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Tag Archives: Ryokan
Holy Home and Host
Good morning! When I left my home, there was sleeting like this. When I arrived here there was no sleeting. Weathermen said that the snow will accumulate one to two inches by 11:30 a.m. and six to eleven inches by tonight. So, everybody is staying at home – very quiet. When the Buddha was taking his morning walk and sitting, he overheard Yasa, the first layman to renounce, saying, “Aah, I am suffering, Alas, I am disturbed!” So the Buddha said, “Here is neither suffering nor vexation. Come and sit, Yasa! I will tell you the dharma!” Now we have sesshin. Sesshin is touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂 心). We can touch and embrace our minds, and even the Buddha mind, when we practice. These incessant innumerable soft snowflakes seem like the Great Thousand Worlds, in which innumerable soft snowflakes are also falling. When we practice, we forget our selves and are verified by all dharmas. As we see dharmas, they verify us with the triple dharma marks: impermanence, suffering from impermanence, and no self-substance from no self-sameness and no self-sovereignty. Thus, the Buddha said “Not yours” (na tumhakam). Nothing is ours, even our bodies and minds, much less those of others. So, naturally we drop off our bodies and minds. When we see dharmas, we witness the holy dharma world, holy home, and holy hosts. In the holy home, everything is holy host. There is no person with limited possessions and possessedness. Rinzai (Linji: 臨済) said “Becoming a host at any place, all become true.” When we become hosts, all turns out true. When we become guests or slaves, all fall far or false. When we witness the holy home, we become holy hosts, enjoying holy (wholly wholesome) truth, goodness, and beauty. Dr. Suzuki of the Suzuki Method of Ability Development said that life has no age and that sounds have life, living without forms. Formless life gives us beauty, goodness, and truth. He often told the story of Amala and Kamala fostered by a wolf – we can … Continue reading
Posted in cultivation: verification (修:証)
Tagged Amala, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, Dr. Suzuki, embracing truth (satya-āgraha), Gandhi, Great Thousand Worlds, Kamala, lit. doing duty), no-harm (a-himsā), not yours (na tumhakam), Rinzai (Linji), Ryokan, samu (作務, sesshin, Sesshin:touching the mind (接心) and embracing the mind (摂心), Suzuki Method, triple dharma marks (impermanence/suffering/selfless), work), Yasa
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Bodhisattva Bunny
Good morning! On the way here I saw many bunnies scurrying around. Over and around here we see many Buddhas sitting still. There was a bunny who was sent to the moon, saving a suffering servant of this world, and savoring amrita, ambrosia of immortality ever since. Sentient beings are set in self-survival karmas (habits, actions) with short-sight, short-circuit, and short-spark. They live with the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness led into the triple maladies of me-ism, materialism, and militarism. Awakened ones are settled in wholly wholesome dharmas (truths, laws) with long-sight, long-circuit, and long-success (saving, serving, sewa, seva). They live with the triple potencies of purity, peace, and prognosis led into the triple minds of magnanimous mind, mature mind, and joyful mind. The boddhisattva bunny, great being, has been ever since enjoying amrita with limitless life, light, liberation, love, and learning. 3/18/13 Note: 1. The story of a bunny saving an apparently old hungry man actually the supreme being of this world was sent to the moon thanks to its selfless action was saved into the moon, as we see the figure now. (Please refer to this blog site posting the poem made by Ryokan, Mind Mirror, posted on August 14, 2011.) 2. Sewa (Japanese, 世話), seva … Continue reading
Posted in Dharma, Karma
Tagged amrita, bodhisattva bunny, Buddha, immortality, Moon/Mind Mirror, Ryokan, self-survival karmas, Sewa (世話)/seva/serving/saving, triple maladies (meism/materialism/militarism), triple minds (great/mature/joyful minds), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), triple potencies (purity/peace/prognosis), triple shorts (short-sight/short-circuit/short-spark)
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Triple Thousand Terrae
Good evening! Looking up the deep dark sky with limitless soft snow falling down endlessly, Ryokan made a poem: The Great Triple Thousand Worlds Standing in the soft snow falling, In them also snow falling… Awa-yuki-no nakani tachitaru Michi-auchi mata sono-nakani Awa-yuki-zo furu あは雪の中に たちたる三千大千世界 またその中に 沫雪ぞ降る The Great Triple Thousand Worlds are all composed of the Middle Thousand Worlds, which are all comprised of the Small Thousand Worlds. Such are our worlds. We think of only one world here. Not so. Even in one snowflake are the Great Triple Thousand Terrae. These are our life terrae. 3/5/13 Wishing worlds: Each time, a good time (時々是好時, jiji kore … Continue reading
Buddhas’ Bodhisattvas’ Brahma-vihāra
Good morning! We learned about a father losing his life, but saving his daughter’s life amidst a snowstorm whiteout in Hokkaido. He must have learned from his life the Brahma-vihāra, Holy-living, and enjoyed the Holy-abode or limitlessness of learning, liberation, light, love of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity. It is the Buddhas’ and Bodhisattvas’ Brahma-vihāra, based on the Dharma of Dependent Origination, intimately intertwined, selfless, supramundane Dharma-dhātu, which is diametrically opposite to selfishness. What would have been the consequence, if he had cultivated and verified the opposite way world? 3/5/13 Note: Four Brahma-vihāra = Four Limitlessnesses of friendship (mettā:Pali, maitrī:Sanskrit, 慈:Sino-Japanese, ji: Japanese),compassion (karuņā, 悲, hi), joy (mudita, 喜, ki), equanimity (upekhā, upekśā, 捨, sha) Enjoy the soft spring snow falling in the Great Triple Thousand Worlds (1,000 great worlds, each … Continue reading
Supreme Supramundane State
Good morning! Zazen brings us to a completely different world than the ordinary one. Of course we have a different world from moment to moment. So, we can enjoy spring after winter. We must withstand a chilly winter after … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Zazen, Zen
Tagged Ananda, and Matsu (Degenerate) Dharmas and Periods, and prajñâ (prognosis), birth/death, body-mind being one (shinshin ichinyo: 心身一如), Buddha, Buddha-mind Seal, Buddhism, but also samu (physical work): two wings to fly, cultivation is itself verification (shushō ittō: 修証一等), deportment is itself the Buddha Dharma (igi-soku buppō: 威儀即仏法), dhamma (dharma, Dogen, good (kusala: lit. skillfulness), Hotei or Maitreya, ichiensō (perfect circle, Mahaparinibbana, ni-vāte padīpa: lamp light in no wind, Nir-vāna is no-wind (of karmas), no self-sameness/self-sovereignty/self-entity, norm/form, purity/poverty path, Ryokan, samadhi (concentration), sangha (community), selflessness/nirvana, Shō (Right), Shuji Hojo, sitting (zazen), Soto, Subhadda, suffering, Ten Ox-herding: rather Ten Bull-taming, three/four dharma seals: impermanence, triple learnings: sila (morality), triple poisons (delusion/desire/divisiveness), truth/phenomena), unity, Zō (Formal)
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Three Worlds
Good morning! Did you see the biggest, closest full moon this year? I also saw the big red sun just rising from the horizon. Earlier I went into my yard and enjoyed abundant birds’ singing and fresh dew – … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged ambrosia, and of craving (kâma-dhâtu), event horizon, event-free/event-full/event-less, Fukushima, Heart Sutra, Hiroaki Koide, nuke-free world, of formless (arûpa=dhâtu), original nature, Ryokan, three worlds or realms of form (rûpa-dhâtu), truth/goodness/beauty/holiness, visible/invisible world, Yuka Nishioka
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