Tag Archives: materialism

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

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Sit, See, Serve, and Save

Good morning! We now have fresh, cool, and crisp air, as if autumn is around the corner. Today in Japan people are observing the fifth-month memorial day of the deceased following the triple tragedy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. … Continue reading

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Triyune Tyrants

Good evening! We now have a nice cool evening and clear, calm, cool sitting in truth, peace and freedom. When we lack these things, we fall into karmic mammonism, materialism, and militarism. According to declassified documents, the U.S. government wanted … Continue reading

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Work Works

Good morning! This morning the temperature is in the mid-70s, so we can sit without fans. We don’t need the lamps along the path to the entrance either. The awakened way is to become awakened to the holy truth and … Continue reading

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Pseudo-system Syndrome

Good morning! This morning I received news of the anniversary of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing from Japan. The New York Times had an article about the nuclear disaster in Japan: the government’s mishandling of the radiation plume prediction caused radiation … 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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