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Tag Archives: practice
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
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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Pseudo-system Syndrome
Good morning! This morning I received news of the anniversary of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing from Japan. The New York Times had an article about the nuclear disaster in Japan: the government’s mishandling of the radiation plume prediction caused radiation … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged civilization, deep-rooted causes, deep-seated belief, ecological/economic/egoistic problems/sufferings, here/now, ignorance, inability, inaction, institutions, karma (habits, materialism, me-ism, militarism, mythologies, nuclear bombing, nuclear disaster, other generations, other species, practice, pseudo-systems, reexamination, renewal, reorientation, responsibility, self, state, system flaw of "falsity", systems)
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Practice Perfecting
Good morning! Zazen is the essential practice of the awakened way. The awakened way is to be awakened to the holy (wholly wholesome) truth and to act wakefully in the holy way. So, we cannot say, “Oh, I didn’t know … Continue reading
Awakening and Awakened Action
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
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Cultivation, Culture, Civilization
Good evening! The temperature went up to 99 degrees during the heat wave, and some plants are in the critical state of life or death. If we give water to them, they can survive; if not, they cannot. When we … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged beauty, Buddha, goodness, here and now, holy (wholesome whole), liberation and love, life and mind, limit of the world, matter and power, practice, religion, transcend birth and death, truth, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, wisdom and compassion
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