Tag Archives: beauty

Holy Home-coming

Good morning! After a few solid, serene sittings, we can taste amrita, the ambrosia of immortality beyond samsara (vicissitudes in birth and death) and suffering here and now. Only by actual practice we can taste it. Only with actual practice … Continue reading

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Practicing Peace

Good morning! As we sit in zazen, we can enjoy the fresh morning wind and beautiful water sound. We breathe fresh air full and free with penetrating purity and peace here and now. Only practice makes perfect in the witnessing … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome Way

Good morning!   In our quiet sitting, we can hear the sounds of racing cars and an ambulance siren; but we also hear flowing water and singing birds. There are two ways, artificial and natural, and further mundane and supramundane. … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome Whole

Good morning!   When we come here and sit in zazen, we can enjoy peace, truth, beauty, and goodness with the fresh air and the birds’ singing. Thus, we realize the wholly wholesome state.   This is possible only by … Continue reading

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Body and Brain

Good morning!   It is a bright, beautiful Sunday morning with the abundant green after a long spell of rain. Now we have fresh air with a beautiful flower, truthful light, and fragrant incense. We sit together and enjoy this … Continue reading

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Equipoise (Upekha)

Good morning! We could see the bright, beautiful dawn before coming here, but now it is overcast. We can hear the sound of the waterfall running and cars racing incessantly – so is life. Dripdrops develop into streaks, streams, and … Continue reading

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Morning Rain, Morning Sitting

Good morning!   The morning rain has refreshed the beautiful green, the surrounding atmosphere, the singing birds, the sound of the waterfall.   The morning sitting renews all of them and us in purity, penetration, and freedom, right here and … Continue reading

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Delight in Dharma

Good morning!   After a long spell of rain and storms, tornados, we have a very fine, peaceful Sunday morning. We are now having a very bright and beautiful world, especially after our silent, serene sittings.   Last night I … Continue reading

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Flying Fish

Good morning! After the long spell of rain and terrible tornados, we can see abundant, beautiful fresh green in the bright sunlight, and hear the singing of birds carried by the green breeze through our windows. While casualties and calamities … Continue reading

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Civilization to Culture

Good evening! We are having thunder and weather sirens. It seems that we have more and more disasters – tornados, typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear disasters, etc. In Japan, in the 40 days following the record earthquake, there have been … Continue reading

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