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Category Archives: Culture
From Selfish Short-sight to Holy Harmony
Good morning! Here we still have the heat wave, and the heat warning further extended up to next Tuesday. In Japan they have flooding with heavy rainfall above 100mm per hour. The news from Japan reported that the Nuclear and … Continue reading
Posted in Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged cancer, flooding, freedom, global warming, heat wave, heavy rain, peace, personal gain, radiation fallout, shift from selfish shortsight to holy harmony, sitting and seeing, truth
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Freedom is Fearlessness
Good evening! Today we had the temperature beyond 100, and got the news that five people died here because of the heat. We will have more casualties due to the heat wave. Where is the place of neither heat … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Buddha, doom and destruction, fearlessness, freedom, full functioning, karma, limiited selves, neither heat nor cold, peace, sit and still karma, source, the world on fire, tree = true, universal truth, world destruction
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Freedom is Familiarity and Friendship-domain
Good morning! The temperature is now 86 degrees, which is going up to 102 degrees with a heat index of 111 degrees. The heat warning has been extended until tomorrow. The news from Japan reported that the Nagasaki Peace Proclamation … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged abolishing nuclear power, all beings, awakened action, awakening, free from fear, freedom = friendship-domain (philia-domos) and beloved dome (priya-dhaman), Fukushima residents, global warming nuclear disasters, healthy life, licentiousness, Nagasaki Peace Proclamation, one common world, problems and sufferings, right and responsibility, right to live healthy and peaceful life
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Cultivation, Culture, Civilization
Good evening! The temperature went up to 99 degrees during the heat wave, and some plants are in the critical state of life or death. If we give water to them, they can survive; if not, they cannot. When we … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged beauty, Buddha, goodness, here and now, holy (wholesome whole), liberation and love, life and mind, limit of the world, matter and power, practice, religion, transcend birth and death, truth, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, wisdom and compassion
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Making Mind from Mother Nature
Good morning! The temperature is now 80 degrees and going up to 99, with a heat index of 106. Of course, every one feels the heat wave, but few deal with global warming. The Buddha spoke of “making … Continue reading
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Tagged change view and value, Dharma, dharma world, four applications, Four Dedications, global warming, karma, karma to dharma, making the mind from mother nature, original natural system, perishing, prosperity, self to dharma, sit still and serene, stop karma, truth world, wakefully act, yoniso manasikara
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Ignorance and Inaction
Good morning! When we sit stable and serene, we can make every day a good day. We can enjoy more flowers and fruits as we have worked for them. But in the world we see and hear a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened, awakened way, famine, good day everyday, ignorance and inaction, nuclear waste burning, old habits, radiation contamination, religion, sit stable and serene, starvation, suffering
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Awakening All
Good morning! It is now almost cool for sitting, but the weather forecast said that the heat wave will continue until Thursday. The news from Japan described contaminated meat, saying that all cattle in the northern part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged awakened way, engaged in society and ecology, every day a good day, global warming, just sitting, mass extinction, nuclear disaster, save all, wholly wholesome life
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Correcting Karma Consciousness
Good morning! In our solid sitting we feel like we’re “sitting alone on the Great Courageous Peak.” The Great Courageous refers to the Awakened One. I remember sitting in the thick mist on Vulture’s Peak, where the Awakened One … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened one, Buddha, Buddha nature, death ash, four applications, global problematique, global warming, Great Courageour (mahavira), karma, mass extinction, mass killing, nuclear bombs, nuclear disaster, pollution, radiation, sitting/stopping karma, solution, Vulture's Peak, war, Zhao-zhou
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From Separated Selves to Wholesome Whole
Good morning! When we sit in zazen, stilling karma, all the merits of dharma beginning with truth and peace are there. No demerits of karma beginning with falsity and faults exist. We got the news of a man killing almost … Continue reading
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Tagged atomic disaster, biological disaster, blind behaviors, blind beliefs, blind men touching an elephant, chemical disaster, corporations, dharma merits, dogmatism, educational institutions, extremism, fanaticism, global problematique, global warming, holy eightfold path, holy four truths, human karma, karma demerits, killing, knowledge and action, mass extinction, matter, media, nations, peace, power, problems, religions, self interest, sufferings, truth
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From Karma/Civilization to Dharma/Cultivation
Good evening! The temperature went beyond one hundred degrees (108) today. Kaisen Osho said, “The heart-head (fountainhead) being extinct, even fire is cool.” Zazen is to go beyond heat and chill, beyond all phenomena, to go back to the … Continue reading
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Tagged ambrosia/immortality (amrita), beyond heat and chill, beyond phenomena, civilization, cultivation, culture, Dharma, fushi, global system, heart-head extinct, Kaisen, kanro, karma, limitless beauty, limitless goodness, limitless truth, matter power, nirvana, origin, problems, reorineting life, solution, suffering, truth, zazen
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