Holy Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Rosan Daido
Dear all,

                              Holy Happy New Year!

  From Rosan

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Dear all,
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A new day and the New Year was welcomed today on the peak of the mountain in Phoenix. With this celebration, I wish you, your family and the Sangha a  Happy New Year, a year full of joy, friendship, togetherness, health and beauty.
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From Garyo
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Garyo’s video of the people playing music toward the New Year’s rising sun:

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I wrote to Gary asking if the players are native Americans,

as I thought their clothes look like native Japanese, Ainu.

I received her reply to my question as follows:

 

 

“Thank you for posting  the ceremony on your blog.

 Nearly every morning since March 2020, the Japanese Taiko drummer

Ken Koshio walks up to Piestewa Peak to greet the sun with his drumming. When I first came to Phoenix on Dec. 17,

I was up very early and walked up to the peak. At this time, I witnessed his drumming the first time. Ever since,

I walk up nearly every morning to be part of his powerful ceremony. He is an peace activist and performs with his group in many places of the world.

Yesterday, he performed a typical New Year’s ceremony in his dojo, where I was invited to be part of it. I filmed part of it.

I am so impressed how he manifests pure power, vitality and strength in a very positive way. I try to send you the movie I made yesterday.

The people standing beside him is his partner Eriko, playing flute – she works in the administration of the Japanese garden.

The other one with the flute is his son and the guy with the drum is his best student, who is also a teacher.

Ken works together with Hopi and Navajo Indians and also performs with them. Therefore, his performance is a mix between Japanese Native American traditions.”

 

Drumming at the Dojo:

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Human Laws and Universal Dharma：人間規則と普遍法

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

Today is Christmas Day, celebrated with lighted Christmas trees, which were borrowed from an older tradition of the tree festival, celebrating the coming new year after the winter solstice. Tree and true (dharma) came from the root of dhṝ, enduring, as trees can endure ten thousand years. Trees have been admired, and old large trees have been adored as divine, for their greatness and longevity since ancient times.

 

The Buddha’s Dharma was first symbolized by trees, then Dharma wheels, to prevail throughout the world. He was awakened under a tree, later called the bodhi-tree, and dearly remembered many great trees as beautifully sweet, madhura, in his last journey, probably with annexed shrines, where he could stay and shelter overnight. He took his parinirvana, complete nirvana, under the twin trees with Ananda.

 

Trump has been giving pardons to more than two scores of his relatives and related servants, many of them already convicted as guilty or will be, and is suspected to give it to himself. Here we see how the human law and the universal Dharma (truth/ethic) deal and decide for the world at large. Human laws have often been made by the politically powerful, not the philosophically or prognostically prominent.

 

The Buddha was awakened in the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination and provided us with the ethical codes of the Five Precepts, etc., which were incorporated into the Global Ethic. We will and must know the world system is in the Dharma, and we must follow the Global Ethic, avoiding old mistakes of human laws with the Five Calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction.

 

Trump has the delusion of selfishness, leading to the Triple Poisons and the Five Calamities, misusing human laws – this is unimaginable for ordinary people, much less for trees. If we remain in the Dharma like trees, without sins (selfish sickness), we can enjoy the holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness of the Five Blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace through the Triple Learnings.

 

 

December 25, 2020 C.E. Dharma note

 

Note 1. The Triple Poisons are delusion, desire, and divisiveness. The Triple Learnings are morality, concentration, and prognosis, encountering the Triple Poisons. The former originates on causes (individual karma: body/mind) and conditions (social, environmental situations: object/relations). The latter is to reorient and rearrange these to shift and shape a new individual, social, and environmental world.

 

  1. Paradigm Shirt:

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/

 

 

今日は灯りを付けたクリスマスの木を飾るクリスマスの日ですが、それは冬至の後に来る新年を祝う樹木の祭のもっと古い伝統から借りたものです。樹木は一万年も永続するので、樹木(tree)と真実（true/dharma）は永続を意味する語根dhṝに由来しています。樹木は賞嘆され、また古い大きな樹木は太古の時代からその偉大さと長寿の故に神聖なものとして尊崇されて来ました。

 

仏法は最初樹木で象徴されましたが、世界中に周遍するものとして後には法輪で表されました。彼は、後に菩提（悟り）樹と呼ばれる木の下で悟りを開き、その最後の旅では多くの樹々を甘美（madhura）であったと回想していますが、多分その隣には祠があってそこに一夜の宿を得て風雨を凌いだのでしょう。彼は阿難を伴い（沙羅）双樹の下で般涅槃（完全な寂静）されました。

 

トランプは40人以上の自分の親類や関係家僕に恩赦をあたえましたが、多くは有罪として既に訴追されたかこれからされる人々で、自分にも恩赦を与えるだろうという疑惑を持たれています。ここに私達は人間の規則と普遍法（真理・倫理）が全体世界をどう取り扱い決定するかを見る事が出来ます。人間の規則は屡政治的有力者により作られ、哲学的或いは智慧的な卓越者によって作られるものではないのです。

 


仏陀は縁起（因縁生起）の法に目覚め、地球倫理になった五戒等の倫理規範を提供してくれました。私達は世界組織が法の中にあることを知るでしょうし知らなければならず、古い錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・破壊の五禍を伴う人間規則を廃して、地球倫理に従わなければなりません。

 

トランプは利己という迷妄を持ち、それが人間の規律を悪用して三毒と五禍に導いているのです―これは普通の人々には想像も出来ないことであり、ましてや樹木においておや。もし私達が罪（利己病患）なしに、樹木のように法にとどまるならば、私達は覚醒・自由・平等・博愛・平和の聖（全体健全）な調和、健康、幸福を享受できるのです。

 

 

 

2020共通年12月25日　法記

 

 

註１．三毒とは貪瞋痴（貪欲、怒り、無智）です。三学とは戒定慧（戒律、禅定、智慧）です。前者は原因（個人的業：身心）と条件（社会的・環境的状況：客体関係）により生起します。後者はこれらを方向転換し再配列して新しい個人的、社会的、県境的世界を転換し再形成するのです。

 

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Tulip tree at white Christmas 2020 C.E. in Washington State

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spruce at white Christmas

 

 

The above pictures were taken and sent by

Rev. Erin Daiho Davis, our member and editor.

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Paradigm Shift:　枠組転換

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

When Trump became president, the Doomsday Clock moved closer and closer, 2.5 to 2 minutes, then only 100 seconds, to catastrophic midnight, due to his failures in nuke winter, global warming, etc. His ignorance and ignoring made the U.S. the world’s worst in Covid-19 infections, death, etc. (4% of the world’s population, but more than 20% of infections and deaths), while he devoted himself to baseless election fraud lawsuits, rejected by state and federal courts, and golf. This endangers and damages not only the U.S., but the whole world.

 

This danger and damage is fundamentally due to his karma, especially the Triple Poisons of delusion, divisiveness, and desire, but also the human system of the Five Fictitious Modern Players: nation, corporation, media, religion, and education. Politicians’ evil karma of breaking the Dharma (truth/ethic), creating dictatorships, is prevalent, making the world worse with nuclear winter, global warming, mass extinction, wars, refugees, poverty, starvation, and manipulation of corporations, media, religion, and education, mobilizing masses of people.

 

The Triple Revolutions of information, democratization, and globalization, however, are countering the extremely dangerous system situations. World news spreads globally, instantaneously, organizing more networks and movements, globalizing data and democracy. People become more awakened and active, sharing information, democracy, and globalism, though a limited number of them become misled and misused by fake news, false politicians, and frivolous media, etc. No one can go against the Dharma and gain good results from a-Dharma.

 

Humans and human systems are only a part of the Universe and its systems, whose universal law is the Dharma. Religion means religare, reunion with the holy (wholly wholesome way/world), which provides universal Dharma and a global system ethic. We must shift our manmade, unidirectional, pyramidal civilization to a natural, cyclical, Indra-net culture, with a global system ethic of no killing life, no stealing material base, no lying in the social fabric, and no misconduct in generational justice, and with the five blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace.

 

December 17, 2020 C.E. Dharma note

 

Note 1: 27 Things You Can Do to Build “Peace on Earth”:

貴方が出来る「地上の平和」27の事

2. Paradigm Shift:

2. 枠組転換:

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/

 

トランプが大統領になってから核の冬、地球温暖化などの失敗の為に破滅の真夜中まで2.5分、２分、更にたったの100秒にと益々接近して来ました。彼の無知と無視は合衆国を最悪（人口の4％で感染者・死者が20％以上）にしましたが、他方では州と連邦裁判所で却下される根拠の無い詐欺裁判とゴルフにうつつを抜かしています。これは合衆国のみならず全世界を危険と損害に貶めています。

 

この危険と損害は根本的には彼の業、特に貪瞋痴の三毒に依りますが、国家、企業、メディア、宗教と教育の現代の五仮構行動体の人間組織にも依ります。政治屋達が独裁を生む法（真理・倫理）の破壊は一般に広まり、核の冬、地球温暖化、大津滅、戦争、避難民、貧困、飢餓で世界を更に悪化させ、企業、メディア、宗教と教育を操作し、大衆を動員しています。

 

情報、民主化、地球化の三革命は、しかしながら、極端に危険な組織状態に拮抗しています。世界のニュースは地球規模で即刻拡散し、更なるネットワークと運動を組織し、データと民主主義を地球規模にしています。人々はもっと覚醒し活動して、情報、民主主義、地球主義を共有していますが、その限られた数の者達は偽りのニュース、政治屋、と気まぐれなメディアなどにより誤って導かれ悪用されています。誰も法に反することは出来ず、非法から善い結果を得ることは出来ません。

 

人間と人間の組織は宇宙とその組織のほんの一部にすぎませんが、その普遍的な原則が法なのです。宗教（religion）は聖（全体健全）との再結合（religare）ですが、これは普遍的法と地球体系を提供するものです。私達は人工の一方向的金字塔文明から、いのちを殺さず、物質的基盤を盗まず、社会的組織を騙さず、世代の公正に悪業を為さない地球組織倫理で、覚醒、自由、平等、愛情、平和の五歓喜と共に自然で循環的な帝網文化に転換しなればなりません。

 

2020共通年12月17日　法記

 

註：「地に平和」を齎す為に出来る二十七の事：https://globalethics.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/%e8%b2%b4%e6%96%b9%e3%81%8c%e5%87%ba%e6%9d%a5%e3%82%8b%e3%80%8c%e5%9c%b0%e4%b8%8a%e3%81%ae%e5%b9%b3%e5%92%8c%e3%80%8d27%e3%81%ae%e4%ba%8b/

2. 枠組転換:

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and sent by

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The following pictures were taken and sent by

Rev. Genko Daishin (Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka), Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan,

our regular contributor of his pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

Mt. Fuji, 3776m above sea level, is seen in the center (blue cone)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoken-dake, Mt. Treasure Sword (highest peak, 2431m above sea level)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoken-dake, Mt. Treasure Sword (highest one)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture was taken from the cable car.

 

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Buddha’s Awakening Day: 仏成道（覚醒）日

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

December 8 has been celebrated throughout northern Buddhist countries as the Buddha’s awakening day for twenty-five centuries. The awakening was said to be to the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, the Four Holy Truths, etc. The first truth is the fundamental one, and the others are applications of it. It is basically same with the law of causation, but it is wider in application and more detailed in emphasizing conditions, not only objective and physical ones, but also subjective and  psychological ones.

 

The Four Holy Truths are compared to a medical prognosis, but they are more comprehensive and wider in application to any issues and presentations. ”The truth of suffering” is the reality of existence due to the Dharma, which denies self-sameness (impermanence) and self-sovereignty (suffering, du-kkha, wrong-going, going against one’s wishes of permanence and pleasure).  The Triple Poisons come from not recognizing this fact of life, death, disappointment, despair, etc.

 

””The truth of the cause of suffering” lies in wishes or desires. The wider and deeper causes are the Triple Poisons, which come from karma. ””The truth of the cessation of the cause of suffering” lies in nirvana, stilling karma, which can be done by still sitting (zen, concentration), which is perfected with the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis. The practice of still sitting stills sinful actions, and is conducive to concentration and prognosis, to selfless (sinless), holy (wholly wholesome) wisdom.

 

”The truth of the path leading to the cessation of the cause of suffering” lies in the Six Perfections, the Seven Awakening Limbs, the Eight Holy Paths or the Eight Great Person’s Awakening, etc., including the Triple Concentration Limbs of right mindfulness, striving, and concentration. These are right paths and holy paths to live in the Dharma (truth/ethic) and to enjoy holy harmony, health, and happiness in the Two Paths of Prognosis and Practice, going beyond the Triple Poisons and karma.

 

The Five Precepts of no killing, no stealing, no adultery, no falsehood, and no intoxicants are observed by all Buddhists, both householders and renouncers, and are prerequisite to the Triple Concentration Limbs, without which right mindfulness, striving, and concentration are impossible. The Dharma dictates the truth, like the Hayabusa 2 hitting a 12m diameter area of the asteroid Ryūgū, more than 350,000,000 km away, and collecting subsurface rocks and returning the sample capsule to us.

 

The six years’ travel to Ryūgū, Dragon Palace, bringing the Tamatebako, Treasure Casket, observing hundreds of thousands of rocks, landing by trial and error, checking a hundred thousand possible accidents, and finally obtaining key materials to solve the origin of life, was like the six years’ striving of the Buddha to attain awakening, and choosing the right way to solve the source of suffering and the solution for it: karma and stilling karma. This was the unprecedented, unsurpassable great achievement of all living beings.

 

The unprecedented, extraordinary falsehoods of Trump, involving the whole world, created a post-truth period. His falsehoods have been debunked by fact checks and established democratic systems – the election, the judiciary, the media, vox populi, etc. Truth prevails throughout the total history of the universe. Truth can be found and applied to present the past, prescribe the present, and predict the future, unlike falsehoods that fail reality and real effects. “Only truth wins.” Only the Dharma wins.

 

December 8, 2020 C.E.  Dharma note

Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2

 

 

12月8日はブッダの覚醒（成道）日として北方仏教国では二十五世紀に亘り祝われて来ました。覚醒は縁起（因縁生起）法、四聖諦などされています。最初の真理は根本的なもので、他はその応用です。それは基本的には因果律と同様ですが、応用はもっと広く、縁（条件）を強調してもっと詳細な物であり、対象に物質にだけでなく、主体に心理にも適用されます。

 

四聖諦は医療の診断に例えられますが、もっと包括的で広範でどのような問題（問題・原因・解決・方法）でも提題（起承転結）でも応用されます。「苦の真理」は法による存在の現実で、それにより自己同一（無常）と自己主宰の否定（苦、du-kkha：逆ｰ行：恒常と快適の希求に逆行すること）がされるのです。三毒は生、死、失望、絶望などの事実を認識しないことから来るのです。

 

「苦の原因の真理」は希求即ち欲望みにあります。もっと広く深い原因は三毒であり、業から来るのです。「苦の原因の停止の真理」は涅槃、止業であり、それは静坐（禅、三昧）によって得られ戒定慧の三学により完成されます。静座の実践は罪業を鎮め禅定と般若（智慧）に導き無我（無罪）の聖（全体健全）な智慧に導きます。

 

「苦の原因の停止に導く道」は六波羅蜜、七覚支、八聖道または八大人覚などにありこれらはみな正念、正精進、正定の定支を含んでいます。これらは三毒と業を超える般若と実践（見道と修道）の二道で法（真理・倫理）の中に生きて聖なる調和・健康・幸福を享受する正道であり聖道です。

 

不殺、不盗、不淫、不偽、不飲酒の五戒は在家・出家の全ての仏教徒が守るもので三定支の前提条件であり、それが無ければ正念・正精進・正定は不可能なのです。法は真理を決定付けます、はやぶさ2号が３億５千万km離れた小惑星竜宮の12ｍ直径の地点に達し、表面より下の岩を採取して私達にその試験岩石のカプセルを届けに戻ったように。

 

竜宮へ行き、何万という岩を観測し、試行錯誤着地を繰り返し、十万通りの事故可能性を点検し、ついに生命の起源を解明する鍵となる物質を入手し玉手箱を持ち帰った６年の旅は仏陀が苦の源泉とその解決、業と止業の正しい道を選び覚醒を得る６年の精進の様です。これは一切生類の未曾有無上の偉大な達成事でした。

 

世界を巻き込んだトランプの未曾有の途方もない偽りは真理以後の時代を生みました。彼の偽りは事実点検と確固たる民主的体系―選挙、司法、メディア、民の声などにより露見されて来ました。真理は宇宙の全歴史を通じて勝利するものです。真理は偽りが現実に合致せず現実の効果を持たないのとは違い、発見可能であり、過去を提示し、現在を診断し、未来を予見できます。「真理のみ勝つ。」法のみ勝つのです。

 

２０２０共通年１２月８日　法記

註：https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AF%E3%82%84%E3%81%B6%E3%81%952

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and sent by

Rev. Erin Daiho, our member and editor.

 

 

 

The following pictures were taken at Komagadake, Mt. Koma, and sent by

Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vox Populi Vox Pana, Pasada, Pannatti: 民の声は命、和、心の声

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

 

The present pandemic has shown the truth of life over money. Wherever money is preferred, life is lost severely, as in the US, Japan, and Sweden (cp. other Nordic countries). Trump ignored COVID-19, making the US the worst country in calamities, while devoting himself to baseless election fraud lawsuits, getting donations, golfing, and endangering not only democracy, but life itself.

 

Biden, president-elect, knows life, having lost family members and almost his own life. He wants to unify the country and, hopefully, the world. He has chosen a staff diverse in gender, race, etc. His unifying power can abolish nukes and wars, which depends on the power of people. If masses of people want a peaceful world, they can achieve it. The people’s voice is the paramount voice.

 

All over the world the sea-change from a pyramidal civilization to a life Indra-net culture is observed with the vox populi vox pāṇa, the voice of people is the voice of life. Life is a system wrought through the billions of years of the universe. The law of it is expressed in the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are dependently co-originated on causes and conditions.

 

Vox populi vox pasāda, the voice of people is the voice of harmony. Harmony is a system brought about by the myriad beings of the universe. The law of it is illuminated and illustrated by Awakened Ones in peace and prognosis, nirvana and prajńā, realized in a serene, settled state in the Dharma beyond the Triple Poisons of delusion, divisiveness, and desire of human karma.

 

Vox populi vox pańńatti, the voice of people is the voice of recognition of law and its enactment (truth/ethic). The law of it is the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination. All beings, sat-tā, are in it and recognize “Only truth, sat-tva or Dharma, wins.” Human success or failure depends on it and determines the fate of all beings in the universe, and whether we can solve the global problematique.

 

November 29, 2020 C.E. Dharma note

 

Note: Paradigm Shift:

「枠組転換」：Paradigm Shift

 

 

現在の全人類的感染症は金よりも命が上であるという真実を示して来た。金が選ばれた場合は何時も、合衆国、日本、スウェーデン（他の北欧諸国と比較せよ）におけるように命が酷く失われる。トランプはCOVID-19を無視して、一方では根拠のない選挙詐欺告訴に献身し、寄付金を入手し、ゴルフをし、民主主義のみならず命そのものを危険にさらして、合衆国を最大の惨禍国にした。

 

選挙で大統領に選ばれたバイデンは自らの家族達を失い、自らの命も殆ど失いそうになって命を知っている。彼は国を、望むらくは世界をも、統一したいと望んでいる。彼は性、人種等の多様なスタッフを選んで来ている。彼の統一する力は核や戦争を廃止出来るが、それは人々の力による。もし大量の人々が平和な社会を望むならば、彼らはそれを成し遂げ得る。人々の声は至高の声である。

 

世界中にvox populi vox pāṇa、民の声は命の声、による金字塔文明から命帝網文化への潮目変化が観られる。命は宇宙の何十億年を閲して練り上げられた体系である。その法は、一切の現象は直接原因と間接条件に縁って共に生起したものであるという、因縁生起（縁起）の法で表現される。

 

Vox populi vox pasāda、民の声は和の声である。和は宇宙の森羅万象によってもたらされた体系である。その法は覚者達によって照明され体現され、平和と智慧、即ち涅槃と般若、の中に人間の業の貪瞋痴の三毒を越えた法に清澄な安住した状態で実現された。

 

Vox populi vox pańńatti、民の声は法とその行動（真理・倫理）の認識の声である。その法は縁起の法である。一切存在、sat-tā, はその中にあり、「真理, sat-tva、のみ勝つ」ことを認識する。人間の成功か失敗はそれに依存し、宇宙の一切存在の運命と私達が地球問題群を解決するか否かを決める。

 

Note: 枠組転換:

「枠組転換」：Paradigm Shift

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving Earth Now:

Overview _ Earth – NASA Solar System Exploration

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Five Day Pilgrimage from Vienna to Mariazell, Pt. 3

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

Five Day Pilgrimage from Vienna to Mariazell

 

 

The next two days to Mariazell were basically a stroll through solitary nature. Without hardly any elevation change, the about thirty miles of walk allowed a lot of resting time, looking and listening.

 

For hundred of years, the dense forest was the only source of income for the people living in this area. This was commemorated by a little outdoor museum. The museum showed glimpses of the hard life of woodcutters and charcoal makers. A charming chapel for pilgrims was beside the museum. The walls were covered by squared paintings celebrating life and nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Via Sacra Chapel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the chapel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking into the humble living space of woodcutter and charcoal makers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another home

 

 

Before we passed this museum, we stopped at an inn called Kalte Kuchl (cold kitchen). It is located on a major crossroad leading in three directions. The inn goes back to the 15th century. It is the destination of motorcycles – what a contrast to the otherwise undisturbed nature!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kalte Kuchl Inn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only a few people live in this area. Most of the time, the path is unpaved and in harmony with the surroundings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typical path

 

 

The amount of wayside shrines increased the closer we came to Mariazell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A baroque wayside shrine with shingled roof

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary and Child on a column, surrounded by a circle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like on many pilgrimage paths, pilgrims donate little rocks on certain places

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collection of little rocks donated

 

 

Often, we walked beside a creek. It was nice listening to the sound of water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of many creeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abundance of water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About 100 years ago, a lake was constructed 10 miles before Mariazell, the Hubertussee.  The clear, still water reflected the surrounding mountains perfectly. I could not resist the temptation to jump into the ice-cold mountain water – it was so refreshing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hubertussee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A charming chapel dedicated to the 15th century Swiss Saint Nicholaus of Flühe overlooking the lake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A typical mountain spring along the way

 

 

 

It was already dark when we arrived at Mariazell. The town is dominated by the 17th century baroque Basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Although I made photos, my friend provided a photo she made in May with the full moon above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basilica of Mariazell with full moon

[photo provided by Gabriele Moser (copyright, 2020)]

 

 

We spent the next day in Mariazell and went to the grotto to give thanks for a successful pilgrimage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of candles illuminate and warm up the grotto

 

 

I also bought the famous gingerbread of Mariazell for presents at home.  As a fun activity, we climbed the “ladder to heaven” which leaned against the gothic entrance of the Basilica (we asked for permission to get on the ladder). Next year, we plan to walk the same route in the reverse direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Way up to Heaven

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sigrid and I in front of the Basilica  

 

 

Thank you so much for walking with me on this pilgrimage. It was a real pleasure to share my experience.

Gassho,

Garyo

 

 

 

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Five Day Pilgrimage to Mariazell, Pt. 2

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

Five Day Pilgrimage to Mariazell

 

 

 

The third day of the pilgrimage was the most challenging of the entire hike. The 16 mile distance included two mountains over 3000 feet high. In addition, I did not eat anything since the start of the pilgrimage, as my family doctor recommended fasting for cleansing the body.  I still had to take antibiotics for treating Borreliose I got by a tic bite. I was quite concerned that I would stress the body too much.

 

I left the inn by early morning. My friend Sigrid did not join this day. She was recovering from several weeks in the hospital and had to be careful with her health.

 

The day started with magical impressions of nature – sparkling dewdrops covered spider webs, grasses and flowers, making each little plant the most precious thing on earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a tiny part of a meadow and so beautiful

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spider webs soaked with dewdrops were resting  all over the meadow on grass blades

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A thistle with two buds and a blossom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miracle of nature

 

 

My first destination before the climb up to Kieneck mountain was the 12th century castle Aaraburg. I had apple juice with sparkling water in the café before I started to hike up the mountain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aaraburg in the distance

 

 

 

For hours, I went along the mountain ridge up the mountain and did not meet a single person. Again, the nature was magical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Powerful roots covered the mountainous path

 

 

 

The colors of flowers are even more brilliant, the higher they grow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting mushroom formations

 

 

 

The view of the surrounding mountains was spectacular – you can see untouched forests all the way to the horizon. This land is very protected, because Vienna gets its water supply from here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I arrived at a mountaintop called Reingupf, I did not see anymore trail markers and checked my phone navigator about the distance to the mountain Kieneck. It showed that Kieneck was several hours walk away. I was shocked – did I make such a mistake? I did not have a good enough map to look where I was and decided to go back to catch the last public bus.

 

When I climbed down the steep mountain path for a while, I met two hikers coming up. They assured me that I was on the right path. They had downloaded the entire pilgrimage on their Iphone, which was a smart thing to do. I asked if I could hike with them and they agreed. So I hiked the same way up again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking together along the ridge

 

 

 

Several minutes before 3 pm we arrived at the Enzianhütte. We were so lucky that we arrived just minutes before they closed. All three of us did not have enough water with us for the day’s hike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terrace of the Enzianhütte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View from the terrace of the Enzianhütte

 

 

 

We continued our hike to the next mountain, Unterberg. The mountain inn was closed. We were happy that we had stocked up on our water supply. Because of the porous limestone, there are no natural springs on the mountain.

 

Again, the view down into the valleys and lower mountains was spectacular. We passed a charming little chapel called “Maria Einsiedl” with the replica of Virgin Mary of Mariazell. The inside of the chapel looked like the inside of an old-fashioned train wagon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wooden chapel Maria Einsiedl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View of the chapel inside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intimate relation between a stone and a tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My two saviors getting water at the first spring we encountered

 

 

 

After the Unterberg Mountain, we started the long descent down to the village Rohr im Gebirge. We hiked many hours in the dark and arrived at 10 pm at our hotel. On this day, I had hiked for 14 hours without taking any food. I was amazed that my body had even more energy than usual.

 

 

 

 

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Five Day Pilgrimage from Vienna to Mariazell, Pt.1

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Rosan Daido

The following is contributed by Garyo, our member and favorite contributor of

her pilgrimage travelogues around the world here and in her publication:

 

 

Five Day Pilgrimage from Vienna to Mariazell

 

Since 800 years, the little town Mariazell in the Pre-Alps of Lower Austria is the destiny of many pilgrims. The reason is a little statue of the Virgin Mary carved out of linden tree wood, which is thought to work miracles. Hundred of years ago, Mariazell became the most important pilgrimage site for the Austrian monarchy. Even now, it is a beloved destination for Catholics of the former countries of the monarchy. Exactly 20 years ago, I walked to Mariazell with my sister, starting in her hometown, Mautern. This was my first pilgrimage. About two month ago, I hiked with my friend Sigrid on a different pilgrimage route to Mariazell. We started at a place south of Vienna called Perchtoldsdorf.

 

 

 

 

 

Gothic Church St. Augustin with a 15th century defense tower to the right and a baroque plague column between them

 

 

 

 

 

Gothic City Hall of Perchtholdsdorf (15th century)

 

 

From Perchtholdsdorf, we hiked through a forest of pine trees up to the Parapluieberg with a cabin on the top of the mountain. The little restaurant sold delicious food, but I was fasting and only had apple juice with sparkling water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cabin on the top of the Parapluieberg

 

 

On the slow descent down to the next village, we passed huge meadows full of purple Autumn Timeless flowers. With their gracious and fragile flower pedals, they are intriguing in their beauty, but also highly poisonous for human beings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was great to hike the pilgrimage with a dear friend. We both are lovers of nature and like to take our time to see the beauty of the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sigrid and I in the village of Sittendorf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The way to Mariazell leads through the Vienna woods, an area of 25000 protected acres. Many wayside shrines exist along the pilgrimage path to Mariazell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyclamen flowers love to grow in the Vienna woods

 

 

We also passed the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz (founded in the 12th century), a treasure of medieval architecture. Unfortunately, we did not have time for a visit, as the days were shorter and we still had many miles to hike.

 

 

 

 

Stift Heiligenkreuz with the west façade of the 13th century church

[photo provided by Gabriele Moser, (copyright 2020)]

 

 

We continued our walk to Mayerling, famous for the tragedy happening in 1889. Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of emperor Francis Joseph and heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, committed suicide with his mistress Mary Vetsera in the hunting lodge. Nothing is left from that time; the emperor ordered the immediate destruction of the lodge.

 

 

 

 

In this charming wooden cabin called Holzschlag (cutting of timber) we stayed overnight. It is located in the middle of a forest area.

 

 

The next day, we continued our hike to the village Kaumberg , a hike of about 15 miles. However, we decided to do a two-hour detour up to the famous climbing mountain Peilstein. It was worth the effort

 

 

 

 

 

Way up to Peilstein with typical Vienna forest beech trees

 

 

 

 

 

Mosses grow on trees, rocks and the ground – a magical landscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view from the top of the mountain into the valley was phenomenal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Peilsteinhaus, a popular inn for climbers and hikers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We continued our hike through forests and meadows. The landscape already had an alpine flair.

 

 

 

 

 

A family of mushrooms on a rotten tree

 

 

This year has had many rainy days – a paradise for mushrooms. The parasol mushrooms especially liked this climate.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the mushrooms collected by a mushroom hunter

 

 

The parasol was one of the favorite mushrooms in my childhood. They look like little, gracious umbrellas on the forest ground.

 

 

 

 

 

Parasol mushroom

 

 

On our way, we passed the Druidenstone, a magical place.  It was a place where we read poems from John O’Donahue to each other. I brought his book “Bless the Space between us” with me for this hike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Druidenstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even two cows seemed to listen to the poems

 

 

 

At this point, we decided to continue our hike barefoot. It was great to feel the ground under our feet. However, we walked far too slow for the distance we had to go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking barefoot

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photo of this wayside shrine shows the meaning of the Virgin Mary for me –    

the vast sky and the crowns of trees are taking over her upper body and head.   

The Virgin Mary for me is the manifestation of the entire universe.

 

 

 

We stopped at a former Benedictine monastery called Kleinmariazell. The 12th century Romanesque Basilica is a real architectural treasure. We also admired the former cloister, now a beautiful, romantic garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloister of Kleinmariazell

 

 

 

 

 

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Fiction and Reality: 仮想と現実

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

Yuval Noah Harari said, “Homo sapiens will disappear in a century or so.” He thinks the species rose due to creating society by fiction. He suggests its demise either by fiction – destroying the globe – or its genes. Homo sapiens’ rise and fall is by fiction, as it is said that those who live by the sword will die by it.

 

Francis Bacon wrote about the four idola, idols, of cave, market place, theatre, and species, which I’ve made into the five Sapiens Syndromes of Self, Society, State, Species, and Symbolism. These syndromes increasingly endanger not only the human species, but all species and the entire global life system.

 

Trump and his society represent the danger of them with erroneous ego, credulous clans, stolen states, fictitious fundamentalism, and sick symbolism. He refuses reality, launches lies, mobilizes mobs, creates coups, and devises dictatorship and, cornered, may even wipe out all life by the button of nukes.

 

The five Sapiens Syndromes are fictions. We must be awakened to the Dharma of all dharmas that all are interdependently originated on causes and conditions. We need to follow science instead of old beliefs, and to follow the fundamental ethic as summed up in the Global Ethic of no killing, stealing, lying, etc.

 

Ethic, from ethos, custom, develops as societies expand. The present day ethic, limited by nationalism, must become a global one – no killing, stealing, etc. of all. It should be extended to other nations to avoid nukes, wars, etc., and hopefully extended to all living beings on earth as the Awakened Way deems.

 

The five major modern players of nation, corporation, media, religion, and education are fictions, related and relative, rising and falling. They are not absolute and should not be dictatorships. These are only a part of the larger global, solar, and universal systems existing a hundred billion years or more.

 

Life, heart, and harmony are greater and more valuable than money, matter, and might. Wise people like Gotama, Isiah, et al., lived in holiness, happiness, peace, poverty, contentment, and compassion without the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion and the Triple Madness of money, matter, and might.

 

Each and every one is a part and parcel of such systems in space and time, making all living beings equally valuable in objective views and values, so to speak, being billions-year-old universal beings, nothing lacking nor superfluous. Don’t look outside, but inside, for limitless life and light, is always good advice.

 

 

November 15, 2020 C.E. Dharma note

 

 

ユヴァル・ノア・ハラリは「ホモ・サピエンスは一世紀かそこらで消え失せるだろう」と言った。彼はフィクションによる社会の創造によって興隆したと考えている。彼は、地球を滅ぼすか自らの遺伝子をそうするか、いずれにしてもその没落はフィクションによるであろうと示唆している。ホモ・サピエンスの興亡はフィクションによる、剣によって生きる者はそれによって死ぬと言われるように。

 

フランシス・ベーコンは洞窟、市場、劇場、種族の四つのイドラ、偶像、について書いたが、私はそれを自我、社会、国家、種族、象徴主義の五つのサピエンスのシンドローム（症候群）としている。これらのシンドロームは益々人類のみならず一切の種族と全地球生命系を危険に陥れている。

 

トランプと彼の社会は誤った自我、軽信の部族、盗まれた国家、仮想の原理主義と病患の象徴主義でそれらの危機を表現している。彼は現実を拒否し、嘘を打ち上げ、暴徒を動員し、クーデターを造作し、独裁主義を企図しており、追い詰められれば、核兵器のボタンを押して全生命の払拭をしかねない。

 

習慣を意味するエートスに由来するエシック、倫理、は社会が拡大するにつれ発展する。国家主義により制限されている今日の倫理は地球の―人類皆の不殺生、不偸盗などと言う―倫理にならなければならない。それは他国にも拡大され、核兵器、戦争等を除去しなければならず、希望すらくは覚道がきっぱり言うように一切衆生に拡大されるべきである。

 

国家、企業、メディア、宗教、教育の今日の五大活動体は仮想体であり、相関相対であり、興亡するものである。それらは絶対ではなく独裁主義になるべきではない。これらは何百憶年あるいはそれ以上存在してきた地球系、太陽系、宇宙系体系のほんの一部分であるに過ぎない。

 

命、心、和は金、物、力より偉大でありもっと高価なものである。ゴータマやイザヤその他のような智慧者達は貪瞋痴の三毒や金物力の三狂なしに聖性、幸福、平和、貧困、満足、慈悲の中に生きた。

 

誰でも皆は時空の中のそのような体系の一体の一部であり一切衆生を客観的視点と価値観から見れば平等に価値があり、いわば、欠ける物もなく余計なものも無い何十億歳の宇宙的存在と言える。外に求めるな、内の無量の命と光を見よ、は常に善い忠言である。

 

2020共通年11月15日　法記

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and sent by Erin Daiho, our member and blog editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lotus Life Light from Pinterest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pinterest picture by Jeh (J. E.) Bruce, SF/F author

M 81 (Bode’s Galaxy), M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) and part of IFN, Messier 81 (Bode’s Galaxy or NGC 3031) and Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy or NGC 3034) are respectively spiral and starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.This couple is seen through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebulae (or IFN). Credit: Emil Ivanov

Hummingbird Video: ハチドリ　ビデオ：

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrCxGGFb7NfRXwAGxsPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj?p=hummingbird%2C+youtube&fr=yhs-sz-001&hspart=sz&hsimp=yhs-001#id=68&vid=68365066a208b69e2b34d33f300335fe&action=view

 

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Paramount Sapiens Paradigm Shift: 最高智慧の枠組転換

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Rosan Daido

 

From early in the morning until late at night on Nov. 7, U.S. cities were thronged with joyful people celebrating Joe Biden beating Donald Trump. All over the world people had been watching the presidential race in the pandemic, and they celebrated with the joy of relief from the unpredictable unethical maneuvers of the latter. This was a replay of Obama winning over Bush a dozen years ago, the joy of a new president of color, now echoed in a female V.P. of color, Kamala Harris.

 

The people of the US and the globe are relieved of Trump’s egoistic behaviors and “America First” policies. Joe Biden, in his victory speech, said that solving the pandemic problem and unifying this divided nation are the first priorities at present. These two issues are the greatest urgent issues to be resolved all over the world – life and equality, which will solve the global problematique, interrelated global problems like global warming, pandemic, pollution, poverty, starvation, mass extinction, etc.

 

Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize for his declaration to abolish nuclear weapons, though it was left unachieved. His then vice president Biden can accomplish it, solving the greatest and most urgent problem. The World BEYOND War is building billboards in many cities, saying that “3% of Our Military Budget Can Solve Starvation.” If all nations shifted their military budgets to saving life and supporting living, we could shift our present paradigm to a new one.

 

The Dharma (truth/ethic) of Dependent Co-origination tells that all are dependently originated on limitless causes and conditions, thus all is related and relative. Life is equal, thus no one person or nation can annihilate all living beings with their global life systems. We must abolish egoism, nationalism, and nuclear weapons, which are against the universal fundamental truth/ethic. It is high time that we become true homo sapiens to save all beings in wholly wholesomeness.

 

November 8, 2020 C.E. Dharma note

 

Note: Paradigm Shift:

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/

 

11月7日早朝から夜遅くまで合衆国の諸都市はジョー・バイデンがドナルド・トランプを打ち破ったのを祝って喜んでいる人々で溢れていた。世界中人々は全人類的感染症の中での大統領選挙を見守って来て、後者の予測不可能で非倫理的な策謀から解放された喜びで祝った。これは12年前のオバマがブッシュに勝って有色人種の新大統領誕生の喜びの再現であり、有色人種の女性の副大統領カマラ・ハリスに反響していた。

 

米国と世界の人々はトランプの自己中心的な行動と「アメリカ第一」の政策から解放された。ジョー・バイデンは勝利宣言演説で全人類的感染症問題の解決とこの引き裂かれた国の統一が現在の第一の優先事項であると言った。これら二つの課題―生命と平等―は世界中で最大で最緊急の問題であり、それは地球問題群、例えば地球温暖化、全人類的感染症、汚染、貧困、飢餓、大量絶滅のような相互関連する地球諸問題、を解決することになる。

 

オバマは核兵器廃絶を宣言してノーベル平和賞を受けたが、達成はされないまま残された。当時の彼の副大統領であったバイデンはそれを達成して、最大で最緊急の問題を解決できる。戦争超越世界は「私達の軍事予算の３％で飢餓を解決できる」という大きな広告板を立てている。もし全ての国々が自らの軍事予算を生命を救い生活を支援するなら、私達は現在の枠組を新しいものに転換できる。

 

縁起の法（真理・倫理）は一切が無限の原因と条件に縁って生起する、だから皆相依相対であることを述べている。生命は平等である、だから誰一人いえども一国といえども一切の生命をその地球生命体系と共に全滅させることは出来ない。私達は普遍的根本的な真理・倫理に反する、自己中心主義、国家主義、そして核兵器を廃絶しなければならない。私達が真のホモ・サピエンス（智慧のヒト）になり全体健全の中に一切存在を救うまさに潮時である。

 

 

2020共通年11月8日　法記

 

註：枠組転換：

「枠組転換」：Paradigm Shift

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and sent by Erin Daiho, our member

上の写真は大法恵林、当会会員、が撮影し送ってくれたものです。

 

 

 

 

The following pictures were sent by Pinterest

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