Good morning!
We had shower last night, like last Sunday. We now have nice rain for plants and
animals. They look fresh and vivid, enjoying moistened air and earth. Life came
from water and water is life.
Tatsuno Yutaka, the essayist, said, “I like rain so much. Perhaps my ancestors were
frogs.” We were once frogs and forever experience the tadpole stage, collectively and
individually.
Water is life and our nature, inside and out, thus eco (oikos, house) is not really the
right view that is, regarding it as separated surroundings. Nature, Dharma, Truth,
Reality (Being, Sat), etc. are our true nature.
We could see frogs and toads here before, but not now. Honey bees are gone,
massively. Mass extinction is now caused by humans. Man-made global warming
is causing abnormal weather – droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.
There is a war drumbeat with war-machines, war-mongers, war-mentalities.
The triple maladies of militarism, materialism, and me-ism are directly
interconnected with the triple poisons of divisiveness, desire, and delusion.
The Buddha foresaw them as the fundamental causes of the destruction of
the world by human civilization. He thus forestalled it by sitting and stilling
karmas and seeing and settling in the Dharma.
I quoted Dogen’s poem on the direct witness outside the scriptures in our web
blog yesterday. Witness or verification is only possible by practice or cultivation.
Nirvana, bodhi, amrita, immortality, etc. can only be practiced and perfected.
Conquering one’s self, not conquering many others, according to the Dharma of
Dependent Origination, is the sole way of salvation of all. Only the Dharma dwells
despite delusions. Truth only wins (Satyam eva jayate).
Truth is not realized by majority rule, much less by the maladies of militarism,
materialism, and me-ism. It is beyond sinful separated selfish strategies,
but is the wholly wholesome holy harmony.
9/8/13
