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Tag Archives: holiness
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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Mind Makes Mundus
Good morning! Our sitting time is now dark, with cool air and insects’ singing. Soon we will have cold air and no insects’ singing. Some people live in the dark dungeons of devils, with cold air, without truth, … Continue reading
Mountains Make Me
Good evening! Dogen said, “When I love mountains, mountains love me.” When we enter a mountain, instantly we can enjoy all the beauty, all the merits of the mountain. Step by step we can enjoy beautiful flowers, trees, mist, breeze, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Ecology, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged beauty, goodness, holiness, limitless merits, merits of mountains, mountains love me, mountains make me, Shakyamuni Buddha, truth, zazen
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Tanabata (七夕, 7/7)
Good evening! Today is tanabata in the East. Tana is altar andis banner. It seems that it originally started as a Buddhist festival to receive ancestors’ spirits. Then, it was combined with the story of a cowherd and a weaver … Continue reading
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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Tagged actual practice, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), ango (peaceful living/residence), awakened, beauty, bodhisattva, Buddha, civilization, cultivation, cultural heritage, Dogen, Fukushima, Global System Ethic Association, goodness, here now, Hiroshima, holiness, humans, internet, Junko-san, Katagiri Roshi, Kyoto, Los Alamos, Nara, Narasaki Roshi, nature, nuclear disaster, nuclear fire, radiation contamination, renewable energy, Ryokan, samsara, Sangha, saving energy, Shogoji, sitting, step forward, suffering, truth, tsunami, Zuioji
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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 Stilling
Good morning! We can hear the sound of raindrops dripping on leaves in our quiet sitting on this quiet weekend morning. Tatsuno Yutaka, an essayist, said, “I like rain so much, I think my ancestors were frogs.” All living creatures … Continue reading
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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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Harmony – Holiness – Happiness
Good morning! Now we have a beautiful spring morning with abundant greens, beautiful flowers, and birds’ singing. After fifteen billion years of evolution, we experience this kind of beautiful, truthful, and peaceful world with our bodies and brains. But, if … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened, beaty, body and brain, bondage, civilization, cultivation, delusion, Dharma, discrimination, evolution, experience, exploitation, extermination, freedom, happiness, harmony, holiness, karma, love, peace, truth, universal truth, verification
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