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Morning meditation — There is the expression.

Morning meditation — There is the expression. https://wp.me/pFy3u-8WA

‘There is the expression ‘‘turning delusion around and awakening to satori’’, yet we are always living within Emptiness.’ Harada Tangen Roshi Pink roses. On our Twitter account, Buddhism Now @Buddhism_Now, most mornings we post a ‘morning meditation’ like the one above. On the net, of course, it’s morning, afternoon, evening, or nighttime 😀 somewhere. Click here to read more Morning…

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Impermanence is swift—this is the reality. No matter how blessed you are now, how easygoing, how worry-free and happy, you cannot keep this situation—it will be taken away from you. Impermanence is swift. You have to resolve the problem of life and death for yourself, and no one can do it for you. Everything is impermanent. Change is constant; it waits for no one. You don’t even have the time to sit around and lament impermanence, to think of it as a concept, to dwell on it—there is no time to dwell on anything. There is a constant sermon of change—truth is being revealed completely. It is always laid out before us, undisguised, right here and now. Always and ultimately, life is fresh and new. Always and ultimately, this true life is revealed. Life is not a solid, fixed thing—there is no self in it. This fact, this reality, has to be pounded in, until you know it in your guts, until it is a persistent sense. No matter how carefully you try to hold on to something, no matter how carefully you try to make this life last, you are going to lose it.

Harada Tangen Roshi

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Ready to lay down his life as a kamikaze pilot, Tangen Harada Roshi instead channeled his fervor into Zen.

"I was fortunate to be given an audience with Daiun Sogaku Rodaishi, the great master who was to become my teacher. He was tiny and very thin, but he had an enormous surging power. I openly talked to him about my problem, saying "I just can't live knowing that there were so many that had to die. What can I do in atonement?"

He told me that he understood my suffering, that I could come to be at peace, that there was a way to solve the problem of life and death at its root...

I vowed then and there to awaken to truth, to come to realize my true nature. I had no doubts. I had already resolved to give my life once in the war, so putting my life on the line wasn't a problem for me. My answer came from the bottom of my heart: "I will give it my all, to practice just as you show me.""

Adapted from 'Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha:

The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi.'

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Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness

“In true emptiness everything can be revealed.”– Tangen Harada RoshiTweet In his meditation on the waterfall at Yosemite National Park, Shunryu Suzuki reflected that, “the water was not originally separated, but was one whole river. Only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling.” Tangen Harada Roshi, who was born one generation after Suzuki, begins a teaching on emptiness…

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The depth of truth is bottomless. Your interconnection is bottomless. A single grass in the field is perfect Buddha. How utterly ONE are all things: the grasses, the trees, the great earth, the great sky. All being is born in relation to all things. This is the true self, the perfect self. No matter what, all is goodness. However, because of deluded perception, beings fail to realize their inherent Buddha-nature. Truth is universal and complete. Can you receive and embrace thoroughly this one truth? What appears as opposition is simply the result of a self-centered view, which is, of course, an incorrect view. This bad habit and wrong view causes untold suffering for yourself and others. And you will continue to create suffering as you go on living in falsehood. You will continue to experience suffering, fear, a sense of lack, and you will not be helping anybody." - Tangen Harada Roshi

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

– Tsoknyi Rinpoche from the book "Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love" I

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"The depth of truth is bottomless. Your interconnection is bottomless. A single grass in the field is perfect Buddha. How utterly ONE are all things: the grasses, the trees, the great earth, the great sky. All being is born in relation to all things. This is the true self, the perfect self. No matter what, all is goodness. However, because of deluded perception, beings fail to realize their inherent Buddha-nature. Truth is universal and complete. Can you receive and embrace thoroughly this one truth? What appears as opposition is simply the result of a self-centered view, which is, of course, an incorrect view. This bad habit and wrong view causes untold suffering for yourself and others. And you will continue to create suffering as you go on living in falsehood. You will continue to experience suffering, fear, a sense of lack, and you will not be helping anybody." - Tangen Harada Roshi

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Baby English—sorry! by Tangen Harada Roshi.

Zen teaching, 'Baby English—sorry'! by Tangen Harada Roshi http://wp.me/pFy3u-1jR

Just VisitingBNow Aug 99 Ten years ago Patricio Goycoolea, a Chilean seeker of truth, was permitted to stay at Bukkokuji, a Soto Zen monastery in Obama, Japan, for two weeks. Ten years later he feels it is time to leave! This place which he calls paradise, has been a nurturing environment for him far beyond his expectations.  Now, as Reverend Jiku, a fully ordained monk, he is embarking on a…

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Morning meditation — What joy there is in this radiance!

Morning meditation — Unskilful deeds are better left undone. https://wp.me/pFy3u-8Ln

‘What joy there is in this radiance!’ Harada Tangen Roshi Chilean Rhubarb, Bicycle, Totnes Leet. On our Twitter account, Buddhism Now @Buddhism_Now, most mornings we post a ‘morning meditation’ like the one above. On the net, of course, it’s morning, afternoon, evening, or nighttime 😀 somewhere. Click here to read more Morning Meditation posts. Click here to read some Harada Tangen Roshi Zen…

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Harada Tangen Roshi 1924-2018

RIP Harada Tangen Roshi 1924-2018. A simple, kind, happy man, who lived his teaching.

Zen Master Harada Tangen Roshi, of Bukkokuji  in Obama, Japan, died on the 12th of March, 2018. Harada Tangen Roshi, one of the great Zen teachers of Japan, has died aged 93. Having survived WWII as a kamikaze pilot*, he adopted the practice of Zen Buddhism, eventually becoming a teacher to thousands of students worldwide. He was a warm, kind, spontaneous man who devoted himself to teaching…

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The Depth of Truth is Bottomless, by Harada Tangen Roshi

What joy there is in this radiance! 'The Depth of Truth is Bottomless', by Harada Tangen Roshi #Zen

When I was young, I went to war as a kamikaze pilot. I had firmly made up my mind to give my life because I wanted to protect my parents, my brothers and sisters and my friends. Other pilots went before me, giving their lives in that final flight. I waited my turn. My turn did not come. The war ended just when I was about to fly. I was devastated, because I could not carry out my commitment to…

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