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Dream-walking Delusion-working

Good morning!   We’ve had quiet sittings hearing the waterfall sounds, and incessant intensive insects’ singing. We now see brilliant sunlight alighting on green leaves. This morning I saw yellowing and browning leaves already, and fall frost hovering over the … Continue reading

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Total Truth

Good morning! In our sitting, the pure sound of flowing water penetrates through our world; the fresh breeze permeates throughout our bodies and minds; the bright, beautiful sunlight pervades the world. This is the world in cessation (nirodha) and the … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome World

Good morning!   We have a beautiful Sunday morning with bright sunlight and fresh green after the spring rain. The dust has settled and water permeates throughout earth, plants, air, and everything – a very clean, cool, and clear world. … Continue reading

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Spring Sense

Good evening! It’s said that a moment in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold (???????). Why is this so? This is the time when all things are in harmony, neither chilly nor hot, after the winter … Continue reading

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Delusion Disaster

Good morning!   We have now spring in full swing with green air and bird’s singing.   Meanwhile, we are told that the nuclear disaster in Japan was raised to the worst level, 7, the worst paralleled by only that … Continue reading

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Fission Frontline

Good evening! We have now cherry blossoms at the altar. A lot of flowers of all kinds are blooming around us now. At this time in Japan people used to enjoy cherry blossom viewing, eating, drinking, singing, and dancing, expecting … Continue reading

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Tomo (Together: 共, Friend: 友)

  Good evening! A lot of flowers are blooming – forsythias, daffodils, magnolias, pears, plums, even cherry blossoms are now blooming. We cannot totally enjoy them because of the disaster in Japan – m-9 earthquake, 30m surge tsunami, and the … Continue reading

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Death Demise

Good morning! We have now a beautiful Sunday with the white snow world in bright sunshine after the spring equinox – untimely partly because of global warming, I think. There is more moisture in the air, so we have more … Continue reading

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Self Suffering

Good evening! We’re having a nice moment on a spring evening, which is said to be worth a thousand pieces of gold – priceless. I visited Ed, who recently had a stroke, in the hospital. When I visited him, he … Continue reading

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Shift System

Good morning! Now we have spring drizzling rain over flowers, with a bit of chill. We call this “hana-bie: ???,” flower chill – a little chill with cherry blossoms – a mixed feeling. Spring flowers produce pollen fallout. Nuclear disaster … Continue reading

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