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Tag Archives: global life system
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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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
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakened way, birth/death, broad/natural way, Buddha, Buddhism, Chrnobyl, Easter Island, ECRR (European Committee on Radiation Risk), Fukushima, global life system, global warming, immortality, Main Street, mass extinction, nuclear disaster, nuclear fallout: cancer, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Three Mile Island, Wall Street, Zen, “return to our homes and sit in safety (帰家安坐：kika-anza)”
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From Civilization to Cultivation
Good morning! Our sittings on Saturday see the brilliant sunlight. So, the candlelight usually brightening the dark room seems comparatively dim, and much less so the incense firelight. There is no exception in our related and relative world. This … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged culture/cultivation (life/heart: truth/goodness/beauty/holiness) vs. civilization (power/matter), Decline of American Exceptionalism, global life system, limitless cultivation/verification by all with all in peace and prognosis, limitless light/liberation/love/life/learning/, shining city upon a hill, superiority complex, three maladies (militarism/materialism/me-ism) vs. triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis)
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Unrecognized Unusual Uprising and Upcoming
Good morning! Here we have now a nice autumn morning with moistened air and a mild equinox climate with the sense of harvesting. On the opposite side of the globe, however, a million people have been told to … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged demonstration to bid adieu to nuclear disasters/social disasters: Wall Streeet (poverty), global ecological system, global life system, impermanence (in individual/global life system), live in peace/truth, mass media unreporting/underreporting, mirror mind, typhoon
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Wakeful and Wholly wholesome
Good evening! We had 102-degree hot and dry weather today and are going to have similar weather tomorrow. The Sino-Japanese character for autumn depicts grass on fire (秋). Autumn is like fire burning for plants. Now our … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakened, awakened one, building sangha (community), global life system, grass on fire), holy (wholly wholesome), holy one, religion (reunion with wholesome whole), triple treasure (buddha/dharma/sangha), wisdom and compassion/love, world on fire, 秋 (aki
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Becoming Buddhas
Good evening! We had a 100 degree high temperature today in autumn. We received articles, posted on our e-list, on how this country is run and how our global catastrophe is imminent. One of these catastrophes is the … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged /possession/job/community/tradition/culture/trust, all being, American possesses 300 slaves, amrita(ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, doomed to demise, earthquake, global catastrophe, global life system, global problematique, glopbal warming, human species, loss of life, mammonism, mass extinction, materialism, me-ism, militarism, nuclear disaster, safety myth of nuclear power, wholly wholesome truth/peace/goodness/beauty/harmony
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