Good morning!
We have a still serene Saturday after sittings, though our summer of 30oC suddenly plummeted into a winter of 3oC. The Buddha at his last said, “All is impermanent, strive without indolence. These are my last words.” “Walk alone like the lone horn of a rhino,” he said, and “Conquering one-self is the true conqueror.”
He also said, “Take refuge in oneself, not others. Take refuge in Dharma, not others … Strivers, continue your striving … Those who strive in Dharma and Discipline would attain the cessation of suffering, discarding the transiency of life.” Buddhists learn the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.
The Buddha was awakened in the Dharma, Law/Truth, of Dependent Co-origination, i.e. all phenomena originate depending on causes and conditions. The Four Holy Truths tell of the origination/cessation of suffering. The Four Stages of Zen show how anyone can attain nirvana, the cessation of karma, and awaken in it.
We can attain cessation of suffering by individual freedom in awakening, regional equal community in compassion, and global peace in prognosis. We can make a paradigm shift from the pyramidal civilization of sinful, separated sick, samsara suffering to the life-Indra-net culture in a holy, wholly wholesome, way world.
10/20/18
Note: We must make a paradigm shift from pyramidal (金字塔: lit. 金-letter tower) civilization (urbanization: mutual struggle for money, matter, and might) system in samsara suffering with five calamities (delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction) to life-Indra-net (Indra-net, Indra’s net covering the world, whose crystal balls on all knots reflect each other limitlessly in time and space, of all life forms) culture (cultivation: mutual sharing of life, heart, and harmony) system in holy harmony, health, and happiness with five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, compassion, and peace).
10/20/2018 C.E. Dharma talk
お早うございます！
30度の夏から3度の冬に急転直下しましたが、数回の坐禅の後には静かで平穏な土曜日です。ブッダは臨終に際して「一切は無常である。不放逸に精進しなさい。これが私の最後の言葉だ。」と言いました。「犀の一角のように独り歩みなさい。」と言い、また「一己に勝つのが真の勝者だ。」と言われました。
彼はまた「自己に依り、他に依るな。法に依り、他に依るな・・・精進する者達よ、精進を続けよ・・・法と律に精進する者は生の移ろいを捨てて、苦の滅を得る。」とも言われました。仏教者は戒定慧の三学を学びます。
ブッダは縁起（因縁生起）の法、即ち一切の現象は因（直接原因）と縁（間接条件）に依って起きる、という法、法則・真理、に目覚められました。四聖諦は苦の消滅を語っています。禅の四段階は誰でも涅槃、業の止滅、とそこでの覚醒を示しています。
私達は覚醒において個人の自由を、慈悲において平等な共同体の地域を、智慧において地球の平和を得ることが出来ます。私達は罪悪の、分離病患の、輪廻苦の金字塔文明から聖なる、全体健全の、方途・世界の命帝網文化への枠組転換を為すことが出来ます。
2018共通年10月20日 法話
註：私達は五過（錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮）を伴う輪廻苦の金字塔（ピラミッド）文明（都市化：金・者・力の奪い合い）組織から五福（覚醒・自由・平等・慈悲・平和）を伴う聖なる調和・健全・幸福の命帝網文化（命・心・和の分かち合い）への枠組転換をしなければなりません。
Most flower plants died frost-bitten overnight!
