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  Awakening for All: Zazen Value: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Holiness   Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, no wind of karma, thus settle in the universal truth beyond limited conditions of mental/physical/environmental, views/values, etc.   Anyone can sit, settle in … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Gift: Holiness   Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, serve and save all, becoming holy, harmonious, healthy, and happy, individually, socially, and environmentally.   Anyone can sit, step forward through the four … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Goal: Limitless   Zazen is stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeking, serving and savoring the Dharma of all dharmas. This is the process from limitedness to limitlessness. Anyone can witness limitless life, light, liberation, love, … Continue reading →

Awakening for all: Zazen Gift: Great Respite   The Dharma (Law) of all dharmas (phenomena) is that all are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and the … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Ultimate: Universality   Dogen says, “Even one person’s one-time zazen, due to its harmonizing together with all dharmas and perfectly penetrating with all times, makes the Buddha’s performance of the Way in the limitless Dharma … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Essence: Amrita: Ambrosia   My dentist pulled out an infected tooth, raised a loose and bad bite, and put back in order its original good position and good bite. I saw a TV story, “A … Continue reading →

    Awakening for All: Zazen Advantages: Prognoses!   After awakening, the Buddha enjoyed the pure peace and bliss of nirvana. He found the world sunken deeply in the accumulated karma of the triple poisons, heading to destruction and demise. … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Merit: Awakening   The world has many problems, such as discrimination, poverty, starvation, crime, and climate change. Now wars are causing the genocide of hundreds of thousands people, threatening nuclear war and holocaust, making the … Continue reading →

(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 →