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Tag Archives: birth and death
Seeing and Saving Sentients
Good morning! We have now crisp, cool air and a clear, calm sky with beautiful stars. This morning news from Japan reported that had radiation contaminated tea leaves are in the market from other prefectures than Shizuoka whose tea … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged affecting all, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), birth and death, Buddha, highest dharma (truth), holy (wholly wholesome) value/life, live Buddha's life/Pahom's life?, lose everything, nuclear wastes, nucleara bomb tests, Pahom, radiation contamination, radiation levels, run after money/matter/power/partial values, sit/stop karma/see
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Awakening and Awakened Action
Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 globes, age, aging, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), atman, attan, awakened way, awakening and action, awakening four holy truths, birth, birth and death, bondage, bubble, Buddha (Awakened One), death, delusion, desire, discrimination, diviciveness, exploitation, extermination, ferocious five aggregates, five blisses, five calamities, four concomitant sufferings, freedom, fundamental sufferings, gender, genes, good for all always, harmony, holy eightfold path, karma, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), liberation, life, light, love, mama, meeting with the hated, nirvana, no gain of the desired, ocean, parting with the loved, peace, possession, practice, race, religion, rooted in the ground/truth, samadhi (concentration/total transformation, sickness, true/tree, truth, unconditioned peace, windless state
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Deep Dwelling in Dharma
Good evening! After a long spell of heat wave, we had a small shower. So, all plants and animals felt a brief relief. I watered our garden and found some small plants (salvaged from garbage) withered. Big trees are … Continue reading
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Tagged (human) mishaps, atomic bomb disaster, birth and death, bubble, buble, death ash, dhri, global warming, great earth, Hiroshima, holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, humans quit truth/peace/harmony, mass extinction, natural disasters, nuclear disaster, nuclear warheads, ocan human problems/sufferings, peace, pumpkins connected/rooted, rooted in the ground/dharma, see short and small, sitting and stopping karma, the whole world, tree/true (<deru, truth, zazen
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Praxis Perfection
Good evening! By the truth or law of dependent origination, all things change. Humans increase and experience this flow as ups and downs, gains and losses, and births and deaths. Thus they must suffer more in samsara, constant flow, … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia, amrita, aspiration cultivation, awakened way, awakening, birth and death, cultivation, immortality, karma, law of dependent origination, nirvana, praxis, samsara, sitting, stopping karma, suffering, time and space, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, way cycle
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Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction
Good morning! Through the open windows we can hear the sound of busily racing cars, birds’ singing, and the water falling. Our life is like the constant flow of cars and currents, constantly flowing with ups and downs, … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened life, birth and death, cultivation, dissatisfaction, gain and loss, life, limitless life, limitless light, limitless lover, nirvana, practice, provisional phenomena, samadhi, samsara, satisfaction, suffering, ultimate peace, ultimate refuge, unconditioned peace, unmoved, unsurpassed awakening, up and down, verification, vicissitude, witness
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Surreal Suffering
Good evening! After hundreds of tornados spread devastation across this country, we now have a quiet world and calm atmosphere, especially when we sit in zazen. We know that the destruction was so devastating – this episode being the worst … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, birth and death, conventional truth, devastation, karma storm, nuclear disaster, phenomena, physical and mental, samsara suffering, surreal scene, surreal substance, surreal superstructure, temporary peace, ultimate truth, unconditioned peace, vicissitude
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