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New Year’s Day

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! After the rain we have now the refreshed air and plants with the new moon high in the sky. The solar and lunar New Year’s days have already passed. But it looks like a New Year’s day … Continue reading →

Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade) | Tagged Bankei, Buddha mind of no-birth (fushô-no busshin:不生の仏心), Daii, Daiso, dharmas liberated, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Karma Causes Enslavement

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! At the very beginning of the Universal Recommendation for Right Zazen Dogen tells us that this sitting is to return to the original source in penetrating purity and freedom right here and now. We stop all karmas … Continue reading →

Posted in Karma | Tagged beyond birth/death:gain/loss, Dogen, freedom, Fukanzazengi: Universal Recommendation for Right Zazen, here/now, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), original source, penetrating purity/peace, triple malady (me-ism/materialism/militarism): three poisons (delusion/greed/hatred: delusion/attachment/aversion), unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, zazen | Leave a comment

Clouds of Consciousness, Confusion, and Conflicts

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We just saw the deep, dark blue sky and dark, dim-lit clouds threatening to snow and storm. Out of blue, tumultuous air colliding at a cold front, lightning, thunder, and sudden storming start. Our mind is … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Zen | Tagged clouds of consciousness/confusion/conflict, unconditioned peace: no clouds created, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Zazen Is Essential Function and Functional Essence

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Dogen said that zazen is the essential function and the functional essence of the awakened ones and awakened ancestors. It is the essential function and the functional essence with unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening in holy … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged Dogen, essential function, full function, functional essence, holy harmony, limitless learning/liberation/light/love/life, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, zazen | Leave a comment

Zen: Chan: Jhana: Dhyana

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We have now very cold and clear air. Dogen’s poem titled “The Original Face” reads: Flowers in spring, Cuckoo in summer, The moon in autumn, Snow in winter, cool and clear. We will read the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged body, Buddha, Dharma Study class, Dogen, Ghyoji (Praxix), karma, nirvana (lit. windless of karma, original face, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, Xiang-yan, Yellow Spring (Nadir: Other Realm), Zen: Chan: Jhana: Dhyana | Leave a comment

Stay in the Sky and the Sun

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now a very warm weather with the hazy moon behind the clouds. The full moon has changed swiftly a little smaller and darker. We may have rain today. But, beyond the clouds and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged bodhi (awakening), lit. windlessness), nirvana (unconditioned peace), unsurpassed awakening, wholly wholesome world: penetrating/pervading birth/death/self/other/time/space | Leave a comment

Learning Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have another beautiful autumn day with the clear sky and the bright sun. When we sit solid, we become like the sun shining forth in the cloudless clear sky. This is the Buddha’s state. He sat … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged 1%/99%/100%, awakened life with all, Buddha (Awakened One), building/destroying pyramid repeatedly, Dogen, equanimity (upekha: upeksha: lit. throwing awa: freedom from all), five aggregates (skandhas: physical forms/feelings/ideas/formations(karmas)/consciousness), five calamities (delusion/bondage/discrimination/exploitation/extermination), fourfold limitlessness (friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity), global scale awakening, highest dharma (unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening), immortality, karma (action/action results/habit), nirvana (unconditioned peace), Occupy, practice: continuous constant cultivation (sitting/stilling/seeing/solving), returning to the ultimate truth/peace, revolutionize the heaven/earth, simplest life: happiest state: friends with all, sit/still/stop karmas: see truth/peace: solve problems/sufferings of humans/living beings, striving for all good actions, suffering (birth/death/sickness/aging/parting/losing/ravaging of five aggregates), unmoved by birth/death/up/down, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Pure Place in Peace and Prognosis

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Autumn morning is worth a thousands pieces of gold. Even though we have neither wind, nor flowers, nor full moon, nor singing birds (ka-cho-fu-getsu: 花鳥風月: flowers, birds, wind, and the moon:), we nonetheless have fresh air, beautiful stars, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Buddha, kachofugetsu (flowers/birds/wind/moon), karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana (unconditioned peace), nukes at hair-trigger alert, Pahom, suffering, three poisons (greed/hatred/delusion), unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Sesshin Sees Still Serene State

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We start the equinox sesshin now. The equinox is called higan, the other shore (:彼岸), nirvana, equanimity, the last state of the four meditations. The original word for equanimity is upekhâ, “throwing away” all karmas, especially the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged beyond birth/death, equinox (higan, four meditations, karma (action/habit), nirvana (unconditioned peace), pure truth world, sesshin (touching/embracing the mind), supramundane, the other shore, three poisons (attachment/aversion/delusion), unsurpassed awakening, upekha (throwing away: equanimity) | Leave a comment

Practice Is Perfection

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In and after our sittings we have been enjoying a beautiful autumn morning, penetrated by the pure sound of rain falling on leaves, permeated by fresh moistened air, and pervaded by abundant green plants. We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Amitabha, Amitayus, Avalokiteshvara (Avalokitasvara) Bodhisattva, bodhisattva, Buddha, buddha function/fruition, Dogen, equinox, four view of water (water/palace/bloodbath/celestial necklace), free/full function, golden wind, good in the beginning/middle/end, Gotama Buddha, highest dharma, human life like fish life life in drying pool, immortality, in/beyond birth/death, karma (action/action result/habit), limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, limitless luck/liberation/light/life/love/learning, normal is not necessarily good, path cycle (aspiration/action=cultivation/awakening/unconditioned peace, peace/prognosis: compassion/wisdom, practice/cultivation/action (sit/stop karma/see dharma), Prince Shotoku, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Sawaki Rosahi, Shakyamuni Buddha, Shotoku School, three minds/worlds (great/mature/joyful), ultimate peace/prognosis, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: unsurpassed awakening

New Year’s Day

Karma Causes Enslavement

Clouds of Consciousness, Confusion, and Conflicts

Zazen Is Essential Function and Functional Essence

Zen: Chan: Jhana: Dhyana

Stay in the Sky and the Sun

Learning Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life

Pure Place in Peace and Prognosis

Sesshin Sees Still Serene State

Practice Is Perfection

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