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Tag Archives: peace
Complete Competence, Composure, and Comprehension
Good morning! Just before I left my home I watched a program about an ability Olympics. There, the competition focuses not only on skills, but also complete composure and comprehension. The Buddha’s story about ability: the test for … Continue reading
Perfection = prognosis x power x practice
Good morning! We are at the time of Rohatsu sesshin (臘八摂心/接心), embracing and touching the mind, approaching the eighth day of the last month, when the Buddha was awakened. We practice the way cycle of aspiration, practice, peace, and … Continue reading
Independence in Interdependence
Good morning! We could see the full moon in the west and the rising sun in the east just before we came here. Today is Independence Day. So, the traffic, usually jammed with hustle and bustle, was almost … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and happiness, and love in limitless truth, but familiarity, Freedom (philia-domos: friendship domain) not licentiousness, harmony, independence in interdependence/supra-dependence, liberation, light, lit. ultimate comfort), live in limitless life, nirvana, peace, The west: the pure land (jôdo:浄土 )/ paradise (極楽: gokuraku
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Peace, Purity, Prognosis, and Perfection
Good morning! When we get up early and come out of our houses, we can see many beautiful flowers blooming anew. When we come here, we enjoy fresh flowers at altars and all around us. We plant and prepare … Continue reading
Civilization Calamities Are Karma Kinetics
Good morning! When we sit solid and serene, unconditioned and upright, stop karmas (actions and acquired habits) and see the dharma dhâtu (truth domain), we return to and remain in great, grounded, old, original, wholly wholesome purity, peace, and … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Nirvana (windless: asankhata
Tagged and generations), and prognosis, and stress, caught in and create karma kinetics in small, dharma dhâtu (truth domain), genders, grounded, nescient, new, nuclear reactor restart: choosing livelihood before safety; money instead of life; miniscule against magnitude (including all genera, old, original, peace, remain in great, samsara, separated (sinful), sick suffering, superficial, wholly wholesome purity
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Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva
Good evening! We had a very hot day today, and we worked together amidst heat and humidity, sweating good sweat. Now we breathe good breaths in zazen. Then we find our world in peace, harmony, and truth with … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakening, beneficial actions, bodhisattva (awakening being)/mahasattva (great being), compassion, four embracing matters/Brahma-vihara (holy residence: giving, good breaths, good friendship, good sweat, gratitude for grace, harmony, insight, loving words, peace, sameness, today's practice, zazen
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Express, Enact Equanimity, Equality
Good morning! We have now a very warm morning, even in September. A warm morning expresses a very hot day coming. The intense singing of insects expresses the insects’ winter coming. Nuclear bombs and power express the nuclear … Continue reading