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Selflessness: Source of Serene Satisfaction

Good morning!   I hope that we can have a new, good day, hopefully a sunny spring day. Sitting upright, breathing fully, and settling in peace and truth, make a good day, every day.   Just before arriving here, I turned on the car radio and picked up just these words, without context, “Sefishness everywhere.”   Selfishness is the source of suffering. Selflessness is the source of satisfaction. Selfishness is the source of struggles. Selflessness is the source of serenity.   That’s why we must sit, stop our karmas, see the Dharma, and settle in nirvana, unsurpassed peace, and unsurpassed awakening. This is the source of solutions.   That is why the Buddha illustrated the King Mirror, reflecting blind people touching only a part of an elephant and fighting for their partial findings, and taught us thus:   “Better than the one who would conquer thousands upon thousands in the battlefield is the one who would conquer one’s self. That is the true war conqueror.”   2/18/13  

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Culture: Constant Cultivation or Civilization: Constant Contrivance

Good morning and Happy New Year!   In Japan  we say, “Through Jan. 7, within Matsunouchi.” Matsu stands for pine trees and in this case refers to a New Year’s decoration (matsu-kazari, pine decoration) set up at the gates of … Continue reading

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Stopping Karma Is Stopping Suffering

Good morning!   We have a calm, warm, bright morning after the last night rain. We say, “After rain earth solidifies.” (Ame-futte chi-katamaru, 雨降って地固まる) Without dust bowls or extreme chill, nature seems to return to life.   Sometimes rain causes … Continue reading

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Simple Straight Sitting

Good morning!   We will see the full moon in the clear sky tonight. After the leaves have fallen, trees are exposed to crisp cool air. The world is chilly, going to the freezing point now.   After our sittings, … Continue reading

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Let’s Live Limitless Life, Liberation, Light, and Love

Good morning!   We have now chilly air at 41 degrees. On the way here I listened to NPR, which reported on a nuclear plant near New York City. Its licenses are going to expire in 2013 and 2015. Voices … Continue reading

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Remain Resolute Resilient

Good morning! We sit calm and cool in the heat wave warning, with the heat index due to go up to 110 degrees. “In extinction of the heart-head, even fire is cool.” So saying, Kaisen Osho at Erinji sat in … Continue reading

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  Good morning!   Even though it is unusually, unseasonably chilly, we have now a fine, quiet daybreak and a warm spring day.   We have different ways of understanding and acting depending on individual judgments, social justifications, and natural … Continue reading

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Cultivation=Verification

Good morning! After our sittings, we have a very peaceful world inside and out. We are very fortunate that we are walking in the Awakened Way and have the concrete practice to attain it. Zazen is the essential way and … Continue reading

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Truth Turns

Good morning! After some cloudy days, we can now see an almost half-full moon in the mid-sky. We couldn’t see how big and bright the moon was, but in the east we could see the beautiful morning star. On the … Continue reading

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