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Monthly Archives: October 2015
High Heaven, Holy Harvest
Good morning! We have a beautiful autumn Sunday morning with calm, clear, cool, and sunny weather. People say “autumn with high heaven and hulky horses.” We say “high heaven and holy harvest,” because there is neither heat nor chill, neither vapor nor wind, and all enjoy calm, clear, cool, sunny, and still weather, all can enjoy an abundant amount of wholly wholesome harvest. We also have bountiful beatitude after Sunday sittings and service with a calm, clear, cool, and serene world. People say sitting still is stilling stresses. We say sitting still is stilling senses and sprits, without perceptions, conceptions, emotions, and volitions – all karmas, physical, verbal, and mental – like a settled bowl of still water, without turbulence and turbidity. The Awakened One was awakened to the Dharma of dependent co-origination of all and all beings – karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged – being in dependent co- origination and co-cessation. So, all can cease cravings, karmas, samsaras, and sufferings, settling in nirvana and awakening, stopping demise, destruction, and death of oneself and others. Let’s continue this core practice of the Awakened Way, stilling karmas, seeing Dharma/dharmas (twelvefold dependent origination, four stages of zen/jhāna/ meditation, etc.), serving all (fourfold embracing matters, sixfold perfections, etc.), and saving all (fourfold application, four holy truths, eightfold holy path, etc.), sharing limitless life, light, liberation, and love. 10/11/15 … Continue reading
Madhyastha, Shamatha, Shunyata
Good morning! Passing the equinox, we now have chilly weather. Sitting still in Shikan-taza, we have no chill or heat of the karma world. Nirvana is stilling and cessation of karmas and karma world. Humans, the most advanced and worst applied karma-machines, are suffering from their triple poisons of greed, anger, and delusion, causing the global intertwined problems of global warming, extreme weather, war, population explosion, poverty, mass extinction, etc. Even though we have enough food, we have more than ten million people starving to death every year due to the man-made poisoned pyramidal civilization of me-ism, materialism, militarism, and money-ism. This afternoon we have our Feeding the Hungry Walk. I was asked to speak on the Middle Way there. Maddhyastha is not the middle or average of two, but a neutral state, attached to nothing, nirvana, emptyof substance, śūnyatā.Maddhyastha is śamatha (stillness, cessation) and śūnyatā (emptiness). Enjoying nirvana for weeks in his awakening, the Buddha was rather reluctant to go out into the world deeply sunken in its layers of karmas. The supreme being of the world, Brahma, besought him to go out to save it from destruction, to share the Dharma (Norm/forms) with those who were untainted by bad karmas, like unsoiled lotuses coming out of muddy water. This is how the Buddha as a bodhisattva spent forty-five years after his awakening, wasting no time to share the Dharma and save all. The triple vehicles are those of hearers, personal buddhas, and buddhas/bodhisattvas. We must follow suit as bodhi- sattvas, not as personal, partial buddhas who do not reflect well, but rather like the clear crystal balls on the Indra-net that reflect each other limitlessly. We must make the paradigm shift from pyramid-cage to Indra-net culture. 10/4/15 … Continue reading
Triple Hearts in Triple Learning
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
Peace Is the Way, Not War
Good morning! We are at the autumnal equinox, equal in day and night, heat and chill, or rather neither heat nor chill. So, in Buddhist countries, we celebrate it as Higan (彼岸), Yonder Shore, with two days before and after it. Yonder Shore means nirvana, which is the shore beyond the rough sea of suffering in the karma world. Nirvana, unconditioned peace, and anuttara samyak- sambodhi, unsurpassed right complete awakening – both sides of one thing – are the goals of Buddhists. Though the equinox is only twice a year, anyone at any time, anywhere, can attain them with cultivation and verification. The Buddha was awakened to the fact that all living beings are karma-heirs, karma- owners, karma-machines, and karma-refuged. He provided us with the most direct, practical, and effective way to attain equanimity or nirvana, no-wind of karma, and to be awakened to the Dharma (Truth) of all dharmas (phenomena): Dependent Co- origination. It is Zazen, sitting meditation, stilling karmas and seeing the Dharma and dharmas. Dogen recommended the Practice Way Cycle (gyōji-dōkan) of aspiration, cultivation, awakening, and unconditioned peace, assuring us that anyone can attain nirvana-bodhi. On the first day of the equinox, the Abe administration upset the Japanese Peace Constitution with laws that allow collective self-defense, prohibited even by the ruling LDP for seventy years after WWII. The Peace Constitution is in the Buddhist tradition of peace without weapons and wars: The Buddha prescribed the triple learning of morality, concentration, and prognosis, seeing his own kin terminated in the war for empire. King Ashoka erected the Dharma edicts, sending envoys after his Kalinga campaign. Prince Regent Shotoku set the Seventeen Article Constitution after the clan wars. The first article of Shotoku’s constitution says that harmony is precious, and the second requests respect of the triple treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha (Community), because we are all ordinary people to counsel among them (in the Awakened Way) as described in the sixth article. The Abe administration, with 62% of the seats in the last lower house election and only 17% at proportional representation due to the single-member district voting system, passed the laws despite a poll result of 80% insufficient explanation, 60% against them, and insufficient debate. It is a big blow to the Awakened Way also. … Continue reading
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