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Beautiful Blossoming

Good morning!   We now have all kinds of flowers blossoming beautifully, and abundantly. This is the manifestation and function of the Indra-net in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness.   To enter into and enjoy it is “not deluded about causality,” (fumai inga, 不昧因果). Ignorance and disturbance of it is “not falling into causality,” (furaku inga, 不落因 果).   4/23/13     Photo by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka from Japan

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Buddha-nature Here Now

Good morning!   With this rain most snow has melted away.  A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China.   This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later).   Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster.   They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs.   When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever.   Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now.   Why do we have these disasters and sufferings?  These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones.   We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults.   We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe.   Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, “If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed.   So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings.   We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility.   Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading

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Upright Earth, Trees, and Us

Good morning!   Yesterday was the autumnal equinox. The middle of its five days we call and celebrate o-higan (yonder shore, nirvana). It is the day with equal parts day and night, in perfect weather – neither cold nor hot … Continue reading

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Triple Pillars

Good morning!   We have now a short respite from the long spell of dry hot weather. It became cool at night and early in the morning. Especially when we sit in zazen, we can enjoy rest and renewal of … Continue reading

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Independence in Interdependence

Good morning!   We could see the full moon in the west and the rising sun in the east just before we came here.   Today is Independence Day. So, the traffic, usually jammed with hustle and bustle, was almost … Continue reading

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