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  Awakening Utmost Agenda!   Our problems and sufferings come from delusions of self and desires and divisiveness based on it. There is no self-same (permanent), self-sovereign (willful), self-entity in the Dharma (Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination, i.e., … Continue reading →

  Nakahechi route   Yuko and Shigeo drove seven hours from Eihei-ji to Tanabe, a town on the western coast of the Kii peninsular. It is the starting point of the most popular pilgrimage route of the Komano Kodo, the … Continue reading →

. After a day of rest, where I enjoyed planting flowers in Yuko’s garden and other things, we left Tokyo by car and drove about 5 hours west to the town Hikone. I am always amazed how much the population … Continue reading →

  When I walked the Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan about eight years ago, I heard about another pilgrimage route in Japan – the Kumano Kodo, located on the Kii peninsular at the most southern tip of the main island Honshu. … Continue reading →

Live Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life! We were born and live in limitless causes and conditions in time and space. No one can live without human societies and ecological, universal systems. So, we must repay and reform them for … Continue reading →

  Still Sitting Stills Karma, Settling in Nirvana, Seeing Dharma❣   We have all kinds of problems and sufferings, summed up in four or eight sufferings (4: birth, aging, sickness, death + parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, … Continue reading →

  Time in the Soto Zen temple Eihei-ji When planning the pilgrimage Kumano Kodo, Ancient Path, Yuko asked me: “What do you want to see and experience in addition to Kumano Kodo?” Immediately, Eihei-ji came into my mind. Eihei-ji, (temple … Continue reading →

  Solving Suffering   We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and also eight, adding to these the four common ones of parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, not attaining the desired, and, … Continue reading →

Four strivings, services, supremes While cleaning our center, I found someone had cleaned the floors, shelf/stove tops, sink, etc., well and unnoticed by others. Some people mow, sweep, contribute, donate (even from afar), etc., all unseen. This is called intoku, … Continue reading →

  Ego Is Evil!   Suffering (duk-kha: dis-satisfaction, lit. wrong-going) are the inevitable four (birth, aging, sickness, death) and common eight (not having the desired, parting from the beloved, meeting with the hated, in short, the rampant five aggregates). The … Continue reading →