Awakening for all: Zazen Gift: Holiness
Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, serve and save all, becoming holy, harmonious, healthy, and happy, individually, socially, and environmentally.
Anyone can sit, step forward through the four stages of Zen, saved from emotions, volitions, samsara, and suffering, individually, socially, and environmentally.
Anyone can sit, stay in the four limitlessnesses of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity, serving and saving all from samsara suffering throughout space and time.
Anyone can sit, savor limitless life, light, liberation, and love, serving and saving all, securing all the treasures in the limitless world throughout space and time.
November 8, 2024 C.E.
Notes:
１．Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation) is to attain freedom from karma and freedom of dharma/Dharma in full function, returning to zero (suñña/śūnya), more awakened and wakeful than the wakeful state in karma, to and reuniting with holiness (wholly wholesomeness) and limitlessness (cf. four limitlessnesses: friendship, compassion, joy, equanimity).
２．The practice of Zen, the key and core practice of za-zen, sitting meditation, is to still karma, settle in nirvana（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma, see the Dharma, and serve and save all. This process is categorized in the Four Zen Stages and the Eight Concentration (samādhi) Stages (actually Four Zen Stages plus Four Concentration Stages combined, going together). As shown in the Four Zen Stages thoughts, emotions (the representative five coverings: lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worries, doubts), and volitions (the representative four fluxes: lust, becoming/identification, views/dogmas, nescience/no witness, of nirvana) are stilled in this order.
Please refer to 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”
３．Religion derives from Latin religare (reunion). Religion is, thus, to reunite with holiness (wholly wholesomeness, cf. Rudolf Otto’s definition of religion as the Holy) from sin (=separation, separated sick, cf. a-sun-der, sundry).
４．To reunite with the holiness of the limitless ocean of life from being a separated small bubble or foam of ego or group ego is the goal of anyone or a universal religion, where one lives as a true friend in need of all, as expressed in., and who lives in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.
５．Samsara (saṁ-sāra, total flow) means all/constant change of phenomena due to Dependent Co-origination, represented as “birth-death.” Usually we are going through the shift among the six (five) states/ways of human beings, animal beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), hell beings, and celestial beings. These are allegorical states of our mind-world states from moment to moment, not like the Hindu idea of being born to be such after death
Please refer to 3. What Is Life? in “Why Buddhism Now?
６．Nirvana means no wind (of karma imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion), where one can for the first time witness the Dharma world and become awakened from the long night of nescience to the Dharma of all dharmas in calm, clear, controlled, and careful conditions, then prognosticate problems and sufferings in the Four Holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways.
No-wind of karma stills the two roots (craving and nescience) and stills their results of suffering and samsara [six ways/realms of hell beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), animal beings, human beings, celestial beings], thus become freed (liberation, freedom) from samsara and suffering. One opens the right Dharma-eye there (Right Dharma-eye stored in the exquisite heart of nirvana), attaining countless merits of no moving (blowing) of karma (no moving, no death: ambrosia: amṛta), freed from discrimination, bondage of self, other, that, this, etc. (nothingness, emptiness, no-self, limitless: limitless life, limitless light, no attachment, no obstruction, etc.), realizing the true world (Dharma world, Buddha world, paradise, pure land), freed from straying, delusion, etc.
Please refer to 4. What is Nirvana? in “Why Buddhism Now?”
７．The Four Limitlessness (or Brahma-vihāra: Supreme/Pure-abode) is consisting of friendship (mettā, giving pleasure), compassion (karuṇā, removing suffering), joy (pīti), and equanimity (upekhā/upekṣā, lit. discarding/letting go).
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