Good morning!
We can still see the bright round moon high in the clear, cool, wintry sky.
We had a clear calm world to drive through. Sitting like great old sequoias,
we have the serene, still, single world.
Heavy snow falling and piling makes even going out difficult, and it’s much more
difficult and dangerous driving through a snow storm with the windshield not
well wiped by frozen wipers.
Limited views and values make all limited. The Four Perverted Views of
permanence, pleasure, self, and purity are against impermanence, suffering,
no-self, and impurity in Dependent Origination Dharma and karma.
Unlimited views are limitless values with holy truth, beauty, and goodness.
This can make us shift the paradigm from ego (bubble) to eco (ocean),
Dharma-dhātu, saving the world from destruction and demise.
1/19/14
Note:
1. Perverted Views or Inverted Views (vi-pari-ita, means un-pervaded,
dis-integrated, prefix vi: separation, prefix pari: perfection or perimeter, ita:
gone or reached, thus pari-ita: surrounded, pervaded, integrated, integral)
are listed as Two (sentients and environment), Three (minds, views, and ideas),
and Four (as above), seeing them not right or holy (wholly wholesome in
wider perspective), but inverted or perverted.
2. Cp. The Four Dharma Marks of impermanence, suffering, no-self, and nirvana
(in place of “impurity” in the above list coming from karma, to be replace by Dharma
through cultivation in the Awakened Way).
3. The Triple Poisons of delusion (of ego), craving, and anger: the Triple Maladies
of me-ism, materialism, and militarism (represented by money-ism), etc.
are all limited views and values, thus limiting originally limitless life, light,
liberation, and love in holy truth, beauty, and goodness.
4. Cp. “Limitlessness in nothingness” (無一物中無尽蔵: mu-ichimotstu-chū
mu-jinzō, limitlessness in no possession, because possession is possessedness).
