Tag Archives: nirvana

Akarma and Asankhata

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Because of the bright sunlight we could enjoy warmer weather and drive on the public roads pretty safely. When we had snow and ice, our driving was very difficult and dangerous. Even without snow we may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), unmade), Zen | Tagged akarma (no karma), amrita (ambrosia, asankhata (asamskrita: unmade), immortality, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, no possession: unpossessed | Leave a comment

Potential Practice Power

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a nice bright Sunday morning. We had the bright full moon even with the total eclipse. The full moon represents the Buddha mind, clear and calm, bodhi (awakening) and nirvana – windless of karma, where … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged awakened way, bodhi (awakening), Buddha, dissatisfaction, dukkha (suffering), full moon: Buddha-mind, Gandhi, globla problematique: intertwined global problems, karma, lit. going against grain), lit. windlessness: not karma-driven), nirvana, nirvana (unconditioned peace), not sourl's transmigration as in Hinduism), one can: million can, Rohatsu, samsara (lit. complete flow from moment to moment, Shimizu: Olympic gold medalist, Six Paths, surpassing karma-driven life, unsurpassed asakening: anuttara sambodhi), zazen: stopping/seeing karma | Leave a comment

Pervasive Practice Penetrates Pure Peace and Prognosis

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Now we can see the quite clear and calm full moon. Only when we face the moon and the moon faces the sun straight on can we see the full moon. This represents the buddha mind, unsurpassed … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged amrita: ambrosia: immortaliity, awakened way: essential for realizing truthful/peaceful/wholly wholesome world, clear and calm full moon: unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace: buddha mind: straight on truth and peace, gyoji: praxis: sustained practice: chariya: career, karma machines: struggle through samsara/suffering, karma-free career: amrita: see birth/death/highest dharma, nirvana, Six Ways/Worlds: hell beings/hungry ghosts/beastly beings/fighting devils/human beings/celestial beings | Leave a comment

Speckless Space for Sentients Salvation

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have another day of akibare (autumn clear sky), with beautiful stars this morning and the bright crescent moon last evening. The crisp clear air envelopes all and speckless space penetrates all throughout the universe. When we … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged akibare (autumn clear sky), Amitabha (Limitless Light): Amitayus (Limitless Life), amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Avalokiteshvara (Omnipotent in Looking Down with Compassion): Avalokitaswara (Looking Down with Compassion the Sounds of Weeping/Wailing), birth and death, bodhisattva, Buddha, Buddhism, compassion/awakening/nirvana, Dharma of Dependent Origination (interdepencence) holy (wholly wholesome) harmony/peace/prognosis, etc (Friend), Harmony is precious, karma, Lotus Sutra, me-ism/materialism/militarism, Mitra/Mithra/Mazda/Maitreya, nirvana, Pure Land, Seven Article Constitution, Shomangyo (Supreme Garland Scripture), Shotoku, Tenjukoku (Heavenly Life Land), triple treasure (buddha/dharma/sangha), Vimalakirti(Nirdesha) Sutra (Purity-famed's Teaching), zazen | Leave a comment

Awakening and Awakened Action

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

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 | Leave a comment

From Karma/Civilization to Dharma/Cultivation

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The temperature went beyond one hundred degrees (108) today. Kaisen Osho said, “The heart-head (fountainhead) being extinct, even fire is cool.” Zazen is to go beyond heat and chill, beyond all phenomena, to go back to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged ambrosia/immortality (amrita), beyond heat and chill, beyond phenomena, civilization, cultivation, culture, Dharma, fushi, global system, heart-head extinct, Kaisen, kanro, karma, limitless beauty, limitless goodness, limitless truth, matter power, nirvana, origin, problems, reorineting life, solution, suffering, truth, zazen | Leave a comment

Total Truth

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In our sitting, the pure sound of flowing water penetrates through our world; the fresh breeze permeates throughout our bodies and minds; the bright, beautiful sunlight pervades the world. This is the world in cessation (nirodha) and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alienation, antagonism, attachment, aversion, birth and death, bodhisattvas, body, bones, bubble, buddhas, calm ocean, clear crystal, conception, death, delicate and drastic, delusion, demise, desire, discrimination, division, Dogen, emotion, flesh, freedom, full function, genes, here now, holy truth/goodness/beauty/peace/harmony, holy world, industry, karma, liberation, life, light, limited values and views, limitless life, love, matter, mind, money, mountains, neither decrease nor increase, nirodha, nirvana, nuclear disaster, penetration, perception, phenomena, purity, rivers, samsara, saving, serving, space, suffering, the moon, the sun, time, total dynamic, total truth, Universal Recommendation for the Right Zazen, volition, world | Leave a comment

Awakening with All Always

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit solid and still, we stop all human karmas, reach nirvana, and awaken to the truth of dependent origination and dependent cessation. All buddhas have awakened in this truth and practiced it with all beings always. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged all beings, all matters, always, awakening, buddhas, death, demise, disaster, full moon, karma, nirvana, Ohtsuka, practice, solid still sitting, solving problems/sufferings, stop karma, truth of dependent origination/dependent cessation, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Ocean Seal Samadhi

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! After the recent heat wave we had a rain shower just before we came here. The air cooled down and the leaves became wet. When we sit in solid, still sitting – like trees – we can … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Global ethic, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged conventional truth, holy harmony, nirvana, ocean seal samadhi, paramattha sacca, sammuti sacca, self-centerdness, solid, still sitting, tree = true, truth, ultimate truth, wholly wholesome | Leave a comment

Way to Wholly Wholesome World

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires. This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, asankhata, beatitude, beauty, cessation, conflict, contamination, delusion, desire, Dharma, disaster, discrimination, dukkha, global warming, gokuraku, goodness, karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, origination, papance upasama, perspective, priority, prognosis, safety, self-centered, sitting, solution, sufering, suffering, sukhavati, truth, ultimate comfort, unconditioned peace, wholly wholesome world | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: nirvana

Akarma and Asankhata

Potential Practice Power

Pervasive Practice Penetrates Pure Peace and Prognosis

Speckless Space for Sentients Salvation

Awakening and Awakened Action

From Karma/Civilization to Dharma/Cultivation

Total Truth

Awakening with All Always

Ocean Seal Samadhi

Way to Wholly Wholesome World

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Categories

Meta