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Right Realization Right Hereunder

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We had a light shower last night, so it is still a little cloudy. Thus we saw the very thin, dim moon.   Today is the Flower Festival Day commemorating the Buddha’s birth. The full moon shines forth fully, only when the moon faces directly to the sun of clear and calm truth and peace.   The King Mirror reflected the total truth of the great living elephant unlike the thin, dim image of it by the blind people, who insisted on their partial truth and fought for it.   The realization right hereunder, stressed in the last chapter of the Collection of Cautions in Learning the Way by Dogen, is this coincidence the firm practice mind and the Buddha way right hereunder.   This actual sitting is the direct contact with the Buddha way and the Buddha mind here and now.   4/8/13      

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Moon Moving Clear Cool

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We could see the clear-cut crescent moon in the clear cool sky. But, the full moon, the Buddha mind, is behind its waning and waxing appearances and beyond all clouds and commotions.   The Buddha said, “Walk alone, like the horn of a rhino.” I remember huge rhinos   like elephants in Africa. The full moon goes alone in the vast clear cool sky,   unaffected by anything.   4/5/13   Note: Cf. The Suttanipata, Chapter 3, Horn of Rhino, Verses 35 – 75, which include the last stanza as below:   People associate with and serve others for their own benefits. It is difficult to gain a friend aiming at no gains. Those who know only their own benefits are dirty. Walk alone like the lone horn of the rhino. – The Suttanipata, 3.75       National Geographic

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Mirror Moon Mind

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We can see the bright half moon in the clear sky. Beneath it is the calm clear full moon, the Buddha mind.   The renowned moon, “Get me it!” say Crying children.   名月を 取ってくれろと 泣く子かな   Meigetsu-o Totte-kurero-to Naku-ko kana   No one can get and give it to others, but each and every one must get it by actual cultivation and verification.   Otherwise the triple poisons and the triple maladies get us. The great round mirror mind is always right hereunder, now, underneath apparent changes.   We hope everyone gets it so that all can enjoy total truth and pure peace, with the great Indra-net giving all the triple learnings and the triple treasures.   4/3/13   Note: The haiku quoted above is made by Issa Kobayashi. The following is made by Basho Matsuo:   The renowned moon, Going around the pond, For the whole night.   名月や 池をめぐりて 夜もすがら   Meigetsu-ya … Continue reading →

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Beyond Billows and Beclouding

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We can now see the clear-cut half moon in the clear sky, changed quickly from the full moon after the spring equinox.   If we are caught by the changing phases of the moon, we do not really get the full moon behind them.   So, we cannot see the Buddha mind behind the superficial changes in the world and our minds.   The full moon is always there. The Buddha mind is always here and now, beyond billows and beclouding.   4/2/13  

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Bright Moon, Buddha Mind

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   It is a little overcast, but we hope we can see the full moon, which represents the Buddha mind, the round, beautiful, bright moon. On the ground we still see some stored snow, but daffodils are reblooming and forsythias are just budding.   The Buddha mind is free from stored-snow-like stored consciousness of karma, and the full-moon-like full function of dharma, beyond the apparent changing phases, functioning like the great round mirror in the great round ball of the clear crystal world.   Dogen said, “Awakening is not attained by the mind, but by the body.” It means that we must put our whole beings, body and brain, and the whole world, the true body, into free, full function, neither bubble-begotten nor boundary-bound, neither biased nor unbalanced.   The Buddha mind is “the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye” (shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心). That is why we must sit solid, still, and serene, stop our karmas, see the dharmas, and serve and save all beings in the unified wholly wholesome world.   3/27/13  

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Buddha beyond Karma Clouds

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   When we look up, we could see the full moon high in the sky.   Beyond the clouds is always the full moon, bright, calm and clear.   Beyond karmas is the Buddha mind, full, bright in … Continue reading →

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Moon and Turtle

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Did you see the full moon? (Yes!) Great! The full moon is compared to the Buddha mind, awakened mind, bright and brimming in perfect roundness, in complete calmness and clarity.   When we sit, we see the … Continue reading →

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Bright Buddha Mind Moon

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rosan Daido

  Good morning!   We have now the full moon high in the sky. Did you see it? You saw it. Great! Did you join the moon viewing party? You didn’t. Sorry for that. But, that was also good!   … Continue reading →

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Waking-up: Witnessing

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We can still see the full moon. Just before I came in here, I took a picture of it. Only after one shot, the clouds covered it. So, I gave up taking any more pictures. When I … Continue reading →

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Mind Mirror

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We now have a beautiful Sunday morning. Sitting with the Buddha, the beautiful flower on the altar, the cool breeze, the sound of water flowing and birds’ singing penetrates through our world. We can now enjoy the full … Continue reading →

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