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Limitless Life, Light, Liberation, and Love

    Good morning!   We can appreciate the beatitude and beauty of perennial peace in sittings, service, and sudden spring with green plants and colorful flowers. The latest topic of the Science for Everyone program of TV Japan was grapefruit. Its origin was in Barbados, hybrid on Asian citrus. A tree in Japan grown out of a discarded seed started bearing fruit after 35 years. A budding seed in the kitchen planted 35 years ago first bore fruit after 20 years and now is bearing 1,000.   The life tree seed has evolved into branches of all kinds of species. Our species has also developed into twigs. Mr. Otsuka, who often sends us his beautiful photos from Japan for our blog site, recently informed us of his mother’s passing away. His grand children living in California sent him a card saying, “Grandpa, even if you’ve lost your parents, you are not alone. We are always with you!” We are all with our ancestors and descendants – actually with all.   Humans, creating languages and legacies in individuals and institutions, tend to become selfish and sinful (separated), but we are sharing our common assets of genes – actually the genetics of all. When we sit still, stilling our karmas with their triple poisons, we become true, harmony and peace, like trees that are harmonious with water, wind, and the world. When we become harmonious with all, we can function freely and fully with all throughout space and time.   Dogen advised in his Tenzokyokun, Lessons for the Cook Monk, to cultivate the triple heart (great, mature, and joyful heart). We can enjoy greatness, maturity, and joy in truth, goodness, and beauty. The Buddha taught us the fourfold Limitlessness or Brahma-vihāra (abode, living, behaving) of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (renunciation/windless of karmas, nirvana). We can live a great, mature, joyful life, limitless in life, light, liberation, and love.   4/19/15               … Continue reading

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Dogen’s “Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way,” 1

    Dogen’s poems were collected by Toun Kishun, 8th abbot of Hokyoji Temple in Oh’ei 27 (1420 C.E.), 168 years after Dogen’s parinirvana, passing away, and later added. The first one is on his journey from Eiheiji to Kyoto … Continue reading

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Flowering and Fruition

Good morning!   This is the last day of our equinox sesshin. It seems that it is truly getting colder after the equinox day.  The night is getting longer and darker with the brighter morning star, Orion, etc.   Equanimity … Continue reading

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Free Full Function

Good evening!   New flowers come up blooming successively in the large system of life – morning glories, day lilies, peace lilies, shooting stars, hostas (擬宝珠: pseudo jewel), …   Zazen is the wholly wholesome, essential, embracing, free, full function. … Continue reading

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Limitless Luck in Limitless Learning

Good morning!   We have a nice drizzling with warm weather at the spring solstice, risshun (立春), raising spring. Who raises spring? The sun. Who raises us? The sun – truly, the total universe.   Every day Rui-yan (瑞巌) said … Continue reading

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From Limited Life to Limitless Life

Good morning!   The weather forecast predicts the temperature will go down below the freezing point. Still trees stand strong and safe. Beyond the freezing point our vegetables may freeze and die.   Trees can survive ten thousand years. Human … Continue reading

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Sole Space without Separation

Good morning!   We could still see the beautiful bright full moon. As the sun comes out, the moon disappears. Now we see the vast blue sky. Out of the blue come clouds in all forms, colors, and sizes – … Continue reading

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Separation or Seamlessness

Good morning!   When we sit in zazen opening all windows, we can enjoy calm, clear, and complete world with the beautiful sounds of insects’ singing, water flowing, and fresh breeze blowing.   There was an article “A Heimlish Line,” … Continue reading

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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

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Limitless Life with Limitless Liberation

Good morning! When we sit and settle in truth, peace, and freedom, we can enjoy the beauty of flowers and the goodness of fruits without radiation contamination. With the contamination and the misery caused by the nuclear disaster people in … Continue reading

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