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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Ill-intended or Well-wished
Good morning! We have a three day sesshin with warm bright spring sun, especially after sittings and service. We get into the Awakened Way with unconditioned peace (nirvana) and unsurpassed awakening (bodhi) in wholesome whole. Whatever a mother, father or other relatives may do for one, Nothing can do greater good than the mind rightly directed. … Continue reading
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Spring in Austria, Mountains and Flowers
Garyo, our favorite contributor of travelog with beautiful pictures, sent us her spring greetings from Austria with wonderful pictures again (Enjoy pictures with your full screen version) : Over the weekend, I was hiking in the Lower … 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
Mirror Moon
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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Socially Engaged Buddhism Event (on Water)
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Spring Scenes
Garyo, familiar with the readers for her travelog with beautiful pictures, sent me her greeting with a few pictures of spring scene on the occasion of leaving the States for Vienna. I asked for her pictures to share … Continue reading
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“A friends in need is the friend indeed” the proverb says. But, “A friend not necessarily in need is a friend indeed” realized the true beauty! Enjoy beauty! Mt. Fuji is the … Continue reading
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Enjoy Exquisite Scene and Singing!
Following the previous photos of Kawazu-zakura (Kawazu Cherry), Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka kindly sent me and JUMP (Japan United for Ministry of Peace) listserve members the following one with a mejiro (Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus) whose eyesight aligned with his … Continue reading
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