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Tag Archives: paradigm shift
Paradigm Shift of Ego, Economy, and Ecology
Good morning! About twenty-five centuries ago the Buddha foresaw the destruction of the world due to the triple poisons and had been striving every day to share with all beings the way to forsake and surrender (we must surrender all to the Dharma-dhatu anyway) them. He taught the lessons of “the world on fire” (seeing an actual village fire and sharing the cause of it in terms of the six sense organs burning) and “the son’s flesh” (the story of parents lost in the desert eating their beloved son’s flesh out of hunger and thirst, indicating our sacrifice of the most valuable things out of thirst, taṇhā), which we witness in global warming and the sacrifice of future generations. Mankind is now the culprit of the sixth mass extinction, more than a hundred species extinct per day, with overcatching, habitat destruction, pollution of life systems, and changes in climate, sea levels, glaciers, and coral reefs causing mountain slides, fires, flooding, wars, starvation, genocides, and the defilement of bodies, brains, hearts, hara (guts), minds, mouths, individuals, societies, cultures, environments, etc. Ego, economy, and ecology are deluded, damaged, and destroyed by the triple poisons. An artificial uni-directional pyramidal system of civilization has replaced the natural cyclical Indra-net system of cultivation. Bubbles and foam can exist only in the ocean, not the other way around. So, greater Ecology (eco-logos: home truth, Dharma-dhātu, Indra-net) must come first, before Economy (eco-nomos: home norm, home account) and Ego (I, Ich, Aham, actually no independent, eternal Ego or Self), which are both dependent upon Ecology. We must have a paradigm shift of economics and ego-nominalism. The Economics … Continue reading
Pealed Seal, Paradigm Shift
Good morning! Sittings seem like great old trees standing tall, surrounded by many green trees and all kinds of flowers, solid and serene in the blue sky ocean. Our abundant greenery is due to the unusual weather, like a rainy season with a lot of rain and cool air. This is abnormal, but the abnormal climate of pouring rain with flooding and landslides, and with record high temperatures with drought and wild fires are going on in many places. A severe heat and thirst far more severe than the scorching sun took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty eight years ago. I forwarded the Peace Declarations this year, as well as a video titled “Opened Seal – Nagasaki Seen by An American Marine Cameraman” broadcast by NHK in 2008. The video featured Joe O’Donnell, who sealed in a trunk 30 pictures of Nagasaki taken just after the A-bomb hit; after 43 years he opened the trunk for the public. O’Donnell volunteered to be a Marine in 1940 at the age 19 due to the Pearl Harbor attack. He was sent to Nagasaki for seven months on Sept. 22, 1945 in order to record the devastated Nagasaki. He secretly brought back the pictures, but he could not sleep because of nightmares. He sealed the photos in a trunk and sent it to the attic. Seeing, in an abbey, the devastation anti-nuclear activists had pictured on the Christ’s crucified body, O’Donnell decided to open the trunk and share the pictures with the public. The record of his voice to the local media shows his change of hate into compassion toward the devastated people, and the unbearable weight in his heart: “How can human beings do this? I could not understand it.” His wife left him, considering his action anti-American. He had 25 operations due to cancer, etc., but the government denied his claims that the illnesses were due to the effects of radiation. He died in 2007. His son, Tige, regretted not understanding well, but succeeded to his father’s will. O’Donnell saw many burned and dying children, including small orphaned children taking care of younger ones. He was especially impressed by one heavily burned child, without hair, nose, etc., who continued to cry out: “You enemy, kill me.” The boy was standing straight and biting his lip with his dead younger brother on his back, waiting for the order of cremation. He left the scene with no words. O’Donnell later searched for him, in vain, to learn whether or not he had survived. This story tells us that one can go beyond nationalism in wider, common human … Continue reading
From GNP to GNH or from Three maladies to Three Treasures
Good morning! We are now in the cold season in the natural cycle. However, humans are now changing it and even creating catastrophe. The news from Japan reported the Bhutan royal family’s visit, the Pacific region’s military buildup, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Civilization, Culture, Ecology, Global ethic, Global problems, Philosophy, Religion, System, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Bhutan: Buddhist country, Fugen Bosatsu (普賢菩薩), GNH (Gross National Happiness), GNP (Gross National Products), Monju Bosatsu (文殊菩薩): Bodhisavva of Wisdom/Supreme Softness, nuclear bombs/power, nuclear disaster/debacle, Pacific China, paradigm shift, Samanta-bhadhra Bodhisattva: Bodhisattva of Universal Wisdom/Happiness/Auspiciousness, three maladies (militarism, three treasures (Buddha/Dharma/Sangha: awakening/norm-form/community), U.S., wholly wholesome life system
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Religion is Reunion
Pursuant to my previous blog “What Is Religion?” with many comments, I would like to offer the following: Religion (<religare) means reunion with the holy (wholly wholesome). Thus, religions advocate universal truth and ethic (knowledge and action). … Continue reading
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Tagged friendship, global ethic, global system, holy, information flow, material flow., paradigm shift, religion, selfishness, sin, universal truth
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