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Tag Archives: amrita
No Deception No Fiction
Good morning! “Flowers blooming, the world is arisen.” We have beautiful flowers at the altar and on the radiators. The bright beautiful sunlight fills the world with the sky without clouds. In Japan on March 3 they celebrate … Continue reading
Good morning! We see now the daybreak getting earlier. When we move, the candle flames flicker. Depending on the candle container shapes some move more even when we stop. “The candle flame in no wind (ni-vâte padîpa/pradîpa)” is … Continue reading
Good morning! We have beautiful bright spring-like sunlight and sky – crisp clear space without clouds, piercing through all endlessly. After our sittings we are also penetrated by purity and peace. Usually we are separated by our skin … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, and bodhisattvas, awakened ones, awakened way, awakening beings, bubble/ocean, buddhas, cloud/sky, Dharma Realm, Dogen, great beings, karma machine, mahâsattvas, movie Zen, no-wind (nir-vâna/vâta), skin-bags, Tathâ-gata garbha (Thus-being fetus), transmigration through the Six Ways or Worlds (六道輪廻), Universal Recommendation for Right Zazen
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Limitless Luck in Limitless Learning
Good morning! We have a nice drizzling with warm weather at the spring solstice, risshun (立春), raising spring. Who raises spring? The sun. Who raises us? The sun – truly, the total universe. Every day Rui-yan (瑞巌) said … Continue reading
Posted in Practice
Tagged 10. Buddho Bhagavâ: The Awakened and the Fortunate : 仏世尊: butsu-seson, 2. Arahat: 阿羅漢: arakan, 3. Sammâsambuddha: Sammâ-sam-buddha: 正遍知: shouhenchi, 4. Vijjâcaranasampanna: The one provided with withdom and behavior: 明行足: myougyousoku, 5. Sugata: Well-being: 善逝: zensei, 6. Lokavidû: World-knower: 世間解: sekenge, 7. Anuttara: Unsurpassed one: 無上士: mujoushi, 8. Purisadammasarathi: The leader of persons to be tamed: 調御丈夫: chougyojoubu, 9. Satthadevamanussanâm: The teacher of divine-beings and human-beings: 人天師: nintenshi, ambrosia of immortality, amrita, bagabond (degraded from bhagavan), Buddha, liberation, light, limitless life, Limitless luck: limitless learning, love, practice makes possible/perfect, risshun (立春), Rui-yan/Zuigan (瑞巌), spring solstice, Ten names of the Buddha: The Worthy One: 1. Tathâgata: Thus-being: 如来:nyorai)
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Impermanence Is Interdepencence
Good morning! Even though we have hot weather in the day time, we can have fresh, cool air in the early morning. Even though it is said that “flowers fall in lamentation and weeds flourish in detestation,” this comes from … Continue reading
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Tagged action, ambrosia, amrita, aspiration, awakened way, awakening, death, delusion, Dharma, disaster, immortality, impermanence, interdependence, karma, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening
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Way to Wholly Wholesome World
Good morning! After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires. This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, asankhata, beatitude, beauty, cessation, conflict, contamination, delusion, desire, Dharma, disaster, discrimination, dukkha, global warming, gokuraku, goodness, karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, origination, papance upasama, perspective, priority, prognosis, safety, self-centered, sitting, solution, sufering, suffering, sukhavati, truth, ultimate comfort, unconditioned peace, wholly wholesome world
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Unconditioned Peace (nirvana) = Ultimate Pleasure (gokuraku)
Good morning! When we get up early and get into a garden or a field, we can enjoy a lot of flowers, grass, and trees glittering in the morning sun. As we cultivate the land and plant seeds and seedlings, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion, Uncategorized, Zen
Tagged ambrosia, amrita, beyond birth and death, cultivation, dew-like life, fruition, gain and loss, gokuraku, immortality, nirvana, pain and pleasure, planting, sukhavati, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakeningultimate comfort/pleasure
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Praxis Perfection
Good evening! By the truth or law of dependent origination, all things change. Humans increase and experience this flow as ups and downs, gains and losses, and births and deaths. Thus they must suffer more in samsara, constant flow, … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia, amrita, aspiration cultivation, awakened way, awakening, birth and death, cultivation, immortality, karma, law of dependent origination, nirvana, praxis, samsara, sitting, stopping karma, suffering, time and space, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, way cycle
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Samadhi or Suffering
Good morning! As we get up early and come here, we can enjoy beautiful flowers, bright candlelight, fragrant incense, a beautiful bell sound, and the beautiful singing of birds, flowers, abundant green. If we don’t follow this way, we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia, amrita, Buddha, cultivation, immortality, mind, nirvana, nuclear disaster, samadhi, source, verification
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Samadhi Stages
Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading
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Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen
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