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Peace, Prognosis, Perspective, Priority

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have the bright sun on a quiet Sunday just after the Summer Solstice. This morning I went into the garden and saw that the big mallow flowers have started blooming, the morning glories are blossoming brilliantly, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged and lielessness (five Ls of Global Ethic), and saving all (the five Ss of the Global System), animal karma, animals: mobing beings vs. plants: still beings, durable, Fukushima, General Happiness Index, Global Happiness Index, law (of dependent origination and interdependence of all), liberation, life, love, nuclear power (bomb/plant), nuclearists, orient minds from the source (yoniso manasi-kâra), pyramidal system vs. cyclical system, safe, simple, sustainable, systemic, tree/true: deru or dhri | Leave a comment

Transforming Base

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We are now in our spring equinox sesshin. Sesshin means touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂心); touching and embracing the buddha, awakened, mind. In our ordinary living we are with monkey minds and … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Cultivation: culture | Tagged act, agree, and advice, assess, buddha: awakened, dharmas (form/norm, eight consciousnesses (frontal 5: eyes/ears/nose/tongue/body/manas/mano vi-jñâna/âlaya vijñâna), Global ethic: 5Ls: law, Global system: 5Ss: systemic, Information flow: 5As: access, karma (old/new: physical/verbal/mental:action/habit), karma machine, liberation, lielessness, life, lit. holdings), love, Material flow: 5Rs: reduce, mirror consciousness/equal nature consciousness/subtlety observing consciousness/duty fulfilling conscdiousness), penetrating pure peace/prognosis/perspective/priority, rearrange, recycle, restore, reuse, safe, saving, Sesshin means touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂心), simple, sustainable, transforming base (転依：tenne) | Leave a comment

Awakening and Action

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We had a small shower last evening after the long, severe heat wave. So, our plants have enjoyed a brief moment of shower – life water and cool air. We can now enjoy the sound of falling water … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged action, Americans, awakened way, awakening, crying over spilt milk, cultivation, Dharma, dharma (form/norm), Dogen, Emory Robins, energy, equality, fear, fearless, flowers, free, fruits, Fukushima, full function, genuine joy and happiness, karma, Koide, limitless life/light/liberation/love, military-industrial-political complex, mountain-river-great-earth m;ind, nuclear power, peace, problems, prognosis, radiation contamination, safe, saving all beings, self, selfish interest, simple, slave, sufferings, sustainable, systemic, truth, wholly wholesome happiness, wholly wholesome system | Leave a comment

Saving Suffering

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged appropriation, arrogance of health, arrogance of life, arrogance of youth, awakened way, concentration, craving, death, decay, delusion, Dependent Origination, devastation, disease, dissatisfaction, dukkha, ego, five coverings, five Ss (systemic, formations, four fluxes, harmony, here now, holiness, impermanence, karma, mass extinction, meditation, morality, nescience, nirvana, noumena, nuclear disaster, origination of consciousness, origination of samsara, origination of suffering, peace, phantom, phenomena, prognosis, reality, run after, run away, Ryokan, safe, sankhara, saving, Sawaki Roshi, second arrow, self-sense, sense objects, sense organs, short-circuit, short-sight, simple, sitting, stop karma, sustainable, three poisons, three steps, threefold suffering, tornado, tread-wheel, triple learning, truth, tsunami, wholly wholesome, wisdom, witness | Leave a comment

Civilization to Culture

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We are having thunder and weather sirens. It seems that we have more and more disasters – tornados, typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear disasters, etc. In Japan, in the 40 days following the record earthquake, there have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beauty, disaster, extinction of humankind, fight for matter and power, goodness, holiness, human civilization, insight, karma, mass extinction, natural truth, peace, pyramidal system, safe, saving, share life and light, simple, sustainable, systemic, three poisons, unnatural substances, unnatural superstructures, urbanization | Leave a comment

Shift System

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The spring rays and rains have brought us green trees, a warm atmosphere, and beautiful flowers in truth, peace, and beauty. In the unnatural human world, we have lost truth, peace, and beauty. Thus, we now have disasters, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beauty, civilization, death, delusion, destruction, disaster, greed, happy world, harmonious world, hatred, holy world, peace, permanent independent self, safe, saving, simple, sustainable, systemic, three poisons, truth, unnatural pyramidal system | Leave a comment

Sustainable System

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We have all kinds of flowers blooming. We call this “haru ranman: ???” spring at its best, full of flower, brimful of spring atmosphere, with warm sun and compassionate rain. All plants and animals spring up. Ryokan made … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged butterflies, Cherynobyl, critical state, Earth Policy Institute, flowers, government, harmony, haru-ranman, human karma, humankind, Japan, Joseph Stiglitz, liability, natural way, nature, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, nucler industry, original way, people, policy, preference, program, renewable energy, renewable resource, Ryokan, safe, saving, sid down, simple, supreme law, sustatinable, systemic, the 1%, true happiness, truth peace, worst time | Leave a comment

Tomo (Together: 共, Friend: 友)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! A lot of flowers are blooming – forsythias, daffodils, magnolias, pears, plums, even cherry blossoms are now blooming. We cannot totally enjoy them because of the disaster in Japan – m-9 earthquake, 30m surge tsunami, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged attachment, beyond boundaries, compassion, cooperation, delusion, discrimination, earthquake, equality, exploitation, friends operation, karma, nation, nuclear disaster, o-tomodachi sakusen, peace, race, religion, safe, sameness, satisfaction, saving, serenity, simple, spring evening, truth, tsunami, unconditioned peace, version, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWEDextermination | Leave a comment

Time Tide

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The untimely spring snow has disappeared, and greener grass and fuller flowers have appeared. Even cherry blossoms bloomed according to time and tide. Anything not in a systemic, sustainable, saving, safe, and simple state will disappear. Dictatorships, dynasties, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged civilization, Dharma, dictatorship, dynasty, limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, nature, refuge, safe, saving, simple, state, sustainable, systemic, time, truth, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWED | Leave a comment

Wholesome Whole

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit in zazen, our mind eyes go to the unprecedented disaster in Japan. When people become quiet, their eyes go to the scenes of their struggles and sufferings. The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster caused 220,000 … Continue reading →

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