Category Archives: Zen

Mountains Moving

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Here we can sit calm, clear, and cool – almost chilly now, but in Japan typhoon No. 12 wreaked havoc: there was record damage, with more than a hundred dead or missing, and a downpour of 2,400mm … Continue reading →

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Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had a very hot day today, and we worked together amidst heat and humidity, sweating good sweat.   Now we breathe good breaths in zazen. Then we find our world in peace, harmony, and truth with … Continue reading →

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Express, Enact Equanimity, Equality

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have now a very warm morning, even in September. A warm morning expresses a very hot day coming.   The intense singing of insects expresses the insects’ winter coming. Nuclear bombs and power express the nuclear … Continue reading →

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Practice of Penetrating Purity and Peace

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had a very hot day today, but we can sit and stop our karma, going beyond heat and chill, even entering into a world with neither heat nor chill.   But, in a hot spot of … Continue reading →

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Advance Cure or After Care

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Even though we are now in September, with autumn like insects singing, we have a very warm morning with the temperature going above 100 the coming few days. We still have the hurricane aftermath here and typhoon … Continue reading →

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Wakeful and Wholly wholesome

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We had 102-degree hot and dry weather today and are going to have similar weather tomorrow.   The Sino-Japanese character for autumn depicts grass on fire (秋). Autumn is like fire burning for plants.   Now our … Continue reading →

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Triple Treasure or Triple Tragedy

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have now a good morning with the buddhas (awakened ones), buddha dharma, and sangha (community) in truth, freedom, and peace in our sitting.   A news report from Japan stated that the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused … Continue reading →

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Totalianism

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   When we sit solid and serene, we stop our physical, verbal, and mental karmas, freed from them. So, we can enjoy peace and truth.   In our ordinary life, we pursue comfort and pleasure, which comes from … Continue reading →

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Separation or Seamlessness

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   When we sit in zazen opening all windows, we can enjoy calm, clear, and complete world with the beautiful sounds of insects’ singing, water flowing, and fresh breeze blowing.   There was an article “A Heimlish Line,” … Continue reading →

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Samsara (Full Flow)

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Now we hear incessant insects’ singing and water flowing.   It is said that white hair is the messenger from the dark world. A zen master said that black hair is the messenger from the dark world. … Continue reading →

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