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Full Flower Festival
Good morning and happy Easter! Easter is the festival of the first full moon day after the spring equinox. Easter is Eoster, which some scholars say is Uśas, Dawn, the Indo-European goddess. It is the time of brightening and warming with the morning star and the dawning sun from the dark cold night. It is the transition from windy winter to sunny spring. So, all over the world people celebrate this time of the year in different names. Pesch(a) or Pesah is also from Uśas, the Passover from slavery suffering to limitless liberation. It is the birth of new things and the renewal from the old life. All kinds of flower start to bloom. So, we have flower festivals. We talked about the spring equinox, which is identified as equanimity, nirvana, the other shore. The Flower Festival is the Buddha’s birthday on April 8, a celebration under the cherry blossoms, which is celebrated as Vesak in the southern tradition. Already in Japan people are appreciating cherry blossoms with families and friends and food and drink, participating in “hanami” (花見: flower viewing) – here hana (花:flower), meaning cherry flowers. Cherry blossoms represent massive glorious blossoming and also massive grandiose falling – immediate evanescence of life – in wind and rain, and even without them, as if it is in their own nature. It shows naturalness, the natural flow of phenomena in impermanence, which has become the Japanese sense of aesthetic attitude and living way of “isagiyosa” (acceptance of the natural course and non- attachment) or “akirame” (clarification and giving up) endowed with abundant natural beauty together with brittleness, brevity, and the trainings and traditions of Buddhism penetrating through their cultures. Yesterday I watched an NHK TV program which featured the Cherry Festival in D.C., how the cherry trees were brought and how their blossoms have been appreciated for more than a hundred years. In 1885 Eliza Scidmore, an international journalist, came back from Japan and asked the U.S. Army Superintendents of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds to plant cherry trees along the Potomac River. She continued to ask, in vain, for twenty four years, until in 1909 Helen Taft, the new first lady who had lived in Japan and also appreciated cherry blossoms, agreed to the idea. On January 6, two thousand cherry trees arrived in Washington, D.C. from Tokyo, as a token of friendship from the Japanese people to American people. These trees were found to be infested and diseased, so burned and destroyed. Soon, their goodwill determined to send three thousand twenty trees, which arrived on March 26, 1912 and were planted. Diana Parsell, an American writer, wanted to write a biography of Eliza Scidmore. Because many of Scidmore’s records had been destroyed, Parsell visited Japan to research her travels to archives, etc. While there she, too, appreciated cherry blossoms and people’s blessings. She found that Scidmore had joined a club for growing morning … Continue reading
Maintaining Mirror Moon Mind
Good morning! Because of the overcast sky we couldn’t see the full moon late last night and early this morning. But, beyond the clouds and behind the apparent changing phases of the moon, there is always the full moon – the Buddha mind with unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. The unseasonable spring snow caused broken branches, even trunks truncated, and trees tumbling down with heavy wet snow. So, we must take care of them before they break and tumble down. We need dharma care and karma cure through the cultivation and verification of the Buddha mind. Like the king Mirror, seeing the whole picture of the elephant, we must see the whole picture and the whole process to the end, taking care and providing cure. We must maintain sitting calm and clear, stop karmas, settle steadfast and serene in ultimate truth and unconditioned peace, and see and save all. 3/28/13
Bright Moon, Buddha Mind
Good evening! It is a little overcast, but we hope we can see the full moon, which represents the Buddha mind, the round, beautiful, bright moon. On the ground we still see some stored snow, but daffodils are reblooming and forsythias are just budding. The Buddha mind is free from stored-snow-like stored consciousness of karma, and the full-moon-like full function of dharma, beyond the apparent changing phases, functioning like the great round mirror in the great round ball of the clear crystal world. Dogen said, “Awakening is not attained by the mind, but by the body.” It means that we must put our whole beings, body and brain, and the whole world, the true body, into free, full function, neither bubble-begotten nor boundary-bound, neither biased nor unbalanced. The Buddha mind is “the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye” (shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心). That is why we must sit solid, still, and serene, stop our karmas, see the dharmas, and serve and save all beings in the unified wholly wholesome world. 3/27/13
Verified by All Dharmas, Dharma-dhātu
Good morning! We are very fortunate that we can sit in peace and harmony here, now, with all. This is the way the Buddha and all ancestors lived their whole lives. The news from Japan this morning was all about the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which claimed more than twenty thousand lives and missing. More than 310,000 are still refugees, and more than 160,000 are evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear disasters, many of them leaving homes, jobs, families, etc. We have more disasters and destruction in store; the human race especially is causing the global problematique – nuclear holocaust, global warming, mass extinction, etc. How can we stop and be saved from them? The Buddha showed how we can live in a wholly wholesome way and world with holy harmony, truth, goodness, and beauty. Dogen described the concrete path and process of how we can achieve the Buddha Way, the Awakened Way, in his Genjōkōan, Realizing Universal Truth: To learn the Awakened Way is to learn the self. To learn the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be verified by all dharmas. To be verified by all dharmas is to drop off the bodies and minds of the self and others. The trace of awakening is at rest and extinct. The traceless awakening is furthered on and on. “To be verified by all dharmas” means to be verified by all things in the world – the sky, stars, mountains, rivers, plants, animals, etc. How can we be verified by them concretely? We must be verified by the concrete lives and living ways of the Buddha and ancestors with their warm hearts, blood, bones, flesh, and skin. So, we must study their living ways. Our lives and living ways must be warmed, warned, and attested by them right here and now, each moment, every day in our continuous concentrated cultivation and verification. … Continue reading
Formless Form
Good evening! Today’s NHK News Watch reported a famous kabuki actor finding his father’s farewell poem left in his pc. a few months ago. The report quoted: The color is the sky. The sky is the color. (Fare) to the timeless world. 色は空; 空は色, 時なき世へ. Iro-wa sora. Sora-wa iro. Toki-naki yo-e. He regretted not knowing his father already had known his passing away. He asked their patrons to remember his father when they see the sky. Actually the poem is quoting a couplet in the Heart Sutra telling the substancelessness (devoid of substance or entity) of phenomena: Form is śûnyatā. Śûnyatā is form. To the timeless realm. 色は空 空は色 時なき世へ Shiki-wa kû. Kû-wa shiki. Toki-naki yo-e … Continue reading
Conflagration, Consummation, and Crystallization
Good morning! I hope we can see the full moon tonight. I hope we can realize the Buddha mind like the full moon mirror mind, without covering or coloring – clear and calm. The mirror mind world comes from completion of Kalpa Conflagration, consummation of constant concentrated cultivation, and clear cool crystal here and now. 2/25/13 Note: Kalpa Conflagration (Kalpa-aggi, Kalpa-agni) is the conflagration burning the whole world. There are koans about it: 1. A monk asked Zen master Daizui Hoshin (大隋法真), “At the Kalpa Conflagration great thousand universes are destroyed altogether. I am not sure if this is destroyed?” The master said, “Destroyed.” 2. The Kalpa Conflagration exhausts in its total blaze even the tiniest particles. The Blue Mountain is in the white clouds depending on the arcane (truth). All beings as karma-heirs have been transmigrating through the six destinies due to the beginningless night of nescience for kalpas (eons, billions of years) until the great conflagration of consuming the limited bound small selves. Thence only one attains the limitless unbound Dharma-body. 2/25/13
Selfless Supramundane Saving
Good morning! Today’s Tricycle message is about letting go. Someone said that the first one freed in freeing slaves is the slave owner, free and not forced. I often say that possession is possessedness. Selfish short-sight and short-circuit are the sources of suffering. Selfless supramundane and saving are the sources of satisfaction. Small selves cannot survive with the five Ss of systemic, sustainable, saving, safe, and simple style of living, as they go against the wholly wholesome way of living. 2/19/13
Monkey Mind or Purity Path
Purity Path is Purifying Path, constantly concentrated in purifying the mind, in cessation of monkey mind or stopping black bull mind. Please visit the below site and read the comment at its end: Empire of Panic and Ephemera: Applying … Continue reading
Moving Mind
In response to my liftserve posting: The banner, wind, or the mind moving? “Doing all good, Doing no evil, Purifying the mind Is the teaching of All Buddhas.” Garyo sent in a poem w/ photos: No … Continue reading
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