Good morning!
We have a beautiful, bright, clear, and calm autumn Sunday with sittings and service. Tonight we can see the full moon, which represents the Buddha heart, beautiful, bright, clear, and calm. Sitting in the best physical, breathing, and mental forms in nirvana-awakening, both sides of one thing, is completely different from ordinary sitting, standing, or sleeping, even if they seem still.
Let’s see the Twelvefold Dependent Co-origination chart, which explains well our life cycle, called the becoming-wheel, samsara wheel. Nescience or non-witness of nirvana-awakening is the root cause of samsara suffering, with craving leading to formations, and suffering (Three Steps) and appropriation or identification leading to becoming (Six Ways), making the Triple Poisons.
Formations (present, past physical, verbal, and mental karmas) turn this wheel, constantly creating forms in samsara suffering. Cessation of them in constant practice makes perfect in prognosis-nirvana, penetrating insight into this mechanism in stopping the karma wind, function of the body, mouth, and mind with hereditary self-survival sense with the nerves, hormones, etc.
Karma lets us take meals to sustain the becoming wheel, making individual karma into societal ones far greater and ominous like nationalism, nukes, civilizations, mass extinction. Constant countering and calming karma is more important than taking meals to solve samsara suffering. Continuous com-mitment is essential to cease suffering in the Dharma world making dharma.
10/16/16
