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Community-Contemplation-Conviction-Commitment-Cooperation
Good morning! We have a cool and clear Sunday, especially after sittings and service. We could see the renowned mid-fall full moon this morning, though we could not on the exact day due to clouds. We say Moon-face … Continue reading
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From Karma-machine to Dharma-maker
Good morning! Rain made the dry summer scene into the rainy season. This may be a part of global warming. Yesterday I saw our grandchildren, just over two years old, carrying big cantaloupes, holding them firmly from farm … Continue reading
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Wakeful Way World
Good morning! Earlier this morning we had a very thick fog and it was difficult and dangerous to drive. Now with dawning the fog is dispelled and we can see dew on branches and daffodils on … Continue reading
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Unsurpassed Awakening in Unconditioned Peace
Good morning! We have a bright sunlit spring Sunday with our nice sittings and service. All springs up. Recently I received my paper on Zen and Science, edited with comments. I found that the unique Zen/Buddhist … Continue reading
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Samsara Suffering or Supreme Solution
Good morning! After yesterday’s snowfall with chill, we have now a bright sunny Sunday morning with sittings and service. Interested in the title of “Heaven and Hell,” I took a look at Kurosawa’s film on the Internet … Continue reading
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Thicket Doctor or True Doctor
Good morning! We have a calm, cool, and clear Sunday morning after sittings and service, especially after yesterday morning’s snow. Yesterday I watched a TV program from Japan featuring Dr. Yoshiharu Sekino that traced back the Great Journey of humans from Africa to South America, starting from the southern tip of South America, through Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flat at Uyuni), Siberia at -120 degree, Gobi Desert caught in sand storm for 5 hours, back to where the footprints of an adult and a child (Australpithecus afarensis) fossilized 3.6 million years ago. The Yanomamis accepted him as a medical doctor smoothly, even though he first hesitated to interfere with the shaman doctor’s authority, because the shaman doctor himself asked him about his headache. It actually came from an overdose of intoxicants, which usually made him say that spirits were causing the sickness. We must distinguish a true doctor from a thicket doctor (yabu-isha in Japanese) who cannot see through the thicket or find a way out. There are a lot of thicket doctors in our political, economic, social, and cultural fields who cannot see far enough through the thicket or find the way out. The Buddha found that all living beings are caught in a thicket or jungle of karmas and prognosticated the way out of it. This sitting is stilling karmas and seeing the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination. Nirvana is stilling the karma-wind (goppū, 業風; formations: saǹkhāra: new and old three karmas: bodily, verbal, and mental as the prime mover of the 12-limbed Dependent Co-origination for consciousness, suffering, and samsara; “the rampant Five Aggregates – karmas – in short are all sufferings”). “The right Dharma- eye is in the exquisite heart of nirvana.” Anyone can witness nirvana-awakening in solid sitting, shift societies to change artificial uni-directional pyramidal civilizations fighting for money, matter, and militarism to a natural cyclical Indra-net culture for life, heart, and peace. Anyone can save ecology- environment in systemic, sustainable, saving, safe, and simple ways. The true cause of wars, terrorism, global warming, mass extinction, etc., is our fivefold karma calamity of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. We are saved by the … Continue reading
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Endless Enmity or Perpetual Peace
Good morning! We have a bright sunny Sunday morning in peace and truth after our sittings and service. All over the world, however, we have dark days of death tolls – 129 killed and more than a few hundred injured by the terrorists’ bombs and shootings in Paris. We may see vengeance after vengeance – an endless tit for tat, by all means. The Buddha said, “enmity is never appeased by enmity, but by non-enmity. This is the eternal truth here.” So long as we remain in the karma realm, we want to conquer the enemy – enmity endures for eternity. He said, “Better than conquering thousands upon thousands is conquering one-self. This is the true conqueror.” He provided the way to still our karmas and see the dharmas of unconditioned peace (nirvana) and unsurpassed awakening (bodhi) in perpetual peace and total truth. It is this sitting and stilling bodily, verbal, and mental karmas (actions, functions, habits, heredities). Anyone can cultivate and verify it. Karma creates me-ism, materialism, militarism, and money-ism, causing wars, warming, extinction, etc. with delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. Dharma donates limitless life, light, liberation, and love, delivering peace, prosperity, etc., with awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace. 11/15/15 … 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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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