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Equanimity, Equality, Enjoyment

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Now we are at the equinox, the best time with clear, calm air and the bright moon illuminating the world. Now, on the other side of the globe, however, a typhoon with floods and storms is … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged four embracing matters/dharmas (giving/loving words/beneficial actions/sameness), fourfold limitlessness/four pure living (equanimity/compassion/friendship/joy), karma, nescience | Leave a comment

Equinox, Equanimity, Eternity

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Today is the autumnal equinox, with equal day and night, neither hot nor chilly. Here we have just perfect climate, with cool atmosphere and clear, calm sky, without clouds or winds, with the beautiful, bright moon. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged "come and see" (ehi-passika) way, Buddha, constant/concentrated practice, cultivation = witnessing = verification, equanimity, equanimity/insight, equinox, eternity, four applications (decreasing bad karmas, good always for all, higan (other shore: nirvana: nivata: windlessness: uncreated: asankhata: unconditioned peace), increasing them), layer (laya/alaya) of karma, religion = cultivation = practice, saving/serving the world, sitting/stilling karma/seeing dharma, starting good karmas, stopping them, taste eternity/immortality, two islands (self: attan/atman and dharma) | Leave a comment

Unrecognized Unusual Uprising and Upcoming

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Here we have now a nice autumn morning with moistened air and a mild equinox climate with the sense of harvesting. On the opposite side of the globe, however, a million people have been told to … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged demonstration to bid adieu to nuclear disasters/social disasters: Wall Streeet (poverty), global ecological system, global life system, impermanence (in individual/global life system), live in peace/truth, mass media unreporting/underreporting, mirror mind, typhoon | Leave a comment

Serene Selfless Space

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Here we have now crisp, cool air breathed in and out with the world penetrated and pervaded throughout by the clear, cool, calm atmosphere. When we stepped out of our houses, we felt almost chilly air. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged defog views, get out of cars/cages, limitless learning/light/liberation/love/life, limitless world in truth/peace/holiness, serence selfless space, sit in limitless space, the moon illuminating the whole world | Leave a comment

Practice Is Perfection

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In and after our sittings we have been enjoying a beautiful autumn morning, penetrated by the pure sound of rain falling on leaves, permeated by fresh moistened air, and pervaded by abundant green plants. We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Amitabha, Amitayus, Avalokiteshvara (Avalokitasvara) Bodhisattva, bodhisattva, Buddha, buddha function/fruition, Dogen, equinox, four view of water (water/palace/bloodbath/celestial necklace), free/full function, golden wind, good in the beginning/middle/end, Gotama Buddha, highest dharma, human life like fish life life in drying pool, immortality, in/beyond birth/death, karma (action/action result/habit), limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, limitless luck/liberation/light/life/love/learning, normal is not necessarily good, path cycle (aspiration/action=cultivation/awakening/unconditioned peace, peace/prognosis: compassion/wisdom, practice/cultivation/action (sit/stop karma/see dharma), Prince Shotoku, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Sawaki Rosahi, Shakyamuni Buddha, Shotoku School, three minds/worlds (great/mature/joyful), ultimate peace/prognosis, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Step by Step Free and Full

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit still and serene in the morning, we have a clear and calm world. But soon our karma world starts with hassle and bustle, dust and dirt. So, we must climb the high mountain … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged beautiful natural world, birds (flying free/full, karma world with hassle/bustle/dust/dirt, limitless ight/liberation, no trace/trap), pure peace:penetrating prognosis, step by step free and full, step forward atop of 100-foot pole, still/serene sitting: clear/calm world, unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Constant Cultivation Is Crucial Crux

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit in zazen solid, still, and serene, we can settle in truth and peace and actually become truth and peace like trees, which survive thousands of years. Truth survives eternally. Humans, however, evolved and … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged attachment/aversion/delusion:greed/hatred/insanity, become buddha, constant cultivation:crucial crux, from limited life to limitless life (light/liberation/love), from normal to original, global warming, humans (karma-machines:mortor/sense organs/complicated: corruptible: destined to samsara suffering), immortality, instruments/institutions:destructive/doomed, karma creates box/bubblee, karma is normal (self-survival), live on joy, losing holy harmony, mankind (stop karma/see truth/settle in peace), mass extinction, possession:possessed, pure peace/prognosis, sitting still:stopping karma, slaving:enslaved, truth/peace, truth/tree (stabel/enduring)), unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening, ups/downs:births/deaths, wake up before destruction, zazen (solid/still/serene) | Leave a comment

Constant Coherent Cultivation

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now cool, crisp autumn air here. This is the time of harvesting. We harvest what we sowed in spring and strived for in summer. We, however, are not able to harvest what we sowed … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged constant coherent cultivation, cultivate ourselves/world, global warming (typhoon/tornado/hurricane), harmonious happy life, harvesting what we sowed and strived for?, karma (individual/collective/shared), nuclear disaster, truthful peaceful world, universal truth/peace, wholly wholesome whole, worlds on fire | Leave a comment

Compassion Comprehension

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The rain of compassion and the full moon of prognosis brought the cool, crisp autumn air from the hot, dusty summer sun. The Buddha said that the world is on fire. Our world is on fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged all must practice/cultivate/change, Buddha, cultivate/change karma/delusion, full moon of prognosis, holiness (wholesome whole), individual/cllective: particular/universal, individual/collective karma, karma (action/habit), karma machine, rain of compassion, reach/realize universal truth/peace/compassion, self to dharma (universal truth), sin (separation/selfishness), sinfulness (separated self), solution (stop karma: three poisons: attachment/aversion/delusion), solve problems/sufferings, work together with all always, world is on fire | Leave a comment

Come, Climb, Cultivate

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we come out of our houses, we can feel the fresh, crisp air of the early morning, and see the bright full moon. When we climb a mountain, we can sense the frisch (bracing), cool … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged anywhere/any-time, climb up, come out, cultivate self, free/full function, full moon, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed prognosis, vast view | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Philosophy

Equanimity, Equality, Enjoyment

Equinox, Equanimity, Eternity

Unrecognized Unusual Uprising and Upcoming

Serene Selfless Space

Practice Is Perfection

Step by Step Free and Full

Constant Cultivation Is Crucial Crux

Constant Coherent Cultivation

Compassion Comprehension

Come, Climb, Cultivate

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