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Yonder Shore or Summit

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We are at the third day of the five day autumnal equinox period, the middle point of the true equinox, and we are at our equinox sesshin. Sesshin is embracing or containing our usually outgoing, diffused, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged action, agitation-worry, and unconditioned peace of practice: gyôjidôkan: 行持道環), awakening, becoming, Buddha mind/world/life, called higan (yonder shore)}, conviction, covetousness-malevolence, dhyâna: shikantaza: just sitting, doubt, five coverings (lust-desire, four fluxes (volitions, four stages of zen/chan/jhana/dhyana, four way cycles (aspiration, instincts: lust, jhana, meditation, nescience, nirvana, sloth-drowsiness, unconditioned peace {equanimity like equinox, zen (chan | Leave a comment

Unconditioned Peace and Unsurpassed Awakening for All

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We can now see bright stars in the cool, clear winter sky. Seeing such stars zen practitioners all over the world conclude the Rohatsu sesshin, a week of intensive sitting, and commemorate the Rohatsu, the 8th of … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged and purifying the mind, awakened way available for all, beastly, Buddha's awakening, Buddhahood, celestial), common verse of seven buddhas: doing all good;doing no evil, fighting, human, hungry, karma, morning star, nescience, path of purification, Rohatsu sesshin (臘八摂心：Dec. 8 sesshin)), Siddhattha (objective-attained), six ways (hellish, surpassing all suffering of samsara, unsurpassed awakening in unconditioned peace, zazen (solid serene sitting meditation) | Leave a comment

Sole Space without Separation

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Rosan Daido

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 →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged 1%, 99%, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), bodhisattva, Buddha, Confucius, craving, deluge of delusion, enslavie, fame/fortune: floating clouds, five aggregates, formations, Jesus, King Milinda, limitless life, nescience, Occupy group, old age and death, perfection of prognosis, save the world, Shariputra, shûnyatâ (emptiness) of all, six senses, suffering, systems: karma consequence, victims of systems, Yes! Magazine, Yunmen | Leave a comment

Equanimity, Equality, Enjoyment

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Now we are at the equinox, the best time with clear, calm air and the bright moon illuminating the world. Now, on the other side of the globe, however, a typhoon with floods and storms is … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged four embracing matters/dharmas (giving/loving words/beneficial actions/sameness), fourfold limitlessness/four pure living (equanimity/compassion/friendship/joy), karma, nescience | Leave a comment

Samadhi Stages

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen | Leave a comment

Saving Suffering

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged appropriation, arrogance of health, arrogance of life, arrogance of youth, awakened way, concentration, craving, death, decay, delusion, Dependent Origination, devastation, disease, dissatisfaction, dukkha, ego, five coverings, five Ss (systemic, formations, four fluxes, harmony, here now, holiness, impermanence, karma, mass extinction, meditation, morality, nescience, nirvana, noumena, nuclear disaster, origination of consciousness, origination of samsara, origination of suffering, peace, phantom, phenomena, prognosis, reality, run after, run away, Ryokan, safe, sankhara, saving, Sawaki Roshi, second arrow, self-sense, sense objects, sense organs, short-circuit, short-sight, simple, sitting, stop karma, sustainable, three poisons, three steps, threefold suffering, tornado, tread-wheel, triple learning, truth, tsunami, wholly wholesome, wisdom, witness | Leave a comment

Bupposo (仏法僧：Buddha-Dharma-Sangha )

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After the strong spring storm we now have spring in full swing, with a bird singing. Don’t you hear it singing, “kite mite, ????, come an’ see!” and “chûi, ??, beware!” One month ago we had a record … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged anger, bupposo, Chernobyl, contamination, delusion, Dharma, discrimination, earthquake, existential nature, exploitation, extermination, Flower Festival, freedom, fundamental problem, global ecology, global governance, global system, Global System and Ethic Association, global warmiing, greed, half-knowledge, hatred, hokekyo, holiness, human hybris, Japan, limiting knowledge, limitless life, Lotus Sutra, mass extinction, nescience, nuclear bomb, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, peace, responsibility, tear, Three Mile Island, truth, tsunami, voluntary simplicity, we, zz NO AD. COMMENT PLEASE | Leave a comment

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Unconditioned Peace and Unsurpassed Awakening for All

Sole Space without Separation

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