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Tag Archives: Buddha
Serene Satisfaction
Good morning! We have a nice, sunny spring Sunday with a serene atmosphere, especially after sittings. Now we can open the windows and hear the singing of birds, and even see them and flowers. In Japan they are going to have the Flower Festival, … Continue reading
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Tagged amrita (ambrosia, Buddha, Dharma, Dogen, Flower Festival (hanamatsumi, Fukushima, immortality, karma, triple learning, 花祭り)
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Wholly Wholesome World-Body-Mind
Good evening! We say, “A moment in a spring evening is worth a thousand gold pieces.” When we sit like the Buddha, with the best upright posture, assembled hands, and deep breathing, clearing all karmas – physical, verbal, and mental, conceptions, emotions, and volitions – with full power like a water jet cutting metal, we, too, are in unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening. If we sit absent-mindedly, our minds become confused and diffused and our bodies not straight, strong, and balanced. Dogen said, “Awakening is attained with the body, not the mind.” Awakening is attained with the total body, mind, and world in free full function, the dropping off of bodies and minds, so truly wholly wholesome with all, and thus the Buddha mind and body. 4/5/13
Mirror Moon Mind
Good morning! We can see the bright half moon in the clear sky. Beneath it is the calm clear full moon, the Buddha mind. The renowned moon, “Get me it!” say Crying children. 名月を 取ってくれろと 泣く子かな Meigetsu-o Totte-kurero-to Naku-ko kana No one can get and give it to others, but each and every one must get it by actual cultivation and verification. Otherwise the triple poisons and the triple maladies get us. The great round mirror mind is always right hereunder, now, underneath apparent changes. We hope everyone gets it so that all can enjoy total truth and pure peace, with the great Indra-net giving all the triple learnings and the triple treasures. 4/3/13 Note: The haiku quoted above is made by Issa Kobayashi. The following is made by Basho Matsuo: The renowned moon, Going around the pond, For the whole night. 名月や 池をめぐりて 夜もすがら Meigetsu-ya … Continue reading
Holy Home and Host
Good morning! When I left my home, there was sleeting like this. When I arrived here there was no sleeting. Weathermen said that the snow will accumulate one to two inches by 11:30 a.m. and six to eleven inches by tonight. So, everybody is staying at home – very quiet. When the Buddha was taking his morning walk and sitting, he overheard Yasa, the first layman to renounce, saying, “Aah, I am suffering, Alas, I am disturbed!” So the Buddha said, “Here is neither suffering nor vexation. Come and sit, Yasa! I will tell you the dharma!” Now we have sesshin. Sesshin is touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂 心). We can touch and embrace our minds, and even the Buddha mind, when we practice. These incessant innumerable soft snowflakes seem like the Great Thousand Worlds, in which innumerable soft snowflakes are also falling. When we practice, we forget our selves and are verified by all dharmas. As we see dharmas, they verify us with the triple dharma marks: impermanence, suffering from impermanence, and no self-substance from no self-sameness and no self-sovereignty. Thus, the Buddha said “Not yours” (na tumhakam). Nothing is ours, even our bodies and minds, much less those of others. So, naturally we drop off our bodies and minds. When we see dharmas, we witness the holy dharma world, holy home, and holy hosts. In the holy home, everything is holy host. There is no person with limited possessions and possessedness. Rinzai (Linji: 臨済) said “Becoming a host at any place, all become true.” When we become hosts, all turns out true. When we become guests or slaves, all fall far or false. When we witness the holy home, we become holy hosts, enjoying holy (wholly wholesome) truth, goodness, and beauty. Dr. Suzuki of the Suzuki Method of Ability Development said that life has no age and that sounds have life, living without forms. Formless life gives us beauty, goodness, and truth. He often told the story of Amala and Kamala fostered by a wolf – we can … Continue reading
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Tagged Amala, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, Dr. Suzuki, embracing truth (satya-āgraha), Gandhi, Great Thousand Worlds, Kamala, lit. doing duty), no-harm (a-himsā), not yours (na tumhakam), Rinzai (Linji), Ryokan, samu (作務, sesshin, Sesshin:touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂心), Suzuki Method, triple dharma marks (impermanence/suffering/selfless), work), Yasa
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Sesshin, Samyak-Sambodhi Seal
Good morning! We’re having the spring equinox sesshin. This is very auspicious, because the equinox is identified as equanimity. In the East we call this time higan (彼岸), the other shore, beyond the torrents and billows of this world. Further, the spring equinox is important as the night napping of plants and animals has ended and they’re waking up to start their new, free, and full lives. If we just continue our old habits, we must also continue our problems and sufferings. That is why we need sesshin, touching our minds (接心) and embracing our minds (摂心). Our minds are compared to the charioteers of chariots. Often our chariots are pulled by the “will horses,” or karmas. So, we must find our minds and control them, not be controlled by them. We need to embrace our minds. Often in the early Buddhist scriptures it is recommended that we protect our doors or gates (dvāra-gutta). Because we constantly leak through our sense organs and motor organs, especially leaks of conceptions, emotions, and volitions through the motor organs, we defile and destroy our world and ourselves. So, we must embrace our minds. We have a nice equinox day today in balanced day and night, chill and heat. Weathermen, however, have warned of a few to several inches of snow accumulation from tonight to tomorrow night. We have been having extreme weather due to global warming – droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, even the globe itself warming to make more fluid magma movement. Recently we were warned about a Nankai (South Sea) Trough earthquake and tsunami, which could cause ten times more damage than the Great East Japan Earthquake. Scientists say the adjacent Tō-nankai (East South Sea) and Tōkai (East Sea) earthquakes may take place at the same time. Disasters happen not only in Japan, but all over the world with added human causes. Not only disasters, but disease, devastation from nuclear plants, and accidents by cars, etc., may happen any time to anyone. We must therefore be prepared for them and for deaths. We must solve our birth and death problems before our devastation and deaths. We must attain unsurpassed awakening in the truth of our life and living, and unconditioned peace, nirvana, … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, dharma dhâtu (domain, Dogen, embracing our minds: 摂心), higan (彼岸: the other shore), karma, paramount truth (parama-artha-satya), protecting doors/gates (dvāra-gutta), sesshin: touching our minds: 接心, supramundane (loka-uttara), triple learnings (sīla/samādhi/prajñā), triple maladies (me-ism/materialism/militarism), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), triple treasures (buddha/dharma/sangha), unconditioned peace (nirvana), unsurpassed right complete awakening (anuttara samyak-sambodhi)
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Equinox, Equanimity, Exess-Extinction
Good evening! This is the first day of spring, the vernal equinox. In the East we celebrate it as equanimity, nirvana, the other shore, beyond the sea of sufferings. Nowadays people just celebrate it for the deceased, supposedly in the other world. But originally it was for anyone to attain nirvana, stillness of karmas. It is beyond all physical, verbal, and mental karmas, actions, and action results or habits, any fabrications even of meditation or relaxation. It is the complete cessation of karmas realized in this solid serene sitting, the Buddha mind seal, sealed in the Buddha mind. So, please sit strong, straightened up, and solid, unmoved by anything – ideas, ideologies, memories, volitions, emotions, etc., appreciating amrita! 3/21/13
Unconditioned Peace Unsurpassed Awakening Here Now
Good evening! Today is the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war. Recently we had the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We say, “See to the end.” If we truly see to the end, we could not have started wars and nukes with countless casualties, costs, and conundrums. Not seeing to the end, we become irresponsible and infamous, creating all kinds of problems and sufferings in endless karma ripples, consequences. Not a mountain moving, with a mouse or mindless mice emerging, but the whole world trembling in joy and tears at the Buddha’s birth and death. Seeing to the end, the Buddha showed us the “come and see” way, good in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end, for all always and all places. Zazen is the unity of means and ends, the cultivation and verification of unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening here and now with all. A proverb says, “There are horses running a thousand miles a day, but few find them.” There are treasures, but who actually acts and appreciates them? 3/20/13
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Tagged Buddha, goodness, nukes, true treasure, wars, zazen
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Bodhisattva Bunny
Good morning! On the way here I saw many bunnies scurrying around. Over and around here we see many Buddhas sitting still. There was a bunny who was sent to the moon, saving a suffering servant of this world, and savoring amrita, ambrosia of immortality ever since. Sentient beings are set in self-survival karmas (habits, actions) with short-sight, short-circuit, and short-spark. They live with the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness led into the triple maladies of me-ism, materialism, and militarism. Awakened ones are settled in wholly wholesome dharmas (truths, laws) with long-sight, long-circuit, and long-success (saving, serving, sewa, seva). They live with the triple potencies of purity, peace, and prognosis led into the triple minds of magnanimous mind, mature mind, and joyful mind. The boddhisattva bunny, great being, has been ever since enjoying amrita with limitless life, light, liberation, love, and learning. 3/18/13 Note: 1. The story of a bunny saving an apparently old hungry man actually the supreme being of this world was sent to the moon thanks to its selfless action was saved into the moon, as we see the figure now. (Please refer to this blog site posting the poem made by Ryokan, Mind Mirror, posted on August 14, 2011.) 2. Sewa (Japanese, 世話), seva … Continue reading
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Tagged amrita, bodhisattva bunny, Buddha, immortality, Moon/Mind Mirror, Ryokan, self-survival karmas, Sewa (世話)/seva/serving/saving, triple maladies (meism/materialism/militarism), triple minds (great/mature/joyful minds), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), triple potencies (purity/peace/prognosis), triple shorts (short-sight/short-circuit/short-spark)
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Flaring Fires
Good morning! Even when the spring sphere is here and flowers are blooming, there may be no or fewer fruits, due to the plants themselves, pollinating plants, or agents. The summer sphere offers more chances for forest fires or finger fires. The Buddha said that the world is on fire – eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body are on fire. We must see when, where, and how the global fire, hell fire, etc. are starting and ceasing – inside, outside, both or neither. 3/15/13 Note: Finger fire is burning fingernails in place of a candle. Related expressions are skin flint, shave a whetstone, pinch a penny, squeeze blood out of a stone, etc. Friendly fire is to burn friends in place of foes. Figure fire is burning oneself in place of others in protest or prognosis. All these and other human fires with or without consciousnesses and consequences burn the world as the Buddha mentioned.
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Tagged Buddha, fire inside/outside/both/neither, hell fire, human fire, world fire
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Buddha-nature Here Now
Good morning! With this rain most snow has melted away. A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China. This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later). Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster. They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs. When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever. Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now. Why do we have these disasters and sufferings? These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones. We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults. We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, “If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed. So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings. We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility. Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading
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Tagged and happiness, Buddha, Buddha nature, civilization/state/success/self, Dogen, Genjōkōan, Goebbels, Great East Japan Earthquake, health, Hitler, holy harmony, holy healthy awakening, maladies: materialism/militarism/money-ism/me-ism, nuclear disaster, Realizing Universal Truth, sam-bodhi, self-deceased (gari-gari-mōja, 我利我利亡者
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