Good morning!
This straight solid sitting (Shikan-taza: 只管打坐) makes the body still, the mouth
silent, and the brain serene. This is the cultivation (bhāvanā: cause to become,
shugyō: 修行) of karma-becoming (bhava) into Dharma-being (being in Dharma,
Truth, Thusness: Tathatā, Tathā-gata: being Thusness).
All beings are karma-heirs, karma-relatives, and karma-machines, but can stop
karma in the straight solid sitting, sever bad karmas, and serve good karmas. Thus,
we can change our haras (guts: digestive, nutritional, immune system, etc.), hearts
(circulatory system), and heads (nervous system).
Our mental and material worlds are intertwined and can be changed by our
cultivation and culture. Thus, we can cultivate intellectual, emotional, and volitional
realms and create culture of truth, beauty, and goodness to contemplate and become
content with them – all interrelated.
Civilization (urbanization for limited matter and power to fight) must be changed to
culture (cultivation for limitless mind and life to share) to save all from the
destruction of the wholly wholesome way world. Religion is to reunify sinful
(=separated) sickness/suffering to holy harmony/happiness.
A human adult has a hundred trillion cells, each of which contains a hundred trillion
atoms, a hundred trillion bacteria or more in hara, and two hundred billion kilo
meter total gene length (5 million rounds of the globe) – all working with water,
wind, plants, animals, the moon, the sun, galaxies, etc.
Thus, our life or whatever is not ours (“Not yours,” Na tumhākam,” the Buddha said)
and is more like ocean rather than bubble, and more like space or “empty flower”
rather than an iron ball. The “independent eternal ego” is the delusion to develop
into desire and divisiveness – the threefold poison.
The countermeasures for them are the threefold learning of sīla, samādhi, and
prajñā. Sīla is pillar, backbones or morality. Samādhi is serenity, equanimity or
concentration. Prajñā is prognosis, foresight or insight. These work on volitional,
emotional, and intellectual realm respectively. (cf. mature, joyful, great hearts)
Four is the number of limbs to be used to group or classify categories (or its multiple
numbers). The fourfold limitlessness or Brahma-vihāra (abode or living) are
friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity, which is tantamount to the treefold
learning dividing morality into sharing pleasure and pain.
This “for the self” is converted to “for the other” into the fourfold embracing matters
(cattāri-saṇgaha-vattūni, catvāri saṇgraha vastūni, shishōji, 四摂事) of giving,
loving words, beneficial actions, and sameness (being/doing the same) in the
mundane meaning, though no self-other in supra-mundane one.
Omotenashi (Honorable treating) culture and cultivation are more and more
interested in, introduced, and integrated into tourism industry, etc. It derives from
the Tea Way of the fourfold motto of harmony, reverence, purity, and serenity
(equanimity), which is paraphrasing the fourfold limitlessness by tea masters.
We hope that we all understand and activate the Awakened Way of awakening from
dreadful dreams and delusions, appreciate and adapt the wonderful way and world
of limitless liberation, light, love, and life shared and served for all always at all the
places.
11/3/13
Note: There are many Ways (Dô: 道) originated and influenced by Zen Way
Awakened Way (Dô: 道) , which is essentially cultivation (shugyô: 修行：bhâvanâ
by Dharma: Norm of forms: cause to become: bhava: becoming by karma).
Cf. All kinds of Ways (Sho–dô: 諸道), Learning Way (Gaku–dô: 学道, originally
meant Learning the Buddha Way: Gaku-Butsu-dô: 学仏道, cp. Six Ways of Human
Way: Ningen-dô or Jin-dô: 人道, Beastly Way: Chikushdô-dô: 畜生, etc.), Art Way
(Gei–dô:芸道), Martial Way (Bu-dô: 武道), Poem Way (Ka-dô:歌道 ), Calligraphy
Way (Sho–dô:書道), TeaWay (Sa-dô or Cha-dô: 茶道), Flower Way (Ka–dô:華道),
Flagrance Way (Kô–dô: 香道), Soft Way: Judo (Jû-dô: 柔道), Sword Way (Ken-dô:
剣道), etc., etc.
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