Good evening!
Today we’ve had a sunny, warm autumn day – Indian summer, with colorful plants. When we sit in zazen, we become one with them all – the mind body and the world unified. We are in unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening, like a bubble merging into a great ocean. We are together with all in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony – all becoming friends (Mitra, Mithra, Maitreya, Mazda, etc.). This is awakened holy truth. Here we settle in pure peace and prognosis. Otherwise we must live in samsara (incessant ups and downs) and suffering (discontent).
In action also we can remain stable and serene with the wholly wholesome way (holy harmony with all: global ethic and simple life), as buddhas, in friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (fourfold limitlessness or pure living). Emory Lobins, an energy specialist, has told us that an average modern person owns 50 slaves, energy-wise, and consumes 20 times the necessary food calories. An average American uses 250 times more than an average Nigerian. Better that we should live a simple, safe, sustainable, and saving life like the Buddha – and thus the most sublime and satisfying.
10/25/11
