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Tag Archives: amrita (ambrosia/immortality)
Disasterless Life
Good morning! When we get up early and sit, we have cool morning air with birds’ singing and flowers blooming, even if the temperature is going up to the nineties or a hundred. I forwarded an article about … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Uncategorized
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Chernobyl, Fukushima, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, nuclear disaster frequency: once in ten to twenty years, radiation contamination beyont 1000km, solar super storm, triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis), triple treasure (awakened/dharma/community), triple unrivaled (unparalleled freedom/unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening): triple treasure
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Merit of Morning Meditation
Good morning! After hot dry days we had nice rain showers last night. This morning we have almost chilly, crisp, clear morning air coming through our open windows. We can see the fresh dense green leaves dancing with birds’ … Continue reading
Practice Patch
Good evening! When we sit in zazen, it is priceless any time. I have been working in my newer vegetable patch. When I visited the older patch on the other side of the yard, I saw a lot of … Continue reading
Superbly Soft and Sweet Strawberries
Good morning! When we get up early and get into nature, we witness the abundant beauty, goodness, truth, and holiness of it, with morning dew, birds’ singing, and beautiful flowers. When we sit serene and safe, we stop … Continue reading
From Triple Malady to Triple Treasure
Good morning! We are going to have our sesshin. Sesshin means touching the mind (接心) or embracing the mind (摂心), of course not the ordinary deluded mind, but the Buddha mind, truth mind, true mind, tree mind, the truth … Continue reading
Posted in asamskrita, Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade), Cultivation: culture
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), and prajñâ (prognosis), atoms for peace, Chernobyl Legacy, crime against humans/all, cultivation = verification, Dogen, et al., friend: mitra, from triple malady (militarism/materialism/me-ism), karmaless, law/truth of dependent origination (similar to causality), Maitreya, Mazda, Mithra, money, nuclear bomb/power, samadhi (concentration), self-survival/interest/centeredness, Sesshin: touching the mind (接心) or embracing the mind (摂心), triple learning: sîla (morality), triple treasure (buddha/dharma/sangha)
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Wholly Wholesome Way with All
Good morning! I thought that the dark cloud might perhaps bring rain, but suddenly the bright sun shined forth while we were reciting the Heart Sutra. This morning I saw yellowish silver lining on clouds. Yesterday evening I … Continue reading
Posted in asamskrita, Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade)
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), awake state, Daito Kokushi (National Teacher), dreaming state, four psycho-physical states (deep sleep, fourth state, fourth state called catrîya or balanced state, full moon: Buddha-mind, Kenzaburo Ohe, samsara in the Six Ways (六道輪廻：rokurou-rinne: transmigration through six ways: hell being/hungry ghosts/animal being/fighting devil/human being/celestial being), tulya
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Familiar, Free, Full Purity, Peace, Prognosis
Good morning! We have very thick mist this morning. When we drove through the mist, we enjoy all successive scenes as free familiar truth, beauty, goodness – even traffic light and traps. But, if we drive through mist … Continue reading
Self-conquered Compassionate Conquerors
Good morning! We have now beautiful bright sunlight and the beautiful blue sky without clouds. And we have beautiful flowers at the altar and all the places. The winter air is crisp and clear; it felt cool and comfortable. … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged Amida (阿弥陀：Amita-âyus: Limitless Life or Amita-âbha: Limitless Light), amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Ashoka, Buddha, commoner (putthujana: pritujana: mass or prithagjana: separately born), Dogen, Fujiwara Culture, golden hall (金堂) of Chu-son-ji (中尊寺：Respecting Middle: Neutrality) Temple, holy truth/peace/goodness/beauty, Kamakura, karma cloud/wind, kasa-sotôbas (傘卒塔婆：umbrella stûpa: covered towers), Milinda (Menander: Menandros), Nagasena, or Blissfulness (Sukhavatî), prognosis (prajnâ: awakening: bodhi), Pure-land (浄土: jôdo), Shotoku, striver (samana/shramana), unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, windless (nir-vâna), Zen
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Mind-World from Zero to Infinity
Good evening! When we sit in zazen, we can always have good evening, good day, and good life. Because our sense organs have evolved to deal with the outside environment to keep our bodies safe and life surviving – … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), good day/evening/life/world, karmas (actions and action results: habits), mind-world from zero to infinity, mundane/supramundane realm, outer/inner realm on mind (perception/conception/emotion/volition), sense organs evolved for safety/survival, sense/mind organs/objects/world, three poisons (craving/anger/delusion), world: mind-world: dependently originated/ceased on mind (perception/conception/emotion/volition)
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World from Zero to Infinity
Good evening! When we sit in zazen, we can always have good evening, good day, and good life. Because our sense organs have evolved to deal with the outside environment to keep our bodies safe and life survive, we … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), familiarity: freedom, individual/shared, karma (action/habits, mind-world, mundane vs. supra-mundane: karma vs. a-karma, past/present/futerur), physical/verbal/mental, sense organs: survaival/environment, truth/peace/harmony/happiness, world from zero to infinity
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