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Category Archives: Dharma of Dependant Origination
From Sick Sin to Healthy Holiness: 病患の罪悪から健康な聖性へ
Good morning! We had chilly days recently, but the weather forecast is up to 52 today and 64 degrees tomorrow. The Dharma (Norm, Law) of all dharmas (forms, phenomena) is Dependent Co-origination, related and relative, as illustrated in … Continue reading
Universal Life Truth: 普遍的生命真実
Good morning! We have fresh flowers at the altar, crisp cool fall air, and whispering waterfall sounds. Hibiscus is called the endless or limitless flower (mugenka), as it continues blooming year round in tropical zones, and it has become … Continue reading
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Deathless Dharma (Form/Norm: Truth/Ethic) 不死の法(諸法・法則:真理・倫理)
Good morning! It’s cold outside, but I hope you are warmed up in peace and truth after our sittings. This is the Dharma gate of pure peace and bliss – peace in nirvana and bliss in awakening in … Continue reading
New Zen Buddhism Wiki
Please visit the following site for a new systematic understanding of Zen Buddhism (New interpretation of Dependent Co-origination, nirvana, etc.): https://zenbuddhism.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Ending Endless Enmities
Good morning! Now it is February. Time flies! Life empties! Did you hear about a Japanese journalist who was decapitated by ISIS members? It is a detestable savagery. They warned the Japanese Prime Minister that any Japanese anywhere is now in danger because of his participation in the Voluntaries, to destroy them. It is a horrendous and ominous thing, but we must know why it happened. The Japanese have been considered a peace loving people, with its Peace Constitution renouncing wars and weaponry after their atomic bomb experience of 70 years. Prime Minister Abe wanted to change that history with revisionist views and bellicose venting to work with allies anywhere in the world. He visited the Middle East to give aid to countries to contain ISIS. We must mentally orient to the source (yoniso manasi-kāra) – why it came out – to take revenge against the Iraq War allies! The Buddha said: “Abused me, hurt me, conquered me, robbed me.” For those who hold a grudge, enmity is never appeased. Dhp. 3 … Continue reading
Holy, Healthy, Happy Home!
Flowers invite butterflies without minds, Butterflies visit flowers without minds, When flowers bloom, butterflies come, When butterflies come, flowers bloom, I do not know people either, People do not know me either, Following the heavenly law without knowing. … Continue reading
Bodhisattva: Bosatsu: Awakening Being: 菩薩
Good morning! We have a beautiful autumn Sunday morning with crisp cool blue sky and brilliant sunlight. We have a quite calm and clear world, especially after our sittings and service with beautiful flowers around us inside and out. … Continue reading
Indra-net Illustration: Beautiful, Beneficial, Benevolent Bees
Please watch the video and witness holy harmony, health, and happiness in holy (wholly wholesome, Indra-net) truth, goodness, beauty, peace, joy: http://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/marla-spivak-why-bees-are-disappearing/ Please share, strengthen, and serve our wholly wholesome Indra-net system: Dharma-dhātu (Dharma World) of the Dharma … Continue reading
Only Truth Wins
Good morning! We had shower last night, like last Sunday. We now have nice rain for plants and animals. They look fresh and vivid, enjoying moistened air and earth. Life came from water and water is life. Tatsuno Yutaka, the essayist, said, “I like rain so much. Perhaps my ancestors were frogs.” We were once frogs and forever experience the tadpole stage, collectively and individually. Water is life and our nature, inside and out, thus eco (oikos, house) is not really the right view that is, regarding it as separated surroundings. Nature, Dharma, Truth, Reality (Being, Sat), etc. are our true nature. We could see frogs and toads here before, but not now. Honey bees are gone, massively. Mass extinction is now caused by humans. Man-made global warming is causing abnormal weather – droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. There is a war drumbeat with war-machines, war-mongers, war-mentalities. The triple maladies of militarism, materialism, and me-ism are directly interconnected with the triple poisons of divisiveness, desire, and delusion. The Buddha foresaw them as the fundamental causes of the destruction of the world by human civilization. He thus forestalled it by sitting and stilling karmas and seeing and settling in the Dharma. I quoted Dogen’s poem on the direct witness outside the scriptures in our web blog yesterday. Witness or verification is only possible by practice or cultivation. Nirvana, bodhi, amrita, immortality, etc. can only be practiced and perfected. Conquering one’s self, not conquering many others, according to the Dharma of Dependent Origination, is the sole way of salvation of all. Only the Dharma dwells despite delusions. Truth only wins (Satyam eva jayate). Truth is not realized by majority rule, much less by the maladies of militarism, materialism, and me-ism. It is beyond sinful separated selfish strategies, but is the wholly wholesome holy harmony. … Continue reading
Good morning! We have abundant beautiful flowers inside and out. I worked in my garden yesterday enjoying flowers blooming and fruits borne, birds and butterflies – even monarch butterflies. I was amazed at plants growing so fast and flourishing and new things – after more than two decades a hydrangea bloomed, which I thought only to enjoy its patterned leaves. An apple tree, though dwarf, is growing so big and now blooming and bearing fruit. An inch thick grape tree is now bearing fruit densely on a hundred square feet. This morning I got an email from Teibi, who planted a weeping cherry tree and is going to enjoy its blossoming. I have a weeping cherry here and at my house with other cherry trees. We missed cherry blossom viewing this spring, but maybe next year. Today’s Tricycle message was about the pursuit of happiness. It said that all want happiness but Buddhism tells about suffering so that we may know how to pursue happiness. We must not mistake true happiness from false. We have been reading Dogen’s Yūji (有時), Possessing Time. We must find the opportune time for the right purpose and good result, and make our careers wholly wholesome. So, Dogen recommended that we put our whole power in the Way Cycle of aspiration, cultivation, awakening, and unconditioned peace. Last time I talked about the paradigm shift from civilization to cultivation. Civilization is urbanization with city or citadel walls, discriminating inside and out. It is said, “Before civilization were forests. After civilization are no forests.” Civilization with its one-directional pyramidal system fights for limited matter and power, and thus forces the five calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. It can not thrive and survive going against the Dharma of Dependent Origination. Cultivation with its multi-dimensional Indra- net system shares a culture of limitless heart and life in truth, goodness, and beauty; and thus strives for the fivefold bliss of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace. Now we must see what kind and what way we are pursuing happiness. True happiness is not in the quantity of matter and power; and much less in selfish, sinful, fighting for them; but in quality of truth, goodness, and beauty – much more in selfless, holy (wholly wholesome) sharing of them. The more and harder we seek and struggle for matter and power, the severer and stronger we stray and suffer. The harder and more we strive and share in heart and life, the healthier and happier we enjoy and enjoin with all always. … Continue reading