Good morning!
We have a cool and clear Sunday, especially after sittings and service. We could see the renowned mid-fall full moon this morning, though we could not on the exact day due to clouds. We say Moon-face Buddha or Moon-light Bodhisattva, Sun-face Buddha or Sun-light Bodhisattva, who give life and light to living beings, even those existing before them.
Dogen made his last poem on the fifteenth of August in the lunar calendar. He had a premonition that his parinirvana, passing away or shifting nature (senge: 遷化, as a celestial bodhisattva like the Moon-light Bodhisattva in a wider community, or a universal sangha in four directions beyond separation), would come before long. It was actually thirteen days later:
Even in the autumn, when I’d expect to see it again,
I could not have slept with the moon tonight
I forwarded a note of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast (broadcast on August 29, 2016) titled Neurobiology & Epigenetics Applied to Politics, Policy, Psychopaths & Narcissism to the mzc listserv last night. It says that community care and contemplation is needed to nurture children, while adult children drive their children to separation, selfish, and psychopathy.
Karma creates the triple poisons of delusion (separated self), desire, and divisiveness – fight or flight for fame and fortune, falling into samsara (hell being, hungry ghost, fighting devil) suffering (duk-kha, wrong-going). Dharma creates community (sangha) and contemplation (buddha) for compassion and cooperation with conviction (pasāda) and commitment.
Zen-jo (禅定), contemplation (jhāna, zen: 禅)-concentration (samādhi: 定), convinces one of the truth-path (ethic) of the Four Holy Truths and the Eightfold Holy Path. Conviction of nir-vana (no-wind, of karma)-bodhi (awakening) (both sides of the goal of the Awakened Way) contributes to commitment in cultivation (culture: path, practice, perfection) and vice versa.
9/18/16
Note: Rob Kall note:
https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/neurobiology-epigenetics-applied-to-politics-policy-psychopaths-narcissism/
