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Living Limitless Life

Good morning!   We could see the very thin new moon earlier. Now we can see beautiful flowers at the altar – lilies showing spring. We have now passed a half month since spring solstice. Even though we have very … Continue reading

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Wholly Wholesome World

Good evening!   We are having nice warm weather going around 60. So, we may say the spring evening worth a thousand gold. In Japan snow accumulated to one meter in a day somewhere.   When snow covers all things, … Continue reading

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Sit and Savor Amrita (Ambrosia, Immortality)

Good evening!   We have now a nice warm, wet atmosphere, which gives life to plants and animals. Trees survive thousands of years, even ten thousand years. Tree and true have the same root of dhrî (the root form of … Continue reading

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Conventional Truth-Peace and Ultimate Truth-Peace

Good evening!   The moon comes up in the east and goes down in the west. Seeing and saying that the sun rises from the east and sets in the west seems natural. Seeing and saying that the self is … Continue reading

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Piercing Poisonous Panic/Pain

Good morning!   The compassionate rain brought the green lively world. The harsh scorching sun brought only a drying death world.   The practice of penetrating pure peace brings prognosis with the wholly wholesome world. The pressure of piercing poisonous … Continue reading

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Minds Make Mundus

Good morning! When we see fresh flowers, our world becomes a fresh flower world. Our world is made up of five senses, controlled and conceived by the mind. Therefore, there is no way to gain the world by losing the … Continue reading

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Way to Wholly Wholesome World

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

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Saving All

Good evening!   Dogen said,   “To learn the Awakened Way is learn the self. To learn the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is be verified by all dharma. To be verified by all dharmas … Continue reading

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Rainfall and Radiation-fallout

Good morning!   We have nice spring rain drizzling, falling on all, permeating through earth, flora, and fauna, so that everything springs up in life, becoming greener, thicker, brighter, and more colorful.   Indian people worshipped rain as Parjanya, the … Continue reading

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