Tag Archives: Buddha

Source of Suffering: Sticking to Separate Self

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   We still have lingering heat, but not like the heat of mid-summer. Clearly the daytime is decreasing rapidly. We can observe the impermanence of the seasons, but scarcely of our own.   Only when we face the … Continue reading →

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Mind Mirror

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We now have a beautiful Sunday morning. Sitting with the Buddha, the beautiful flower on the altar, the cool breeze, the sound of water flowing and birds’ singing penetrates through our world. We can now enjoy the full … Continue reading →

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Imminent Impermanence

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a long spell of heat wave, we may have rain and a little milder weather with a little lower temperature today. We are lucky to get up, come here, and sit in zazen in the early morning. … Continue reading →

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Good Day or Gloomy Day

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We still have the heat wave, which doesn’t seem to be ending by today. The temperature is going up to 103 degrees. A fire is spreading in Oklahoma State because of the high temperatures. The Buddha said, “The … Continue reading →

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Freedom is Fearlessness

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   Today we had the temperature beyond 100, and got the news that five people died here because of the heat. We will have more casualties due to the heat wave. Where is the place of neither heat … Continue reading →

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Cultivation, Culture, Civilization

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! The temperature went up to 99 degrees during the heat wave, and some plants are in the critical state of life or death. If we give water to them, they can survive; if not, they cannot. When we … Continue reading →

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Correcting Karma Consciousness

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   In our solid sitting we feel like we’re “sitting alone on the Great Courageous Peak.” The Great Courageous refers to the Awakened One. I remember sitting in the thick mist on Vulture’s Peak, where the Awakened One … Continue reading →

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Remain Resolute Resilient

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We sit calm and cool in the heat wave warning, with the heat index due to go up to 110 degrees. “In extinction of the heart-head, even fire is cool.” So saying, Kaisen Osho at Erinji sat in … Continue reading →

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Tanabata (七夕, 7/7)

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Today is tanabata in the East. Tana is altar andis banner. It seems that it originally started as a Buddhist festival to receive ancestors’ spirits. Then, it was combined with the story of a cowherd and a weaver … Continue reading →

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Holy Home-coming

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After a few solid, serene sittings, we can taste amrita, the ambrosia of immortality beyond samsara (vicissitudes in birth and death) and suffering here and now. Only by actual practice we can taste it. Only with actual practice … Continue reading →

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