Monthly Archives: August 2011

Triple Treasure or Triple Tragedy

Good morning!   We have now a good morning with the buddhas (awakened ones), buddha dharma, and sangha (community) in truth, freedom, and peace in our sitting.   A news report from Japan stated that the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused … Continue reading

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Totalianism

Good evening!   When we sit solid and serene, we stop our physical, verbal, and mental karmas, freed from them. So, we can enjoy peace and truth.   In our ordinary life, we pursue comfort and pleasure, which comes from … Continue reading

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Separation or Seamlessness

Good morning!   When we sit in zazen opening all windows, we can enjoy calm, clear, and complete world with the beautiful sounds of insects’ singing, water flowing, and fresh breeze blowing.   There was an article “A Heimlish Line,” … Continue reading

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Samsara (Full Flow)

Good morning!   Now we hear incessant insects’ singing and water flowing.   It is said that white hair is the messenger from the dark world. A zen master said that black hair is the messenger from the dark world. … Continue reading

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Cultivation of Changing Karma

Good morning!   We now have a nice bright Sunday morning with crisp autumn air, a clear sky, the beautiful sound of flowing water and singing insects, the brilliant colors of flowers and leaves, especially pure and peaceful after still, … Continue reading

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Limitless Luck in Limitless Life

Good morning!   When we sit opening the window, we can hear the sounds of water flowing and birds singing, see the color of trees and the sky, and feel the fresh morning air moving.   When, however, we close … Continue reading

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Impermanence and Interdependence

Good evening!   We can sit in peace, harmony, and truth in the autumnal air with cicadas’ singing and the slender moon.   On the east coast about thirty million people are in the path of the hurricane, Irene. The … Continue reading

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Hiroshima, Fukushima, Futashima

Good morning!   When we sit in zazen, we become still, serene, and safe. When we move, drive, often we see rabbits or squirrels cross in front of our cars, or birds flying along our driving directions. Our sense and … Continue reading

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Karma Crucial to Catastrophe or Contentment

Good evening!   When we sit and stop the three (physical, verbal, and mental) karmas, we can settle in truth, peace, and holiness.   But when we are living in our karma world, all the news from north, east, west, … Continue reading

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Holy Harmonious Happy Humans

Good morning!   We have now very crisp, cool air, beautiful intense insects’ singing, and the crescent moon in the beautiful clear sky. We can sit in peace and harmony with all these things safely. This is the life we … Continue reading

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