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Soto, Zen, Buddhism
Good morning! This is Mother’s Day. So, we celebrate not only our direct biological mothers, but also bigger basic Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Mother Dharma, Mother Home, our true home, which the Buddha witnessed and established. So, we not only present carnations to our biological mothers, but also present ourselves the broader based Dharma Dhātu, Domain, Truth Territory, nirvana, unconditioned peace, and anuttara samyak sambōdhi, unsurpassed right awakening. Twenty five centuries ago the Buddha sat in Zazen, settled in nirvana, witnessed this Dharma Dhātu, and was awakened to the truth beyond our ordinary biological living for the first time in the history of living beings, thus opened the Awakened Way for all. Nirvana means windless of karmas. We are all bound by karmas, actions, action results, and habit energies. So, the Buddha said that all living beings are karma machines, heirs, and relatives. He found the way to go beyond karma machines, karma life to Dharma life. It is from small skin sacks to limitless liberated life, like bubbles to a great ocean, as if we take off our skin coats and merge into the great space. So, when we sit, stop our physical, verbal, and mental karmas (creation, action, function), breathe deep, we become one with the selfless, supramundane space like great space, sky or sea. He found and founded the Dharma of Dependent Origination, that is, all phenomena are interdependently originated and operate, thus there is no independent eternal self. Usually we stick to small selves, in reality the sources of suffering. All problems in this world come from our sticking to small selves - global warming, mass extinction, etc. So, our ultimate solutions of them lie in selfless, supramundane Buddha Dharma life and living. The Buddha achieved the true Spiritual Revolution, the heart-mind- spirit revolution beyond materialism, militarism, money-ism, essential me-ism. Only there can we find true holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness. It is really unusual, but not abnormal. It is truly aboriginal and normal. When we stop our karmas, we see the Dharma Domain, and see the true nature of ourselves. Only in this way can we attain amrita, ambrosia of immortality. So, as long as we stick to our small skin sacks, decomposing and destroying, we can never attain it. The Buddha opened the Dharma gate of amrita, ambrosia of immortality. As in the common verse of the Seven Buddhas (quoted below), it really requires purifying one’s own heart, to do all good and to do no evil: … Continue reading
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Tagged "(Teach and transmit) from heart to heart." (ishin-denshin, "dignified form is itself Buddha Dharma" (igi-soku-buppō, "learning with the body and mind" (shinjin-gakudō, "Strive hard without indolence!", "the body and mind of the Buddha Dharma" (buppōno shinjin, "Transmit beyond scriptures. Don't stand on or set out letters." (kyōge-betsuden, "unicolor Buddha Dharma" (isshikino buppō, "unity of cultivation-verification" (shusho-ittō, action, action (cultivation), ambrosia of immortality, amrita, and in profound pro-gnosis, and ten grave prohibitory precepts, and unconditioned peace, and voluntary simplicity, anuttara samyak sambodhi, awakened way, awakening, becoming eco beyond ego, Bodhidharma, Buddha (Awakened One), Buddha (Mind) Seal: 仏(心)印, Buddha Dharma, Buddha Way: Purity Path: Purification Path, Buddha's last words, common verse of the Seven Buddhas, Dharma Dhatu, dharma life, dharma of dependent origination, Directly point to the human heart. See the nature and become Buddha." (jikishi-ninshin, Dogen, Domain, dropping off the body and mind" (shinjin-datsraku, function), Gennō-bichoku (The eyes horizontal, global ethic, Hanateba te-ni miteri (Off-hand, hand-full, holy (wholly wholesome) harmony/health/happiness, karma, karmaless, karmas (creation, Kūshu genkyō (Coming home empty-handed, Mother Dharma, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Muichimotsu-chū Mujinzo (In nothingness is limitless stored, nirvana, nirvana (windless, Path or Practice Cycle (gyōji-dōkan, peaceful, pure, See the nature and become Buddha." (jikishi-ninshin, selfless, shikan-taza (只管打坐), simple strenuous sitting or complete devotion to sitting in Zazen, Six Paths/Ways/Destinies (samsara), Sixteen Precepts of the triple treasures, small self: source of suffering, Soto tradition, supramundane space, the nose vertical, the triple collective pure vows, triple maladies: materialism/militarism/money-ism(me-ism), triple pillars of the awakened way, Truth Territory, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed right awakening, Visuddhi-magga by Buddhaghosa, Zazen (sitting zen), 一色の仏法), 不立文字), 仏法の身心), 以心伝 心), 修証一等).", 威儀即仏法), 放てば手に満てり), 教外別伝、furyū- monji, 無一物中無尽蔵), 直指人心、kenshō-jōbutsu, 眼横鼻直), 空手還郷), 行持道環) of aspiration, 見性成仏), 身心学道), 身心脱落)
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Habits Halfway or Holy (Wholly Wholesome)
Good morning! The predicted snow did not come. The moon, however, now waning almost to half, can be seen partially in the clouds. I read a little bit of the best seller, The Power of Habit. We can create new habits, either good ones or bad ones. We must, however, come and see deeply enough into our karmas. Good habits in the short term may be bad karmas in the long run. That’s why we need to take care, cure, and cultivate our karmas without stopping our practice in sitting, stilling, and settling. While we are in karmas, we cannot see the true nature of them. So, we must constantly and concentratedly come to nirvana and awakening. 4/1/13
Wholly Wholesome Way World
Good morning! Dogen, in his Genjokoan, Realizing Universal Truth, says, Cultivation and verification by carrying around the self is delusion. Cultivation and verification of the self by all dharmas coming forward is awakening. Awakening is seeing and stilling the delusion of the self. Until then there is no awakening. Awakening is accepting and appreciating the wholly wholesome way world in free full function. 2/20/13
Posted in Dharma, Self
Tagged awakening, Dharma, Dogen, free full function, self, wholly wholesome way world
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Awakened One’s Awakening Day
Good morning! Today, the eighth of December, is the day of the Buddha’s awakening. So, all over the world Zen practitioners, after seven day intensive sitting, celebrate his awakening – an unprecedented feast that solves all problems of all … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and equanimity (upekhâ : lit. throwing away), awakening, beyond pleasure and pain/penance, Brahma's beseech, Brahmavihâra of friendship, Buddha, chan, compassion, defilements (klesha: zenma, dissatisfaction, everyday a good day (日日是好日:hibi-kore-koujitu), five coverings, four fluxes/leaks (âsava: 煩悩), global problematique, holy harmony/health/happiness, joy, lit. wrong going), meditation, meeting four people, nirvana, outing from four gates, shûnya (empty, six teachers/dogmatists/heretics (六師外道), substanceless), suffering, suffering (dukkha, Zen, Zen (jhâna, 染汚)
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Yonder Shore or Summit
Good morning! We are at the third day of the five day autumnal equinox period, the middle point of the true equinox, and we are at our equinox sesshin. Sesshin is embracing or containing our usually outgoing, diffused, and … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged action, agitation-worry, and unconditioned peace of practice: gyôjidôkan: 行持道環), awakening, becoming, Buddha mind/world/life, called higan (yonder shore)}, conviction, covetousness-malevolence, dhyâna: shikantaza: just sitting, doubt, five coverings (lust-desire, four fluxes (volitions, four stages of zen/chan/jhana/dhyana, four way cycles (aspiration, instincts: lust, jhana, meditation, nescience, nirvana, sloth-drowsiness, unconditioned peace {equanimity like equinox, zen (chan
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Actual Awakening and Unconditioned Peace
Good evening! There is a famous scripture titled “Blind Turtle and Floating Log” (盲亀浮木) wherein the Buddha gave a comparison of a person being born as a human being and encountering the awakened way. To be born as … Continue reading
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Tagged action (practice), ambrosia of immortality, and amrita, and unconditioned peace: gyojidokan (行持道環: way cycle of practice), awakening, four steps of aspiration, the dharma (norm/form/law/truth), unsurpassed awakening, witnessing unconditioned peace
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Transmigration or Transcendence
Good morning! After a long flight of seventeen hours (the same as the time difference between here and there) I came back from New Zealand late last night. After rain we see many fallen leaves here, but many … Continue reading
Original State=Nirvana=Awakening=Free Full Function
Good evening! This morning Scott and I worked in our garden clearing creeping Charlies, etc. covering and choking other plants, and the garden became pretty clean and clear. Weeding is the major work in samu, doing duty. Eventually … Continue reading
Neither Dreaming Nor Deluded
Good morning! We are going to have a very warm day going up to 63 degrees – rather unusual. We, of course, cannot dream of it being in the 80s, or be so deluded as thinking of the 100s. … Continue reading
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Tagged âtma-dvîpa) and dharma island (dhamma-dîpa, awakening, cf. light/lamp), delusion, dharma-dvîpa), dream, dvîpa: Sanskrit), dvîpa: Sanskrit): self island (attan-dîpa, five bliss (awakening/freedom/sameness/love/peace), five calamities (delusion/bondage/discrimination/exploitation/extermination), from triple malady (militarism/materialism/me-ism) to triple practice (peace/purity/prognosis), Indra-net, Iroha-uta (Iroha-song: Japanese alphabet), Light or lamp is padîpa (Pali) or pradvîpa, truth/dharma of dependent origination: interdependence: impermanense: no separate/independent/permanent self: awakened/activating limitless life/liberation/light/love/learning: universal hrmony/happin, truth/law/dharma of dependent origination, Two islands (dîpa: Pali, two refuges (self/dharma refuge/island, 色は匂えど散りぬるを、誰ぞわが世常ならむ。有為の奥山今日越えて浅き夢見じ酔いもせず
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