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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
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged action, and learning, awakened way, blind turtle and floating log, consummation), dhyâna, dokusan (private interview: 独参), Equanimity (upeckhâ, evolution: devolution, four stages of zen (chan, involution: revolution, jhana, Joshu (Zhaozhou: 趙州), karma consciousness, koan, liberation, light, limitless life, lit. complete flow), lit. no-wind), lit. throwing away), love, nirvana (unconditioned peace), samadhi (concentration), samsara (transmigration, selfish gene, Sesshin is embracing the mind (摂心) or touching the mind (接心), suffering, three steps (sando: 三道: delusion, za-zen (sitting zen: 坐禅), “Mu” (無: no or nothing)
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Peace, Prognosis, Perspective, Priority
Good morning! We have the bright sun on a quiet Sunday just after the Summer Solstice. This morning I went into the garden and saw that the big mallow flowers have started blooming, the morning glories are blossoming brilliantly, … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and lielessness (five Ls of Global Ethic), and saving all (the five Ss of the Global System), animal karma, animals: mobing beings vs. plants: still beings, durable, Fukushima, General Happiness Index, Global Happiness Index, law (of dependent origination and interdependence of all), liberation, life, love, nuclear power (bomb/plant), nuclearists, orient minds from the source (yoniso manasi-kâra), pyramidal system vs. cyclical system, safe, simple, sustainable, systemic, tree/true: deru or dhri
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System Shift
Good morning! On the way here I saw the big bright red sun already higher than the one just rising from the horizon last Sunday. The full moon is now crescent. When we come here and sit, we can … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), System
Tagged act, Advise, agree, and peace, assess, bondage, discrimination, equality (unity), exploitation, extermination, Five As (information flow): Access, Five Rs (material flow): Reduce, Fivefold bliss: awakening, Fivefold calamity: delusion, freedom, Fukushima, global ethic 5Ls, global system 5Ss, love, rearrange, recycle, restore, reuse
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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
Posted in Practice
Tagged 10. Buddho Bhagavâ: The Awakened and the Fortunate : 仏世尊: butsu-seson, 2. Arahat: 阿羅漢: arakan, 3. Sammâsambuddha: Sammâ-sam-buddha: 正遍知: shouhenchi, 4. Vijjâcaranasampanna: The one provided with withdom and behavior: 明行足: myougyousoku, 5. Sugata: Well-being: 善逝: zensei, 6. Lokavidû: World-knower: 世間解: sekenge, 7. Anuttara: Unsurpassed one: 無上士: mujoushi, 8. Purisadammasarathi: The leader of persons to be tamed: 調御丈夫: chougyojoubu, 9. Satthadevamanussanâm: The teacher of divine-beings and human-beings: 人天師: nintenshi, ambrosia of immortality, amrita, bagabond (degraded from bhagavan), Buddha, liberation, light, limitless life, Limitless luck: limitless learning, love, practice makes possible/perfect, risshun (立春), Rui-yan/Zuigan (瑞巌), spring solstice, Ten names of the Buddha: The Worthy One: 1. Tathâgata: Thus-being: 如来:nyorai)
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Phantom Power (State)
Good morning! Now we have a cool and quiet atmosphere. So, we can sit in a calm and clear state in peace and freedom. I read an op-ed article in the New York Times on phantom states, states not approved … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged bondage, discrimination, equality, exploitation, extermination, five blisses (awakening, five calamities (delusion, freedom, freedom and peace, love, peace, people's welfare, phantom states, power's warfare, prognosis and compassion, state (phantom), warfare, welfare
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Seeing and Solving System Syndrome
Good morning ! We can still enjoy the full moon. Now we have very cool air. The season seems to turn from the hot summer to the cool autumn. Artifice must return to the natural way. At this time in … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged bondage, delusion, discrimination, equality, exploitation, extermination, five calamities (delusion, freedom, love, materialism, me-ism, militarism, partial pyramidal beings, peace, pyramidal system, system failure, system problems, triple tragedy, war, welfare, wholly wholesome life being
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Awakening and Awakened Action
Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged 27 globes, age, aging, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), atman, attan, awakened way, awakening and action, awakening four holy truths, birth, birth and death, bondage, bubble, Buddha (Awakened One), death, delusion, desire, discrimination, diviciveness, exploitation, extermination, ferocious five aggregates, five blisses, five calamities, four concomitant sufferings, freedom, fundamental sufferings, gender, genes, good for all always, harmony, holy eightfold path, karma, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), liberation, life, light, love, mama, meeting with the hated, nirvana, no gain of the desired, ocean, parting with the loved, peace, possession, practice, race, religion, rooted in the ground/truth, samadhi (concentration/total transformation, sickness, true/tree, truth, unconditioned peace, windless state
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