Good morning!
Tonight we can see the renowned mid-fall moon, even with the full eclipse –
hopefully the clouds will clear. It is the biggest, brightest, most beautiful full moon,
closest to the earth in the clear, calm, cool air. This is also the season of equinox,
equal in day and night and heat and chill – actually neither heat nor chill. Heat and
chill are actually due to our karmas-created senses.
So, the full moon represents the Awakened One’s heart and mind perfect in light,
fully bright without darkness or blemish, in shape full-filled without edges or dents,
and in function full-illuminating without hindrance or partiality. The equinox
expresses equanimity, the yonder shore beyond a rough sea of suffering – nirvana,
no wind of karma in supra-mundane realm.
Xuan-sha said that the entire world in ten directions (four cardinal ones, in between,
and up & down) is a ball of clear crystal. When we sit still, stilling karmas, we witness
the dharma world of all dharmas (forms/phenomena) in the Dharma (norm/law) of
Dependent Co-origination (on causes/conditions). Buddhas become
bodhisattvas to serve and save all in the dharma world.Bodhisattvas work with the
world to be saved from destruction by humans who evolved and developed self-
survival skills with the triple poisons of self-delusion, greed, and anger (me-ism,
materialism, and militarism), and with the triple learnings of morality,
concentration, and prognosis. We must make the paradigm shift from a pyramidal
civilization to Indra-net culture.
We must cultivate our culture with the triple heart/minds of the great, mature, and
joyful heart/minds in space, time, and action constantly with the four applications of
decreasing, stilling bad karmas, and starting, increasing good karmas. Then all can
live the awakened life in nirvana and prognosis daily enjoying the wholly wholesome
way world with harmony and happiness.
9/27/15
