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Tag Archives: limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning
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
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
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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Trim and Transplant
Good evening! Now we’re having hot dry days, so it is very difficult to transplant. Small saplings are easy to move because they are vigorous, easily rooted, and it’s easy to supply sufficient water and nutrition to their small … Continue reading
Constant Concentration in Polishing Practice
Good morning! Now hostas are blooming abundantly in our garden. Unless we get into the garden, we can’t see them. The hydrangeas are beautifully blooming. When we forget to water them, their flowers fade in color and shrink in … Continue reading
Dwell in Dharma Dhatu, Domain
Good morning! When we get up early, we can enjoy the fresh crisp clear morning air, the dawn, and singing birds – nature’s truth, goodness, and beauty. When we sit upright and unconditioned, we can enjoy the wholly … Continue reading
Posted in cultivation: verification (修：証）, Dharma
Tagged civilization: pyramidal system: five calamities (delusion/bondage/discrimination/exploitation/extermination: machine-ism/me-ism/materialism/militarism), CT scan, dharma dhâtu (truth domain), limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, low radiation dose: dangerous, triple learning of morality (sîla)/concentration (samâdhi)/prognosis (prajñâ), triple treasures of buddha/dharma/sangha (community): 三宝：仏法僧
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Dharma of Dependent Origination
Good evening! When we sit in zazen, we enter into the dharma world, become awakened to the dharma of dependent origination, and see the open, integral, intertwined sańgha. We find the symbolism of closed, piecemeal, separate self, society, … Continue reading
Posted in cultivation: verification (修：証）
Tagged 0, dharma of dependent origination, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, praxisth path cycle continuing, symbol of separate self/society/state/status/species from integral/intertwined/inexhaustible system, triple learning/treasure
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Returning to the Origin
Good morning! We saw the full moon early this morning. Today is the Buddha’s birthday called Flower Festival. It is the cherry blossom season in Japan. There they bathe the baby Buddha with amacha, sweet tea, in the palanquin bedecked … Continue reading
Posted in asamskrita, Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade)
Tagged Brahama, Buddha, Gandhi, global problematique, global warming, Intra net, Iran, Israel, karmas, Ken Watanabe, kizuna, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, nuclear bomb/power, nuclear free world, nuclear power, nuclear wars/inter, nuke free zones, Obama, return to the source, Son's Flesh, the world on fire, thinking the unthinkable, triple poison (delusion/craving/anger): triple malady (me-ism/materialism/militarism), WWIII
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Good Day Every Day
Good morning! With warm wet weather we can now enjoy green grass already up to almost 60 degrees. In contrast in Japan people there have two to three times more snow waiting very late spring with the nuclear disaster … Continue reading
System or Self?
Good morning! We had the half moon on New Year’s Day, and then the full moon, and this morning we saw the half moon again. Now we have bright sunlight brightening trees, snow, and the sky. After a few … Continue reading
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Tagged become aware/acknowledge/awakened in holy (wholly wholesome) truh/goodness/beauty/justice/happiness, body/brain, bountiful beauty/goodness/truth/peace in nature, consuming beloved ones/onself (eating son's flesh), cultivation/practice=verification/witness/attainment/perfection, dependent origination/cessation, full moon: awakened mind, galaxies, global warming, home-centric pyramidal system, life, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, mass extinction, may all enjoy limitless truth/goodness/beauty/holiness here/now, Milky Way, mind-making to the source, nirvana: windless (of karma): unconditioned peace, nuclear/egotish/economic/ecological meltdown, return to source/origin/truth/peace/harmony/holiness/happiness, self(-centeredness): fundamental delusion, self/survival/system/sustainable/saving/safe/simple/science, sit/stop (karma)/see (dharma)/solve (problems)/save (all from suffering), solar system, stars, the earth, the moon, the sun, the sun and the north wind, winner-take-all? independent-eternal-self?, world on fire: body/brain/mind/perception/conception/emotion/volition on fire, yoniso manasi-kâra
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Sit and Switch to Limitless Life and Light
Good morning! We have now an approaching half moon phase, after the recent new moon, and the brilliant full moon. Things change so fast – truly, time flies. Now we’ve got accustomed to sitting with candles only, without … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Buddha's way, buddhas (awakened ones), friend of all: no problems/sufferings: limitless truth/goodness/beauty, light beyond brightness and darkness: universal truth: ultimate truth, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, sit/switch to limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning
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