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Tag Archives: truth
Ocean Seal Samadhi
Good evening! After the recent heat wave we had a rain shower just before we came here. The air cooled down and the leaves became wet. When we sit in solid, still sitting – like trees – we can … Continue reading
Beyond birth-death
Good morning! Usually when we sit early in the morning we have cool, fresh air, but it’s going up to 101 degrees, with a heat index going up to 115. The world seems to be ablaze – flowers are falling. … Continue reading
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Tagged birth, bubble, candle burning, causes and conditions, death, disaster, life, ocean, pain, pleasure, suffering, truth, truth ocean
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Way to Wholly Wholesome World
Good morning! After a few solid, still sittings – stopping karmas – we have pure, peaceful perception and prognosis beyond personal perversions, delusions, desires. This is described in many ways: nirvana (windless, unconditioned peace, a-sankhata, un-made), sukha-vatî (joy-ful, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged ambrosia of immortality, amrita, asankhata, beatitude, beauty, cessation, conflict, contamination, delusion, desire, Dharma, disaster, discrimination, dukkha, global warming, gokuraku, goodness, karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, nuclear waste, origination, papance upasama, perspective, priority, prognosis, safety, self-centered, sitting, solution, sufering, suffering, sukhavati, truth, ultimate comfort, unconditioned peace, wholly wholesome world
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Holy Home-coming
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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Tagged actual practice, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), ango (peaceful living/residence), awakened, beauty, bodhisattva, Buddha, civilization, cultivation, cultural heritage, Dogen, Fukushima, Global System Ethic Association, goodness, here now, Hiroshima, holiness, humans, internet, Junko-san, Katagiri Roshi, Kyoto, Los Alamos, Nara, Narasaki Roshi, nature, nuclear disaster, nuclear fire, radiation contamination, renewable energy, Ryokan, samsara, Sangha, saving energy, Shogoji, sitting, step forward, suffering, truth, tsunami, Zuioji
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Wholly Wholesome Way
Good morning! In our quiet sitting, we can hear the sounds of racing cars and an ambulance siren; but we also hear flowing water and singing birds. There are two ways, artificial and natural, and further mundane and supramundane. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Culture
Tagged beauty, body/mind (bowl-water, cause and condition, Dependent Origination, eightfold holy path. limitless light, fourfold holy truth, goodness, holding), holy (wholly wholesome), holy harmony, immortality, karma, limitless life, matter and power, mind and life, peace, problems and sufferings, reflecting reality, self-centered, sinful (separated), sitting, stilling karma, tree/true (enduring, truth
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Wholly Wholesome Whole
Good morning! When we come here and sit in zazen, we can enjoy peace, truth, beauty, and goodness with the fresh air and the birds’ singing. Thus, we realize the wholly wholesome state. This is possible only by … Continue reading
Body and Brain
Good morning! It is a bright, beautiful Sunday morning with the abundant green after a long spell of rain. Now we have fresh air with a beautiful flower, truthful light, and fragrant incense. We sit together and enjoy this … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability Education, beauty, conjoined brain, goodness, happiness, harmony, holiness, holy, matter and power, mind and life, peace, selfish, three poisons, truth
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Sitting and Samu (Work)
Good morning! After a long spell of rain, according to the weather forecast, we are still continuing rainy days. But, fortunately, we have a very bright Sunday morning today. After the beautiful, stable, soft, and serene bell sounds … Continue reading
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Tagged ability, action unconditioned peace, actual action, appreciation, aspiration, awakened, awakening, Buddha, conventional, cultivate, Dharma, dharma world, Dogen, embody, fruition of the past, Gakudo-yojin-shu, goodness, great mind, harmony, hidden vertue, intoku, joyful mind, live on joy, mature mind, merit, mind, mundane, negative virtue, peace, practice, practice cycle, problem, samu (work), self, serene, sitting, skill, small self, soft, solid, stable, suffering, three minds, truth, value, wholly wholesome, withness
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Witness with Work
Good morning! When we get up early and come here to sit in zazen, we can enjoy the fresh morning air, the cool morning dew, and the bright morning sunlight. When we cultivate the soil, sow seeds, and transplant, they … Continue reading