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Category Archives: Nirvana (windless: asankhata
Who, When, Where?
Good morning! Now we can feel the fall atmosphere in the early morning and late evening, especially after sittings and service. In a fortnight we will have the equinox, equal in day and night, neither hot nor chilly. So, the time is celebrated in Buddhist countries as higan (彼岸), yonder shore or nirvana, where there is neither coming nor going, neither one nor many, neither annihilation nor eternity, neither birth nor death. The Heart Sutra, which we recited earlier, tells us that all is empty (Pali: suñña, Sanskrit: śūnya) of substance. Seasons are neither coming nor going, but dependently originated on the earth’s action. When the earth is upright, leaning neither forward toward nor backwards away from the sun, there is neither heat nor chill. Likewise, when one sits solid and upright, leaning neither forward nor backwards, stilling karmas of the triple poisons, there is nirvana without suffering, the rampant raging of the five aggregates. Anyone can and must come from and go to it without or withdrawn from one’s karma – better earlier, before one cannot. The Buddha said, “The world is on fire. Eyes are on fire. Ears are on fire. Nose…, tongue…, body…, mind is on fire.” The world is on fire, burning down all like a wildfire – global warming, mass extinction, etc. – due to our eyes, ears, …, minds being on fire. Our six senses have been evolved and developed due to karma and driven by karma with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, causing devastation to individuals and societies, and eventually the destruction of the world. The Buddha also said, “Better than conquering thousands upon thousands on the battlefield is conquering one-self. That is the true conqueror.” How can one conquer oneself? Sit still, still karmas, see dharmas, and serve and save all in interdependent origination, in limitless relation and relativity. Anyone can and must cultivate his karma to witness nirvana and enjoy holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness in limitless life, light, liberation, and love for all. Only practice makes perfect. Who, when, where? 9/6/15 … Continue reading
Samsara Suffering or Amrita Ambrosia
Good morning! We are at the Spring Equinox, equal in day and night, heat and chill, thus empty of heat and chill. We can now open our windows, equalizing air and emptying inside and out. Equinox is identified as higan, yonder shore or nirvana, where no wind of karma blows – no discriminations whatsoever. Our karmas create separations and sectionalism, selfishness and suffering. Our evolution has become devolution. So revolution to original holiness, wholesome whole, is necessary now or else only destruction follows. Stilling karmas is in sitting still, stopping physical, verbal, and mental karmas. The Buddha’s awakening to the nature of karmas led to the fundamental and drastic Spiritual Revolution – awakening from delusions and dreadful dreams, as awakening from delusions like waking up from dreams can only attest the emptiness of delusions like the entity-less nature of karmic worlds. All living beings, karma machines, stray and suffer in karma dreams and delusions, devastating and destroying their lives and living in realms drunken in the triple poisons of attachment, aversion, and delusion. Samsara suffering in karma makes it difficult to still and settle in nirvana and amrita, ambrosia, immortality. 3/22/15
Meditation Merits
Good morning! Yesterday I sent an article to our listserve on meditation merits: regrowing DNA’s terminating Telomeres and rebuilding the brain’s gray matter in 8 weeks. Early scientific study started with brain wave research: increasing alpha waves. Its merits have been known for several thousand years as the Zen posture, like the Buddha’s, was found in a Indus civilization artifact. Dogen said its merits are limitless. Limitless merits are made through different levels of meditation, eventually in nirvana as the merit of melting limitless karma complexes. Karma kinetics are in the fight or flight fatigue mode of struggle for survival. Sitting stills all strife, stress, and suffering in the free and full function mode of serenity in salvation. Last Sunday we talked about Dhammapada verse 11, on misconceiving non-essence as essence and vice versa, whose counterpart is verse 12 as follows: Those who know essence as essence and non-essence as non-essence Witness essence living in the realm of right thinking. Dhp. 12 Humans out of their self-survival instincts strive to acquire, accumulate, and amass matters, mights, and moneys limitlessly, considering them as essence and essential, even sacrificing the true limitless liberation, light, love, and life. Essence (sāra) is not rigid like heartwood, but fluid like essence or spirit extracted from plants or grains, essence or core (coeur) of all things. Essence is amrita, ambrosia of immortality, or nirvana – no-wind of karmas, karma creations of matters, mights, moneys, and mine or me, material and mortal. The amrita gate is opened by the Buddha for limitless meditation merits for all, but only attained by those who enter through it with actual application to themselves with cultivation/verification. Practice perfects. 1/25/15 … Continue reading
Essential or Non-Essential
Good morning! Yesterday in Japan people had the 20th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony of the Great Earthquake in Hanshin Awaji with more than 6,000 casualties. Four years ago they had the Great Earthquake in East Japan with more than … Continue reading
Neither Chill Nor Heat
Good morning! We had a few very chilly days going down to five degrees F. I posted pictures of the moon, morning sun, steaming sea, ducks, and daffodils sent from Japan on our blog yesterday. The chilly air makes the water steam, and ducks enjoying swimming in the warmer water. A monk asked Tozan (Dongshan), “When chill and heat come, how can we evade them?” Tozan said, “Why don’t you go to the realm of neither chill nor heat.” The monk said, “Where is the realm of neither chill nor heat?” ” Tozan said, “In chill, chill kills you. In heat, heat kills you.” The Buddha used to teach lay people about donation (dāna), morality (sīla), and birth in heaven (sagga). Birth in heaven means Brahma-vihāra, Brahman’s abode or living in friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (upekhā, lit. throwing away, as in the fourth stage of jhāna, zen). Dogen put them in the “great, mature, and joyful heart,” detailing his teacher’s “soft tender heart.” Bodhisattvas strive for the Six Perfections (pāramitā) of donation, morality, forbearance, striving, concentration (samādhi), and prognosis (prajñā). Donations can be that of goods and good dharmas. 1/11/15 Source:http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/007/420/54/N000/000/002/125076454993716303273_001_20090820193548.JPG
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Good morning! This morning before I came here I turned on TV Japan and found the program Classic Books, featuring Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Its title was “Hamlet’s satori.” It was discussing the soliloquy “To be or not to be.” His satori was not clearly defined, but perhaps “Let it be.” The Vedanta (Veda’s end or ultimate) message is “the unity of ātman and Brahman.” Yājñavalkya reduces all gods to “That.” Prāṇa (breath/life) is That, through which ātman (self, breath) and Brahman (Cosmos, space, life) are identified as selves (breath) that correspond with Cosmos (air space). Thus, sac-cid-ānanda (sat, cit, ānanda: being, consciousness, bliss) is said to be the characteristic of the Self. This has the practical merit of ourselves as Brahman (no Separate Absolute Other: God), hopefully bringing prāṇa to full function of saccidānanda (prāṇa becoming prajñā/ānanda), etc. “Let it be” and “breath/life” are in karma kinetics. Nirvana transcends them in limitless life and light (amita-ābha, -āyus), or limitless life, light, liberation, and love (amita-prāṇa, -prajñā, -priya-dhāman, -prema), beyond limited mundane life in practice (bhāvanā: cultivation = verification). 12/28/14 Note: 1. Bhava (becoming) is karma-kinetics, but bhāvanā (cause to become) is practice in cultivation = verification) stilling karma-kinetics in nirvana and awakening. 2. Priya-dhāman is free-dom, meaning “beloved domain, friendly domain” with all – wholly wholesome way world.
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 20
Poem made on “the exquisite mind of nirvana”: Being always the flower In my native place, It has passed spring Not changing the color. Nehan-myōshin-wo eizu Itsumo tada Waga furusato-no Hana nareba Iro-mo kawarazu Sugishi … Continue reading
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Holy Nirvana Here Now
Good morning! We are now in the spring equinox, which is equal in daytime and nighttime, chill and heat – well-balanced harmony in time and space. Thus, it is equated with equanimity, beyond the dichotomy of perceptions, emotions, and volitions – nirvana or the other shore, beyond human karmas. It is not another world, place, or time, but here and now, just like this early morning sitting, as serene and solid as the deep sea beyond surface surges. Especially when we sit in solid serene Zazen, we become still and stable, safe and separated from the sway of suffocation and suffering, inside and out. 3/22/13
Coming Home and Sitting in Complete Comfort (kika-onza, 帰家穏坐)
Good morning! Now we have the very thin new moon. We know that we will soon see the full moon and flowers blooming in the Dharma dhātu, Dharma domain. Flowers in spring, Cuckoo in summer, The moon in Autumn, Snow in winter Cool and clear. This is the poem “The Original Face” made by Dogen. We are very fortunate to be able to sit in complete comfort coming home (kika-onza, 帰家穏坐) every morning and evening together enjoying all things. Colors of peaks and Sounds of valleys are Altogether voices and Forms of my Shakyamuni. This is also his poem among the five poems referencing the Lotus Sutra. We are always at home in pure peace and prognosis in the Dharma dhātu, resting in great comfort in the Buddha’s house. 3/14/13