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Buddha-nature Here Now

Good morning!   With this rain most snow has melted away.  A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China.   This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later).   Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster.   They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs.   When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever.   Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now.   Why do we have these disasters and sufferings?  These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones.   We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults.   We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe.   Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, “If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed.   So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings.   We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility.   Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading

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Global Problems and Solutions

Good evening!   Now we have chilly rain, the temperature not even reaching 50 degrees. So, we have the problems of driving on dangerous highways and catching cold.   When we sit, we witness the Buddha nature, awakening in unconditioned … Continue reading

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Correcting Karma Consciousness

Good morning!   In our solid sitting we feel like we’re “sitting alone on the Great Courageous Peak.” The Great Courageous refers to the Awakened One. I remember sitting in the thick mist on Vulture’s Peak, where the Awakened One … Continue reading

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