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Tag Archives: three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion
Four Dharma Marks
Good morning! We have a beautiful Sunday morning with fresh green and beautiful flowers. It is like March, April, and May coming all at once with unseasonable flowers blossoming – azaleas, peonies, wisteria, lilies of the valley, irises… … Continue reading →
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Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, dharma of all dharmas: law of dependent origination: interdependent/interrelated/impermanent/selfless, Dogen, four dharma marks (impermanence/suffering/selflessness/nirvana), global system/ethic/problematique, karmas, nirvana, primary practice, three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion
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From Triple Tragedy to Total Truth
Good morning! Today, March 11, one year ago in Japan we had the triple tragedy of the record earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster claiming almost 20,000 lives, about 400,000 people still evacuated, almost half of them from nuclear disaster … Continue reading →
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Tagged Buddha, Dharma Dhatu, Dogen, eating son's flesh, elephant's footprint, four appliations, four noble/holy truths, global life system: 5Ss (systemic/sustainable/saving/safe/simple), Gyoju (Praxis), holy eightfold path (right view/thinking/speech/action/livelihood/mindfulness/striving/concentration), karma machine, matter/power:fortune/fame, original/ultimate resort/refuge, right livelihood, Ryokan, shortcircuit, shortsight, the world on fire, three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion, threefold suffering: individual/social/environmental, true self
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Human Pollution
Good evening! We can see the clear and calm half moon after one cycle of lunar phases since New Year’s Day. Dark and dense clouds are, however, hanging over us in the human world with nuclear war or … Continue reading →
Uncreated with Karma
Good evening! It’s a good evening when we sit in zazen, even though it is raining in darkness, difficult to drive. We can go back to nirvana or asankhata, windless or uncreated with karma, returning to the original state before the creation … Continue reading →
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Tagged nirvana: windless of karma: asankhata: uncreated by karma: holy (wholly wholesome) state, original state before creation by karma, three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion, triple malady (me-ism/materialism/militarism): three poisons (delusion/greed/hatred: delusion/attachment/aversion)
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Return to Restart
Good morning! The full moon has quickly changed into the half moon. Now we have a nice bright Sunday. In a few days we will have the winter solstice, when the night is the longest and our distance to … Continue reading →
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, nuclear disaster, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, War, Zen
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Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), awakened way, awakening, culltivation/verfication, Dharma, drop off body/mind, ecological/economic/egoistic problems/sufferings, global life system, karma problem, Occupy movement, paradigm shift, pyramidal power system, self, three maladies (militarism/materialism/me-ism) vs. triple learning (morality/concentration/prognosis), three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion
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Third War and Eternal War
Good morning! We are now close to the year end. Time flies and life flees! The awakened way is to become awakened in the dharma (form/norm) of dependent origination, which means impermanence and interrelatedness of all phenomena. We … Continue reading →
Separation or Seamlessness
Good morning! When we sit in zazen opening all windows, we can enjoy calm, clear, and complete world with the beautiful sounds of insects’ singing, water flowing, and fresh breeze blowing. There was an article “A Heimlish Line,” … Continue reading →
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Tagged alienation from group, beyond self and otehr, calm/clear/complete world, conviviality, free-dom, friend-ship, friends make one's life, happiness, Heimish line (homely line), inexhaustible treasures, intricate interdependence, learning, liberation, light, limitless life, love, mamiliar domain, me-ism/materialism/militarism/de, opening closedness, seamless world, settle in truth/peace/harmony/holiness, se[aratopm=somfi;mess., specialists' stupidities, stop karma, three poisons (delusion/attachment/aversion, together-living, tptal community, wider world
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