Good morning!
The first Sunday of the year turned out to be a Snow-day or, rather, Storm-day,
causing thousands of flight cancellations, car accidents, blackouts, etc. As global
warming advances, the atmosphere can contain more moisture, which makes more
turbulence in the air, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, droughts, wildfire,
extreme weather, etc.
Humans are causing the Sixth Mass Extinction, polluting air, water, earth, etc.,
destroying habitats, environments, species, etc., devastating individuals, societies,
and life systems, etc. We must make a paradigm shift from Ego to Eco, from Sin
(Separation) to Holiness (Wholesome Whole), from artificial Pyramidal System to
natural Cyclical System.
Ego and its Economy are within and draw their life from Ecology, not the other way
around, like a bubble, foam from the ocean. Ego-maker (aham-kāra, ego conceit)
is karma, creating the Triple Poisons of delusion, craving, and anger and the Triple
Maladies of me-ism, materialism, and militarism (enslaved by them and all by
money-ism), constructing an artificial unidirectional Pyramidal System.
Sitting and stopping karmas clarify this and confer solutions to the problems of the
Ego Economy of Craving and Greed, shifting to an Egoless Economy of Contentment
and Gift, contributing to the Triple Learning of sīla, samādhi, and prajñā (morality,
concentration, and prognosis), contributing to the Triple Treasures of awakened
ones, truth (Dharma), and true community.
Sitting still and serene endows anyone with peace and truth (awakening and
nirvana) in contentment and the gift of all in Dependent Origination (on causes
and conditions, infinite inter-dependence) that everyone is a limitless gift from
limitless time and space, having the ability to share, serve, and satisfy with
limitless gifts for others as well.
The Dharma-dhātu (truth/law realm) is penetrated by the Dharma of Dependent
Origination. Thus, our global system must be 5 Ss (Systemic, Sustainable, Saving,
Safe, and Simple), and the global ethic must follow 5 Ls (Law (Dharma), Life, Love,
Liberation, Lielessness) with 5 Rs of material flow (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,
Rearrange, Restore) and 5 As of infomation flow (Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advise).
Sharing satisfaction maximizes and sharing suffering minimizes. Sharing or giving
(compassionate) eyes, a (harmonious) face, (loving) speech, a (considerate) heart,
a (helping) body, a seat and shelter – these are called the Seven Gifts without
possessions (無財七施：muzai nanase, 無くて七施: nakute nana-se), usually
missed and mistaken as Seven Idiosyncrasies (無くて七癖：nakute nana-kuse).
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