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From Ego to Eco
Good morning! Did you see the moon? It’s now the half moon. The new moon cannot illuminate the world. When there are clouds, we cannot see the moon nor the moon can illuminate the world. If we are not interested in the moon, we don’t see it and care about its phases. The full moon is compared to the Buddha mind or heart, full free functioning, brightly illuminating the world. King Âdassa, Mirror, might have had the mirror-like face, mind, or heart - like the full moon, perfectly round and brilliant, illuminating the world and reflecting reality. He summoned blind people, to feel an animal and report it. They reported it is like a snake, a pillar, a wall, etc., and started fighting for their own truths - all only partial views, unlike his seeing all of this. Decades ago a taxi driver came here to learn Zazen only a few times and said that he got it 95%. We shouldn’t claim that we got Soto tradition by glancing Dogen interpretations, or Zen tradition by learning some sayings of it, or Buddhist teaching by reading hearsays. As Dogen said, the true Buddha Dharma was transmitted by Bodhidharma with the actual attainment. Bodhidharma taught it and transmitted to the second patriarch Eka (Huike) Daiosho only after having shown his determination by presenting his severed forearm after waiting in the deep snow. Aspirants for attainment at practice places must show their determinations despite dismissals and after long waiting and at least a week long sitting in Tangaryō (旦過寮, Passersby Dorm). As you know well, we have all kinds of problems in our world - wars, global warming, mass extinction, etc., all coming from ego, I, Ich, aham. Only seeing the small self, we do not see the whole world, eco. Eco, oikos, home, became essentially economy (oikos+nomos, home economy, domestic economy) and evading ecology (oikos+logos, home truth, universal truth). That is why we have so many problems and sufferings simply saving private economies, externalizing and excluding the public ecology and global ethic. Last week I talked about Soto, Zen, Buddhist teachings and traditions. Dogen said, ”To learn the Awakened Way is to learn the self. To learn the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be verified by all Dharmas…” … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and Degenerate Dharma (三時:正法・像法・末法), Bodhidharma, Buddha Dharma, Buddhism: Purity Path, Dharma, Dogen, domestic economy, dropping off body/mind, ego defilement or leaks (āsava), Eka (Huike), five-part Dharma body, from ego to eco, global warming, gobun-hosshin, home economy, home truth, Imitation Dharma, karma, King Adassa, live on joy, mass extinction, Mirro, mundane truth (sammuti sacca), muro, neither coming nor going: Tathā-gata:Thus-being/Being-in-Thusness (如存), Nyoko, Nyorai, oikos+logos, oikos+nomos, Passersby Dorm), Poverty Path, Shakyamuni, Shikantaza (只管打坐), Soto, supramundane paramount truth (parama-attha sacca), Tangaryō (旦過寮, Tathāgata: Thus-come (Tathā-āgata, Three Eras of True Dharma, Thus-gone (Tathā-gata, uddha, undefiled (an-āsava, universal truth, Xuansha, Zen, 如去, 如来, 無漏)
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Global Problems and Solutions
Good evening! Now we have chilly rain, the temperature not even reaching 50 degrees. So, we have the problems of driving on dangerous highways and catching cold. When we sit, we witness the Buddha nature, awakening in unconditioned … Continue reading
Expending the Unexpendable
Good morning! After the compassionate rain we are now at 55 degrees, going up to 69. So, it will be very good cool workable weather with the soil in good conditionfor weeding and planting. Just before I came … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Dharma
Tagged dharma (form/norm: truth/law of dependent origination) dhâtu (domain, energy saving, food loss, human karmas, lit. root realm), mass extinction, mottainai, nukes, poverty, pyramidal system, Second Harvest, sinful (separated), starvation, Wangari Maathai, wars, wholly wholesome world/way
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Human Hubris
Good morning! We could see the brilliant spring sun light and beautiful blossoming flowers this morning because of high temperatures beyond 90s for some days. Then, these couple of day temperature suddenly fell down to 40s. It went down … Continue reading
Posted in Civilization, Culture
Tagged (西遊記): Journey to the West, adventure of Xuan-zhan to India, Avalokiteshivara Bodhisattva, Avalokiteshvara (Avalokitasvara) Bodhisattva, global problematique, global warming, Goku (悟空), human beings, mass extinction, normalcy bias, nuclear disaster, the Monkey Story/ Saiyûki or Xi-you-ji
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Primary Peace/Prognosis
Good morning! This morning when I went home from here I saw new green buds of forsythias coming out. In the afternoon I passed by the same place and saw forsythias already blooming. On the way here I … Continue reading
Living Limitless Life
Good morning! We could see the very thin new moon earlier. Now we can see beautiful flowers at the altar – lilies showing spring. We have now passed a half month since spring solstice. Even though we have very … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and the Queen Shrimara’s Lioness Roar Sutra (勝鬘経), AT&T, awakened way, bodhisattva, dharma-dhatu mudrâ, Dogen, fighting devils, global warming, GM, hungry ghosts, jigsaw puzzle, life/gene-shared, Lotus Sutra (法華経), mass extinction, Sander, Six Ways/Worlds, the Purity-honored-one Sutra (維摩経), white heron in snowfield, wholly wholesome world, Zen, “Om mani padme hun”
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Defiled and Undefiled Goodness
Good morning! Now we have spring like sunlight and a silent peaceful world especially after sittings. Unfortunately, however, beside this peaceful world we have a lot of problems and sufferings all over the human world. Last night I … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Uncategorized
Tagged Afghanistan, defiled/undefiled goodness, Fukushima, global warming, ignorance/ignominy, karma, Kenji Miyazawa, mass extinction, military men, money-military complex, Occupay movement, Okinawa, policemen, pollution, power-machin, problems/sufferings, pyramidal power, sinful/separation/selfish, Tetsu Nakamura, wars
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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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