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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

True Triple Treasures

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! The mind moon is almost full. The body is exposed to the golden wind, as leaves are falling. The world is getting cold; it’s almost to the freezing point now. I visited Japan to meet my brother, recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged (in short) rampant five aggregates (forms/feelings/ideas/formations/consciousnesses), aging, and death), and equanimity, body exposed to golden wind, Brahma-net (Indra-net) in the Dharma of Dependent Origination, Brahma-vihara (Brahma-residence): Fourfold Limitlessness: Limitless compassion, Eightfold suffering (Four suffering + non-attaining the desired, Four suffering (birth, friendship, joy, meeting the hateful ones, mind-moon, separation from the loved ones, sickness, true triple treasures, unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening | Leave a comment

Wholly Wholesome Way is Free Full Function

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Early this morning we had a very dim moon behind the clouds – a very slender crescent moon, almost new. It soon came out from behind the clouds and shined brightly. Just recently we saw the renowned … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), awaken to pure/truthful/peaceful/supramundane realm, Brahma-vihara (pure residence), Buddha's teaching (doing all good, comfort, concentration, death/decay of no dodging, equanimity, Four Embracing Matters (= Four Embracing Dharma: giving/loving words/beneficial actions/sameness), four meditation stages (investigation/contemplation, Fourfold Limitlessness (= Four Brahma-vihara: friendship/compassion/joy/equanimity), free full function, Friend (Mitra/Mithra/Maitreya/Mazda/Masiah/...: future savior: potential), global warming, good/bad:right/wrong, Gyoji (Praxis) by Dogen, house treasure (not coming in/going out through gate), joy, karma, knowledge and action, live on joy, mass extinction, money can't buy life/love/liberation/learning/light/..., no evil, nuclear bombs, nuclear disaster, Pai-lu-tien (White/Oyre Joy Heaven), purifying mind, Rev. Bird-nest, separated self: delusion (causing attachment/aversion: samsara/suffering, social service, taking refuges/becoming them, triple tragedy (earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster), Triple Treasure (Awakened/Truth/Community), universal religions, Xue-feng (Snow Peak) | Leave a comment

Samadhi Stages

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! When we sit in zazen, we can enjoy penetrating peace, purity, and freedom right here and now. If, however, there is a radioactive leak, then the whole world becomes contaminated, confused, and condemned. When there are the four … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agitation, amrita, awakened, awakening, balanced form, becoming, best form, bondages, conception, condemnation, confusion, contamination, defilement, disaster, Dogen, doubt, emotion, five coverings, floods, four leaks, free function, freedom, full function, here and now, immortality, joy, karma, leak, lust, malevolence, mass extinction, meditation, middle way, nescience, neutral state, nirvana, peace, penetration, perspective, pollution, position, posture, purity, single-pointed mind, sloth, space and time, tree, unmoved, upright, views, volition, war, wholly wholesome, world, worry, zazen, Zen | Leave a comment

Beyond Billows

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Suddenly many flowers have started blooming. Magnolias, pears, plums, hyacinths, forsythia… just after ohigan, ???, the spring equinox. Magnolia in Japanese is mokuren, ??, wooden lotus. We say “atusa samusa-mo higan-made” (Heat and chill until the equinox. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged balance, contentment, equinox, gold, happiness, harmony, holy harmony, joy, ohigan, peace, pure peace, satisfaction, spring evening, yonder shore, zz NO AD. COMMENT ALLOWED | Leave a comment

Life, Lost, Limited, Limitless

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We are fortunate to be able to wake up, get up, come here, and sit in zazen. We’ll see a lot of good things, beautiful things, but also bad things, ugly things. We encounter meeting and parting with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acceptance, accommodation, adjustment, aspiration, joy, limitless liberation, limitless life, limitless light, limitless love, meeting, parting, people, possession, sorrow, up and down | Leave a comment

Live on Joy

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Most of us here had a delicious dinner at Shuri’s home, and now we sit together in zazen. In Japan, we say, “Onaji kama-no meshi-wo kuu, eating out of the same pan or rice cooker.” There is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bread, Buddha, cauldron, devil, fight, fish, hunger, joy, killing, life, onaji kama-no meshi, problem, satisfaction, sharing, starvation, yielding | Leave a comment

Friendship

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Thank you very, very much for your coming here out of heavy snow storm, and from the opposite side of the globe to celebrate this auspicious occasion! Friends are true treasures. Finding the best friend is the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged friendship, joy, liberation, light, limitless life, love, Muir Monument, network, red wood, root, suffering, true treasure | Leave a comment

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