Good morning!
We had a shower with thunder last night and could enjoy lush green gardens this
morning. While we have been sitting, we could hear the rain rustling on leaves,
starting with thunder and with a haze of rain following. We can now enjoy the
fresh green wind going throughout the world of our still sitting.
We call animals dō-butsu (moving things), plants and places sei-butsu (still things).
Plants sit still thriving on earth, water, air, fire (sun), wind, and space (four or five
elements). Buddhists added consciousness as the sixth element, which evolved
through movements for food, shelter, and clothing, etc.
Motor and sense organs have developed into perceptions, emotions, volitions, and
conceptions called mind. The mind-body-world complex is inseparable, but
conventionally separated as if independent entities, creating delusion,
discrimination, destruction, etc., into mass extinction, and ecological extremes.
Sitting stills karmas – movements and minds – and unifies into harmony, holiness,
and happiness with calm, clear, clean conditions like trees in our wholly wholesome
world of truth, peace, and purity, like a lake without turbulence and turbidity,
with wind and waves stilled (nirvana) in amrita, ambrosia, immortality.
Rain rustling on leaves
Penetrating through sitting
Solstice lush green!
6/22/14
Enjoy seibutsu and dō-butsu scenes (at the center and on the Brentwood Blvd.
– trotting toward the fountain in front of its city sign seen on the way back)!
