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Vesak Day Dharma Vision

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Thank you for your participation in the Vesak Day (commemorating Buddha’s Birthday, Awakening, and Parinirvāna, Perfect Nirvana) celebration! This is a good occasion for us to reflect and relive the Buddha’s Way. He opened the great gate of amrita, ambrosia … Continue reading →

Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade) | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, Buddhahood, Carl H. Busse (1872-1918), chan, Dharma Dhatu, dharma of dependent origination, dhyâna, Four Stages of Zen (Jhāna, happiness, karma, karma heir/relative/machine, live on joy, meditation, nirvana, Parinirvāna: Perfect Nirvana, Pure heart: pure land, tornado, Vesak Day, Vimalakirti, Zazen (sitting zen) | Leave a comment

Flowering and Fruition

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! This is the last day of our equinox sesshin. It seems that it is truly getting colder after the equinox day. The night is getting longer and darker with the brighter morning star, Orion, etc. Equanimity … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged “Mu” (無: no or nothing), action, and learning, awakened way, blind turtle and floating log, consummation), dhyâna, dokusan (private interview: 独参), Equanimity (upeckhâ, evolution: devolution, four stages of zen (chan, involution: revolution, jhana, Joshu (Zhaozhou: 趙州), karma consciousness, koan, liberation, light, limitless life, lit. complete flow), lit. no-wind), lit. throwing away), love, nirvana (unconditioned peace), samadhi (concentration), samsara (transmigration, selfish gene, Sesshin is embracing the mind (摂心) or touching the mind (接心), suffering, three steps (sando: 三道: delusion, za-zen (sitting zen: 坐禅) | Leave a comment

Triple Pillars

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now a short respite from the long spell of dry hot weather. It became cool at night and early in the morning. Especially when we sit in zazen, we can enjoy rest and renewal of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aging, and anger), and awakened community), and carnage in and among city states and living beings and the life system), and extermination in civilization: class, and happiness, and mental actions/functions), and prognosis, and sangha (awakened, and unparalleled prognosis), and voluntary simplicity, anuttara samyak sambodhi (unsurpassed right awakening), Ârya), awakened truth, beauty, chan, complete paradigm shift from civilization (strife for and slavery in matter and power) to culture (striving for and sharing mind and life) in cultivation in holy (ariya, concentration, conflict, craving, death; social: parting with beloved ones, Dharma, dhyâna, equal partnership between men and women), etc.), exploitation, global ethic, global ethic (no killing/stealing/lying, goodness, hagia: wholly wholesome) truth, harmony, living beings: karma-machines, meeting with hateful ones; inability to attain desired things and avoid detested things; and ecological: disasters, nirvana (unconditioned peace), safe, saving all (5Ss), sickness, simple life, sustainable, system/paradigm shift from civilization (craving for matter/comfort and convenience/power) to culture (cultivation for holy truth/goodness/beauty/harmony/happiness), The Buddha saw the triple sufferings (individual: birth, triple karmas (physical, triple learning of morality, triple learning of morality (sîla)/concentration (samâdhi)/prognosis (prajñâ), triple pillars for systemic, triple pillars of the awakened way, triple poisons (delusion, triple tragedies (discrimination, triple transcendence (unsurpassed awakening, triple treasures of buddha, unconditioned peace, verbal, zazen, Zazen is the practical way to achieve the triple treasures and the triple pillars, zen (from jhâna | Leave a comment

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