Good morning!
After sittings and service we are in the quiet, calm, and clear world. This is the time,
with events all over the world, that we reflect on the end of WWII with the first
A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nukes present the most imminent possibility
of global holocaust, with about two thousand war-heads at hair-trigger alert aimed
at cities and centers in the US, Russia, and other countries totaling 16,000 bombs.
The inevitable global catastrophe includes global warming and mass extinction, if
we continue business as usual.
The Buddha foresaw the end of the world due to the Triple Poisons of desire, divisive-
ness, and delusion derived from human karmas, and he provided us with the solution
for it. This sitting is the exactly the way to still karmas, see the Dharma (Norm/Law)
of all dharmas (forms/phenomena), serve all, and save all beings. Dogen said that
awakening is not attained with the mind, but with the body. Enlightenment is not
ideas or intellectual understanding, but witnessing nirvana, cessation of the karma
wind where awakening dawns.
As I mentioned the other day, an NHK special program had featured how animals
developed eyes, borrowing plant sensor genes. Another one showed how mammals
shifted from egg laying to fetus carrying and baby nursing, which promoted the
mother-baby bond . The third, on the mammalian revolution, discussed the evolution
of intellect through brain enlargement, sense integration, and especially communica-
tion through language development. It is possible that these attributes distinguished
homo sapiens from the Neanderthal.
Sight, heart, and mind, however, can be misused by the Triple Poisons, especially by
the delusion of the separate Self. The far-sight by eye-sight in standing and sense-
extension with tools is unique, but we must have a true insight into karmas with
prognosis. The heart-mind must meet this and master holiness (wholesome whole).
The head, heart, hara (guts), body, bacteria, bio-spheres, etc. must meet the holy
Dharma world, the body stilled and settled in nirvana, seeing from the supra-
mundane, karma-less truth, saving all.
8/9/15
Note:
- The secretion of liquid to prevent laid eggs from bacteria with milk-like thing over skin developed more milk secretion with more specialized organ to feed newly born babies.
2.The holy Dharma (Truth/Law) world is the natural interdependent life system of dharmas (phenomena in the Dharma of Dependent Origination) evolved through time and space since the Big Bang as illustrated by the Indra-net, whose crystal balls (dharmas) reflect each other limitlessly. Against this the human species has been building an artificial uni-directional pyramidal systemk, struggling for matter and power with the fivefold calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation,and extermination. Religions aim at reunion (Latin religare means re-union) with holiness (wholly wholesomeness) from sin (separation sickness) with the fivefold blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace on different levels (as tribal, national, world, universal religions).
