Awakening for All; Zazen Key：Ultimate Solution
We have the inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, death, and the common ones of parting from the beloved, meeting with the hated, not getting the desired, and the rampant commotion of the five aggregates. These are multiplied by social and environmental ones: wars, nukes, climate change, etc.
These are due to the karma of the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of self, status, symbolism, etc. for survival strife of evolution through billions of years), multiplied by social institutions (society, state, species, etc.), and environmental disorders (disasters, decimations, pollutions, etc.).
The solution lies in stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination (all related/relative: universal truth/ethic), striving in it, serving and saving all. The concrete way is to cultivate within the triple learnings of morality, samadhi (synthesis), and prognosis.
Still sitting (zazen) is the key to the solutions of samsara (birth-death) sufferings, by witnessing and realizing the Dharma and nirvana (two wings to fly freely and fully). It is the ultimate solution of samsara suffering, attaining amṛta (ambrosia of deathlessness) and liberation in the Dharma-dhātu (realm).
April 5, 2025 C.E.
Notes:
1. Four sufferings（dukkha, du-kha: wrong-going, going against one’s wish）:birth（jāti）・aging（jarā）sickness（byādhi)・death（maraṇa）, Eight sufferings：Four sufferings＋parting from the beloved（piya), meeting with the hated（appiya), not getting the desired（yampiccha）, in short, five appropriated aggregate（pañcupādānakkhandhā）are rampant commotion.
2. The Triple Poisons are desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of a self-same, self-sovereign self). The “Triple Only” are only me, only now, and only money (short-sighted views and actions, which make the wider world worse) , which can be cured by the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.
3. The triple learnings are morality, integration, and prognosis (sîla, samâdhi, prajñâ). This is done by still sitting (zazen: sitting meditation), stilling karma (action with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, delusion), settling in samadhi (harmonious integration: nirvana), and providing prognosis to cultivate our volition (to action), emotion, and intellection.
4. The practice of Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation), 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?”
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
5. We may compare individual, social, and environmental phenomena as a bubble, foam, and the ocean. Bubbles change births and deaths, forms and actions, in the foam and the ocean in the Dharma (law of dependent co-origination). We can observe how things go in the wider perspective from the ocean and be liberated from our small, limited bubble view and settle in a wide, calm, clear state (dharma-abhisamaya: direct witness). Such a view and state are dependent on our sense perceptions/consciousnesses/ideas, etc. Nirvana is beyond such psycho-somatic states like sound sleeping alive, but in total control beyond influences from inside and out (nirvana realization). We can see and solve our sufferings from the awakened way and world in zazen and through zen practice.
一切の為の覚醒：坐禅 鍵：究極解決
私達は避けられない生・老・病・死の苦と愛別離・怨憎会・求不得・五蘊盛の普通の苦を持っています。これらは戦争・核・気候変動などの社会的・環境的なものによって倍加されています。
これらは貪・瞋・（数十億年にわたる進化の生存闘争の為の我・地位・象徴主義などの）痴三毒が、（社会・国家・種族などの）社会的・（災害・絶滅・汚染などの）環境的なものにより倍加されることによっています。
その解決は業を静め、涅槃に安住し、縁起（一切相関・相対の普遍真理/倫理）法を見てそれに精進し、一切に奉仕・救済することにあります。その具体的方法は戒定慧の三学を修行することです。
静坐（坐禅）は法と涅槃の直証と実現（自由・完全な飛翔の二翼）です。それは甘露（不死・神饌）獲得と法界での解放（自由）による輪廻生死の究極的解決です。
1. 四苦（dukkha, du-kha: wrong-going, のぞみに叶わぬこと）:生（jāti）・老（jarā）病（byādhi)・死（maraṇa）、八苦：四苦＋愛別離（piya）・怨憎会（appiya）・求不得（yampiccha）・五取蘊（pañcupādānakkhandhā） – 五蘊盛（ごうんじょう）とも言われる。
2. 三毒は貪瞋痴（自己同一、自己主宰の我という愚痴）である。三だけは今だけ、金だけで自分だけということであり（短見・短絡行動で、より広い世界を悪化させる）が、戒定慧の三学はこれらを治癒できる。
3. 三学は戒定慧（sîla, samâdhi, prajñâ）である。これは静坐により、業（貪瞋痴三毒を伴う行為）を静め、三昧（調和総合：涅槃）に安住し、般若（処方：知恵）を与え、知情意を修養する。
4. 鍵となる静坐の実践は業を静め、涅槃（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, 無風、業風の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。坐禅（静坐瞑想）は身体・呼吸・頭脳（身口意）業を整え静止する。四禅は、尋求、伺候、喜悦、安楽を静め平静 (upekhā/upekṣā, 字義は捨離)・涅槃に到達する結果の心的（知性・感情・意欲）業を静止する過程を表示している。
「今何故仏教か？」の４（涅槃）と５（禅）を参照：
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
5. 私達は個人的、社会的、県境的現象を泡沫・泡・太洋に例えても良い。泡沫は泡や法（縁起法）の大洋の中で生死・形態活動を変える。私達は大洋の広い視野で観察し、小さな、制限された泡沫の見解から解放され、広く、静寂明澄な状態（dhamma/dharma–abhisamaya：法現観）に安住できる。そのような視野と状態は私達の感受/意識/観念に依存している。涅槃はそのような心理・身体的な状態を超え、生きて安眠しているようであるが、内外の影響を超えて完全に統御された状態である（寂滅：涅槃現成）。私達は坐禅と禅実践により覚道と覚界から私達の苦を見て解決できる。
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