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Karma Is Key!   Suffering comes from karma. Karma comes from self-survival strife since life started four billion years ago, driven by the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego). Egoism (Self-centeredness, individual, national, etc.) is the source … Continue reading →

  Wake up and walk up!   All living beings have the inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death. Why is birth suffering (duk-kha: wrong-going)? Because it is karma imbued with self-survival strife – sinful (separated) sickness. This is … Continue reading →

There is no sovereignty!   The Buddha was awakened to the Dharma (norm/law) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena), Dependent Co-origination, that all are interdependently co-originated. This means no sovereignty (of Self, State, Sovereign) due to no self-sameness (impermanence), no self-sovereignty (suffering, … Continue reading →

  Good friends are the whole of the holy way.   I had what might be my last trip to Japan to attend the 19th academic meeting of the Japan Global System Ethic Association and to meet friends from a … Continue reading →

  Categorical Command: Kill Not!   “Kill Not” Is the Categorical Command for Salvation! All living beings want to live in holy harmony, health, and happiness. Categorical Commands of religions start with this and other fundamental prohibitions to preserve life … Continue reading →

No Nescience/Nefariousness: Karma to Dharma Hamas’ attack on Israel killed 1,400 people, and more than 200 were kidnapped. In response Israel has killed over 7,000 Palestinians, including over 3,000 children with air, land, and sea raids and blockades; ordered more … Continue reading →

  Enmity Is Enemy！   Half a century ago in the U.S., I saw a boy of Palestinian descent on TV vowing to take revenge on Israelites. Now, more than five thousand people are dead, as Israel takes revenge for … Continue reading →

  Law Is Life: Five Precepts   Law (of all phenomena, the Dharma of all dharmas, Dependent Co-origination) is the truth/ethic of life, and the loss of it is loss of life. If one ignores it, one commits sin, separated … Continue reading →

  Transcend Tribalism: Two Modes of Being   Humans have been suffering, but are now causing suffering to all in the global life system, even to the brink of total catastrophe with the global problematique, interrelated problems such as global … Continue reading →

Take refuge in yourself and the Dharma: Two Refuges   The Buddha was awakened in the Dharma (Norm/Law/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/truths), Dependent Co-origination, that is, all phenomena are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. This means that all … Continue reading →