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Awakened One’s Awakening Day

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Today, the eighth of December, is the day of the Buddha’s awakening. So, all over the world Zen practitioners, after seven day intensive sitting, celebrate his awakening – an unprecedented feast that solves all problems of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged and equanimity (upekhâ : lit. throwing away), awakening, beyond pleasure and pain/penance, Brahma's beseech, Brahmavihâra of friendship, Buddha, chan, compassion, defilements (klesha: zenma, dissatisfaction, everyday a good day (日日是好日：hibi-kore-koujitu), five coverings, four fluxes/leaks (âsava: 煩悩), global problematique, holy harmony/health/happiness, joy, lit. wrong going), meditation, meeting four people, nirvana, outing from four gates, shûnya (empty, six teachers/dogmatists/heretics (六師外道), substanceless), suffering, suffering (dukkha, Zen, Zen (jhâna, 染汚) | Leave a comment

Practicing Perfections

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! The full moon is reflected on the floor. The full moon represents the Buddha mind. All over the world zen practitioners are in the Rohatsu sesshin, where the Buddha was awakened. The Buddha mind, like the full … Continue reading →

Posted in Zen | Tagged all things are substanceless or empty of self-substance, and delusion, and equanimity or throwing away (self), and prognosis, and sameness (with others), and unsurpassed awakening, awakening mind, beneficial actions, bodhi-mind, Brahman’s abode, Buddha’s nirvana, compassion, concentration, four embracing matters of giving, four immeasurables or Brahma-vihâra, full moon, Great Vehicle, How to Live, joy, Kazuo Inamori, Kyoto Prize, loving words, Mâha-yâna, of friendship, of giving, patience, perfections, precepts, Rohatsu sesshin (臘八摂心：Dec. 8 sesshin)), shunya, six pâramitâs, striving, thirst, three poisons of anger, unconditioned peace | Leave a comment

Life Revolution

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! The moon is now almost half full, quickly changing from the full moon we saw at the last sesshin, but brightly shining forth with other stars. The sun is now high and brilliantly shining over the autumnal … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged 2nd/1st/no arrow, and equanimity, and prajñâ (morality, and prognosis, Buddha (仏陀), compassion, concentration, Dragon Palace, dragon palace (竜宮) through dragon gate (竜門), four views on one water (一水四見) by humans/celestials/devils/fish, Frankenstorm, global problems, good day everyday (日日是好日), in the four limitlessnesses of friendship, joy, life revolution: becoming buddha/bodhisattva, limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, living in the Brahma-vihâra (residence), Ryokan (良寛), samadhi, triple learnings of sîla, triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness: delusion/craving/anger), true sangha, unconditioned peace/unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a very hot day today, and we worked together amidst heat and humidity, sweating good sweat. Now we breathe good breaths in zazen. Then we find our world in peace, harmony, and truth with … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged awakening, beneficial actions, bodhisattva (awakening being)/mahasattva (great being), compassion, four embracing matters/Brahma-vihara (holy residence: giving, good breaths, good friendship, good sweat, gratitude for grace, harmony, insight, loving words, peace, sameness, today's practice, zazen | Leave a comment

Militarism, Materialism, Me-ism Myths

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! A news item from Japan reported that Japan’s prime minister will announce his country’s abolishing of nuclear power tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Sixty-six years ago, mankind dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima, instantly … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged abolishing nuclear bombs and power, action attaining unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace, aspiration, atomic bombs, awakening, compassion, disillusion, freedom, Fukushima disaster, harmony, Hiroshima, holy (wholly wholesome), limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, mankind, materialism, matter, me-ism, militarism, mythology of the safety of nuclear power, non-safety of nuclear power, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, oneness, oower, peace, truthful/peaceful/holy world | Leave a comment

Tomo (Together: 共, Friend: 友)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! A lot of flowers are blooming – forsythias, daffodils, magnolias, pears, plums, even cherry blossoms are now blooming. We cannot totally enjoy them because of the disaster in Japan – m-9 earthquake, 30m surge tsunami, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged attachment, beyond boundaries, compassion, cooperation, delusion, discrimination, earthquake, equality, exploitation, friends operation, karma, nation, nuclear disaster, o-tomodachi sakusen, peace, race, religion, safe, sameness, satisfaction, saving, serenity, simple, spring evening, truth, tsunami, unconditioned peace, version, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWEDextermination | Leave a comment

Delusion Disaster

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a big disaster in Japan, with an earthquake and tsunami destroying communities, damaging social infrastructures, devastating the natural life system. Nuclear plants are now in big trouble, evacuating people within a ten kilometers radius. The scientist … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged and end, compassion, delusion, disaster, disintegration, earthquake, good in the beginning, greed, hatred, human disaster, humanity, impermanence, infrastructure, integration, matter, middle, natural law, natural life way, natural system, nuclear plant, power, prajna, prognosis, suffering, three poisons, tsunami, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWED | Leave a comment

Awakened Action

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! As we sit in zazen, we know that the spring rain is drizzling and giving life to all plants, and that plants are giving life to all beings. And we know that blood streams are flowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged all beings, all sentient beings, aspiration, awakening being, blood flood, bodhi, bodhi-citta, bodhisattva, cause and condition, children in the Three Realms, civilization, compassion, contemplation, cross beings over, Dogen, empire, entire world, eon, four births, freeing others before oneself, friend, generate awakening mind, Generating the Unsurpassed Mind, giving limitless life, Hotsu-mujoshin, human rights and wrongs, illumination, impermanent, karma machine, lily, limitless liberation, limitless light, limitless love, lotus, matter right here, mind mirror, mind-moon, need, permanent, practice, reflection, rest, Ryokan, save beings prior to oneself, Shobobenzo, six destinies (paths), suffering, Tathagata, tear ocean, transmigration, zazen, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWED | Leave a comment

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Awakened One’s Awakening Day

Practicing Perfections

Life Revolution

Practice of Bodhisattva Mahasattva

Militarism, Materialism, Me-ism Myths

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Delusion Disaster

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