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Tag Archives: Buddha
Clear Calm Cosmos
Good morning! While most houses are dark or with dreamings, we can see the earlier dawning with the clear crescent moon and calm cloudless sky above, and scurrying bunnies and singing birds below. The Buddha was awakened to the dawning morning star with all living beings with lands, mountains, rivers, trees, and grass in one clear calm cosmos in limitless liberation life, and free full function. 3/8/13
Diverse Degrees and Differences
Good evening! The ice on our pond has melted, but it will take some time for the fish to wake up from hibernation and fully and freely function there. Even when functioning fully and freely, they cannot experience human life. Even we humans cannot fully understand other cultures and cultivations. Humans cannot really witness the Buddha’s world. We can understand Dogen’s way world only to the degree that we have cultivated and verified. The Buddha held some leaves on his palm and said, “This much I have said, but what I have not said is like the leaves in this jungle by comparison.” We should not think that we have attained Buddha’s world, unless we live Buddha’s ways. There are diverse degrees and differences among them. 3/7/13
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Tagged Buddha, cultivation/verification, Dogen
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Body-Possession View
Good morning! We have been having rain. Very early this morning I had to get up and fix the roof leak. The Buddha said, When we have roofs, we have leaks. When we have the body-possession or body-entity view, we have leaks inside and out. That is why we need to sit to drop off our bodies and minds to become freed from leaks. 2/26/13 Note: 1. Leak (ro, 漏): flux (ooze, āsava, āsrava: bonnō, affliction, 煩悩, kilesa, kleśa, soil, defilement) 2. Body-possession or body-entity view (sakkāya diṭṭhi, satkāya dṛṣṭi, ushin-ken, 有身見) or rather body-possessed view, thus shinjin-totsuraku (身心脱落, body-mind falling away) is necessary.
Committed Consistent Cultivation
Good morning! We have a nice sunny Sunday morning with the sunlight shining on snow. I hope we can see the full moon tonight and tomorrow. The full moon represents the Buddha mind. Here is the ichienso (一円相, perfect unity phase, lit. one round phase), like the full moon of the Ten Ox Herding – or rather Bull Taming – pictures. We can witness it in our sitting, though we are easily lost without practice. I got news of a colleague of mine at Hitachi, and a friend since then passed away. Our common friends are meeting him now without words around this time in Japan. Impermanence is really swift, and the matter of birth and death is so great. A passage of Dogen’s Genjōkōan (現成公案), Realization of Universal Truth, reads, “Firewood turns into fire. Fire does not revert to firewood. Because of this, one will not see and grasp that firewood is “former” and that fire is ‘latter.’ One should know that firewood, staying in the dharma-stage of firewood, has its own former and its own latter, and that even though there are its former and latter, its former and latter are separate. Ash, staying in the dharma-stage of ash, has its own former and its own latter. And firewood, after having become ash, never again reverts to firewood. So too, one, after having died, never reverts back to life. However it is the definite custom of the Buddha-dharma not to say that life becomes death. Because of this, it is called ‘no origination.’ Death never comes back to life. This is the turning of Buddhas by the Dharma-wheel. Because of this it is called ‘no destruction.’ Life is one temporary stage. Death is one temporary stage. It is like winter and spring. One does not think that winter becomes spring. One does not say that spring becomes summer. One’s attainment of awakening is like water’s accommodation of the moon. The moon does not get wet; the water is not broken. The light, though broad and great, can lodge in a foot or an inch wide pool, the total moon and the whole heaven stay in a dewdrop on a blade of grass or in a drop of water. Non-breaking of a human’s life by awakening is like non-breaking of water by the moon. … Continue reading
Settling in Sesshin
Good morning! We can see a nice big, bright, beautiful sun this morning, expecting the spring equinox just within a month. The equinox has the equal day and night. The day and a couple of days before and after it are called o-higan (お彼岸), the yonder shore, meaning nirvana, unconditioned peace. The Buddha reached it and anyone can reach it after his example with practice in peace and prognosis. Today we have sesshin, embracing the mind (摂心) or touching the heart (接心). This is the best time to reach nirvana, embracing and touching our hearts and minds. Usually we are too busy looking and running around somewhere else, scarcely looking inside, embracing them, much less touching them, the very core of our minds and hearts – the heart of our life. But, when we sit solid and serene, our minds also become solid and serene in pure peace and prognosis. That is to embrace the Buddha mind, which embraces all and the whole world, touching the core of the mind – witnessing how the mind functions, creates our worlds,, and lives in such worlds. Thus, we could reach the Shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin (正法眼蔵涅槃妙心), the right Dharma eye stored in the exquisite mind. A passage of the first volume of Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō, Genjōkōan, Realizing Universal Truth (現成公案), reads: When one first seeks the Dharma, one is far away and apart from the boundary of the Dharma. When the Dharma has already been rightly transmitted to oneself, one is the person in one’s own original part. When one goes downstream in a boat, in turning one’s eyes to the bank, one mistakenly thinks that the bank is moving; but in intimately fixing one’s eyes on the boat, one knows that it is the boat that is moving. In like manner, in discriminating milliards of dharmas with the body and mind in confusion, one mistakes one’s mind and one’s nature as ever-abiding. In intimately carrying one’s actions and returning to this very one, it becomes clear that milliards of dharmas are not this one. So, when we are drawn to all the outside things, we think that there are the permanent selves abiding in our bodies and minds. But, when we touch our minds, we find out that the bodies and minds are moving, constantly changing, and that there are no such … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute or paramount (parama-attha, agreement), ambrosia of immortality, amrita, Buddha, Common Precepts of Seven Buddhas, conventional (lokiya, Dharma Dhatu, dharma of dependent origination, Dogen, equanimity, Genjōkōan, mundane) one (sammuti, nirvana, o-higan (お彼岸, parama-artha) truth (sacca, Realizing Universal Truth (現成公案), Realm or Root, sammati, satya), sesshin: embracing the mind (摂心): touching the heart (接心), Shobogenzo, Shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin (正法眼蔵涅槃妙心), the right Dharma eye stored in the exquisite mind., yonder shore
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Supreme Supramundane State
Good morning! Zazen brings us to a completely different world than the ordinary one. Of course we have a different world from moment to moment. So, we can enjoy spring after winter. We must withstand a chilly winter after … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Zazen, Zen
Tagged Ananda, and Matsu (Degenerate) Dharmas and Periods, and prajñâ (prognosis), birth/death, body-mind being one (shinshin ichinyo: 心身一如), Buddha, Buddha-mind Seal, Buddhism, but also samu (physical work): two wings to fly, cultivation is itself verification (shushō ittō: 修証一等), deportment is itself the Buddha Dharma (igi-soku buppō: 威儀即仏法), dhamma (dharma, Dogen, good (kusala: lit. skillfulness), Hotei or Maitreya, ichiensō (perfect circle, Mahaparinibbana, ni-vāte padīpa: lamp light in no wind, Nir-vāna is no-wind (of karmas), no self-sameness/self-sovereignty/self-entity, norm/form, purity/poverty path, Ryokan, samadhi (concentration), sangha (community), selflessness/nirvana, Shō (Right), Shuji Hojo, sitting (zazen), Soto, Subhadda, suffering, Ten Ox-herding: rather Ten Bull-taming, three/four dharma seals: impermanence, triple learnings: sila (morality), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), truth/phenomena), unity, Zō (Formal)
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Birth-Death
Today’s NHK program “Meet the Legend” was on Hojo Shuji, a drama writer. He and Kikuta Kazuo negotiated hard to get on board an airplane from Taipei to Japan, but failed. Later, reading a newspaper extra issue in their hotel, they learned that … Continue reading
Hummingbird Extinguishing Forest Fire
Good morning! When we sit solid and serene, we stay in primordial peace, purity, and prognosis, in harmony with all throughout space and time. Anyone can enjoy them, extinguishing worldly fires. The Buddha said, “The world is ablaze – our eyes are ablaze, our ears are ablaze, our noses are ablaze, our tongues are ablaze, our bodies are ablaze, our minds are ablaze.” For a friend’s birthday, I sent an e-card of a hummingbird, saying the process here and now is important, not some far off goal. He responded that he would work as the little hummingbird to extinguish forest fires: http://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view.pd?i=580726245&m=3041&source=ag990 1/13/13 (at family sitting with the addition of the “Little Hummingbird” story and an e-card talked at the morning teisho. The card is addressed to all our readers now and in the future.)
Culture: Constant Cultivation or Civilization: Constant Contrivance
Good morning and Happy New Year! In Japan we say, “Through Jan. 7, within Matsunouchi.” Matsu stands for pine trees and in this case refers to a New Year’s decoration (matsu-kazari, pine decoration) set up at the gates of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, but of buddha-bodhisattvas), Civilization: urbanization (from civitas: city), dharma (form/norm), Dharma of Dependent Origination/Cessation, four Brahma-vihâra/limitlessnesses: friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity, four embracing matters: giving/loving words/beneficial actions/sameness, from karma realm to dharma realm, matsu-kazari (pine decoration), Nader Rader: 3 Cs: credit cards/cars/chain saws, nibbâna: nirvâna: no karma-wind blowing, not yours (na tumhakam), paradigm shift from civilization/urbanization to culture/cultivation, Sangha: guild (not of money making, sitting/stopping karma, three Dharma marks, triple treasures (buddha/dharma/sangha), true conqueror, true triple treasures: Buddha/Dharma/Sangha, truth/law)
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