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Practice Pertaking

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! After the long dry hot summer with drought disasters now we have a lot of rain like a rainy season. So, we missed the full moon just a few days ago. I came back from Japan just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agnostism, and multi-values, awakened way, Buddha, Buddha's life: everyday a good day, conventional/ultimate truth, cultivation = verification, Dogen, equanimity, fatalism, five coverings/obstacles: delusion/desire/divisiveness/drowsiness/doubt, four fluxes/leaks (asava): lust/becoming/non-becoming/view, limitless minds: limitless luck, materialism, mundane/supramundane realm, nirvana (unconditioned peace), penetrating/perfect purity/peace/prognosis, Samana-phala-sutta: Strivers' Fruit Scripture, Samana: renunciant/striver, samsara: vicissitude of transmigration, samyaksambodhi: unsurpassed awakening, six divine faculties: divine feet/eyes/ears/knowing others' minds/past lives/exhaustion of defilements, six heretics with amoralism, six realms/worlds: hell beings/hungry ghosts/fighting devils/animal beings/human beings/celestial beings, triple learning of morality (sîla)/concentration (samâdhi)/prognosis (prajñâ), worldly way, Zen | Leave a comment

Working Wholly Wholesome Way

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We had beautiful benevolent snowfall covering trees and grass, but clear of roads and earth, because earth and the ambient temperature is higher than the freezing point. Today’s New York Times editorial talked about the dwindling … Continue reading →

Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade) | Tagged and militarism against the larger natural system, holy (wholly wholesome) natura/beauty/benevolence/truth/peace, materialism, me-ism, safe, saving all in harmony/happiness, simple system, sustainable | Leave a comment

Holy Happiness

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a very holy, silent Sunday morning with almost no traffic going around. People came home and may be sleeping sound after shopping spree and shooting spree. We have come back home, ultimate home of … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Religion, Zen | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), anger: me-ism, eco:mind/life, ego:matter/power, greed, holy (wholly wholesome) home/harmony/happiness, materialism, militarism: shalfish syndrome, nuclear bombs/plants: epitome of selfishness, pyramidal system, shooting spree, shopping spree, three poisons: delusion | Leave a comment

Advance Cure or After Care

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Even though we are now in September, with autumn like insects singing, we have a very warm morning with the temperature going above 100 the coming few days. We still have the hurricane aftermath here and typhoon … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged aversion, civilization, conquer self, cultivate mind, culture of life, delusion, Disaster Prevention DAy, evacuation drills, freedom, hurricane, live on joy, materialism, militarism, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, peace, prevention cure, solving the source problem, state, symptom care, triple bliss (truth, triple fictitious system (self, triple maladies (me-ism, triple mind (great/mature/joyful minds), triple poisons (attachment, triple tragedy (earthquake, tsunami, typhoon | Leave a comment

Triple Treasure or Triple Tragedy

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now a good morning with the buddhas (awakened ones), buddha dharma, and sangha (community) in truth, freedom, and peace in our sitting. A news report from Japan stated that the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged ABC (atomic, aversion, biological, Buddha, chemical) materialism/militarism, dangha(community), delusion, Dharma, dharma (form/norm), freedom, Fukushima nuclear disaster, materialism, me-ism, peace, population decrease, radiation danger, Sangha, terrible refuge, triple malady (militarism, triple refuge (buddha, tripole poison (attachment, truth | Leave a comment

Totalianism

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit solid and serene, we stop our physical, verbal, and mental karmas, freed from them. So, we can enjoy peace and truth. In our ordinary life, we pursue comfort and pleasure, which comes from … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged aversion, buddhas (awakened ones), business as usual, comfort/pleasure totalitarianinsm, cut down energy and material use, delusion, enjoy peace and truth, exploitation, extermination, freed from karmas, global problematique (intertwined problems), global warming, karma (physical, mass extinction, materialism, me-ism, mental, nuclear disasters, self-survival instinct, shedding blood and tears, sit solid and serene, sitting good in the beginning/middle/end for all always without wrong actions, three damages (discrimination, three maladies (militalism, three poisons (attachment, verbal | Leave a comment

Karma Crucial to Catastrophe or Contentment

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! When we sit and stop the three (physical, verbal, and mental) karmas, we can settle in truth, peace, and holiness. But when we are living in our karma world, all the news from north, east, west, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged aversion, buddhas (awakened), civilization (institutions/instruments) = pyramidal system, concentration, delusion, emotional, form, formless), fundamental sufferings, humans are humans because of human karmas, intellectual), karma world, materialism, me-ism, mental, only solution = wake-up and wakeful action, problems and sufferings, prognosis: physical/volitional, root karma problems, settle in truth/peace/holiness, three cultivations/learnings = (morality, three karmas (physical, three maladies (militarism, three poisons (attachment, three worlds/realms (desire, verbal | Leave a comment

Becoming Buddhas

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a 100 degree high temperature today in autumn. We received articles, posted on our e-list, on how this country is run and how our global catastrophe is imminent. One of these catastrophes is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged /possession/job/community/tradition/culture/trust, all being, American possesses 300 slaves, amrita(ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, doomed to demise, earthquake, global catastrophe, global life system, global problematique, glopbal warming, human species, loss of life, mammonism, mass extinction, materialism, me-ism, militarism, nuclear disaster, safety myth of nuclear power, wholly wholesome truth/peace/goodness/beauty/harmony | Leave a comment

Source of Suffering: Sticking to Separate Self

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We still have lingering heat, but not like the heat of mid-summer. Clearly the daytime is decreasing rapidly. We can observe the impermanence of the seasons, but scarcely of our own. Only when we face the … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Buddha, capitalism, delusion, impermanence, individual/social/ecological problems, karma, laya (layer of karma/consciousness), mammonism, materialism, me-ism, militarism, samsara suffering fundamental solution, selflessness, truth | Leave a comment

From Self-centeredness to Selfless Systeme

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! Toward the end of summer we are now hearing the strong sounds of cicadas. There is a haiku poem: Showing no sign Of dying soon, Cicada sounds. We humans are also going to die soon, as individuals, states, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged awakened act wakefully, cicada, delusion of self, destined to destruction and demise, dharma (form/norm), dharma world, dying soon, goodness, holiness (wholesome whole), humans, mass extinction, materialism, me-ism, militarism, peace, phenomena/law), selfless dharma world, sit down, stop karmas, truth, work together | Leave a comment

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