Good evening!
When we sit in zazen solid, still, and serene, we can settle in truth and peace and actually become truth and peace like trees, which survive thousands of years. Truth survives eternally.
Humans, however, evolved and developed complicated motor organs and sense organs by karma, and are thus easily corrupted and destined for samsara suffering, ups and downs, births and deaths.
Humans, with their instruments and institutions, are destructive and doomed in global scale with global warming, mass extinction, etc. Our karmas create boxes and bubbles, and we shut ourselves in them, losing holy harmony with the whole world as trees and oceans.
So now mankind must sit, stop karma, see truth and peace, and find solutions for our problems and sufferings. Our karma is our normal way to preserve our lives, which develop into attachment, aversion, and delusion, further into greed, hatred, and insanity.
Thus, we need to stop our normal state and go back to the original state – before making boxes and bubbles – and live true limitless life, light, liberation, and love, rather than a limited life in stresses and sufferings, enslaving others and ourselves enslaved in small selves.
Then, this constant continuous cultivation becomes the essential and critical practice of all human beings. Otherwise we are doomed to the destruction and demise of the whole world. We need to wake up before we devastate and destroy ourselves and others.
Our complicated and corruptible life is so short. We should not misuse and miss our original pure peace and prognosis in miseries and mistrust. If we cultivate ourselves in sitting and stopping karmas, we can become buddhas and live on joy. The Buddha said,
Better than the one who would live
one hundred years not seeing immortality
is the one living one day seeing immortality.
A day of practice in pure peace and prognosis is better than one hundred years of no practice. Practice is crucial, the most important matter in our life, for the realization of unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening with all always.
9/16/11
