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Dharma Transmission
Good morning! Now we have a lot of green around us. Cherry blossoms have almost gone, but red buds have started blooming. I hope you have enjoyed deep breathing and profound peace. When we breathe deep with the Buddha mind seal, we completely refresh our whole system – body, mind, and the world. Thus we merge into the cosmos like the great ocean or the great sky. Actually the sky is called sallila, ocean in India. Then, we are liberated from small smelly skin sacks, returning to the origin, becoming one with the Dharma Dhātu, Domain. Then only, we find out our true selves, the true body, the great ocean like life. Only then, we become awakened to the truth of our original nature. We find that we have been deluded by our small bodies and minds, and find that all sufferings we had are dispersed like dense fogs, dispelled like dark clouds, and come to know wherefrom sufferings come – all from small selves sticking to small sacks. But, we never know it, until we reach nirvana, vast space, great ocean, and see things from there further, wider, and deeper. It is like waking up from our dreadful dreams. Even though we work in our daily lives, thinking that we are wakeful, it is not enough, not awakened, bound by all kinds of delusions, which essentially come from our senses that our selves, skin sacks, are the most important things. From this delusion, we create all kinds of problems and sufferings. Unless we stop it and merge into this great ocean, we remain in suffering, never solving our problems, individual, social, and ecological. As you know, they are getting more and worse. So, if we really want to solve our problems and sufferings, we must become Buddhas, stop becoming bubbles, becoming selfless. Only our practice makes it possible and perfect. The Buddha found this truth 25 centuries ago, and he devoted his whole life to save all beings from sufferings. Many followers practiced in the same way as he did, and became Buddhas. In this way from generation to generation, the Buddha Way has been transmitted and succeeded without interruption. If we want to keep this tradition, we all must become Buddhas and keep it alive and active. The most important thing for Buddhas is to keep the Buddha Dharma persist perpetually (reihōgujū, 令法久住). How? Make next Buddhas. Otherwise, it stops there, and disappears. The Dharma, as you know now, is like the limitless ocean or space, awakened by the Buddhas beyond the small selves, bubbles and clouds. If we stick to our small selves or other things such as money, material things, we lose our Dharma and the Dharma life. Even we stick to our lives, we lose them, much more the Buddha Dharma. As I talked last Sunday “taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha (kimyō, … Continue reading
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Tagged " (ikkyoshu ittōsoku一挙手一投, "a separate transmission outside scriptures" (kyōgebetuden, "directly pointing the person's heart" (jikishi-ninshin, "from heart to heart" (i-shin den-shin, "not deluded about causality" (fumai inga, "not falling into causality"(furaku inga, "raising hands and taking steps, "seeing the true nature, "taking refuge in the Buddha, (Hōmyaku法脈), (Kechimaku, Ananda, and becoming the Buddha" (ken-sho jō- butsu, and Sangha (kimyō, Blood Line, Buddha, Buddha Dharma, Dharma, Dharma Dhatu, Dharma Line, Dogen, every move and, Fox Zen (yako-zen, Hyakujo, keep the Buddha Dharma persist perpetually (reihōgujū, Practice in Gratitude (Gyōji-hōon, Sangha, Significance of Cultivation and Verification (Shushōgi, storage of the right Dharma eye" (shōbōgenzō, suffering, tears for the Dharma (hōno tameno namida, the great ocean of Dharma (buppō-no taikai, unsurpassed complete right awakening (anuttara samyak sam-bodhi), Zen, 不昧因果), 不落因果), 仏法の大海), 令法久住), 以心伝心), 修証義, 帰命), 教外別伝), 正法眼蔵), 法の為の涙), 直指人 心), 血脈), 行持報恩), 見性成仏), 足), 野狐禅)
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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
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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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Awakened One’s Awakening Day
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
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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)
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Four Dharma Marks
Good morning! We could see the bright morning star and a very thin moon. The temperature is going down to 25 degrees. The three dharma marks are impermanence, suffering, and no self. The four dharma marks are nirvana … 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
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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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Karma Kinetics
Good morning! We have a nice, quiet, peaceful Sunday morning. With three sittings now, we have a little longer day since the time of the winter solstice. Tonight we can see the full moon. We can also see the … Continue reading
Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism), Global ethic, Global problems, nuclear disaster, Religion, Voluntary simplicity, Zen
Tagged Buddha, eating son's flesh, freedoim limitless life/light/liberation/love/learning, holy truth/goodness/beauty/peace/harmony, Kant, karma, logos: law, samasara, suffering, Tathagata: Thus-being, triple pillar (awakened way/global ethic/voluntary simplicity), Wegener, world on fire: eyes/ears/nose/tongue/body/mind on fire
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Sole Space without Separation
Good morning! We could still see the beautiful bright full moon. As the sun comes out, the moon disappears. Now we see the vast blue sky. Out of the blue come clouds in all forms, colors, and sizes – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, 99%, amrita (ambrosia/immortality), bodhisattva, Buddha, Confucius, craving, deluge of delusion, enslavie, fame/fortune: floating clouds, five aggregates, formations, Jesus, King Milinda, limitless life, nescience, Occupy group, old age and death, perfection of prognosis, save the world, Shariputra, shûnyatâ (emptiness) of all, six senses, suffering, systems: karma consequence, victims of systems, Yes! Magazine, Yunmen
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Pure Place in Peace and Prognosis
Good morning! Autumn morning is worth a thousands pieces of gold. Even though we have neither wind, nor flowers, nor full moon, nor singing birds (ka-cho-fu-getsu: 花鳥風月: flowers, birds, wind, and the moon:), we nonetheless have fresh air, beautiful stars, … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, kachofugetsu (flowers/birds/wind/moon), karma, limitless life/light/liberation/love, nirvana (unconditioned peace), nukes at hair-trigger alert, Pahom, suffering, three poisons (greed/hatred/delusion), unsurpassed awakening
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