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Vesak Day Dharma Vision

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Thank you for your participation in the Vesak Day (commemorating Buddha’s Birthday, Awakening, and Parinirvāna, Perfect Nirvana) celebration! This is a good occasion for us to reflect and relive the Buddha’s Way. He opened the great gate of amrita, ambrosia … Continue reading →

Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade) | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, Buddhahood, Carl H. Busse (1872-1918), chan, Dharma Dhatu, dharma of dependent origination, dhyâna, Four Stages of Zen (Jhāna, happiness, karma, karma heir/relative/machine, live on joy, meditation, nirvana, Parinirvāna: Perfect Nirvana, Pure heart: pure land, tornado, Vesak Day, Vimalakirti, Zazen (sitting zen) | Leave a comment

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

Yonder Shore or Summit

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We are at the third day of the five day autumnal equinox period, the middle point of the true equinox, and we are at our equinox sesshin. Sesshin is embracing or containing our usually outgoing, diffused, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged action, agitation-worry, and unconditioned peace of practice: gyôjidôkan: 行持道環), awakening, becoming, Buddha mind/world/life, called higan (yonder shore)}, conviction, covetousness-malevolence, dhyâna: shikantaza: just sitting, doubt, five coverings (lust-desire, four fluxes (volitions, four stages of zen/chan/jhana/dhyana, four way cycles (aspiration, instincts: lust, jhana, meditation, nescience, nirvana, sloth-drowsiness, unconditioned peace {equanimity like equinox, zen (chan | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear plants, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged Buddha, buddhas, global warming, humans, karmas, mass extinction, meditation, nuclear weapons/plants, Rohatsu sesshin, triple poison/deed/karma (craving/anger/deslusion: desire/divisiveness/delusion) | 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

Saving Suffering

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have a morning with bright sunlight in serene silence. However, the world is immersed in disasters, difficulties, and even deaths at this very moment. The recent tornados, more than 200 over an area of some 150 miles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Uncategorized, Voluntary simplicity, Zen | Tagged appropriation, arrogance of health, arrogance of life, arrogance of youth, awakened way, concentration, craving, death, decay, delusion, Dependent Origination, devastation, disease, dissatisfaction, dukkha, ego, five coverings, five Ss (systemic, formations, four fluxes, harmony, here now, holiness, impermanence, karma, mass extinction, meditation, morality, nescience, nirvana, noumena, nuclear disaster, origination of consciousness, origination of samsara, origination of suffering, peace, phantom, phenomena, prognosis, reality, run after, run away, Ryokan, safe, sankhara, saving, Sawaki Roshi, second arrow, self-sense, sense objects, sense organs, short-circuit, short-sight, simple, sitting, stop karma, sustainable, three poisons, three steps, threefold suffering, tornado, tread-wheel, triple learning, truth, tsunami, wholly wholesome, wisdom, witness | Leave a comment

Unconditioned Peace – Unsurpassed Awakening

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a beautiful, bright sunny day today, with plants budding, burgeoning, and sprouting. I saw a pretty white star magnolia blooming in full size on a branch I had taken in during the chilly weather and put … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakened way, Buddha, chan, flower, insight, jhana, karma, meditation, nirvana, practice, prajna, principle, prognosis, shunya, sitting, unconditioned peace, universe, unsurpassed awakening bodhi, Zen, zero | Leave a comment

How We Can Solve Global Problems

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Rosan Daido

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakened way, civilization, climate change, culture, cyclical system, Dependent Origination, eco, ego, extinction, five As, five blisses, five calamities, five Ls, five Rs, five Ss, genocide, global ethic, global problems, holiness, ignorance, karma, meditation, pollution, pyramidal system, terrorism, voluntary simplicity | Leave a comment

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Vesak Day Dharma Vision

Awakened One’s Awakening Day

Yonder Shore or Summit

Becoming Buddha

Samadhi Stages

Saving Suffering

Unconditioned Peace – Unsurpassed Awakening

How We Can Solve Global Problems

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