Universal Ultimate Truth:普遍究極真理

 

Good morning!

 

We suddenly have crisp, clear, cool air, almost chilly. A common saying is: the autumn of the high sky and fat horses, befriending the lamplight (for reading). This is an opportune time to practice: cultivation/verification. I went through my translation of Dogen’s Genjō-kōan, Realizing Universal Truth, and Busshin retyped it. This first volume of Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō, Storage of the True Dharma Eye, originally a letter to his lay follower, introduces the essence/essentials of the Awakened Way.

 

It contains the famous passage: “To learn the Awakened Way is to learn the self…the traceless awakening is furthered on and on.” Awakening to universal truth is unifying the self and the Dharma of all dharmas; it is not like a mirror reflecting the moon, much less the moon separate from the mirror. Genjo-koan is Dharma-abhisamaya, Dharma-meeting. Shinjin-datsuraku, dropping off the body-minds of the self and others, is freedom from and of the body-mind.

 

Free-dom is priya-dhaman, beloved-domain, familiarizing and free/full functioning with dharmas, forms/norms (phenomena/laws). We cannot live departing from them, as fish and birds cannot depart from water and sky. As the need is great, the use is great. We must meet/act, cultivate/verify dharmas here/now, freely/fully functioning, not waiting for another place/time for exhaustively reaching the limit/end of them like water/sky. Each place/time has its absolute stage.

 

Shobogenzo is taken from a stock phrase: “shōbōgenzō nehan-myōshin” (exquisite heart of nirvana, storing the true dharma-eye). So, we must reach nirvana, no-wind (of karma) to attain the true dharma-eye. The true dharma-eye provides us with the truth/ethic of how to make a paradigm shift from the fivefold calamity of our artificial, unidirectional, pyramidal civilization (urbanization: sinful luxury) to the fivefold bliss of natural, cyclical, life-Indranet culture (cultivation: holy purity).

 

October 5, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

Note: The fivefold calamities of civilization (urbanization: fight for money/matter/might) are delusion (separated self: sin: separation), bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. The fivefold blisses of culture (cultivation: share of holiness = wholly wholesome life/heart/harmony) are awakening, freedom, equality (in related/relative Interdependent Co-origination), love (friendship = together-ness from mit-tra, mitra: friend, cf. Mitra, Mithra, Mazda, Maitreya, etc.), and peace.

 

 

お早うございます!

 

突然爽快・清澄・冷涼で、殆ど寒冷な、空気になりましたね。俗諺では、天高く馬肥ゆる秋、(読書で)灯火親しむ候と言います。これは修行:修証の好時節です。仏心がタイプし直してくれた道元の「現成公案」の英訳を見直しました。道元の正法眼蔵のこの第一巻は、元は俗弟子に書かれた手紙ですが、仏道(「正法眼蔵」全巻)の精華・極意への導入です。

 

それは「仏道を習うといふは自己を習うなり・・・休歇なる悟迹を長長出せしむ」の有名な節を含んでいます。普遍的真理の覚醒は自己と「諸法の法」の同一化ですが、鏡が月を映すようなものではなく、ましてや別々の鏡と月ではありません。現成公案は法現観(と訳されますが、実は)、法一致です。「自己の身心、他己の身心を脱落する」というのは身心から自由になり身心自由を得ると言うことです。

 

Free-dom(自由)とは「親愛の領域」(梵語priya-dhaman)ということで、法(現象・法則)に親しくなり自由・全体機能するということです。魚や鳥が水や空から離れられない様に私達はそれから離れられず、必要が大きければ使用も大きくなるのです。私達は水や空と同様に、その際限・終極に到達し尽くすまでの他所・他時をまたず、此処に今それに会い行動し、修行し実証しなければなりません。各所・各時はそれぞれの(独特な)状態・状況があるのです。

 

正法眼蔵は「正法眼蔵涅槃妙心(正法眼を貯蔵する涅槃の絶妙心」という常套句から取られたものです。だから、私達は正しい法(を観る)眼を得る為に「涅槃」(業の「無風」)に達しなければなりません。正法眼は私達が私達の人工的・一方的・金字塔文明の五禍を自然的・循環的・命帝網文化の五福に枠組転換する為の真理・倫理を提供してくれるのです。

 

2019共通年10月5日 法話

 

註:文明(都市化:金・物・力の奪い合い)の五禍は迷妄(「涅槃」無体験)・束縛・差別・搾取・絶滅です。文化(修養:聖=全体健全な命・心・和の共有)の五福は覚醒・自由・平等・博愛・平和です。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and posted

on Mr. Koichi Okada’s FB

(posting here approved by him)

上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮影して

FBに掲載したものを拝借しました

(転載許可を得ています)

 

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