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Sit, See, Serve, and Save

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We now have fresh, cool, and crisp air, as if autumn is around the corner. Today in Japan people are observing the fifth-month memorial day of the deceased following the triple tragedy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged all being, delusion, devastation, domination, freedom, materialism, me-ism, militarism, nuclear disaster, peace, suffering, triple tragedy, truth, unity of life system, whole life system | Leave a comment

Ignorance and Inaction

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit stable and serene, we can make every day a good day. We can enjoy more flowers and fruits as we have worked for them. But in the world we see and hear a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global problems, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Zen | Tagged awakened, awakened way, famine, good day everyday, ignorance and inaction, nuclear waste burning, old habits, radiation contamination, religion, sit stable and serene, starvation, suffering | Leave a comment

From Karma/Civilization to Dharma/Cultivation

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The temperature went beyond one hundred degrees (108) today. Kaisen Osho said, “The heart-head (fountainhead) being extinct, even fire is cool.” Zazen is to go beyond heat and chill, beyond all phenomena, to go back to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged ambrosia/immortality (amrita), beyond heat and chill, beyond phenomena, civilization, cultivation, culture, Dharma, fushi, global system, heart-head extinct, Kaisen, kanro, karma, limitless beauty, limitless goodness, limitless truth, matter power, nirvana, origin, problems, reorineting life, solution, suffering, truth, zazen | Leave a comment

Deceit and Delusion Destroy

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In the early morning we can hear the birds’ singing, but already it is hot. The temperature is going to 101 degrees, and the heat index to 111 degrees. Thus, we need to turn on fans or air … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged action, amateurs, deceit, delusion, habits, hearsay, holy (wholly wholesome), holy path, holy truth, human ways, ignorance, inability, knowledge, nuclear disaster, problems, responsibility, sitting, specialists, stopping karma, suffering, understanding | Leave a comment

Total Truth

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In our sitting, the pure sound of flowing water penetrates through our world; the fresh breeze permeates throughout our bodies and minds; the bright, beautiful sunlight pervades the world. This is the world in cessation (nirodha) and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alienation, antagonism, attachment, aversion, birth and death, bodhisattvas, body, bones, bubble, buddhas, calm ocean, clear crystal, conception, death, delicate and drastic, delusion, demise, desire, discrimination, division, Dogen, emotion, flesh, freedom, full function, genes, here now, holy truth/goodness/beauty/peace/harmony, holy world, industry, karma, liberation, life, light, limited values and views, limitless life, love, matter, mind, money, mountains, neither decrease nor increase, nirodha, nirvana, nuclear disaster, penetration, perception, phenomena, purity, rivers, samsara, saving, serving, space, suffering, the moon, the sun, time, total dynamic, total truth, Universal Recommendation for the Right Zazen, volition, world | Leave a comment

Holy Truth, Holy Path

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we get up early, we can feel the fresh, cool morning air. When we step out from our houses, we can see beautiful nature. When we sit down calm and clear, we can discover how our perceptions, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged appropriation/identification, bodhi (awakening), clear, Dependent Origination, dukkha (suffering), emotion, four noble truths/realities, holy eightfold way/path, nature, niroda (cessation), perception, prajna (prognosis), samadhi (concentration), samsara (flow, sila (morality), sitting calm, suffering, three learnings, unconditioned peace, vicissitude, volition | Leave a comment

Beyond birth-death

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Usually when we sit early in the morning we have cool, fresh air, but it’s going up to 101 degrees, with a heat index going up to 115. The world seems to be ablaze – flowers are falling. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birth, bubble, candle burning, causes and conditions, death, disaster, life, ocean, pain, pleasure, suffering, truth, truth ocean | Leave a comment

Way to Wholly Wholesome World

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires. This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, asankhata, beatitude, beauty, cessation, conflict, contamination, delusion, desire, Dharma, disaster, discrimination, dukkha, global warming, gokuraku, goodness, karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, origination, papance upasama, perspective, priority, prognosis, safety, self-centered, sitting, solution, sufering, suffering, sukhavati, truth, ultimate comfort, unconditioned peace, wholly wholesome world | Leave a comment

Holy Home-coming

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

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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Practice Perfects

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Aspiration and action witness unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace. Unsurpassed awakening attests the dharma (norm) of dependent origination that all phenomena originate depending on causes and conditions. It verifies that samsara and sufferings originate depending on delusions and … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: suffering

Sit, See, Serve, and Save

Ignorance and Inaction

From Karma/Civilization to Dharma/Cultivation

Deceit and Delusion Destroy

Total Truth

Holy Truth, Holy Path

Beyond birth-death

Way to Wholly Wholesome World

Holy Home-coming

Practice Perfects

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