (material flow): Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rearrange, Restore
Five As (information flow): Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advise
Fivefold bliss: awakening, freedom, equality (unity), love, and peace
Fivefold calamity: delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, extermination
