Good morning!
Early morning is cool, especially after sitting, even in summer. We have been in sesshin. Sesshin is touching and embracing the heart, core. Sitting, stilling karma, settling in nirvana and bodhi, awakening. Touching the core is touching the ultimate universal truth, and embracing it is embracing the ultimate universal ethic.
Truth and tree came from dhṝ, holding, enduring, the root of dharma, holding all, enduring eternally. Trees can sit holding all in harmony with truth, settle enduring in harmony with peace for ten thousand years. We can sit holding all in harmony with truth, settle enduring in harmony with peace.
Ethos, Greek origin of ethic, is custom or character, characteristics of a certain society at a certain period, for harmony. The world in the global age requires a new ethic beyond nationalism, national egoism derived from national karma. Nirvana, windless of karma, gives us the ultimate universal ethic.
Truth liberates us in freedom, beloved-domain (familiarity, Sanskrit, priya-dhāman), from karma and in truth, equality, love, and peace (fivefold bliss). Ethic establishes us in friendship, together-ness (compassion, Sanskrit, maitrī, from mitra, friend, from mit-tra) with all in the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination.
June 30, 2019 C.E.
