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Tag Archives: harmony
Independence in Interdependence
Good morning! We could see the full moon in the west and the rising sun in the east just before we came here. Today is Independence Day. So, the traffic, usually jammed with hustle and bustle, was almost … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and happiness, and love in limitless truth, but familiarity, Freedom (philia-domos: friendship domain) not licentiousness, harmony, independence in interdependence/supra-dependence, liberation, light, lit. ultimate comfort), live in limitless life, nirvana, peace, The west: the pure land (jôdo:浄土 )/ paradise (極楽: gokuraku
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Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva
Good evening! We had a very hot day today, and we worked together amidst heat and humidity, sweating good sweat. Now we breathe good breaths in zazen. Then we find our world in peace, harmony, and truth with … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakening, beneficial actions, bodhisattva (awakening being)/mahasattva (great being), compassion, four embracing matters/Brahma-vihara (holy residence: giving, good breaths, good friendship, good sweat, gratitude for grace, harmony, insight, loving words, peace, sameness, today's practice, zazen
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Awake or Asleep
Good morning! When we sit with open windows, we can enjoy insects’ singing, birds’ chirping, the waterfall flowing, and cool air blowing in. If we close our windows, we will miss these things. If we remain asleep, we … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged beauty, celestials, devils, fish, four views on one (water), goodness, groping for an elephant, harmony, holiness, humans, the whole picture, truth, wholly wholesome truth, wind blow life out
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Awakening and Awakened Action
Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 globes, age, aging, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), atman, attan, awakened way, awakening and action, awakening four holy truths, birth, birth and death, bondage, bubble, Buddha (Awakened One), death, delusion, desire, discrimination, diviciveness, exploitation, extermination, ferocious five aggregates, five blisses, five calamities, four concomitant sufferings, freedom, fundamental sufferings, gender, genes, good for all always, harmony, holy eightfold path, karma, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), liberation, life, light, love, mama, meeting with the hated, nirvana, no gain of the desired, ocean, parting with the loved, peace, possession, practice, race, religion, rooted in the ground/truth, samadhi (concentration/total transformation, sickness, true/tree, truth, unconditioned peace, windless state
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Militarism, Materialism, Me-ism Myths
Good evening! A news item from Japan reported that Japan’s prime minister will announce his country’s abolishing of nuclear power tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Sixty-six years ago, mankind dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima, instantly … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged abolishing nuclear bombs and power, action attaining unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace, aspiration, atomic bombs, awakening, compassion, disillusion, freedom, Fukushima disaster, harmony, Hiroshima, holy (wholly wholesome), limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, mankind, materialism, matter, me-ism, militarism, mythology of the safety of nuclear power, non-safety of nuclear power, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, oneness, oower, peace, truthful/peaceful/holy world
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Body and Brain
Good morning! It is a bright, beautiful Sunday morning with the abundant green after a long spell of rain. Now we have fresh air with a beautiful flower, truthful light, and fragrant incense. We sit together and enjoy this … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability Education, beauty, conjoined brain, goodness, happiness, harmony, holiness, holy, matter and power, mind and life, peace, selfish, three poisons, truth
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Sitting and Samu (Work)
Good morning! After a long spell of rain, according to the weather forecast, we are still continuing rainy days. But, fortunately, we have a very bright Sunday morning today. After the beautiful, stable, soft, and serene bell sounds … Continue reading
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Tagged ability, action unconditioned peace, actual action, appreciation, aspiration, awakened, awakening, Buddha, conventional, cultivate, Dharma, dharma world, Dogen, embody, fruition of the past, Gakudo-yojin-shu, goodness, great mind, harmony, hidden vertue, intoku, joyful mind, live on joy, mature mind, merit, mind, mundane, negative virtue, peace, practice, practice cycle, problem, samu (work), self, serene, sitting, skill, small self, soft, solid, stable, suffering, three minds, truth, value, wholly wholesome, withness
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