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Supramundane Spring and Singing

Good evening!   Now we can see daffodils blooming everywhere. The news from Japan reported cherry blossoms blooming ten days earlier than usual time due to warm weather in March. Flowers bloom in the same way year after year, but humans change year after year. Individual karmas and shared karmas effect things differently.   When we come and sit here, we can see beautiful flowers and smell good  incense, and even witness supramundane spring of flowers blossoming on withered trees and withered tree’s dragon singing beyond the mundane realms and karma kens. So enjoy nirvana without wind of karmas in beatitude beyond the mundane.   3/19/13   Note: The supramundane spring of lowers blossoming on withered trees (枯木花開劫外春: koboku-kakai kougai-no haru) and the withered tree’s dragon singing (枯木龍吟: koboku-ryūgin) are witnessed beyond the mundane realm.      

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Sesshin Sees Still Serene State

Good evening!   We start the equinox sesshin now. The equinox is called  higan, the other shore (:彼岸), nirvana, equanimity, the last state of the four meditations. The original word for equanimity is upekhâ, “throwing away” all karmas, especially the … Continue reading

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Cultivation=Verification

Good morning! After our sittings, we have a very peaceful world inside and out. We are very fortunate that we are walking in the Awakened Way and have the concrete practice to attain it. Zazen is the essential way and … Continue reading

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