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Good Friends (Kalyana Mitra/Mitta)

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We live in the world of interdependent co-origination. Our life is dependent on the environment which is then dependent upon with whom we live. Our life is good if we have good friends, and bad if we … Continue reading →

Posted in Friendship | Tagged Ananda, bodhi (awakening), Buddha, Dao, etc.), good friend (kalyāna mitra/mitta), Mitra: Mithra: Maitreya: Milu: Mazda, Peace (nirvana, precepts, Truth (Dharma, Yoshida Kenko | Leave a comment

Wholly Wholesome White World

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Rosan Daido

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 →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, common world (saha-loka), Declaration toward a Global Ethic, Dharma, Dogen, etc.), G. O. Barney, Global System Ethic Association, global warming, karma, mass extinction, one bright white world, Prince Regent Shotoku, purity/peace/prognosis, Seventeen Article Constitution, six ways/worlds (hell beings/hungry ghosts, Ultimately whatfor?, w/o karmas: w/o triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), wholly wholesome way/world, zazen, Zen | 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

Wholly Wholesome World or Small Selfish Sphere

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a very calm, cool, and peaceful atmosphere after our sittings, though outside we have very dry, hot, and hard weather – hard for plants and animals. Even though we are already officially in fall, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged awakened way: universal truth/law vs. deluded way with selfish interest/intent, etc.), Fukushima disaster, hydrangea revolution, hydrogen revolution, megaquakes: active seismic period, nuclear bombs/plants: most imminent, nuclear proponents/opponents: money/life, Oi reactors, reactor restart, Ron-Yasu friendship (Reagan-Nakasone), terrorists, universal truth/ethic, worst possible disaster human faces with natural disasters/human mishaps | Leave a comment

Limitless minds make limitless luck

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we love nature, nature reveals truth of trees, beauty of flowers, goodness of nature. Dogen said, “When I love mountains, mountains love me.” Also he said, “If there is no limited mind, there is limitless luck.” … Continue reading →

Posted in asamskrita, Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade), Cultivation: culture | Tagged etc.), limitless mind/luck/life/light/liberation/love/learning, me/matter/money vs. life/love/liberation (from radiation | Leave a comment

Tasting Truth in Triple Treasure

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a beautiful day for our equinox sesshin. This morning it was chilly. So, when I drove, I found the car windows becoming foggy. When we move in a chilly atmosphere, our windows become foggy, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged /health/holiness/happiness, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), anxiety for tomorrow, awakened state/nature/mind, cold world with competition/conflict: clouded world with calamity/catastrophe, cultivating karma in concentration/continuity, cultivation: cutting/changing karma, cutting karma like water jets/water drops, dharma (truth) world in pure peace, Dogen, embracing all in compassion/wisdom, etc.), fear of death, global warming, harmony, holy/harmonious world, karma creation (self sense/survival instinct/fear/hatred/worry/desire, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, mass extinction, mundane within supramundane not vice versa, no parting from forest/monastery/sangha/supramundane, path cycle (aspiration/action/unsurpassed awakening/unconditioned peace), peace/prognosis here/now, sit still/serene : see no separation/suffering/attachment/aversion, truth world in peace | Leave a comment

Impermanence and Interdependence

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We can sit in peace, harmony, and truth in the autumnal air with cicadas’ singing and the slender moon. On the east coast about thirty million people are in the path of the hurricane, Irene. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged business as usual, delusion/division/domination, disasters and catastrophes at any time, divided and ruled by the powers, earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, etc.), global warming, hurricane, impermanence and interdependence of all, impermanent world, mass extinction, night of nescience, nuclear plants, nuke tests, practice in living with all, responsible for all problems, safety of nuclear power, settling in truth/peace/harmony/holiness, sit in peace/harmony/truth, suffering (birth/sickness/aging/death/loss/parting | Leave a comment

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