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Impermanence

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   It has started drizzling now. Cherry blossoms are in full bloom here in this area. This morning I got the news of our member’s relative’s death and a request of officiating a marriage ceremony . Marry and bury are daily happenings for anyone.   Cherry blossoms are famed for their mass flowering especially when they are with the mass group, but also for their incessant mass falling especially when it rains or winds “The vain cherry of the mind expecting tomorrow may fall by the night storm.”   Let us sit with the whole body and mind here and now to realize unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening and to taste amrita, ambrosia of immortality, beyond the wind of karmas, and before the rain of impermanence let the beauty of life fall off.   4/15/13     Note:   Asu arito Omou kokoro-no Adazakura Yowa-ni Arashi-no Fukanu monokawa? 明日ありと 思う心の あだざくら 夜半に嵐の 吹かぬものは  

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Supramundane Spring and Singing

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Good evening!   Now we can see daffodils blooming everywhere. The news from Japan reported cherry blossoms blooming ten days earlier than usual time due to warm weather in March. Flowers bloom in the same way year after year, but humans change year after year. Individual karmas and shared karmas effect things differently.   When we come and sit here, we can see beautiful flowers and smell good  incense, and even witness supramundane spring of flowers blossoming on withered trees and withered tree’s dragon singing beyond the mundane realms and karma kens. So enjoy nirvana without wind of karmas in beatitude beyond the mundane.   3/19/13   Note: The supramundane spring of lowers blossoming on withered trees (枯木花開劫外春: koboku-kakai kougai-no haru) and the withered tree’s dragon singing (枯木龍吟: koboku-ryūgin) are witnessed beyond the mundane realm.      

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Returning to the Origin

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We saw the full moon early this morning. Today is the Buddha’s birthday called Flower Festival. It is the cherry blossom season in Japan. There they bathe  the baby Buddha with amacha, sweet tea, in the palanquin bedecked … Continue reading →

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Four Dharma Marks

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   We have a beautiful Sunday morning with fresh green and beautiful flowers. It is like March, April, and May coming all at once with unseasonable flowers blossoming – azaleas, peonies, wisteria, lilies of the valley, irises…   … Continue reading →

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Becoming Buddha

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning!   Now we have a clear and cool sky and beautiful stars. Starting today, zen practitioners all over the world are starting the Rohatsu sesshin, one week of intensive sitting, some without lying down, to commemorate the Buddha’s … Continue reading →

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