Good evening!
We say “a day with rain is a day of bad weather” (ame-no furu-hi-wa tenki-ga warui). An essayist, Tatsuno Yutaka, said, “I like rain so much. Perhaps my ancestors were frogs.” Not only frogs, but forests and flowers would love it.
Bad or good depends on people, places, periods, perspectives, and priorities. In essence, the point of view comes from karma (actions, action results; evolution, heredity; habits, hopes).
Unwittingly we tread on our karma machines, strengthening our karma. If we understand and actualize the nature of this karma kinetics and kinema (cinema), we can live a better life.
The Awakened Way demonstrates it in the “life wheel” (bhava-cakka: becoming wheel) of twelve limbs, also called “twelvefold dependent origination.”
Beholding and witnessing it results in unconditioned peace (nirvana) and unsurpassed awakening (bodhi), and in attaining freedom from and freedom of conventional karma kinetics.
Our senses, subjugations, and sufferings are dependently originated karma kinetics and kinemas, ultimately selfless (substanceless) in shuñatâ (zeroness: emptiness).
When we sit still and stop the karma machines, we return to this ultimate truth and peace beyond karma kinemas, up-down, gain-loss, meeting-parting, composition-decomposition, birth-death, etc., tasting amrita (immortality).
3/8/11
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