Good morning!
After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires.
This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, cp. duk-kha, wrong-going, suffering), goku-raku (ultimate comfort).
It is also described as papañca upasama (projections ceased): neither origination nor cessation, neither coming nor going, neither continuity nor interruption, neither unity nor multiplicity.
Anyone can witness this with practice. However, we usually don’t practice. Even if we start practicing, it’s difficult to continue well enough to witness it.
Thus, because we don’t start from the wholly wholesome world of truth (dharma), but from a separated, self-centered state, we always have confusions and conflicts.
Now we have global problems such as global warming and abnormal disasters. Recently we had a nuclear disaster in Japan with no prospect of improvement even after four months.
The nuclear power company says they need decades to put an end to the disaster, but of course there is no real end to contamination and waste at the plant, in Japan and across the globe.
Evacuees are still suffering from losing their homes, jobs, and possessions. People all over Japan are not sure about the safety of their air, land, water, food.
Still the nuclear industry and its interest groups want to continue the old way and even manipulate opinions at the public hearings, claiming its safety, and scaring a scarcity of electricity.
There is no solution in this way. Studies show there’s enough electricity. The solution lies with each of us taking holy perspective and priority. We must not just know, but act.
That’s why Bai-zhang said, “A day without work is a day without eating.” Every one of us is supported by the entire world in time and space. Why can’t we repay it?
Everybody must work hard to repay all beings in truth, peace, harmony, and holiness. We must have holy perspective and action, seeing all things to the very end in time and space.
So, we must see not only safety, but the discrimination of people, other species, and the whole environment for thousands of generations with nuclear waste and way problems.
We do not know how many people have been affected in the long and wide term of life functions, values, systems, and lives themselves.
We must practice stopping karmas. It is hard, but holy in witnessing the wholly wholesome truth, goodness, beauty, and beatitude of limitless life, light, liberation, and love.
Thus, we can taste amrita (ambrosia of immortality) beyond all sufferings, problems, disasters. We must find out how we can build such life, living way, and world here now.
7/10/11
