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Wholly Wholesome Here Now

Good evening!   Here-now is the only place-time we can live and realize wholly wholesome truth, peace, goodness, and beauty with all throughout space-time. How to realize it is the task of each and every one, making each and every … Continue reading

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Religion: Reunion with Wholesome Whole

Good morning!   The Buddha said that religion is cultivation. He said that we are all karma heirs, relatives, and machines. Therefore we need to cultivate.   Religion (religare) means “reunion” of sundry asunder state: from sin (= separated self: … Continue reading

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Not yours (Na tumhakam)

Good morning!   In our sitting in the early morning, we have beautiful sounds of insects, birds, waterfall, abundant plants, and cool air, even though we are going to have a high temperature of 101, with a heat index of … Continue reading

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Total Truth

Good morning! In our sitting, the pure sound of flowing water penetrates through our world; the fresh breeze permeates throughout our bodies and minds; the bright, beautiful sunlight pervades the world. This is the world in cessation (nirodha) and the … Continue reading

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Independence Day Everyday

Good morning! Today is Independence Day. What is independence? It is non-enslavement, neither enslaved nor enslaving. We are enslaved monetarily, militarily, materially, and mentally. How can we be not enslaved? In zazen we can be freed from enslavement in true … Continue reading

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Holy Home-coming

Good morning! After a few solid, serene sittings, we can taste amrita, the ambrosia of immortality beyond samsara (vicissitudes in birth and death) and suffering here and now. Only by actual practice we can taste it. Only with actual practice … Continue reading

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Morning Rain, Morning Sitting

Good morning!   The morning rain has refreshed the beautiful green, the surrounding atmosphere, the singing birds, the sound of the waterfall.   The morning sitting renews all of them and us in purity, penetration, and freedom, right here and … Continue reading

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Saving Suffering

Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading

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Moon & Mundus

Good morning!   We can still see the clear full moon through the window. We cannot but see complications on earth. The disaster could claim over 20,000 lives, and the nuclear crises could reach even this country.   I watched … Continue reading

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Snow, Moon, Flowers (雪月花)

Good morning! When the sun shines, the earth moves, and we remove snow and ice, we can enjoy the warmer world without snow and ice faster. When the moon moves, clouds clear, and we come here to sit, we can … Continue reading

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