Good evening!
Already the equinox has passed away, but we can live in equanimity (throwing away), nirvana, windless state of human karmas or samsara sufferings, whenever we sit in zazen.
Dogen said, “Zazen has limitless merits.” He also said, “Without the limited mind, there is limitless luck.” Today I read a report by the ILO about the deep difficulties we are in.
One billion people are undernourished; more than twenty million people became jobless after the Lehman shock. Now we are in disasters, global warming, mass extinction, etc.
All of these come from human karmas. We should be observing the gross happiness index, rather than GDP. We can’t just continue mass production, consumption, and wasting.
The happiest society is one with more buddhas (awakened ones) living on joy and happiness, sitting like trees, which give oxygen, food, shelter, etc. – life.
When we sit like trees, we do no evil, we do all the good, and we purify our minds in truth, peace, beauty, goodness, and holiness, even if we don’t notice them.
When we purify our minds, with no turbulence and turbidity, we can reflect far, deep, and wide enough, in and out. No karma does limitless merits and the least harm.
So, the Buddha said,
Better than the one who would live one hundred years not seeing birth and death, is the one who would live one day seeing birth and death.
Better than the one who would live one hundred years not seeing amrita (immortality), is the one who would live one day seeing amrita.
Better than the one who would live one hundred years not seeing the highest dharma, is the one who would live one day seeing the highest dharma.
So, make your day with practice in equanimity, joy, compassion, and friendship, tasting amrita, learning limitless liberation, light, love, and luck here and now!
9/27/11
