see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes)
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema)
Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha)
„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)
see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc.
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll)
see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.
see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.
Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."
see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.
I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc
see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc..
see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.
see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)
see dali48 and health and suitable shoes & foot hygiene etc.
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.
siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.
see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.
see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)
see dali48's mother Gabriele and playing piano in Steinbach in the 50s, see dali48 and playing piano for 1 year with Mrs Kirsch in SHA in the 50s, and Christmas songs with Mrs Takahashi in Erkrath in the 80s
Interpretation of dali48
diary3 is about topics from the field of psychology, alternative medicine, Christian and non-Christian religions, Zen-Buddhism, interpretations of excerpts from the speeches of the Nobel laureates in Literature etc. - It describes interesting facts from the past to the future, focusing on the present! ...
It includes the following authors:
Ayya Khema, S. Hite, V.E. Frankl, M. Méssegué, G. Marquez, W. Golding, Dalai Lama, D.T. Suzuki, J. Seiffert, Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha, J.v.d. Wetering, Allen Ginsberg, C. Simon, Johannes Paul1, K. Dürckheim, W. Soyinka, S. Freud, Sloterdiyk, J. Brodsky, P. Celan, A. Schweitzer, G. Groddeck, hl. Hildegard, I.B. Singer, T. Dethlefsen, A.T. Kushi, E. Drewermann, O. Pamuk, Naguib Mahfouz, F. Nietzsche, C.J. Cela, O. Paz, A. Schopenhauer, N. Gordimer, Anais Nin, Abrahms / Spring, R. Dahlke, Ryokan, D.H. Lawrence, T. Morrison, etc... (dali48)
28.03.2000 - Interpretation of dali48
To this end, let something go - for a moment from which you think that you deserve it, for example something that you enjoy doing, something that you like or think is important. - Examined it again and again, until you realize how fleeting it is. - Then you will say to you at some point: "I don't need it, I can do without it." - This is the moment of truth! ...
Persistent irritation: We are constantly under the fire of all those things and phenomena, which we:
1st hear - 2nd see - 3rd smell - 4th taste - 5th touch - and 6th think! ...
Buddha could clearly see every moment of suffering for all beings, because they seek and adhere ...!
Luck is no accident. - Nor is it dependent on external conditions. - And peace is not a piece of paper, not a treaty that could be signed by the UN. - Peace is always state of being, an internal standard of living, which is based on letting go, on self-denial! ...
We need not worry about what will happen after death, perhaps with us. - Better we take care of the Now and to the moment of death. - We can start with something, because it is accessible to us, not an inconceivable idea how all the ideas that are entwined with the life after death. - But we can only learn if we give it all up, one by one. - Every day a little something ...
Only when we learn something new, we have used the day for the cause for which it was given us. - The breakthrough for wisdom (see Nirvana, etc. - d.48), which is the only purpose of our lives. - Every day is our life! ... (Ayya Khema)
Interpretation of dali48
Ayya Khema (1923 - 1997), a Buddhist teacher, was born as Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany, to Jewish parents. Khema escaped Nazis persecution during World War II. - She eventually moved to the United States. After travelling in Asia she decided to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979. She was very active in providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, founding several centers around the world. In 1987 she co-ordinated the first ever International Conference of Buddhist Nuns. Khema wrote over two dozen books in English and German, including her autobiography: I Give You My Life ...
Ayya Khema was born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents. In 1938, she escaped from Germany with two hundred other children and was taken to Glasgow, Scotland. - Her parents went to China and, two years later Ayya Khema joined them in Shanghai. - With the outbreak of the war, however, the family was put into a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp where her father died. - She later married, had a son and a daughter, and now has four grandchildren ...
Four years after the American liberation of the camp, Ayya Khema was able to emigrate to the United States. Between 1960 and 1964 she travelled with her husband and son throughout Asia, including the Himalayan countries, during which she learned meditation. - Ten years later, she began to teach meditation throughout Europe and Australia. - Her experiences led her to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979, when she was given the name of "Khema" (Ayya means Venerable) meaning safety and security. - In Sri Lanka she met her teacher the Ven. Matara Sri Ñāṇanārāma of Nissarana Vanaya who inspired her to teach jhana meditation. As it was not possible at the time to organize an ordination ceremony for bhikkhunis in the Theravada tradition, Ayya Khema then received complete monastic ordination at the newly built Hsi Lai Temple, a Chinese Mahayana temple under the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, in 1988 ...
She helped to establish Wat Buddha Dhamma, a forest monastery in the Theravada tradition, near Sydney, Australia, in 1978. - In Colombo she set up the International Buddhist Women's Centre as a training centre for Sri Lankan nuns, and the Parappuduwa Nun's Island at Dodanduwa. (now closed). She was the spiritual director of Buddha-Haus in Germany, established in 1989 under her auspices ...
In June 1997 "Metta Vihara", the first Buddhist forest monastery in Germany, was inaugurated by her, and the first ordinations in the German language took place there ...
In 1987 she co-ordinated the first International Conference of Buddhist Nuns in the history of Buddhism, which resulted in the setting-up of Sakyadhita, a worldwide Buddhist women's organisation. H.H. the Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker at the conference. In May 1987, as an invited lecturer, she was the first ever Buddhist nun to address the United Nations in New York on the topic of Buddhism and World Peace ...
Ayya Khema has written twenty-five books on meditation and the Buddha's teachings in English and German; her books have been translated into seven languages. In 1988, her book "Being Nobody, Going Nowhere" received the Christmas Humphreys Memorial Award ...
Ayya Khema ordained Ven. Sister Sangamitta from Switzerland (now practising in Thailand), Ven. Sister Dhammadina (a graduate of Peradeniya University), Ven. Sister Vayama from Australia, and Ven. Sister Uttpalvanna of Galle, and her pupils in Sri Lanka ...
Ayya Khema drew her last breath on November 2, 1997 at Buddha Haus, Uttenbühl (part of the village Oy-Mittelberg) in Germany after a brief illness! ... (Wikipedia)
Interpretation of dali48
Maurice Mességué (born 1921) is a French herbalist and author of several best-selling books on herbal medicine and cooking with herbs. - In his autobiography he claims to have treated, among others, Winston Churchill, Chancellor Adenauer of Germany, and the future Pope John XXIII ...
He was born in Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (Lot-et-Garonne) ...
In 1971, he was elected the Mayor of the town of Fleurance ...
Mességué practices a form of herbalism passed down through his family. - Some of the practices involve, among other things, soaking the patient's feet in a strong decoction of locally gathered herbs ... (Wikipedia)
Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (Lot-et-Garonne):
Colayrac-Saint-Cirq, Frankreich
19.07.2012 - diary3 and Maurice Mességué etc., see http://www.dali48.blogspot.com
Interpretation of dali48
The monasteries thus tended to become local centers of medical knowledge, and their herb gardens provided the raw materials for simple treatment of common disorders! ...
The bark of willow trees contains large amounts of salicylic acid, which is the active metabolite of aspirin. - Willow bark has been used for millennia as an effective pain reliever and fever reducer! ...
In India, the herbal remedy is so popular that the Government of India has created a separate department - AYUSH - under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. - The National Medicinal Plants Board was also established in 2000 by the Govt. of India in order to deal with the herbal medical system! ...
There are many forms in which herbs can be administered, the most common of which is in the form of a liquid that is drunk by the patient, — either an herbal tea or a (possibly diluted) plant extract! ...
One of the most famous women in the herbal tradition was Hildegard of Bingen. - A twelfth century Benedictine nun, she wrote a medical text called Causes and Cures ...
Native Americans medicinally used about 2,500 of the approximately 20,000 plant species that are native to North America. - With great accuracy, the plants they chose to use for medicine were in those families of plants that modern phytochemical studies show contain the most bioactive compounds! ...
Some researchers trained in both western and traditional Chinese medicine have attempted to deconstruct ancient medical texts in the light of modern science! ...
The energetic — This approach includes the major systems of TCM, Ayurveda, and Unani. - Herbs are regarded as having actions in terms of their energies and affecting the energies of the body! - The practitioner may have extensive training, and ideally be sensitive to energy, but need not have supernatural powers ...
Researchers from Ohio Wesleyan University found that some birds select nesting material rich in antimicrobial agents which protect their young from harmful bacteria! ...
Sick animals tend to forage plants rich in secondary metabolites, such as tannins and alkaloids. - Since these phytochemicals often have antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antihelminthic properties, a plausible case can be made for self-medication by animals in the wild! ...
Because "over 50% of prescription drugs are derived from chemicals first identified in plants," a 2008 report from the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (representing botanic gardens in 120 countries) warned that "cures for things such as cancer and HIV may become 'extinct before they are ever found!'" - They identified 400 medicinal plants at risk of extinction from over-collection and deforestation, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease! - These included Yew trees (the bark is used for the cancer drug paclitaxel); Hoodia (from Namibia, a potential source of weight loss drugs); half of Magnolias (used as Chinese medicine for 5,000 years to fight cancer, dementia and heart disease); and Autumn crocus (for gout). Their report said that "five billion people still rely on traditional plant-based medicine as their primary form of health care"! ... (Wikipedia)
Interpretation of dali48
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West! ...
D. T. Suzuki was born Teitarō Suzuki in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki. The Buddhist name Daisetsu, meaning "Great Humility", the kanji of which can also mean "Greatly Clumsy", was given to him by his Zen master Soen (or Soyen) Shaku. Although his birthplace no longer exists, a humble monument marks its location (a tree with a rock at its base). The samurai class into which Suzuki was born declined with the fall of feudalism, which forced Suzuki's mother, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist, to raise him in impoverished circumstances after his father died. - When he became old enough to reflect on his fate in being born into this situation, he began to look for answers in various forms of religion! ...
Suzuki studied at Tokyo University. When he was young, Suzuki had set about acquiring knowledge of Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, and several European languages ...
In 1911, Suzuki married Beatrice Erskine Lane, a Radcliffe graduate and Theosophist with multiple contacts with the Bahá'í Faith both in America and in Japan. Later Suzuki himself joined the Theosophical Society Adyar and was an active Theosophist ...
Besides living in the United States, Suzuki traveled through Europe before taking up a professorship back in Japan. Suzuki and his wife dedicated themselves to spreading an understanding of Mahayana Buddhism ...
In addition to his popularly oriented works, Suzuki wrote a translation of the Lankavatara Sutra and a commentary on its Sanskrit terminology. Later in his life he was a visiting professor at Columbia University. He looked in on the efforts of Saburō Hasegawa, Judith Tyberg, Alan Watts and the others who worked in the California Academy of Asian Studies (now known as the California Institute of Integral Studies), in San Francisco in the 1950s ...
Suzuki also took an interest in Christian mysticism and in some of the most significant mystics of the West, for example, Meister Eckhart, whom he compared with the Jōdo Shinshū followers called Myokonin. Suzuki was among the first to bring research on the Myokonin to audiences outside Japan as well ...
Suzuki's Zen master, Soen Shaku, who also wrote a book published in the United States (English translation by Suzuki), had emphasized the Mahayana Buddhist roots of the Zen tradition. - Suzuki's contrasting view was that, in its centuries of development in China, Zen (or Chan) had absorbed much from indigenous Chinese Taoism. -Suzuki believed that the Far Eastern peoples had a more sensitive or attuned to nature than either the people of Europe or those of Northern India...
It was Suzuki's contention that a Zen satori (awakening) was the goal of the tradition's training, but that what distinguished the tradition as it developed through the centuries in China was a way of life radically different from that of Indian Buddhists. In India, the tradition of the mendicant (holy beggar, bhikku in Pali) prevailed, but in China social circumstances led to the development of a temple and training-center system in which the abbot and the monks all performed mundane tasks. These included food gardening or farming, carpentry, architecture, housekeeping, administration (or community direction), and the practice of folk medicine. Consequently, the enlightenment sought in Zen had to stand up well to the demands and potential frustrations of everyday life...
Under Soen Shaku, Suzuki's studies were essentially internal and non-verbal, including long periods of sitting meditation (zazen). The task involved what Suzuki described as four years of mental, physical, moral, and intellectual struggle...
Interestingly, later in life Suzuki was more inclined to Jodo Shin (True Pure Land) practice on a personal level, seeing in the doctrine of Tariki, or other power as opposed to self power, an abandonment of self that is entirely complementary to Zen practice and yet to his mind even less willful than traditional Zen...
Suzuki was the foremost important person in spreading Zen in the west. Philosopher Charles A. Moore said: "Suzuki in his later years was not just a reporter of Zen, not just an expositor, but a significant contributor to the development of Zen and to its enrichment"...
This is echoed by Nishitani Keiji, who declared: "...in Dr. Suzuki's activities, Buddhism came to possess a forward-moving direction with a frontier spirit... This involved shouldering the task of rethinking, restating and redoing traditional Buddhism to transmit it to Westerners as well as Easterners...
Buddhist Modernist traditions often consist of a deliberate de-emphasis of the ritual and metaphysical elements of the religion, as these elements are seen as incommensurate with the discourses of modernity. - Buddhist Modernist traditions have also been characterized as being "detraditionalized," often being presented in a way that occludes their historical construction. Instead, Buddhist Modernists often employ an essentialized description of their tradition, where key tenets are described as universal and sui generis. It was this form of Zen that has been popularized in the west! ...
Suzuki has been criticized for this essentialist approach. As early as 1951 Hu Shih, himself following a Chinese nationalist agenda, accused Suzuki of presenting an idealist picture of Zen ...
As a response to the modernisation of Japan and the persecution of Buddhism, the shin bukkyo, or "New Buddhism" came into existence. - It was led by university-educated intellectuals who had been exposed to a vast body of Western intellectual literature. - Advocates of New Buddhism, like Suzuki's teachers Kosen and his successor Shaku Soen, saw this movement as a defense of Buddhism against government persecution, and also saw it as a way to bring their nation into the modern world as a competitive cultural force! ...
Indeed, the one feature shared by virtually all of the figures responsible for the Western interest in Zen is their relatively marginal status within the Japanese Zen establishment. While Suzuki, Nishida, and their intellectual heirs may have shaped the manner in which Westerners have come to think of Zen, the influence of these Japanese intellectuals on the established Zen sects in Japan has been negligible. At this point, it is necessary to affirm that Japanese Zen monasticism is indeed still alive, despite the shrill invectives of some expatriate Zen missionaries who insist that authentic Zen can no longer be found in Japan! ...
Kemmyō Taira Satō does not agree with this critical assessment of Suzuki: "In cases where Suzuki directly expresses his position on the contemporary political situation - whether in his articles, public talks, or letters to friends (in which he would have had no reason to misrepresent his views) - he is clear and explicit in his distrust of and opposition to State Shinto, rightwing thought, and the other forces that were pushing Japan toward militarism and war, even as he expressed interest in decidedly non-rightist ideologies like socialism. - In this Suzuki’s standpoint was consistent from the late nineteenth century through to the postwar years. These materials reveal in Suzuki an intellectual independence, a healthy scepticism of political ideology and government propaganda, and a sound appreciation for human rights"! ...
Carl Jung. Carl Jung wrote of him: “Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism! … We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task." - But Jung was also critical, warning against an uncritical borrowing from Asian spirituality! ... (Wikipedia)
