Good morning!
We have a warm winter now with a window opened. Yesterday it was over 70. This is part
of global warming. The COP21 had some success in tackling this. Paris had this meeting
and a terror attack, so the French president said that these are the two biggest problems in
the world. More imminent and devastating would be the nuclear holocaust and radiation
disasters that could accompany natural or human disasters, like terrorism. A news report
yesterday said that West Lake, the nuclear waste site in St. Louis, may become a
Fukushima with its underground fire 1,000 feet away.１
Malala Yousafiai, the youngest Nobel prize winner, said, “With guns, you can kill
terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” We could say, “With meditation you
can terminate terror.” All the problems and sufferings we have now with the sixth man-
made mass extinction as well as the inevitable eternal/universal sufferings of birth,
sickness, aging, death, loss, separation, meeting with the hated – in short, the rampant
raging of the five aggregates – come from the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness,
and the delusion of ego, which ultimately come from karmas.
So, the Buddha at around this time of year, twenty five centuries ago, for the first time in
the history, found that all living beings are karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged,
and provided us with the practical way to still karmas in sitting, settling in unconditioned
peace (nirvana, lit. no-wind of karmas), and attaining unsurpassed awakening (bodhi)
of the Dharma of dependent co-origination/cessation. We can witness nirvana or the
supra-mundane (loka-uttara), and bodhi by constant cultivation of sitting and seeing the
Dharma (Norm) of all dharmas (forms), not by walking, as the Buddha said.
The holy (wholly wholesome) truth, justice, and way must come from nirvana and bodhi,
beyond sinful (separate sick) truth, justice, and way – thus the Four Holy Truths
(cattāri-ariya-saccāni) and the Eightfold Holy Ways (aṭṭhaṅgika-ariya-magga). Selfish
truth, justice, and way are not “wholly wholesome.” Right view, thinking, speaking, acting,
livelihood, mindfulness, striving, and concentration must be truthful (sacca, satya)2 and
holy, based on nirvana and bodhi. So, the Buddha said, “Enmity is never appeased by
enmity,” and “Conquer one-self not thousands in wars.”3
12/13/15
Note:
1．https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/17064/
2. “Right (sammā)”in “right view (sammā-diṭṭhi),” etc. is from truth (Sanskrit:sat-ya:
being-ness: real-ity: being/real as it is, Pali: sac-ca) observed (witnessed/withheld:
truth/ethic) from the “wholly wholesome way and world in nirvana/bodhi (ultimate
truth realm)” and provided to the conventional world (conventional truth realm).
3.Endless tit for tat is neither truthful nor ethical. We must reach the wholly wholesome
way world to observe the Dharma of dependent co-origination and cessation for the
fundamental and ultimate solutions.
Enmity is never appeased by enmity here,
But by non-enmity. This is the truth forever.
– The Dhammapada 5
Better than the one conquering thousands upon thousands in wars
Is the one conquering oneself. He is the greatest of war conquerors.
– The Dhammapada 103
