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So, Let’s Stop Nuke Power

People lost their homes, jobs, lives, hearts, still evacuated from their inherited land, livelihood, etc. for shortsighted comfort and convenience. So, Let’s Stop Nuke Power, composed and sung by Rev. Gyomyo Nakamura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqTzwRq-WXA&feature=share Lyrics translated by Rosan Yoshida:   SO, … Continue reading

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Nation and Nature Deprived and Devastated

Please listen to and watch beautiful nature and nation being lost: Composed and sung by Rev. Gyomyo Nakamura : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95zYKUH-Wo&feature=related これは民族問題とともに、南極、北極と同様の中央極にあたるチベット高 とヒマラヤの氷河が溶けている両方を扱いました。 合掌                                                           中村 行明

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Auspicious Aspiration and Action

Good morning!   What kind of dreams did you have on the first night of this year? What kind of resolutions did you make? In Japan we list our dreams in the order of auspiciousness: Mt. Fuji, hawks, eggplants, and … Continue reading

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Sitting, Stilling, Seeing, and Settling

Good evening!   We have a nice evening with warm life-giving rain. When we sit solid and serene, we settle in nirvana, windless state of karma – physical, verbal, and mental. We are in the most stable, completely controlled state, … Continue reading

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Symbolism of Self, Society, and Species

Good morning!   Now we see the beautiful clear crescent moon in the darker sky and feel crisp cool air of the approaching winter.   We hear of the fifty year record flooding in Thailand with 356 dead and 2,500,000 … Continue reading

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Constant, Continuous Cultivation in Cutting Karma

Good evening!   We are at the equinox. The equinox is called higan in Japanese, the other shore, meaning nirvana, the windless state of karma. Only when we stop karma can we reach equanimity, or nirvana.   That’s why the … Continue reading

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Seeding Spring: Fruiting Fall

Good morning! Now we have cool air of autumn and beautiful singing of birds. Autumn is the season of harvesting. Since I traveled in early summer and could not take care of the vegetable garden at a critical time, I … Continue reading

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Sit, See, Serve, and Save

Good morning! We now have fresh, cool, and crisp air, as if autumn is around the corner. Today in Japan people are observing the fifth-month memorial day of the deceased following the triple tragedy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. … Continue reading

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Work Works

Good morning! This morning the temperature is in the mid-70s, so we can sit without fans. We don’t need the lamps along the path to the entrance either. The awakened way is to become awakened to the holy truth and … 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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