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Tag Archives: Genjōkōan
Buddha-nature Here Now
Good morning! With this rain most snow has melted away. A phone call from Japan last night informed me of a darkening smog storm there which most likely came from China. This morning we had the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took place on 3/11 (the exact time is actually several hours later). Twenty thousand people were dead or lost. Still more than 310,000 people are refugees with more than 160,000 evacuees from the nuclear disaster. They are homeless, jobless, hopeless, and lifeless, and yet the present government wants to promote nuclear plants and probably nuclear bombs. When these triple tragedies of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster came, there was no distinction of young or old, men or women, or anything whatsoever. Suddenly they were swallowed up in these disasters. We have threefold disasters and sufferings, individual, social, and ecological which are all multiplied now. Why do we have these disasters and sufferings? These could have been eliminated or at least ameliorated, except perhaps for the nuclear ones. We forgot the previous earthquakes and tsunamis, and built towns, cities, and nuclear plants on seashores and even on active seismic faults. We believe in civilization, states, success, self, etc., thus making more materialism, militarism, money-ism, and me-ism stronger and more severe. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, said, “If lies are big enough and repeated, people believe in them.” The bigger the lie, the easier they are believed. So people believe in civilization, convenience, contrivances, control, conceit, etc, resulting in irreparable disasters and sufferings. We are soon going to have the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war arising from the 9/11 disaster, resulting in worse situations with no one taking responsibility. Actually no one can take responsibility for deaths and devastations once done, just as … Continue reading
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Tagged and happiness, Buddha, Buddha nature, civilization/state/success/self, Dogen, Genjōkōan, Goebbels, Great East Japan Earthquake, health, Hitler, holy harmony, holy healthy awakening, maladies: materialism/militarism/money-ism/me-ism, nuclear disaster, Realizing Universal Truth, sam-bodhi, self-deceased (gari-gari-mōja, 我利我利亡者
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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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