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Tag Archives: higan (彼岸: the other shore)
Holy Host Home
Good evening! The equinox is called higan (彼岸), the other shore, and it is compared to equanimity, nirvana, holy oneness. In the holy oneness, all things are one – our minds and worlds, holy host and home, the triple magnanimous, mature, and mudita (joyful) minds, and their holy truth, goodness, and beauty. So, the truth of the equinox spring sphere has melted even the heavy spring snow greatly and quickly. The goodness of the Bodhisattva’s beneficial mind has made a passage through the still lingering snow. The beauty of the incense burner ash has arisen joy and even beatitude. The holy host and home come from the Bodhisattva way – host and guest in holy oneness, unlike emperor and minister, much less master and slave, separated. They became the cultivation and verification of the culture of all the “ways” (dō: 道) – tea way, garden way, calligraphy way, etc. The tea way’s four mottoes of harmony, respect, purity, and serenity (wa-kei-sei-jaku: 和敬清寂) come from the Bodhisattvas’ Brahma-vihāra, or limitlessness of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity – the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye (shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心). This solid and serene sitting and sustained steadfast sesshin are the cultivation and verification of holy host and home, actualizing and appreciating unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening, like the spring sphere meeting and melting spring snow for free and full function. 3/25/13 Homey Holy Host Home, picture taken by Erin when snowflakes started … Continue reading
Posted in Bodhisattva way, Wholly Wholesome Way/World
Tagged higan (彼岸: the other shore), tea way: harmony/respect/purity/serenity (wakeiseijaku: 和敬清寂), the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye (shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心), triple minds (magnanimous/mature/mudita:joyful minds), ways (dō: 道)
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Sesshin, Samyak-Sambodhi Seal
Good morning! We’re having the spring equinox sesshin. This is very auspicious, because the equinox is identified as equanimity. In the East we call this time higan (彼岸), the other shore, beyond the torrents and billows of this world. Further, the spring equinox is important as the night napping of plants and animals has ended and they’re waking up to start their new, free, and full lives. If we just continue our old habits, we must also continue our problems and sufferings. That is why we need sesshin, touching our minds (接心) and embracing our minds (摂心). Our minds are compared to the charioteers of chariots. Often our chariots are pulled by the “will horses,” or karmas. So, we must find our minds and control them, not be controlled by them. We need to embrace our minds. Often in the early Buddhist scriptures it is recommended that we protect our doors or gates (dvāra-gutta). Because we constantly leak through our sense organs and motor organs, especially leaks of conceptions, emotions, and volitions through the motor organs, we defile and destroy our world and ourselves. So, we must embrace our minds. We have a nice equinox day today in balanced day and night, chill and heat. Weathermen, however, have warned of a few to several inches of snow accumulation from tonight to tomorrow night. We have been having extreme weather due to global warming – droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, even the globe itself warming to make more fluid magma movement. Recently we were warned about a Nankai (South Sea) Trough earthquake and tsunami, which could cause ten times more damage than the Great East Japan Earthquake. Scientists say the adjacent Tō-nankai (East South Sea) and Tōkai (East Sea) earthquakes may take place at the same time. Disasters happen not only in Japan, but all over the world with added human causes. Not only disasters, but disease, devastation from nuclear plants, and accidents by cars, etc., may happen any time to anyone. We must therefore be prepared for them and for deaths. We must solve our birth and death problems before our devastation and deaths. We must attain unsurpassed awakening in the truth of our life and living, and unconditioned peace, nirvana, … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, dharma dhâtu (domain, Dogen, embracing our minds: 摂心), higan (彼岸: the other shore), karma, paramount truth (parama-artha-satya), protecting doors/gates (dvāra-gutta), sesshin: touching our minds: 接心, supramundane (loka-uttara), triple learnings (sīla/samādhi/prajñā), triple maladies (me-ism/materialism/militarism), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), triple treasures (buddha/dharma/sangha), unconditioned peace (nirvana), unsurpassed right complete awakening (anuttara samyak-sambodhi)
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