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Washing Way: Pure Path

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a nice warm winter day today with the temperature going up to 61 degrees. When I saw snow recently, I imagined radiation falling like snow, covering everything. This evening I watched an NHK special … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Cultivation: culture, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, nuclear disaster, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, War, Zen | Tagged a public broadcasting institution half-subsidized by government and subscribed by people (all who access any broadcasting), amrita (ambrosia, cancer, economic/ecological meltdown:mass extinction, ICRP, immortality, limitless life/light/liberation, lukemia, NHK (Nihon Hoso Kyokai: 日本放送協会）：Japan Broadcasting Association, nuclear plant, radiation, washing (dhuta, zazen: stopping karma/seeing dharma/saving all: washing body/mind/all, zuda:頭陀）way: pure path: plain path: clothing/eating/dwelling: three decayed cloths/one begging bowl/under trees | Leave a comment

From Deluded Way to Awakened Way

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now clouds threatening to snow, with temperatures going below the freezing point as forecast. But, after sitting we have a clear and calm world. Yesterday I visited St. Charles for the first time. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged “return to our homes and sit in safety (帰家安坐：kika-anza)”, awakened way, birth/death, broad/natural way, Buddha, Buddhism, Chrnobyl, Easter Island, ECRR (European Committee on Radiation Risk), Fukushima, global life system, global warming, immortality, Main Street, mass extinction, nuclear disaster, nuclear fallout: cancer, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Three Mile Island, Wall Street, Zen | Leave a comment

Occupy All

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Today is black Friday. Were you occupied by the shopping spree? The Canadian magazine Adbusters, which advocated a Buy Nothing Day twenty years ago, launched OccupyXmas today, stopping shopping sprees. Xmas is now occupied by supply-side management. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day, concerned with/taking care of/ cooperating with all always, demand-side management, demanding/possessing nothing: unpossessed, gift of limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, harmony/holiness, immortality, Occupy All, OccupyXmas, shopping/shooting spree, supply-side management, tree: peaceful/truthful/cooperating, wholly wholesome | Leave a comment

Brighter than the Big Brilliant Sun

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! This morning I saw the big brilliant beautiful sun, and the golden leaves on the trees and over the ground. If we stay in our houses, we can’t see such beautiful things. The golden leaves spread … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Anâtapindika, food-giver for the have-nots, Gion (Jeta-vana), immortality, Jeta-vana, limitless life light, limitless light/life/liberation/love/learing, small secular sight, Tale of Heike, Yajnavalkya | Leave a comment

System Shift from Shortsight, Selfishness

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a quiet, clear Sunday with bright colorful fall foliage. After a few sittings we now have pure peace, holy harmony, and total truth. In this peaceful state, like clear crystal, we see the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged America's dream, Buddha, buddhas (awakened ones), catastrophe, deluded/deceived:disillusioned/delivered, egoism explode all others, for life/living, highest dharma, holy harmony/joy in natural system, homeless/jobless/hopeless, immortality, karma limitless life, limitless friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity, meltdown, modern civilization, natural system, not for death/devastation, nuclear bombs/plants with mishaps/mismanagement/malice, nuclear wastes (death ash), Occupy movement: change of the world, OECDm sicuak hystucem U.S.A., optimism in potential/possibility, pyramidal power system, self-centeredness: shortsightedness, true peace/beauty/holiness/happiness, wholly wholesome way, without vanity/violence, world of awakened ones/wakeful living | Leave a comment

Learning Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have another beautiful autumn day with the clear sky and the bright sun. When we sit solid, we become like the sun shining forth in the cloudless clear sky. This is the Buddha’s state. He sat … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged 1%/99%/100%, awakened life with all, Buddha (Awakened One), building/destroying pyramid repeatedly, Dogen, equanimity (upekha: upeksha: lit. throwing awa: freedom from all), five aggregates (skandhas: physical forms/feelings/ideas/formations(karmas)/consciousness), five calamities (delusion/bondage/discrimination/exploitation/extermination), fourfold limitlessness (friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity), global scale awakening, highest dharma (unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening), immortality, karma (action/action results/habit), nirvana (unconditioned peace), Occupy, practice: continuous constant cultivation (sitting/stilling/seeing/solving), returning to the ultimate truth/peace, revolutionize the heaven/earth, simplest life: happiest state: friends with all, sit/still/stop karmas: see truth/peace: solve problems/sufferings of humans/living beings, striving for all good actions, suffering (birth/death/sickness/aging/parting/losing/ravaging of five aggregates), unmoved by birth/death/up/down, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Good Day Every Day

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We now have the beautiful bright sun in a cloudless autumn sky. Like the sun or the full moon in the clear calm sky the awakened mind illuminates the whole world. The Buddha said, Better … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged a good day every day (hibi-kore-kounichi: ririshihao: 日日是好日), birth/death, bright sun/moon in clear space: buddha mind, Buddha, cultivation = verification: practice = witness, Dogen, highest dharma, holy goodness/beauty, immortality, live on joy: good day every day, practice makes perfect, practice: constatant continuous cultivation, sit solid: stop karma, ultimate peace/truth, unsurpassed awakening: unconditioned peace (nirvana) | Leave a comment

Live Limitless Lucky Life

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Already the equinox has passed away, but we can live in equanimity (throwing away), nirvana, windless state of human karmas or samsara sufferings, whenever we sit in zazen. Dogen said, “Zazen has limitless merits.” He also … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged amrita (ambrosia, Dogen, equinimity, equinox, global warming, gross happiness index instead of GDP, happiest society among buddhas (awakened ones) living on joy/happiness, ILO, immortality, jobless, karma, learning limitless liberation/light/love/luck, limitless luck without limited minds, limitless merits/least harm, make your day with practice in equanimity/joy/compassion/friendship, mass extinction, massproduction/consumption/wasting, mind without turbulence/turbidity, nirvana (windless of karma), purify the mind in truth/peace/beauty/goodness/holiness, samsara suffering, tasting amrita, tree: true/peace/harmony, undernourished, zazen, zazen has limitless merits | Leave a comment

Practice Is Perfection

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In and after our sittings we have been enjoying a beautiful autumn morning, penetrated by the pure sound of rain falling on leaves, permeated by fresh moistened air, and pervaded by abundant green plants. We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Amitabha, Amitayus, Avalokiteshvara (Avalokitasvara) Bodhisattva, bodhisattva, Buddha, buddha function/fruition, Dogen, equinox, four view of water (water/palace/bloodbath/celestial necklace), free/full function, golden wind, good in the beginning/middle/end, Gotama Buddha, highest dharma, human life like fish life life in drying pool, immortality, in/beyond birth/death, karma (action/action result/habit), limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, limitless luck/liberation/light/life/love/learning, normal is not necessarily good, path cycle (aspiration/action=cultivation/awakening/unconditioned peace, peace/prognosis: compassion/wisdom, practice/cultivation/action (sit/stop karma/see dharma), Prince Shotoku, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Sawaki Rosahi, Shakyamuni Buddha, Shotoku School, three minds/worlds (great/mature/joyful), ultimate peace/prognosis, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Constant Cultivation Is Crucial Crux

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit in zazen solid, still, and serene, we can settle in truth and peace and actually become truth and peace like trees, which survive thousands of years. Truth survives eternally. Humans, however, evolved and … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged attachment/aversion/delusion:greed/hatred/insanity, become buddha, constant cultivation:crucial crux, from limited life to limitless life (light/liberation/love), from normal to original, global warming, humans (karma-machines:mortor/sense organs/complicated: corruptible: destined to samsara suffering), immortality, instruments/institutions:destructive/doomed, karma creates box/bubblee, karma is normal (self-survival), live on joy, losing holy harmony, mankind (stop karma/see truth/settle in peace), mass extinction, possession:possessed, pure peace/prognosis, sitting still:stopping karma, slaving:enslaved, truth/peace, truth/tree (stabel/enduring)), unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening, ups/downs:births/deaths, wake up before destruction, zazen (solid/still/serene) | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: immortality

Washing Way: Pure Path

From Deluded Way to Awakened Way

Occupy All

Brighter than the Big Brilliant Sun

System Shift from Shortsight, Selfishness

Learning Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life

Good Day Every Day

Live Limitless Lucky Life

Practice Is Perfection

Constant Cultivation Is Crucial Crux

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