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Witness with Work

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we get up early and come here to sit in zazen, we can enjoy the fresh morning air, the cool morning dew, and the bright morning sunlight. When we cultivate the soil, sow seeds, and transplant, they … Continue reading →

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Nature, Nurture, Nuke

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good afternoon! We are nature. We have been nurtured. We have been nuked. Are we nuking all with radiation constantly and continuously for millions of years? As we are witnessing nuke disasters and G8 separated for the future nuke policies, … Continue reading →

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Samadhi or Suffering

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! As we get up early and come here, we can enjoy beautiful flowers, bright candlelight, fragrant incense, a beautiful bell sound, and the beautiful singing of birds, flowers, abundant green. If we don’t follow this way, we cannot … Continue reading →

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Equipoise (Upekha)

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We could see the bright, beautiful dawn before coming here, but now it is overcast. We can hear the sound of the waterfall running and cars racing incessantly – so is life. Dripdrops develop into streaks, streams, and … Continue reading →

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Samadhi Stages

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading →

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Pure Peace

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Now we have a bright morning with the singing of birds. If we had woken up earlier, we could have seen the full moon and the morning star. The full moon represents the Buddha mind – full, round, … Continue reading →

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Sitting and Stilling

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We can hear the sound of raindrops dripping on leaves in our quiet sitting on this quiet weekend morning. Tatsuno Yutaka, an essayist, said, “I like rain so much, I think my ancestors were frogs.” All living creatures … Continue reading →

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Morning Rain, Morning Sitting

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   The morning rain has refreshed the beautiful green, the surrounding atmosphere, the singing birds, the sound of the waterfall.   The morning sitting renews all of them and us in purity, penetration, and freedom, right here and … Continue reading →

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Wakeful Way

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now nice moistened air and abundant green, and we may have rain again. We have been having a long spell of rain, with storms and tornados. Typhoon season is beginning now in Japan, in springtime – … Continue reading →

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Day by Day a Delightful Day

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Every day we can see new flowers starting to bloom and the new day breaking. Dogen said, Flowers fall in lamentation; weeds flourish in detestation.” But if we weed in our garden, we find flowers blooming there. The … Continue reading →

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