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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Home Coming
Nothing to say To the mounts Of my home; The mounts Of … Continue reading
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 65
What smokes are they Rising so immensely, While there are not so many houses Ranging in the divers’ village? Nan-no keburi-no Amata tatsu-ran Ama-no sumu Sato-ni-wa ie-mo Tsuzuka-nu-ni 何のけぶりの 数多立つらん 海士のすむ 里には家も つずかぬに … Continue reading
Wholly Wholesome Way World
Good morning! This straight solid sitting (Shikan-taza: 只管打坐) makes the body still, the mouth silent, and the brain serene. This is the cultivation (bhāvanā: cause to become, shugyō: 修行) of karma-becoming (bhava) into Dharma-being (being in Dharma, Truth, Thusness: Tathatā, Tathā-gata: being Thusness). All beings are karma-heirs, karma-relatives, and karma-machines, but can stop karma in the straight solid sitting, sever bad karmas, and serve good karmas. Thus, we can change our haras (guts: digestive, nutritional, immune system, etc.), hearts (circulatory system), and heads (nervous system). Our mental and material worlds are intertwined and can be changed by our cultivation and culture. Thus, we can cultivate intellectual, emotional, and volitional realms and create culture of truth, beauty, and goodness to contemplate and become content with them – all interrelated. Civilization (urbanization for limited matter and power to fight) must be changed to culture (cultivation for limitless mind and life to share) to save all from the destruction of the wholly wholesome way world. Religion is to reunify sinful (=separated) sickness/suffering to holy harmony/happiness. A human adult has a hundred trillion cells, each of which contains a hundred trillion atoms, a hundred trillion bacteria or more in hara, and two hundred billion kilo meter total gene length (5 million rounds of the globe) – all working with water, wind, plants, animals, the moon, the sun, galaxies, etc. Thus, our life or whatever is not ours (“Not yours,” Na tumhākam,” the Buddha said) and is more like ocean rather than bubble, and more like space or “empty flower” rather than an iron ball. The “independent eternal ego” is the delusion to develop into desire and divisiveness – the threefold poison. The countermeasures for them are the threefold learning of sīla, samādhi, and prajñā. Sīla is pillar, backbones or morality. Samādhi is serenity, equanimity or concentration. Prajñā is prognosis, foresight or insight. These work on volitional, emotional, and intellectual realm respectively. (cf. mature, joyful, … Continue reading
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 64
The ferry boat offshore Of Yabase at Lake Biwa – Can I be the one to Meet people, even pushed? Ni(h)o-no umi-ya Yabase-no oki-no Watashibune Oshite-mo hito-ni A(h)u-mi-naraba-ya にほの海や 矢橋のおきの 渡し舟 おしても人に あふみならばや … Continue reading
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Afterlife or Beforelife
Good evening! After a spell of chilly days going down below freezing point, we had a warm day today with colorful autumn leaves on the trees and on the ground. Bare trees are not dead trees, but the frost bitten annual flowers are dead. This morning we had a dense fog, dangerous to drive in with some traffic accidents. We may be involved in traffic accident and die, even young and healthy. Once dead or burnt, we or trees lose life in a white wash like frosted plants or frozen planet. What is life? I consulted the Britannica Encyclopedia and found it saying that there is no generally accepted definition of life and that the average person also tends to think of life in his own terms. Death may be clearer about things with no life function. What is life function? Is it free and full? Isn’t our life and its function limited and least learned? The Buddha said that all living beings are karma heirs, karma relatives, and karma machines, thus limited by karmas. We must make it free and full. He opened the way to stop karma machines, to settle in nirvana, unconditioned peace, and to see the Dharma (Form/Norm) of Dependent Origination, which any one can witness and work for our free full function. The Dharma or Truth of Dependent Origination is that all phenomena are interdependently co-originated, which means there is no “self-same, self-sovereign, self-substance” or a permanent independent Self or Soul, but all phenomena are interdependent throughout space and time. This means that we are not small separated skin sacks like limited bubbles as we usually think, but wholly wholesome way worlds like the limitless sea with water, wind, the moon, the sun, stars, and the whole universe of 15 billion years with gene- shared sisters and brothers – bacteria, plants, animals, mountains, rivers, seas with cells, organs, heads, hearts, haras (guts), bodies, brains, blood of 4 billion years working with all here and now. Our delusions, desires, and divisiveness, however, are limiting us and driving us to global problems and precipitation such as global warming, wars, mass extinction. Religion (from Latin re-ligare) is “re-union” with the primordial and ultimate holy (= wholly wholesome) truth and unconditioned peace – holy harmony, health, and happiness from sinful (= separated), selfish sickness and suffering. We can not have the universally acceptable definition of life, but can have the concrete free full function of life here and now. It is not arguing about the fingers pointing to the full … Continue reading
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 63
Two poems of residing in the mountain (2): The moon on the peak becomes not The friend of a mountain resident, As it is also the one going around Throughout the flamboyant world. Sango nishu … Continue reading
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 62
Two poems of residing in the mountain (1): The valley doesn’t drop by, To reflect even the shades, As it hopes to rush and, Come out into the world. Sango nishu (1): Tachiyori-te Kage-mo … Continue reading
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Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 61
Impermanence: To what is the world compared It’s the moon dwelling In the dewdrops strewn From the beak of a water fowl. Mujô: Yononaka-wa Nani-ni tatoen Mizutori-no Hashi-furu tsuyu-ni Yadoru tsukikage 無常: … Continue reading
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