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Tag Archives: Dependent Origination
Eco-engaged Ethic
Good morning! We can observe dawning earlier with dimly morning light now, but still not bright enough in coming here. So, I walk slowly and calmly to get to this place lest the motion sensor catch my movement for … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology
Tagged Dependent Origination, global life system, wholly wholesome way
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Holy Truth, Holy Path
Good morning! When we get up early, we can feel the fresh, cool morning air. When we step out from our houses, we can see beautiful nature. When we sit down calm and clear, we can discover how our perceptions, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged appropriation/identification, bodhi (awakening), clear, Dependent Origination, dukkha (suffering), emotion, four noble truths/realities, holy eightfold way/path, nature, niroda (cessation), perception, prajna (prognosis), samadhi (concentration), samsara (flow, sila (morality), sitting calm, suffering, three learnings, unconditioned peace, vicissitude, volition
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Practice Perfects
Good morning! Aspiration and action witness unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace. Unsurpassed awakening attests the dharma (norm) of dependent origination that all phenomena originate depending on causes and conditions. It verifies that samsara and sufferings originate depending on delusions and … Continue reading
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Tagged action, all beings, aspiration, delusion, Dependent Origination, desire, dharma (norm, form, holy (wholly), phenomena, samsara, sitting, stilling, stopping karma, suffering, total) truth/goodness/beauty, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, whole being, zazen
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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
Posted in Buddhism, Culture
Tagged beauty, body/mind (bowl-water, cause and condition, Dependent Origination, eightfold holy path. limitless light, fourfold holy truth, goodness, holding), holy (wholly wholesome), holy harmony, immortality, karma, limitless life, matter and power, mind and life, peace, problems and sufferings, reflecting reality, self-centered, sinful (separated), sitting, stilling karma, tree/true (enduring, truth
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Saving All
Good evening! Dogen said, “To learn the Awakened Way is learn the self. To learn the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is be verified by all dharma. To be verified by all dharmas … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened way, Brahma, Buddha, Buddhist, Dependent Origination, destruction of the world, Dharma, Dogen, drop off body and mind, fame and fortune, global warming, karma, laya, mass extinction, self, substance, the world on fire, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, wholly wholesome world
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Saving Suffering
Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged appropriation, arrogance of health, arrogance of life, arrogance of youth, awakened way, concentration, craving, death, decay, delusion, Dependent Origination, devastation, disease, dissatisfaction, dukkha, ego, five coverings, five Ss (systemic, formations, four fluxes, harmony, here now, holiness, impermanence, karma, mass extinction, meditation, morality, nescience, nirvana, noumena, nuclear disaster, origination of consciousness, origination of samsara, origination of suffering, peace, phantom, phenomena, prognosis, reality, run after, run away, Ryokan, safe, sankhara, saving, Sawaki Roshi, second arrow, self-sense, sense objects, sense organs, short-circuit, short-sight, simple, sitting, stop karma, sustainable, three poisons, three steps, threefold suffering, tornado, tread-wheel, triple learning, truth, tsunami, wholly wholesome, wisdom, witness
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Karma Kinetics, 2
Good evening! We say “a day with rain is a day of bad weather” (ame-no furu-hi-wa tenki-ga warui). An essayist, Tatsuno Yutaka, said, “I like rain so much. Perhaps my ancestors were frogs.” Not only frogs, but forests and flowers … Continue reading
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Tagged action, awakened way, becoming wheel, bhava cakka, bhava cakra, Dependent Origination, emptiness, evolution, habit, heredity, hope, immortality, karma, karma kinema, karma kinetics, life wheel, perspective, priority, shunyata, suffering
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Suffering Solution
Good morning! We have now a spring morning, the temperature reaching the 60s. Zazen is the dharma gate of pure peace and pleasure. As all living beings are karma machines, driven by self satisfaction, we go through samsara suffering, transmigrating … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Dependent Origination, dukkha, eight sufferings, four applications, four sufferings, fundamental solution, habit, heredity, holy path, impermanence, karma, pahana, pradhana, shiku hakku
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Awakening Action
Good evening! Just one day ago we had a storm, tornado, and blackouts. But now we have almost spring-like weather, with the temperature nearly sixty degrees and daffodils ready to bloom soon. Fortunately, we escaped the tornado hit, but we … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized
Tagged awakened way, Bodhisattva vow, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist words, death, Dependent Origination, Dharma, dogma, ecological disorder, economic disorder, good for all always, Huinen, identification, mankind, mass extinction, partial truth, practice, preconceptions, saving all, Tathagata, Thus-being, total system, Tricycle, universal truth, wholesome
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How We Can Solve Global Problems
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Tagged awakened way, civilization, climate change, culture, cyclical system, Dependent Origination, eco, ego, extinction, five As, five blisses, five calamities, five Ls, five Rs, five Ss, genocide, global ethic, global problems, holiness, ignorance, karma, meditation, pollution, pyramidal system, terrorism, voluntary simplicity
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