Category Archives: Global problems

Triple Treasure

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After sittings we have a peaceful, calm, and clear world with fresh air. Sitting makes us true. True and tree share the root, deru, enduring, or dhri, holding (root of dharma: form, norm). Trees stay solid, still, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Zen | Tagged anuttarsamyaksambodhi, awakening others (jikaku-kakuta), Buddha, buddhas, calm and clear, deru, dharma (form, dhri, global warming, human creation/condition, karma, mass extinction, nirvana, norm, nuclear disaster, participation promotion, peace, practice, problem, Sangha, sangha (community), self-awakening, sitting, suffering, triple treasure, two refuges, war | Leave a comment

Still Serene Satisfaction

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a while of sitting, we witness the clear, calm state of the mind and the world; and then we are able to see the merit of sitting and stopping karma. Otherwise, we just go on according … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilization, Culture, Global problems, Religion, Uncategorized, Zen | Tagged body, death, disaster, emancipation, emotion, free functioning, freedom, full function, global warming, habit, insitution, karma, liberation, mass extinction, mind, praxis, serene satisfaction, society | Leave a comment

Wholly Wholesome Whole

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we come here and sit in zazen, we can enjoy peace, truth, beauty, and goodness with the fresh air and the birds’ singing. Thus, we realize the wholly wholesome state. This is possible only by … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Global problems, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged awakened and wakeful, beauty, cultivation, goodness, holy (wholly), individual, practice, praxis, religion, truth, verification, whole world, wholesome whole, wholly wholesome, witness | Leave a comment

Direct Disaster Devastation

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In zazen now we have a quiet and calm morning. But on the way here, we saw many trees, boughs, and branches fell by the last evening storm. In my yard a big willow tree fell, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged abnormal climate, air water earth, cancer, civilization symptom, consent, control, discrimination, earthquake, future generation, Joplin, nuclear disaster, nuclear nightmare, nuclear waste, radiation, reactor meltdown, TEPCO, tornado, wake up, zazen | Leave a comment

Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Through the open windows we can hear the sound of busily racing cars, birds’ singing, and the water falling. Our life is like the constant flow of cars and currents, constantly flowing with ups and downs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged awakened life, birth and death, cultivation, dissatisfaction, gain and loss, life, limitless life, limitless light, limitless lover, nirvana, practice, provisional phenomena, samadhi, samsara, satisfaction, suffering, ultimate peace, ultimate refuge, unconditioned peace, unmoved, unsurpassed awakening, up and down, verification, vicissitude, witness | Leave a comment

Sitting and Samu (Work)

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a long spell of rain, according to the weather forecast, we are still continuing rainy days. But, fortunately, we have a very bright Sunday morning today. After the beautiful, stable, soft, and serene bell sounds … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged ability, action unconditioned peace, actual action, appreciation, aspiration, awakened, awakening, Buddha, conventional, cultivate, Dharma, dharma world, Dogen, embody, fruition of the past, Gakudo-yojin-shu, goodness, great mind, harmony, hidden vertue, intoku, joyful mind, live on joy, mature mind, merit, mind, mundane, negative virtue, peace, practice, practice cycle, problem, samu (work), self, serene, sitting, skill, small self, soft, solid, stable, suffering, three minds, truth, value, wholly wholesome, withness | Leave a comment

Wholly Wholesome Way

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We have now very high temperatures and humidity, but after sweating and taking a shower, I feel very good. Zen life is not only sitting, but samu. We do samu whole-heartedly – wholly sweating, wholly breathing. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged awakened way, cutting arm, cutting tree, light on veggies and vita, sitting and samu, whole-heartedly, whollly wholesome perspective and priority, wholly breathing, wholly sweating, zen life | Leave a comment

Ego, Envy, Enmity

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit in zazen, we are in peace, truth, harmony, and holiness. This is good for oneself and others, good all the time and in all places. When we act in the conventional … Continue reading →

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Saving Suffering

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged appropriation, arrogance of health, arrogance of life, arrogance of youth, awakened way, concentration, craving, death, decay, delusion, Dependent Origination, devastation, disease, dissatisfaction, dukkha, ego, five coverings, five Ss (systemic, formations, four fluxes, harmony, here now, holiness, impermanence, karma, mass extinction, meditation, morality, nescience, nirvana, noumena, nuclear disaster, origination of consciousness, origination of samsara, origination of suffering, peace, phantom, phenomena, prognosis, reality, run after, run away, Ryokan, safe, sankhara, saving, Sawaki Roshi, second arrow, self-sense, sense objects, sense organs, short-circuit, short-sight, simple, sitting, stop karma, sustainable, three poisons, three steps, threefold suffering, tornado, tread-wheel, triple learning, truth, tsunami, wholly wholesome, wisdom, witness | Leave a comment

Sunlight after Suffering

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! After the long spell of rain, now we have a sunny evening. If rainy days last too long the water of life can become the water of death, damaging and destroying flora and fauna. Today is the 25th … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, birth and death, Chernobyl, flora and fauna, history, irradiation, Japan, nirvana, rainy days, same suffering, sit solid, stop karma, sunny days, unconditioned peace, vicissitudes, water of life/death, whole life system | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Global problems

Triple Treasure

Still Serene Satisfaction

Wholly Wholesome Whole

Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction

Sitting and Samu (Work)

Wholly Wholesome Way

Ego, Envy, Enmity

Saving Suffering

Sunlight after Suffering

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