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Buddha Bodhisattva Aspiration Action
Good morning! After a long spell of dry hot days we at last had compassionate rain last evening. So, this morning we have a clear and calm Sunday sit in sesshin with fresh greenery and birds’ singing. Sesshin … Continue reading
Good morning! Suddenly the world changed into white with snow falling during our sittings and service, and we now have a cool clear world like this. The temperature is going down to 3 degrees. On the way … Continue reading
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From Karma to Dharma
Good morning! I had a rather long, busy trip to Japan. I joined the Soto Pilgrimage, visiting Sojiji for the 650th Anniversary of its second abbot, Gasan Zenji, as well as Sojiji Soin (the original temple), Yokoji, Hokyoji, and Eiheiji. I also attended the annual meeting of the Global System Ethic Association. When Gasan Zenji was abbot of both Yokoji and Sojiji, he rushed 52 kilometers between the two temples, along the mountain path named Gasan Way, so that he could attend services at Sojiji. Ever since, the Great Compassionate Heart Dharani has been chanted slowly to wait for him. His disciples propagated the Awakened Way all over Japan. Yokoji and Sojiji were built by Keizan Zenji, fourth in Dogen Zenji linage. Dogen Zenji visited China and transmitted Zen to Japan. Bodhidharma transmitted Zen from India to China. Gotama became buddha, awakened, in the Dharma of Dependent Origination and Cessation (nirvana), and transmitted the Awakened Way. For the rest of his life he wandered, staying at a place for only one night before moving on. The Dharma, Truth, was expressed by the bo(dhi) tree, which embodies truth and peace. The Buddha himself was expressed by an engraving of his footprint, representing his itinerant life. The Dharma Wheel expresses his spreading of the Dharma. The Awakened Way has been spread by wandering, walking over mountains and travelling over the ocean, by the aspiring practitioners of Zen or Zazen, sitting Zen, which is stilling or ceasing karmas, settling in nirvana, and awakening by it. Zazen is returning to the original state (face), reuniting with holiness, the wholesome whole, and reorienting karmas from sinfulness to holiness, from separation to integration, from bad karmas to good karmas. It is not only returning, reuniting, and reconditioning, but unconditioning all karmas, going beyond birth and death, the five aggregates, and six senses, as described in the Heart Sutra. It is going beyond samsara (the Six Paths of hell beings, hungry ghosts, fighting devils, beastly beings, human beings, and celestial beings) and all its sufferings, which originate from the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion. Human beings are now causing the global problematique, the interrelated problems of global warming, wars, weapons, waste, pollution, population explosion, resource depletion, environmental deterioration, ecological devastation, and mass extinction. The paradigm shift from karma to dharma and from nescience to awakening is the only fundamental solution for the karma of selfish samsara suffering and sundering. … Continue reading
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High Heaven, Holy Harvest
Good morning! We have a beautiful autumn Sunday morning with calm, clear, cool, and sunny weather. People say “autumn with high heaven and hulky horses.” We say “high heaven and holy harvest,” because there is neither heat nor chill, neither vapor nor wind, and all enjoy calm, clear, cool, sunny, and still weather, all can enjoy an abundant amount of wholly wholesome harvest. We also have bountiful beatitude after Sunday sittings and service with a calm, clear, cool, and serene world. People say sitting still is stilling stresses. We say sitting still is stilling senses and sprits, without perceptions, conceptions, emotions, and volitions – all karmas, physical, verbal, and mental – like a settled bowl of still water, without turbulence and turbidity. The Awakened One was awakened to the Dharma of dependent co-origination of all and all beings – karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged – being in dependent co- origination and co-cessation. So, all can cease cravings, karmas, samsaras, and sufferings, settling in nirvana and awakening, stopping demise, destruction, and death of oneself and others. Let’s continue this core practice of the Awakened Way, stilling karmas, seeing Dharma/dharmas (twelvefold dependent origination, four stages of zen/jhāna/ meditation, etc.), serving all (fourfold embracing matters, sixfold perfections, etc.), and saving all (fourfold application, four holy truths, eightfold holy path, etc.), sharing limitless life, light, liberation, and love. 10/11/15 … Continue reading
Madhyastha, Shamatha, Shunyata
Good morning! Passing the equinox, we now have chilly weather. Sitting still in Shikan-taza, we have no chill or heat of the karma world. Nirvana is stilling and cessation of karmas and karma world. Humans, the most advanced and worst applied karma-machines, are suffering from their triple poisons of greed, anger, and delusion, causing the global intertwined problems of global warming, extreme weather, war, population explosion, poverty, mass extinction, etc. Even though we have enough food, we have more than ten million people starving to death every year due to the man-made poisoned pyramidal civilization of me-ism, materialism, militarism, and money-ism. This afternoon we have our Feeding the Hungry Walk. I was asked to speak on the Middle Way there. Maddhyastha is not the middle or average of two, but a neutral state, attached to nothing, nirvana, emptyof substance, śūnyatā.Maddhyastha is śamatha (stillness, cessation) and śūnyatā (emptiness). Enjoying nirvana for weeks in his awakening, the Buddha was rather reluctant to go out into the world deeply sunken in its layers of karmas. The supreme being of the world, Brahma, besought him to go out to save it from destruction, to share the Dharma (Norm/forms) with those who were untainted by bad karmas, like unsoiled lotuses coming out of muddy water. This is how the Buddha as a bodhisattva spent forty-five years after his awakening, wasting no time to share the Dharma and save all. The triple vehicles are those of hearers, personal buddhas, and buddhas/bodhisattvas. We must follow suit as bodhi- sattvas, not as personal, partial buddhas who do not reflect well, but rather like the clear crystal balls on the Indra-net that reflect each other limitlessly. We must make the paradigm shift from pyramid-cage to Indra-net culture. 10/4/15 … Continue reading
Triple Hearts in Triple Learning
Good morning! Tonight we can see the renowned mid-fall moon, even with the full eclipse – hopefully the clouds will clear. It is the biggest, brightest, most beautiful full moon, closest to the earth in the clear, calm, cool air. This is also the season of equinox, equal in day and night and heat and chill – actually neither heat nor chill. Heat and chill are actually due to our karmas-created senses. So, the full moon represents the Awakened One’s heart and mind perfect in light, fully bright without darkness or blemish, in shape full-filled without edges or dents, and in function full-illuminating without hindrance or partiality. The equinox expresses equanimity, the yonder shore beyond a rough sea of suffering – nirvana, no wind of karma in supra-mundane realm. Xuan-sha said that the entire world in ten directions (four cardinal ones, in between, and up & down) is a ball of clear crystal. When we sit still, stilling karmas, we witness the dharma world of all dharmas (forms/phenomena) in the Dharma (norm/law) of Dependent Co-origination (on causes/conditions). Buddhas become bodhisattvas to serve and save all in the dharma world.Bodhisattvas work with the world to be saved from destruction by humans who evolved and developed self- survival skills with the triple poisons of self-delusion, greed, and anger (me-ism, materialism, and militarism), and with the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis. We must make the paradigm shift from a pyramidal civilization to Indra-net culture. We must cultivate our culture with the triple heart/minds of the great, mature, and joyful heart/minds in space, time, and action constantly with the four applications of decreasing, stilling bad karmas, and starting, increasing good karmas. Then all can live the awakened life in nirvana and prognosis daily enjoying the wholly wholesome way world with harmony and happiness. 9/27/15 … Continue reading
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
Renouncing Home, Home Country, Karma Kinetics
Good morning! We seem to taste the early fall weather after some rain. Especially after our sittings and service, we have now a quiet, cool, calm, and clear world. Last night I watched an award-winning film titled The Burmese Harp. The story runs like this: Private Mizushima played the harp to accompany a Japanese soldier group fleeing Burma to Thailand, a no war zone, led by Captain Inoue who conducted their chorus on the way. One night while they were singing Home Sweet Home in a village, they were surrounded by British soldiers, who instead of raiding them, joined their chorus. They were told that WWII had ended and so they surrendered. Mizushima was dispatched to another fighting Japanese group to tell them the war had ended and that they also should surrender. He was unable to convince them in the time allotted, and when he tried to request additional time using an improvised white flag, he was misunderstood by the group, who had decided to fight to the end, and knocked unconscious by them. He was the only survivor of the ensuing attack, and he was saved by a monk, whom he robbed of his robe. He barely reached Mudon, where his group was detained, saved by that robe (food, shelter, etc.). On the way he saw many corpses and was determined to stay there to burn and bury them. He found a red ruby, which villagers, who first simply watched his efforts to bury and then helped him, told him is spirit. At the funeral procession he carried the Japanese style white cloth cover of a cinerary urn. Inoue found the ruby in it when he was taken to the charnel house to remove the urns. His group wanted him to return to Japan with them and they taught a true parrot to say, “Mizushima, let’s go back to Japan together.” Inside the Buddha’s Nirvana statue, Mizushima played the harp to accompany his group singing The Moon over the Ruined Castle outside. Despite their efforts to get in he remained, having locked himself inside. With only three days remain- ing before they were to leave for Japan, they started to sing aloud so that he might come back to join them. They asked the old sales lady to give him the parrot they had taught to speak. The day before they were to leave, he showed up beyond the barbed wire fences … 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
Karma Nescience to Karmaless Nirvana
Good morning! I forwarded an article on the “Terror of War” or “Napalm Girl”, the famous photo from the Vietnam war of the girl running naked, burnt by a napalm bomb, in a Vietnamese field. The picture was taken by an Associated Press cameraman, Nick Ut, on June 8, 1972. It was distributed to every paper throughout the world. It helped end the Vietnam war in January, 1973, with Americans leaving there in March, and the photo eventually gaining the Pulitzer Prize. This picture–along with the picture of a man with a gun at his head in Vietnam, as well as that of the skinny, naked women at Auschwitz concentration camp– shocked me and changed my life, living for peace. The article that I forwarded was a recent report on the “Napalm Girl”. Kim Phuc, as she is named, was burned to the third degree, and was not expected to survive. But, she survived, and eventually founded Kim Phuc Foundation International, healing children of war. Discrimination and war historically started with the origin of city-states, whose structures of power and money are distinctly pyramidal. The 20th century was called the century of nationalism and war. Now, this pyramidal system seems to be increasingly taken over by money-ism, along with me-ism, materialism and militarism. The money machines have made money on wars, but they are ultimately destroying their own existence, with their creation of the catastrophic problems of nukes, global warming, mass extinction, etc. Spiritual Revolution counters this pyramidal tomb of discrimination, deprivation, destruction, etc. The Buddha foresaw the destruction of the world due to the selfish strife and suffering, and solved the fundamental cause of karma, sitting and stopping karma, to realize nirvana–“no wind of karma”–and awakened life. The historical figures of King Ashoka, Prince Regent Shotoku, et al, followed his path of peace, and Gandhi, Martin Luther King, et al, followed suite, working for truth and peace. 3/15/15 1972年6月8日、南ベトナム軍と北ベトナム軍が激戦を交わすチャンバンで、南ベトナム軍がナパーム弾を投下しました。焼夷弾が落ちたのは、キム・フックという少女が暮らす村。この爆撃を受けたキム・フックさんは裸のまま、大勢の村人と一緒に逃げ惑いました。 Facebookでシェア ツイートする 「戦争の恐怖」”Terror of War” … Continue reading