Good morning!
We have a silent, serene Sunday morning after our sittings and service. This is the
beginning of the fall equinox, equal in day and night and heat and chill. In Japan we
celebrate three equinox days as o-higan (彼岸), the yonder shore, beyond the rough
sea of samsara suffering, which means nirvana, ceasing of the wind of karmas.
Today people gather together and march to stop global warming, which causes
extreme weather like enormous hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, heavy rain, land
slides, flooding, even extreme earthquakes, causing tsunamis, nuclear disasters, etc.
Humans are the culprits of it along with the sixth mass extinction, with more than a
hundred species going extinct every day.
The Buddha showed how to still karmas in sitting samadhi, to stop the world from
destruction and demise. He foresaw that human karmas could cause the catastrophe
of the world on fire due to our senses being on fire, and eating the beloved one’s
flesh. The Triple Learnings of sīla, samādhi, and paññā is stilling the Triple Poisons
of attachment, aversion, and delusion.
In our conventional world we cannot see global warming, mass extinction, karma
kinetics, the Triple Poisons, etc., as they are too great to grasp, i.e., the mind miring
mega matrix, which can be only ceased and seen through still sitting and sober seeing
of the immense effect of karmas evolved and developed through billions of years and
constant conditioning.
9/21/14