Good morning!
We have a splendid spring Sunday morning with lush green leaves, beautiful flowers,
nice birds’ singing, especially after sittings and service. All this may suddenly be
engulfed in an inferno flash of nukes by mishap, miscalculation, mishandling, etc.
The latest Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference collapsed due to selfish sinfulness, never mind the
possibility of a Nuclear Non-Possession Treaty.
The human species, a thousands last appearance on earth, are MAD, Mutually
Assured Destruction, with nuclear arsenals and applied energy in imminent danger
of nuclear holocaust any moment. Global warming is the other longterm catastrophe
of this planetary life system. These problems come from human delusions of selves
separated from the synthetic system, derived from bad karmas.
The Buddha was awakened to the Fourfold Truth of suffering, source, cessation, and
its path to avoid delusion of anyone and destruction of the world. It is to sit still, still
karmas, see dharmas and strive within that Fourfold Truth, not enslaved by money-
ism, materialism, and militarism. All are in slavery, unless having attained freedom
from forms and formations (karmas):
There is one means of getting gain, another means for going in nirvana.
Thus knowing, let mendicants, Buddha’s disciples, not rejoice in honor,
But practice solitude.
The Dhammapada, 75
Unless we are delivered from delusions, we remain in madness and are destined to
destruction, not even knowing we are deluded, distraught, and devastated. We fall
into endless entanglement in foxy lives, neither being awakened to the Dharma of
Dependent Origination, nor acknowledging and applying it to stop bad karmas, start
good karmas, and supersede karmas. Only truth wins and delivers us to enjoy every
day as a good day.
5/24/15
