Author Archives: Rosan Daido

(Hereunder are pictures with notes on them, sent to Rosan, who wants to share these beautiful pictures): . . Today (Sept. 22, 2024), when I was walking on the Camino in Portugal, I saw an abundance of morning glories growing … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Benefit: Nirvana   Tomorrow will be the autumnal equinox, middle day of higan, yonder shore, meaning nirvana. For a thousand years in Japan, on this day and the three days before and after, Japanese people … Continue reading →

Awakening for All: Principle, Practice, Propagation   Dogen (Way Source) Eihei (Perpetual Peace, temple he founded), awakened one and awakening-being, aspiring in zazen to become awakening for all, wrote Fukan-zazen-gi, Universal Recommendation for True Zazen, in the thirteenth century so … Continue reading →

Birthday essays for Dr. Rosan Daido Yoshida     September 9, 2024   Happy birthday! The Mitras have compiled these birthday greetings and reflections in celebration of our friendship and meetings. Please enjoy the day!   With deep respect in … Continue reading →

Awakening for All: How to Be Awakened    Gotama (Best Cow, family name) Siddhattha (Objective Attained, personal name) learned sitting meditation (za-zen) to reach the state of no possession and neither ideation nor no-ideation from Alala Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta, … Continue reading →

Stubaier Höhenweg, 3   The path to the Bremerhütte, the last cabin I would stay overnight in, on this trek, was like the other stretches I hiked so far: dotted with ancient rocks polished by past glaciers, upland moors and … Continue reading →

    Stubaier Höhenweg, 2   Hiking above the timberline, the seemingly limited landscape opens up the doors to awe. There is beauty everywhere – in tiny plants surviving the harsh climate and the grandeur of glaciers and mountain tops. … Continue reading →

Stubaier Höhenweg 1   The Stubaier Alpen cabin to cabin hike is known as one of the most beautiful high alpine hikes in Austria. I was able to hike the first three days with my son Robert and the rest … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Awakened One   Nobody wants to continue sleeping forever, much less continue nightmares. We can’t control our dreaming, thus we want to be awake rather than dreaming. We want to be well aware of our living … Continue reading →

  Culture or Karma: Holy or Sin?   Culture (cultivation: from cultura) and civilization (urbanization, from civitas: city) are distinguished as spiritual and material. Spiritual cultivation aims at truth, goodness, beauty (cf. sciences, ethics, arts: intellect, volition, emotion), and holiness … Continue reading →