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Dharma Transmission

Good morning!   Now we have a lot of green around us. Cherry blossoms have almost gone, but red buds have started blooming. I hope you have enjoyed deep breathing and profound peace. When we breathe deep with the Buddha mind seal, we completely refresh our whole system – body, mind, and the world. Thus we merge into the cosmos like the great ocean or the great sky. Actually the sky is called sallila, ocean in India. Then, we are liberated from small smelly skin sacks, returning to the origin, becoming one with the Dharma Dhātu, Domain. Then only, we find out our true selves, the true body, the great ocean like life. Only then, we become awakened to the truth of our original nature. We find that we have been deluded by our small bodies and minds, and find that all sufferings we had are dispersed like dense fogs, dispelled like dark clouds, and come to know wherefrom sufferings come – all from small selves sticking to small sacks.   But, we never know it, until we reach nirvana, vast space, great ocean, and see things from there further, wider, and deeper. It is like waking up from our dreadful dreams. Even though we work in our daily lives, thinking that we are wakeful, it is not enough, not awakened, bound by all kinds of delusions, which essentially come from our senses that our selves, skin sacks, are the most important things. From this delusion, we create all kinds of problems and sufferings. Unless we stop it and merge into this great ocean, we remain in suffering, never solving our problems, individual, social, and ecological. As you know, they are getting more and worse. So, if we really want to solve our problems and sufferings, we must become Buddhas, stop becoming bubbles, becoming selfless. Only our practice makes it possible and perfect.   The Buddha found this truth 25 centuries ago, and he devoted his whole life to save all beings from sufferings. Many followers practiced in the same way as he did, and became Buddhas. In this way from generation to generation, the Buddha Way has been transmitted and succeeded without interruption. If we want to keep this tradition, we all must become Buddhas and keep it alive and active. The most important thing for Buddhas is to keep the Buddha Dharma persist perpetually (reihōgujū, 令法久住). How? Make next Buddhas. Otherwise, it stops there, and disappears. The Dharma, as you know now, is like the limitless ocean or space, awakened by the Buddhas beyond the small selves, bubbles and clouds. If we stick to our small selves or other things such as money, material things, we lose our Dharma and the Dharma life. Even we stick to our lives, we lose them, much more the Buddha Dharma.   As I talked last Sunday “taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha  (kimyō, … Continue reading

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Triple Treasure or Triple Tragedy

Good morning!   We have now a good morning with the buddhas (awakened ones), buddha dharma, and sangha (community) in truth, freedom, and peace in our sitting.   A news report from Japan stated that the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused … Continue reading

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Holy Home-coming

Good morning! After a few solid, serene sittings, we can taste amrita, the ambrosia of immortality beyond samsara (vicissitudes in birth and death) and suffering here and now. Only by actual practice we can taste it. Only with actual practice … Continue reading

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Triple Treasure

Good morning! After sittings we have a peaceful, calm, and clear world with fresh air. Sitting makes us true. True and tree share the root, deru, enduring, or dhri, holding (root of dharma: form, norm). Trees stay solid, still, and … Continue reading

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Dharma Dhatu (Truth Root/Realm)

Good morning! After sittings and the service, we have a very quiet Sunday with spring sunlight brightening the world and this big beautiful amaryllis, peaceful and truthful. But on the other side of the globe there is a lot of … Continue reading

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Triple Treasure

Good morning! When we came out of our houses, we could smell spring in the moistened air. When we sit together, we can enjoy birds’ singing. But, in our ordinary world, we have many problems. The world is on fire; … Continue reading

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