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Tag Archives: aspiration
Militarism, Materialism, Me-ism Myths
Good evening! A news item from Japan reported that Japan’s prime minister will announce his country’s abolishing of nuclear power tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Sixty-six years ago, mankind dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima, instantly … Continue reading
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Tagged abolishing nuclear bombs and power, action attaining unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace, aspiration, atomic bombs, awakening, compassion, disillusion, freedom, Fukushima disaster, harmony, Hiroshima, holy (wholly wholesome), limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, mankind, materialism, matter, me-ism, militarism, mythology of the safety of nuclear power, non-safety of nuclear power, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, oneness, oower, peace, truthful/peaceful/holy world
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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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Practice Perfects
Good morning! Aspiration and action witness unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace. Unsurpassed awakening attests the dharma (norm) of dependent origination that all phenomena originate depending on causes and conditions. It verifies that samsara and sufferings originate depending on delusions and … Continue reading
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Tagged action, all beings, aspiration, delusion, Dependent Origination, desire, dharma (norm, form, holy (wholly), phenomena, samsara, sitting, stilling, stopping karma, suffering, total) truth/goodness/beauty, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, whole being, zazen
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Sitting and Samu (Work)
Good morning! After a long spell of rain, according to the weather forecast, we are still continuing rainy days. But, fortunately, we have a very bright Sunday morning today. After the beautiful, stable, soft, and serene bell sounds … Continue reading
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Tagged ability, action unconditioned peace, actual action, appreciation, aspiration, awakened, awakening, Buddha, conventional, cultivate, Dharma, dharma world, Dogen, embody, fruition of the past, Gakudo-yojin-shu, goodness, great mind, harmony, hidden vertue, intoku, joyful mind, live on joy, mature mind, merit, mind, mundane, negative virtue, peace, practice, practice cycle, problem, samu (work), self, serene, sitting, skill, small self, soft, solid, stable, suffering, three minds, truth, value, wholly wholesome, withness
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Life, Lost, Limited, Limitless
Good morning! We are fortunate to be able to wake up, get up, come here, and sit in zazen. We’ll see a lot of good things, beautiful things, but also bad things, ugly things. We encounter meeting and parting with … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, accommodation, adjustment, aspiration, joy, limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, meeting, parting, people, possession, sorrow, up and down
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Moon Mundus
Good morning! We now have the beautiful bright full moon high in the sky, lone and round, unblemished and unbound by clouds and storms. If we take the moon as matter, we just forego and forget it. If we take … Continue reading
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Tagged aspiration, awakening, birth, cultivation, death, full moon, matter, mind, mind mundus, mind-moon, nirvana, samsara, suffering, triple learning, triple treasure, unconditioned peaceamrita, world as mind
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Crystal Clear
Good evening! We just heard the beautiful bell sound appearing and disappearing, and we know that all growth decays, and birth ends in death. All phenomena and formations are impermanent. We heard that Ed has been hospitalized due to a … Continue reading →