Good morning!
We got the news from Japan that a blackout at the Fukushima nuclear plant had
stopped after more than twenty hours. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company)
found a burn mark on the mocked-up switch panel and a burned, mouse-like
animal on the ground nearby.
A proverb says, “The great mountain resoundingly moving, a mouse emerges.”
A small leak can collapse a gigantic dam. Global warming, mass extinction, etc.,
are caused by small selves. So, we need to sit and stop karmas, cultivating
magnanimous, mature, and mudita (joyful) minds.
3/20/13
Note: These minds are called the triple minds (sanshin: 三心), which are based
on the exquisite nirvana mind (nehan-myōshin: 涅槃妙心) or equanimity (upekhā,
upekśā, sha: 捨, literally throwing away, total renunciation). Cf. The Four Brahma-
vihāra/Limitlessness (friendship, compassion, joy: mudita, equanimity), the Four
Embracing Matters (giving, loving words, beneficial action, sameness), the Four Tea
Minds (harmony, respect, purity, serenity: 和敬清寂: wa-kei-sei-jaku), the Four
Dharma Marks/Seals (impermanence, suffering, no self, nirvana)
