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Tag Archives: light
Limitless Life, Light, Liberation, and Love
Good morning! We can appreciate the beatitude and beauty of perennial peace in sittings, service, and sudden spring with green plants and colorful flowers. The latest topic of the Science for Everyone program of TV Japan was grapefruit. Its origin was in Barbados, hybrid on Asian citrus. A tree in Japan grown out of a discarded seed started bearing fruit after 35 years. A budding seed in the kitchen planted 35 years ago first bore fruit after 20 years and now is bearing 1,000. The life tree seed has evolved into branches of all kinds of species. Our species has also developed into twigs. Mr. Otsuka, who often sends us his beautiful photos from Japan for our blog site, recently informed us of his mother’s passing away. His grand children living in California sent him a card saying, “Grandpa, even if you’ve lost your parents, you are not alone. We are always with you!” We are all with our ancestors and descendants – actually with all. Humans, creating languages and legacies in individuals and institutions, tend to become selfish and sinful (separated), but we are sharing our common assets of genes – actually the genetics of all. When we sit still, stilling our karmas with their triple poisons, we become true, harmony and peace, like trees that are harmonious with water, wind, and the world. When we become harmonious with all, we can function freely and fully with all throughout space and time. Dogen advised in his Tenzokyokun, Lessons for the Cook Monk, to cultivate the triple heart (great, mature, and joyful heart). We can enjoy greatness, maturity, and joy in truth, goodness, and beauty. The Buddha taught us the fourfold Limitlessness or Brahma-vihāra (abode, living, behaving) of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (renunciation/windless of karmas, nirvana). We can live a great, mature, joyful life, limitless in life, light, liberation, and love. 4/19/15 … Continue reading
Flowering and Fruition
Good morning! This is the last day of our equinox sesshin. It seems that it is truly getting colder after the equinox day. The night is getting longer and darker with the brighter morning star, Orion, etc. Equanimity … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged “Mu” (無: no or nothing), action, and learning, awakened way, blind turtle and floating log, consummation), dhyâna, dokusan (private interview: 独参), Equanimity (upeckhâ, evolution: devolution, four stages of zen (chan, involution: revolution, jhana, Joshu (Zhaozhou: 趙州), karma consciousness, koan, liberation, light, limitless life, lit. complete flow), lit. no-wind), lit. throwing away), love, nirvana (unconditioned peace), samadhi (concentration), samsara (transmigration, selfish gene, Sesshin is embracing the mind (摂心) or touching the mind (接心), suffering, three steps (sando: 三道: delusion, za-zen (sitting zen: 坐禅)
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Independence in Interdependence
Good morning! We could see the full moon in the west and the rising sun in the east just before we came here. Today is Independence Day. So, the traffic, usually jammed with hustle and bustle, was almost … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism)
Tagged and happiness, and love in limitless truth, but familiarity, Freedom (philia-domos: friendship domain) not licentiousness, harmony, independence in interdependence/supra-dependence, liberation, light, lit. ultimate comfort), live in limitless life, nirvana, peace, The west: the pure land (jôdo:浄土 )/ paradise (極楽: gokuraku
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Limitless Luck in Limitless Learning
Good morning! We have a nice drizzling with warm weather at the spring solstice, risshun (立春), raising spring. Who raises spring? The sun. Who raises us? The sun – truly, the total universe. Every day Rui-yan (瑞巌) said … Continue reading
Posted in Practice
Tagged 10. Buddho Bhagavâ: The Awakened and the Fortunate : 仏世尊: butsu-seson, 2. Arahat: 阿羅漢: arakan, 3. Sammâsambuddha: Sammâ-sam-buddha: 正遍知: shouhenchi, 4. Vijjâcaranasampanna: The one provided with withdom and behavior: 明行足: myougyousoku, 5. Sugata: Well-being: 善逝: zensei, 6. Lokavidû: World-knower: 世間解: sekenge, 7. Anuttara: Unsurpassed one: 無上士: mujoushi, 8. Purisadammasarathi: The leader of persons to be tamed: 調御丈夫: chougyojoubu, 9. Satthadevamanussanâm: The teacher of divine-beings and human-beings: 人天師: nintenshi, ambrosia of immortality, amrita, bagabond (degraded from bhagavan), Buddha, liberation, light, limitless life, Limitless luck: limitless learning, love, practice makes possible/perfect, risshun (立春), Rui-yan/Zuigan (瑞巌), spring solstice, Ten names of the Buddha: The Worthy One: 1. Tathâgata: Thus-being: 如来:nyorai)
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Awakening and Awakened Action
Good morning! After some showers we have a little milder weather. Especially after sittings we can enjoy a serene, still, steadfast, and satisfied state. Why do we sit? We all have problems and sufferings (duk-kha: lit. wrong-going, dissatisfaction). We cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged 27 globes, age, aging, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), atman, attan, awakened way, awakening and action, awakening four holy truths, birth, birth and death, bondage, bubble, Buddha (Awakened One), death, delusion, desire, discrimination, diviciveness, exploitation, extermination, ferocious five aggregates, five blisses, five calamities, four concomitant sufferings, freedom, fundamental sufferings, gender, genes, good for all always, harmony, holy eightfold path, karma, karma (physical/verbal/mental actions/habits), liberation, life, light, love, mama, meeting with the hated, nirvana, no gain of the desired, ocean, parting with the loved, peace, possession, practice, race, religion, rooted in the ground/truth, samadhi (concentration/total transformation, sickness, true/tree, truth, unconditioned peace, windless state
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Limited Life and Limitless Life
Good morning! Our life is in the holy (wholly wholesome) truth, not the other way around. So our joyful journey is with holy truth, goodness, and beauty, in limitless life, learning, light, liberation, and love. 7/8/11
A Day Without Working: A Day Without Eating
Good evening! Day by day we are given life and light. Second by second we are endowed with air and water. Bai-zhang said, “A day without work is a day without eating.” We must appreciate the truth, goodness, beauty, and … Continue reading
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Tagged a day without eating, a day without work, air, Bai-zhang, day by day, life, light, second by second, water
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Life’s Light
Good morning! We can sit peacefully, quietly, in the early morning, sometimes with a candle, sometimes with electricity, which is, of course, brighter. In Japan now, as you know, there is a nuclear reactor crises, and the presidents of nuclear … Continue reading
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Tagged A-bomb, electricity, essential, global warming, government, Hiroshima, IEAE, life, light, man-made mass extinction, NISA, nuclear reactor, problematique, radiation, safety, species, standards, threshold, universal standards
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