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Tag Archives: disaster
Awakening with All Always
Good evening! When we sit solid and still, we stop all human karmas, reach nirvana, and awaken to the truth of dependent origination and dependent cessation. All buddhas have awakened in this truth and practiced it with all beings always. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen
Tagged all beings, all matters, always, awakening, buddhas, death, demise, disaster, full moon, karma, nirvana, Ohtsuka, practice, solid still sitting, solving problems/sufferings, stop karma, truth of dependent origination/dependent cessation, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening
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Abnormal Artifices
Good evening! After the shower we now have cool air and we can sit in comfort, in peace and truth. All living beings inherit all of the past; and all living beings except for humans live in holy relations with … Continue reading
Impermanence Is Interdepencence
Good morning! Even though we have hot weather in the day time, we can have fresh, cool air in the early morning. Even though it is said that “flowers fall in lamentation and weeds flourish in detestation,” this comes from … Continue reading
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Tagged action, ambrosia, amrita, aspiration, awakened way, awakening, death, delusion, Dharma, disaster, immortality, impermanence, interdependence, karma, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening
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Beyond birth-death
Good morning! Usually when we sit early in the morning we have cool, fresh air, but it’s going up to 101 degrees, with a heat index going up to 115. The world seems to be ablaze – flowers are falling. … Continue reading
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Tagged birth, bubble, candle burning, causes and conditions, death, disaster, life, ocean, pain, pleasure, suffering, truth, truth ocean
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Way to Wholly Wholesome World
Good morning! After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires. This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, asankhata, beatitude, beauty, cessation, conflict, contamination, delusion, desire, Dharma, disaster, discrimination, dukkha, global warming, gokuraku, goodness, karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, origination, papance upasama, perspective, priority, prognosis, safety, self-centered, sitting, solution, sufering, suffering, sukhavati, truth, ultimate comfort, unconditioned peace, wholly wholesome world
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Still Serene Satisfaction
Good morning! After a while of sitting, we witness the clear, calm state of the mind and the world; and then we are able to see the merit of sitting and stopping karma. Otherwise, we just go on according … Continue reading
Posted in Civilization, Culture, Global problems, Religion, Uncategorized, Zen
Tagged body, death, disaster, emancipation, emotion, free functioning, freedom, full function, global warming, habit, insitution, karma, liberation, mass extinction, mind, praxis, serene satisfaction, society
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Threatening Thunder
Good morning! We can hear raindrops dripping on tree leaves in the quiet, calm sitting with open windows. When we came here we had strong wind and sever rain, still with tornado watch and dark clouds hanging over us. … Continue reading
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Tagged deception, delusion, disaster, here and now, live wakefully, sleep, slumber, tornado, wake up
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Nature, Nurture, Nuke
Good afternoon! We are nature. We have been nurtured. We have been nuked. Are we nuking all with radiation constantly and continuously for millions of years? As we are witnessing nuke disasters and G8 separated for the future nuke policies, … Continue reading
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Tagged destruction, disaster, discrimination, nature, nuclear power, nuke, nurture
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Samadhi Stages
Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading
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Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen
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Delight in Dharma
Good morning! After a long spell of rain and storms, tornados, we have a very fine, peaceful Sunday morning. We are now having a very bright and beautiful world, especially after our silent, serene sittings. Last night I … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, body and brain, bubble to ocean, Buddha, conceptions and emotions, death, decay, delight in dharma, dharma life, disaster, disease, eternal truth, evolution, forms and formations, giving joy, goodness, gratitude for grace, happiness, harmony, here and now, holiness, individualization, karma, karma life, live in suffering, live on joy, peace, Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakened from delusion, religion, shortsight, solution, truth, tsunami, unconditioned peace, wholesome whole
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