Category Archives: Moon (Full = Buddha heart

Super Full Moon Eclipse

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Let’s share a part of the following comment and pictures by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka who often share his beautiful pictures with us here: I happened to sing Rev. Honen’s poem: Even though the Moon light reaches every countryside, … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bright Full Moon: Buddha Hearet

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Rosan Daido

    Good morning!     We could see the beautiful bright full moon on Christmas morning and evening. The round clear full moon represents the Buddha’s heart – round meaning perfect, without lack or edge, and clear meaning bright … Continue reading →

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Triple Hearts in Triple Learning

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Rosan Daido

    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 →

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Total Full Moon Eclipse (Shimoda, Japan & St. Louis, U.S.A.)

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Rosan Daido

      The following were sent by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka to share me, et al, so here also.                               The following was taken in St. … Continue reading →

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Mirror Moon

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Rosan Daido

      Good morning!   We saw the great, round, and brilliant moon. The full moon represents the Buddha heart – great, perfect, and bright. Dogen recommended us to cultivate our hearts into the great heart, mature heart, and joyful heart.   Our karmas have been kept as store-consciousness (ālaya-vijñāṇa). Through sitting and stilling karma we can transform this support (āśraya-parāvṛtti), etc. into mirror-, equality-, observation-, and duty-fulfilling-knowledge.   The Fourfold Limitlessness or Brahma-abode (Brahma-vihāra) is friendship (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), joy (pīti), and equanimity (upekkhā, lit. throwing away), which may correspond to Dogen’s three hearts based on equanimity.   We can enjoy limitless life, liberation, love, and light based on the law of Dependent Origination, thus observing the Global Ethic according to the Global System with their 5 Rs and 5 As, solving our global problematique.   3/8/15   Note: A. The store (8th) consciousness is transformed into mirror-knowledge (ādarşa jñāṇa), and the mental (7th) consciousness into equality (samatā) knowledge, mind (6th) into observation (pratyavekşaṇā) knowledge, and five sense consciousnesses (visual, audio, olfactory, gastric, and tactile: 1st to 5th ) into duty-fulfilling (kṛtyanusthāna) knowledge.   B. The Global Ethic (proclaimed in the Declaration toward a Global Ethic by the Parliament of World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993) consists of the following four irrevocable directives (taken from the Five Precepts of Buddhism) to solve the global problematique (intertwined problems) :   1. Culture of non-violence and respect for life 2. Culture of solidarity and just economic order 3. Culture of tolerance and a life of truthfulness 4. Culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women   … Continue reading →

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Total eclipse of Blood Moon tonight

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Rosan Daido

TONIGHT FOROCTOBER 7, 2014 Tonight – the night of October 7-8, 2014 – there is a total eclipse of the full moon. This is the Northern Hemisphere’s Hunter’s Moon – the full moon after the Harvest Moon. It’s also a Blood … Continue reading →

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