Good evening!
The daytime is getting longer, so we can drive safely and smoothly, while it is
clear and calm. This is due to the Dharma of Dependent Origination of the
complete cosmos since the Big Bang fifteen billion years ago.
Our bodies and brains are also due to the Dharma of Dependent Origination. Often
we mistake and make mental maladies of me-ism, materialism, militarism, money-ism,
etc. due to human habits and hubris, which are seen only in the human world.
They can be ceased by sitting and stopping our karma kinetics (wrong conceptions,
emotions, volitions) , which is not found in the natural Dharma-dhātu (Hokkai,法界)
– dependent on the Dharma of Dependent Cessation.
This can be witnessed in sitting as dropping off our bodies and minds, the disappearance
of discrimination by I-my-me-mine, and the appearance of the unified universal
Dharma-dhātu, attested and verified by all dharmas.
Then, we witness our true nature and become awakened in this Dharma-dhātu,
unpossessed and unpossessing. This traceless awakening must be furthered on and on.
This is the perpetual fostering of “the holy home or host” (seitai-chōyō, 聖胎長養).
It is protecting, preserving, and perpetuating the Tathagata potential (Tathāgata-
garbha). We must constantly, concentratedly foster it by the cultivation-verification of
sitting and stopping karma kinetics. That is why this is the essential function and
functional essence.
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Note: Tathāgata-garbha literally means Tathāgata-womb or Tathāgata-fetus (Nyoraizō,
如来蔵). Tathāgata is commonly translated as Thus-came (Tathā-āgata, Nyorai,如来)
and exceptionally Thus-went (Tathā-gata, Nyoko,如去), but should be translated as
Thus-being (Shinnyozai, Shinnyosha, 真如在, 真如者, 真人, being in Thusness,
Shinnyo,真如, cf. Hasta-gata āmra, mango being on the palm), because it is not the
state of someone’s coming or going, but just being in Thusness or Emptiness, Śūnytā.
