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Tag Archives: nuclear disaster
Buddha-nature Here Now
Good morning! With this rain most snow has melted away. A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China. This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later). Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster. They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs. When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever. Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now. Why do we have these disasters and sufferings? These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones. We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults. We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, ”If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed. So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings. We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility. Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), cultivation: verification (修:証), Zazen
Tagged and happiness, Buddha, Buddha nature, civilization/state/success/self, Dogen, Genjōkōan, Goebbels, Great East Japan Earthquake, health, Hitler, holy harmony, holy healthy awakening, maladies: materialism/militarism/money-ism/me-ism, nuclear disaster, Realizing Universal Truth, sam-bodhi, self-deceased (gari-gari-mōja, 我利我利亡者
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Good morning! This morning I got the news about the three foot long wisteria flower from Japan. As the trees grow greater, flowers bloom bigger. I got the news that TEPCO knew electricity loss by a 14m high … Continue reading
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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From Deluded Way to Awakened Way
Good morning! We have now clouds threatening to snow, with temperatures going below the freezing point as forecast. But, after sitting we have a clear and calm world. Yesterday I visited St. Charles for the first time. I … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakened way, birth/death, broad/natural way, Buddha, Buddhism, Chrnobyl, Easter Island, ECRR (European Committee on Radiation Risk), Fukushima, global life system, global warming, immortality, Main Street, mass extinction, nuclear disaster, nuclear fallout: cancer, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Three Mile Island, Wall Street, Zen, “return to our homes and sit in safety (帰家安坐:kika-anza)”
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Let’s Live Limitless Life, Liberation, Light, and Love
Good morning! We have now chilly air at 41 degrees. On the way here I listened to NPR, which reported on a nuclear plant near New York City. Its licenses are going to expire in 2013 and 2015. Voices … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Brahma-vihara, Buddha saving all: sacrificing none, castle in the air/ on the sand, conquer one-self/not others, limitless liberation/light/love/life, nuclear disaster, personal/public/planetary peace, practice, true conqueror
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Constant Coherent Cultivation
Good morning! We have now cool, crisp autumn air here. This is the time of harvesting. We harvest what we sowed in spring and strived for in summer. We, however, are not able to harvest what we sowed … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged constant coherent cultivation, cultivate ourselves/world, global warming (typhoon/tornado/hurricane), harmonious happy life, harvesting what we sowed and strived for?, karma (individual/collective/shared), nuclear disaster, truthful peaceful world, universal truth/peace, wholly wholesome whole, worlds on fire
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Becoming Buddhas
Good evening! We had a 100 degree high temperature today in autumn. We received articles, posted on our e-list, on how this country is run and how our global catastrophe is imminent. One of these catastrophes is the … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged /possession/job/community/tradition/culture/trust, all being, American possesses 300 slaves, amrita(ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, doomed to demise, earthquake, global catastrophe, global life system, global problematique, glopbal warming, human species, loss of life, mammonism, mass extinction, materialism, me-ism, militarism, nuclear disaster, safety myth of nuclear power, wholly wholesome truth/peace/goodness/beauty/harmony
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