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Buddha-nature Here Now
Good morning! With this rain most snow has melted away. A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China. This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later). Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster. They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs. When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever. Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now. Why do we have these disasters and sufferings? These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones. We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults. We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, “If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed. So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings. We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility. Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading
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Coming out of Coma Confinement
Good morning! We can now see the crescent moon after the recent half moon, and we’ll be able to see the full moon a week after the soon coming spring equinox. Responding to the heart of spring, insects and animals are coming out of their hibernation, called keichitsu (啓蟄), at just about this time. Our hearts are beating beyond our brains and bodies, asleep or awake, even throughout the total frozen globe. We should become awakened to the Dharma after our long hibernation in this once frozen ball, before the total globe becomes a burning ball. 3/7/13 Note: Keichitsu (啓蟄) is “liberation/revelation from confinement (蟄居, chikkyo),” “coming out of coma confinement,” “awakening from night of nescience.” Someone in JUMP (Japan United for Ministry of Peace) group presented the following picture of an insect (Sastragala esakii) coming out of confinement with a beautiful heart shape, as if reflecting the heart inside and responding to the heart of spring, for the occasion of someone’s birthday.
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Good morning! Now we have a bright sunny Sunday morning, almost seemingly spring here. In Japan March 3 is celebrated as girls’ day, Peach Period. May 5 is boys’ day with carps flying in the sky over green trees. Now they have peach blossoms and even cherry blossoms. Here we will soon see forsythias and crocuses, etc. I remember we could not see flowers in New York until May. We still see snow here, but the roads are dry and we can drive easily. Those who came here early saw the beautiful moon in the cloudless sky, already the half moon now, since we talked about the full moon last week. The moon is full beyond the new, crescent, half moon phases, if we see well enough. The full moon represents the Buddha mind, perfectly round, clear, and calm. It is always there, bright and brilliant, illuminating the world in the darkness of night, though not seen in the daytime or dark days. Almost eight centuries ago Dogen went to China in a ship, encountered a severe storm, and became sick with diarrhea, but was cured by sitting in Zazen. After the stormy sea stilled he must have seen the beautiful moon over the calm, clear sea. He mentioned the moon in the water in his Genjōkōan, Realizing Universal Truth, which I quoted last Sunday. This is the succeeding part of it: When the dharmas (true forms) have not permeated the body and mind, one feels as if filled with the dharmas. When the dharmas fill the body and mind, one feels partially insufficient. For instance, when one travels on the ocean in a ship, away from the mountains, and looks around in the four directions, the ocean seems to be round. It seems to show no different phases. However, this ocean is not just round or even square, but its characteristics are inexhaustible. It is like a palace, and like a garland. Only to the reach of one’s own eyes, it temporarily looks round. In this way are all things. Inside the dusty mundane world and outside the (conventional) rules (supramundane world), things are provided with many an aspect, but are only seen and grasped up to the reach of one’s own dedicated learning (of sitting meditation) and the power of one’s own vision. To hear each of the family-mode of all dharmas, one must know not only squareness and roundness, … Continue reading
Samsara Suffering or Nirvana Nectar
Good evening! Dogen, in his Genjōkōan, Realizing Universal Truth, says, Those who are awakened to delusions are the awakened ones (buddhas); those who are deluded in awakening are common sentient beings (putthu-janas). There are those who are awakened further upon awakening; there are those who are deluded further in delusions. The Buddha himself said that the Awakened Way is the “come-see” (ehi-passika) way. So, anyone who comes and practices genuinely can see awakening. Please sit, breathe, stay solid, strong, and serene, and see your minds becoming solid, strong, and serene in pure peace and prognosis. Those who are awakened further upon awakening are Bodhisattvas, attaining nirvana and nectar (amtṛa, ambrosia, immortality), living in the Brahma-abode. Those who are deluded further in delusions are hungry ghosts and fighting devils, undergoing samsara and suffering living in the Hell-world. 2/22/13 Note: Putthu-jana (Pali) is construed as pṛthu-jana (mass/common births, Sanskrit, 凡夫) and pṛthak-jana (separately born, Sanskrit, 異生). Brahama-abode is also called Limitless-abode with friendship (慈: ji), compassion (悲: hi), bliss (喜: ki), and equanimity (捨: … Continue reading
Not Yours!
The Buddha said, “Not Yours!” Your body is not yours. Your brain is not yours. Your “I, Mine” is not yours. Nothing is yours!!! Sit, Settle, See, Save!!!!! Self? Sentient beings? See, and Save altogether!
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Morning Star and Moon as Awakening and Awakened Mind
Good morning! The weatherman said that we would have showers for a few days. Because of the clouds, for showers, we will have warmer weather for a few days. Because of clouds we can barely see the moon … Continue reading
Can’t Make Any Assumption about Anything, Anywhere, Any Time
Good morning! This morning a van stopped in front of me, suddenly and unexpectedly, so I had to brake quickly. I saw that the van was waiting for a dog – it managed to move away from the dog, … Continue reading
Primary Purity, Peace, and Prognosis
Good evening! Whenever we sit still and stop karmas, we remain stable, safe, and satisfied. When kings and others visited the Buddha’s place with hundreds of monks sitting still and serene, they were amazed at the peace, harmony, and … Continue reading
Best Wholly Wholesome Way Is Awakened Amrita Way
Good morning! We are at the end of the year. All things are impermanent (anicca, no self-sameness), and unsatisfactory (dukkha, suffering, no self-sovereignty), thus no self-substance (anattâ). The best holy (ariya, hagia, wholly wholesome) way is the way … Continue reading