Good morning!
We have a beautiful autumn Sunday morning with calm, clear, cool, and sunny
weather. People say “autumn with high heaven and hulky horses.” We say “high
heaven and holy harvest,” because there is neither heat nor chill, neither vapor nor
wind, and all enjoy calm, clear, cool, sunny, and still weather, all can enjoy an
abundant amount of wholly wholesome harvest.
We also have bountiful beatitude after Sunday sittings and service with a calm, clear,
cool, and serene world. People say sitting still is stilling stresses. We say sitting still is
stilling senses and sprits, without perceptions, conceptions, emotions, and volitions
– all karmas, physical, verbal, and mental – like a settled bowl of still water, without
turbulence and turbidity.
The Awakened One was awakened to the Dharma of dependent co-origination of all
and all beings – karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged – being in dependent co-
origination and co-cessation. So, all can cease cravings, karmas, samsaras, and
sufferings, settling in nirvana and awakening, stopping demise, destruction, and
death of oneself and others.
Let’s continue this core practice of the Awakened Way, stilling karmas, seeing
Dharma/dharmas (twelvefold dependent origination, four stages of zen/jhāna/
meditation, etc.), serving all (fourfold embracing matters, sixfold perfections, etc.),
and saving all (fourfold application, four holy truths, eightfold holy path, etc.),
sharing limitless life, light, liberation, and love.
10/11/15
