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Stopping, Surpassing Samsara Suffering

Good morning!   It is a beautiful autumn Sunday morning with sittings and service, the sounds of birds flapping and flying. It is the best season, just after equinox with equal day and night, a cool and clear atmosphere.   Yesterday I posted Dogen’s poem on one mind treading on the Six Paths or transmigrating through them –hell beings path/way/passage/destiny/career, etc. at our website:   1. Hell being path/destiny (niraya-gati) 2. Beastly being path/destiny (tiracchānayoni-gati) 3. Ghostly being path/destiny (pittivisaya-gati) 4. Devilish being path/destiny (asura-gati) 5. Human being path/destiny (manussa-gati) 6. Celestial being path/destiny (deva-gati)   Because of our karmas, we appropriate and identify the body as “I” and act as (if) “an independent, eternal being.” This is the common convention, to get into self- centeredness and self-assertion, creating the triple poisons.   This is the fundamental delusion or nescience (non-witness of nirvana/bodhi, unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening), evolved by karmas (actions, habits, heredity, etc., even called the selfish gene) for desire/divisiveness.   The triple poisons lead to the Six Paths with limitless varieties, which is called samsara, and involves suffering due to impermanence (no self-same) and dissatisfaction (no self-sovereign) of dependently originated phenomena.   This has been the case for all beings in all places and at all times, because they are karma heirs, karma relatives, karma machines, in short, karma slaves, not knowing how and thus not acting to put an end to such state.   The Buddha could know and act the right way to solve such a slave state in samsara suffering for the first time in the history of living beings. He sat, stopped karmas, saw the dharma of dependent origination and solved suchness.   He solved the problem of nature and nurture, which Dr. Suzuki called the law of heredity and the law of ability, from the very root of life with body, mind, and the world in the dharma of dependent origination. … Continue reading

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Serene Satisfaction

Good morning!   We have a nice, sunny spring Sunday with a serene atmosphere, especially after sittings. Now we can open the windows and hear the singing of birds, and even see them and flowers. In Japan they are going to have the Flower Festival, … Continue reading

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Bodhisattva Bunny

Good morning!   On the way here I saw many bunnies scurrying around. Over and around here we see many Buddhas sitting still.   There was a bunny who was sent to the moon, saving a suffering servant of this world, and savoring amrita, ambrosia of immortality ever since.   Sentient beings are set in self-survival karmas (habits, actions) with short-sight, short-circuit, and short-spark.   They live with the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness led into the triple maladies of me-ism, materialism, and militarism.   Awakened ones are settled in wholly wholesome dharmas (truths, laws) with long-sight, long-circuit, and long-success (saving, serving, sewa, seva).   They live with the triple potencies of purity, peace, and prognosis led into the triple minds of magnanimous mind, mature mind, and joyful mind.   The boddhisattva bunny, great being, has been ever since enjoying amrita with limitless life, light, liberation, love, and learning.   3/18/13   Note: 1. The story of a bunny saving an apparently old hungry man actually the supreme being of this world was sent to the moon thanks to its selfless action was saved into the moon, as we see the figure now. (Please refer to this blog site posting the poem made by Ryokan, Mind Mirror, posted on August 14, 2011.)   2. Sewa (Japanese, 世話), seva … Continue reading

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Primary Purity, Peace, and Prognosis

Good evening!   Whenever we sit still and stop karmas, we remain stable, safe, and satisfied. When kings and others visited the Buddha’s place with hundreds of monks sitting still and serene, they were amazed at the peace, harmony, and … Continue reading

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Narnia and Nirvana

Good morning!   It’s become pretty chilly after the equinox, hasn’t it? We say, “Heat and chill up until the equinox.” Before and after the equinox the weather and the length of the day change, but at the equinox day … Continue reading

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Preparedness Prevents Perplexities

Good morning!   Now we have the beautiful bright morning star and other stars, also beautiful flowers all around us outside and inside, after the autumnal equinox sesshin. We have now almost chilly air – now 47 degrees and going up … Continue reading

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Preparedness Prevents Perplexities

Good morning!   Now we have the beautiful bright morning star and other stars, also beautiful flowers all around us outside and inside, after the autumnal equinox sesshin. We have now almost chilly air – now 47 degrees and going … Continue reading

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Limited Karma Kinema in Limitless Dharma Dhatu (World)

Good morning!   We have the beautiful brilliant sun and clouds with snow in the quiet peaceful world. It’s said that we have a hundred billion planets in the Milky Way. It was estimated that there are 100 sextillion to … Continue reading

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Akarma and Asankhata

Good evening!   Because of the bright sunlight we could enjoy warmer weather and drive on the public roads pretty safely. When we had snow and ice, our driving was very difficult and dangerous. Even without snow we may be … Continue reading

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Serene Selfless State

Good evening!   We cannot see the moon tonight, but the moon is always there beyond clouds. If we observe it long enough, we come to know that the full moon is always there.   The full moon reflects the … Continue reading

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