Category Archives: Zen

Seeing and Solving System Syndrome

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning ! We can still enjoy the full moon. Now we have very cool air. The season seems to turn from the hot summer to the cool autumn. Artifice must return to the natural way. At this time in … Continue reading →

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Mind Mirror

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We now have a beautiful Sunday morning. Sitting with the Buddha, the beautiful flower on the altar, the cool breeze, the sound of water flowing and birds’ singing penetrates through our world. We can now enjoy the full … Continue reading →

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Mind Moon

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! As we had a few light showers, we now enjoy cool and clear air. Hopefully, with clouds clearing, we can see the full moon, perfectly round, beautifully brilliant, and calm and clear, enlightening, engendering, and embracing the whole … Continue reading →

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Penetrating Past, Present, and Prospect

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have a nice cool, clear, and calm morning. We can sit with fresh morning air and beautiful birds’ chirping.   At this time of year Japanese people celebrate O-bon (お盆、Urabon：盂蘭盆, Ulambana), returning to their native homes … Continue reading →

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Still, Serene, Solid Sitting

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The cool, clear, and calm wind penetrates through the whole world in the still, serene, and solid sitting. Here is no division, domination, and devastation among genders, genuses, and generations. There is no dividing and ruling or being … Continue reading →

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Triyune Tyrants

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We now have a nice cool evening and clear, calm, cool sitting in truth, peace and freedom. When we lack these things, we fall into karmic mammonism, materialism, and militarism. According to declassified documents, the U.S. government wanted … Continue reading →

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Pseudo-system Syndrome

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! This morning I received news of the anniversary of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing from Japan. The New York Times had an article about the nuclear disaster in Japan: the government’s mishandling of the radiation plume prediction caused radiation … Continue reading →

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Practice Perfecting

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Zazen is the essential practice of the awakened way. The awakened way is to be awakened to the holy (wholly wholesome) truth and to act wakefully in the holy way. So, we cannot say, “Oh, I didn’t know … Continue reading →

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Awakening and Awakened Action

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading →

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Perpetual Practice

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We had a squall-like shower early this morning. So now we can see fresh green leaves and colorful flowers, as if summer has returned to spring. We can breathe cool breezes.   Al Gore said that we … Continue reading →

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