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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

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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

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Coming Home, Comfortably Sitting

Good evening!   Zazen is “coming home, comfortably sitting” (帰家穏座: kike-onza), settling in the true self, seeing the original nature in ultimate truth and unconditioned peace.   As we practice, we penetrate through our minds, bodies, and the world further, … Continue reading

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Enter into Penetrating Purity, Peace, and Prognosis

Good evening!   We will have very a very cool night after very hot dry days. So, enjoy the cool, clear, and calm evening, especially with your sitting.   The Buddha found the best, unconditioned peace, called nirvana, stopping all … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Advance Cure or After Care

Good morning!   Even though we are now in September, with autumn like insects singing, we have a very warm morning with the temperature going above 100 the coming few days. We still have the hurricane aftermath here and typhoon … Continue reading

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