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Profound Paramount Prognosis

Good morning!   We have now a beautiful spring morning with sitting with Buddhas and singing of birds.   An old Buddha said:   It is difficult to receive a human body and rare to meet the Buddha-dharma.  We have received human bodies and met the Buddha-dharma. We are best among all lives.   It is better to see even with one eye than being blind, not being able to see all the beautiful things in this world.   Someone said, “It is abnormal to have two eyes and to be in one-eyed countries”   If we have two eyes with parallax, we can see things in perspective and profundity in three dimensions.   If we have the third eye of prajñā, prognosis, we can see the paramount truth in the other world in supramundane realm.   4/10/13   Note:   1.Hard is it to receive a human body, rare is it to meet the Buddha-dharma. By virtue of stored merits, we not only have received human bodies hard to receive, but also have met the Buddha-dharma. We are in the best lives among various births and deaths and in the most blessed lives. We should not leave our dew-like lives to the mercy of the wind of impermanence treating carelessly the most blessed bodies.   – Dogen, the Shushōgi, the Significance of Cultivation and Verification, Ch.1   2.Paramount truth, paramattha sacca, paramārth satya, shōgitai, 勝義諦    

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Delusion Disaster

Good evening! We had a big disaster in Japan, with an earthquake and tsunami destroying communities, damaging social infrastructures, devastating the natural life system. Nuclear plants are now in big trouble, evacuating people within a ten kilometers radius. The scientist … Continue reading

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Unconditioned Peace – Unsurpassed Awakening

Good evening! We had a beautiful, bright sunny day today, with plants budding, burgeoning, and sprouting. I saw a pretty white star magnolia blooming in full size on a branch I had taken in during the chilly weather and put … Continue reading

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