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Tag Archives: joy
Awakened One’s Awakening Day
Good morning! Today, the eighth of December, is the day of the Buddha’s awakening. So, all over the world Zen practitioners, after seven day intensive sitting, celebrate his awakening – an unprecedented feast that solves all problems of all … Continue reading
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Tagged and equanimity (upekhâ : lit. throwing away), awakening, beyond pleasure and pain/penance, Brahma's beseech, Brahmavihâra of friendship, Buddha, chan, compassion, defilements (klesha: zenma, dissatisfaction, everyday a good day (日日是好日：hibi-kore-koujitu), five coverings, four fluxes/leaks (âsava: 煩悩), global problematique, holy harmony/health/happiness, joy, lit. wrong going), meditation, meeting four people, nirvana, outing from four gates, shûnya (empty, six teachers/dogmatists/heretics (六師外道), substanceless), suffering, suffering (dukkha, Zen, Zen (jhâna, 染汚)
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Practicing Perfections
Good morning! The full moon is reflected on the floor. The full moon represents the Buddha mind. All over the world zen practitioners are in the Rohatsu sesshin, where the Buddha was awakened. The Buddha mind, like the full … Continue reading
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Tagged all things are substanceless or empty of self-substance, and delusion, and equanimity or throwing away (self), and prognosis, and sameness (with others), and unsurpassed awakening, awakening mind, beneficial actions, bodhi-mind, Brahman’s abode, Buddha’s nirvana, compassion, concentration, four embracing matters of giving, four immeasurables or Brahma-vihâra, full moon, Great Vehicle, How to Live, joy, Kazuo Inamori, Kyoto Prize, loving words, Mâha-yâna, of friendship, of giving, patience, perfections, precepts, Rohatsu sesshin (臘八摂心：Dec. 8 sesshin)), shunya, six pâramitâs, striving, thirst, three poisons of anger, unconditioned peace
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Life Revolution
Good morning! The moon is now almost half full, quickly changing from the full moon we saw at the last sesshin, but brightly shining forth with other stars. The sun is now high and brilliantly shining over the autumnal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd/1st/no arrow, and equanimity, and prajñâ (morality, and prognosis, Buddha (仏陀), compassion, concentration, Dragon Palace, dragon palace (竜宮) through dragon gate (竜門), four views on one water (一水四見) by humans/celestials/devils/fish, Frankenstorm, global problems, good day everyday (日日是好日), in the four limitlessnesses of friendship, joy, life revolution: becoming buddha/bodhisattva, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, living in the Brahma-vihâra (residence), Ryokan (良寛), samadhi, triple learnings of sîla, triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness: delusion/craving/anger), true sangha, unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening
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True Triple Treasures
Good morning! The mind moon is almost full. The body is exposed to the golden wind, as leaves are falling. The world is getting cold; it’s almost to the freezing point now. I visited Japan to meet my brother, recently … Continue reading
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Tagged (in short) rampant five aggregates (forms/feelings/ideas/formations/consciousnesses), aging, and death), and equanimity, body exposed to golden wind, Brahma-net (Indra-net) in the Dharma of Dependent Origination, Brahma-vihara (Brahma-residence): Fourfold Limitlessness: Limitless compassion, Eightfold suffering (Four suffering + non-attaining the desired, Four suffering (birth, friendship, joy, meeting the hateful ones, mind-moon, separation from the loved ones, sickness, true triple treasures, unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening
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Samadhi Stages
Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading
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Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen
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Life, Lost, Limited, Limitless
Good morning! We are fortunate to be able to wake up, get up, come here, and sit in zazen. We’ll see a lot of good things, beautiful things, but also bad things, ugly things. We encounter meeting and parting with … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, accommodation, adjustment, aspiration, joy, limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, meeting, parting, people, possession, sorrow, up and down
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Live on Joy
Good evening! Most of us here had a delicious dinner at Shuri’s home, and now we sit together in zazen. In Japan, we say, “Onaji kama-no meshi-wo kuu, eating out of the same pan or rice cooker.” There is a … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, Buddha, cauldron, devil, fight, fish, hunger, joy, killing, life, onaji kama-no meshi, problem, satisfaction, sharing, starvation, yielding
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Friendship
Good evening! Thank you very, very much for your coming here out of heavy snow storm, and from the opposite side of the globe to celebrate this auspicious occasion! Friends are true treasures. Finding the best friend is the best … Continue reading
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Tagged friendship, joy, liberation, light, limitless life, love, Muir Monument, network, red wood, root, suffering, true treasure
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Beyond Billows
Good evening! Suddenly many flowers have started blooming. Magnolias, pears, plums, hyacinths, forsythia… just after ohigan, ???, the spring equinox. Magnolia in Japanese is mokuren, ??, wooden lotus. We say “atusa samusa-mo higan-made” (Heat and chill until the equinox. … Continue reading →