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Seeing and Saving Sentients

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now crisp, cool air and a clear, calm sky with beautiful stars. This morning news from Japan reported that had radiation contaminated tea leaves are in the market from other prefectures than Shizuoka whose tea … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged affecting all, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), birth and death, Buddha, highest dharma (truth), holy (wholly wholesome) value/life, live Buddha's life/Pahom's life?, lose everything, nuclear wastes, nucleara bomb tests, Pahom, radiation contamination, radiation levels, run after money/matter/power/partial values, sit/stop karma/see | Leave a comment

Speckless Space for Sentients Salvation

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have another day of akibare (autumn clear sky), with beautiful stars this morning and the bright crescent moon last evening. The crisp clear air envelopes all and speckless space penetrates all throughout the universe. When we … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged akibare (autumn clear sky), Amitabha (Limitless Light): Amitayus (Limitless Life), amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Avalokiteshvara (Omnipotent in Looking Down with Compassion): Avalokitaswara (Looking Down with Compassion the Sounds of Weeping/Wailing), birth and death, bodhisattva, Buddha, Buddhism, compassion/awakening/nirvana, Dharma of Dependent Origination (interdepencence) holy (wholly wholesome) harmony/peace/prognosis, etc (Friend), Harmony is precious, karma, Lotus Sutra, me-ism/materialism/militarism, Mitra/Mithra/Mazda/Maitreya, nirvana, Pure Land, Seven Article Constitution, Shomangyo (Supreme Garland Scripture), Shotoku, Tenjukoku (Heavenly Life Land), triple treasure (buddha/dharma/sangha), Vimalakirti(Nirdesha) Sutra (Purity-famed's Teaching), zazen | Leave a comment

Practicing Path or Playing Pastime

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Suddenly summer heat shifted to autumn chill, and soon we’ll have deadly winter with or without the harvest true life goal. When wintry wind blows our dew-like life, we don’t know on which grass it will fall. … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged awakened way, birth and death, dew-like life, extinguishing the fire catching our hair, life goal, no passing time slumbering or sidetracking, path of purity, path to nirvana and awakening, peace and prognosis, penetrating pure peace/prognosis, practice makes perfect, step by step, ups and downs | Leave a comment

Practice of Penetrating Purity and Peace

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a very hot day today, but we can sit and stop our karma, going beyond heat and chill, even entering into a world with neither heat nor chill. But, in a hot spot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortatlity), Anglimala, awakened way, birth and death, Buddha, highest dharma, karma, killing, nuclear power, nuclear wastes, penetrating purity/peace, praxis/practice, rdiation, sitting/stopping karmas, suffering, three poisons (attachment/aversion/delusion), true words | Leave a comment

Awakening and Awakened Action

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged 27 globes, age, aging, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), atman, attan, awakened way, awakening and action, awakening four holy truths, birth, birth and death, bondage, bubble, Buddha (Awakened One), death, delusion, desire, discrimination, diviciveness, exploitation, extermination, ferocious five aggregates, five blisses, five calamities, four concomitant sufferings, freedom, fundamental sufferings, gender, genes, good for all always, harmony, holy eightfold path, karma, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), liberation, life, light, love, mama, meeting with the hated, nirvana, no gain of the desired, ocean, parting with the loved, peace, possession, practice, race, religion, rooted in the ground/truth, samadhi (concentration/total transformation, sickness, true/tree, truth, unconditioned peace, windless state | Leave a comment

Deep Dwelling in Dharma

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! After a long spell of heat wave, we had a small shower. So, all plants and animals felt a brief relief. I watered our garden and found some small plants (salvaged from garbage) withered. Big trees are … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged (human) mishaps, atomic bomb disaster, birth and death, bubble, buble, death ash, dhri, global warming, great earth, Hiroshima, holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, humans quit truth/peace/harmony, mass extinction, natural disasters, nuclear disaster, nuclear warheads, ocan human problems/sufferings, peace, pumpkins connected/rooted, rooted in the ground/dharma, see short and small, sitting and stopping karma, the whole world, tree/true (<deru, truth, zazen | Leave a comment

Total Truth

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! In our sitting, the pure sound of flowing water penetrates through our world; the fresh breeze permeates throughout our bodies and minds; the bright, beautiful sunlight pervades the world. This is the world in cessation (nirodha) and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alienation, antagonism, attachment, aversion, birth and death, bodhisattvas, body, bones, bubble, buddhas, calm ocean, clear crystal, conception, death, delicate and drastic, delusion, demise, desire, discrimination, division, Dogen, emotion, flesh, freedom, full function, genes, here now, holy truth/goodness/beauty/peace/harmony, holy world, industry, karma, liberation, life, light, limited values and views, limitless life, love, matter, mind, money, mountains, neither decrease nor increase, nirodha, nirvana, nuclear disaster, penetration, perception, phenomena, purity, rivers, samsara, saving, serving, space, suffering, the moon, the sun, time, total dynamic, total truth, Universal Recommendation for the Right Zazen, volition, world | Leave a comment

Praxis Perfection

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! By the truth or law of dependent origination, all things change. Humans increase and experience this flow as ups and downs, gains and losses, and births and deaths. Thus they must suffer more in samsara, constant flow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ambrosia, amrita, aspiration cultivation, awakened way, awakening, birth and death, cultivation, immortality, karma, law of dependent origination, nirvana, praxis, samsara, sitting, stopping karma, suffering, time and space, unconditioned peace, unsurpassed awakening, way cycle | Leave a comment

Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Through the open windows we can hear the sound of busily racing cars, birds’ singing, and the water falling. Our life is like the constant flow of cars and currents, constantly flowing with ups and downs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Zen | Tagged awakened life, birth and death, cultivation, dissatisfaction, gain and loss, life, limitless life, limitless light, limitless lover, nirvana, practice, provisional phenomena, samadhi, samsara, satisfaction, suffering, ultimate peace, ultimate refuge, unconditioned peace, unmoved, unsurpassed awakening, up and down, verification, vicissitude, witness | Leave a comment

Surreal Suffering

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! After hundreds of tornados spread devastation across this country, we now have a quiet world and calm atmosphere, especially when we sit in zazen. We know that the destruction was so devastating – this episode being the worst … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakening, birth and death, conventional truth, devastation, karma storm, nuclear disaster, phenomena, physical and mental, samsara suffering, surreal scene, surreal substance, surreal superstructure, temporary peace, ultimate truth, unconditioned peace, vicissitude | Leave a comment

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Seeing and Saving Sentients

Speckless Space for Sentients Salvation

Practicing Path or Playing Pastime

Practice of Penetrating Purity and Peace

Awakening and Awakened Action

Deep Dwelling in Dharma

Total Truth

Praxis Perfection

Samsara Suffering and Samadhi Satisfaction

Surreal Suffering

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