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,” homely line, in the New York Times op-ed column on camps in Kenya and Tanzania – some camps homely and others luxurious.
There is the line between them, the homely side has conviviality – which is a hallmark of happiness in a survey – together-living, friend-ship, familiar domain, free-dom.
The Buddha said, “Friends make all of our lives.” All of our living beings are friends. Only when we stop drawing lines, we have true familiarity, friendship, and freedom.
“Alienation from a group is useless (群を抜けて益なし);” rather we should create seamless world, going beyond self and other – me-ism, materialism, and militarism: delusion, attachment, and aversion.
When we sit, stop our karmas, we settle in truth, peace, harmony, and holiness. Holiness, rather than separation, sinfulness, is the most important thing in any and total community.
We need to open our closedness. We must avoid specialists’ stupidities – only closed in small world, not seeing the wides world in time and space in intricate interdependence.
Let’s live limitless liberation, light, and love with our limitless learning and cultivation to find out inexhaustible treasures in the limitless realms to share and enjoy with all.
8/30/11
