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Buddha Heart

Good morning!   Congratulations on your coming here to practice Zazen just after your overnight work. Usually, we would like to go to bed as soon as we finish such work. However, you came and sat through sittings and service. So, now you are refreshed, recreated, and rejuvenated by upright, solid, and serene sitting with deep breathing. The vital function of deep breathing replaces the old air and blood with new fresh air and blood, pumping pure blood, delivering to every part of the body and brain, making metabolism the best, and the separated small self and world wholly wholesome – from a bubble-like being to an ocean-like organism. This is the Buddha world, awakened world.   Only when we completely sit and stop all karmas, can we witness it. Otherwise we always remain caught in the body sense and sensation, in the “body-existing view” (sak-kāya ditṭthi, sat-kāya dṛṣṭi, ushhinken, 有身見). Thus, we become tired, get sick, fearful of death, etc., and much troubled by it. It is the karma-conditioned perception and conception, which disappear in solid serene sitting in the Buddha Mind Seal as substanceless (suñña, śūnya) not worrying about falling down, hitting against, etc., coming back to the original state before the origination of perceptions, conceptions, emotions, and volitions. This is the very way to stop karma and enter into the Truth Domain (Dharma Dhātu).   Now, we have a lot of green around us. Because of the sun melting the snow and ice into water which permeates throughout the world – earth, air, plants, and animals. Water, essence of life, fresh air, and the sun light and warmth, the source of life, gives us a kind of spring season scene full of abundant life. We are permeated by light and warmth, soaked with moisture, and especially fresh air. So, we become one with space, which is said to be eternal along with only nirvana, even though all things change. So, we also become one with the world of nirvana, windless of karmas, as modern sciences revealed – space sparse with simple seemly substance or just a field.   We go back to the original state and find that our perceptions, conceptions, etc. are only our mental creations. The uncreated state (a-sankhata, a-samskṛta) is nirvana. I forwarded an introduction of a NHK program, “Darwin’s Coming” in Japanese, “Grand Nature Land” in English, to our e-list last night. The latest feature was the “Revival Project of Birds Migration in Italy. The first birds to start were gray geese (Anser Anser). The project created Cona Island Natural Preservation Park in northern Italy ten years ago, preserving now 200 water birds species from the … Continue reading

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Supreme Supramundane State

Good morning!   Zazen brings us to a completely different world than the ordinary one. Of course we have a different world from moment to moment. So, we can enjoy spring after winter. We must withstand a chilly winter after … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome White World

Good morning!   Opening the blinds fully, we can see a calm, clean, and clear snow world covering high and low things, all colors, but all white – just one bright white world, calm, clean, and clear, with neither ups … Continue reading

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Stopping Karma Is Stopping Suffering

Good morning!   We have a calm, warm, bright morning after the last night rain. We say, “After rain earth solidifies.” (Ame-futte chi-katamaru, 雨降って地固まる) Without dust bowls or extreme chill, nature seems to return to life.   Sometimes rain causes … Continue reading

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Four Dharma Marks

Good morning!   We have a beautiful Sunday morning with fresh green and beautiful flowers. It is like March, April, and May coming all at once with unseasonable flowers blossoming – azaleas, peonies, wisteria, lilies of the valley, irises…   … Continue reading

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From Deluded Way to Awakened Way

Good morning!   We have now clouds threatening to snow, with temperatures going below the freezing point as forecast. But, after sitting we have a clear and calm world.   Yesterday I visited St. Charles for the first time. I … Continue reading

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Normal or Norm

Good morning! Now we have a chilly morning passing away from the equinox. When we sit, however, still and serene, we are in equanimity, in peace, truth, and harmonious state – in supramundane realm. When we are engaged in our business as usual, we are … Continue reading

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Speckless Space for Sentients Salvation

Good morning!   We have another day of akibare (autumn clear sky), with beautiful stars this morning and the bright crescent moon last evening. The crisp clear air envelopes all and speckless space penetrates all throughout the universe. When we … Continue reading

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Mist Mystery

Good evening!   We now have a quiet evening with rather bright dusk light, with the subtle sounds of bird’s singing beyond the windows.   Just before I came here I saw lightening and even mist. I wondered if it … Continue reading

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Delusion Disaster

Good morning!   We have now spring in full swing with green air and bird’s singing.   Meanwhile, we are told that the nuclear disaster in Japan was raised to the worst level, 7, the worst paralleled by only that … Continue reading

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