Realizing Universal Truth & Ethic:普遍的真理・倫理の実現

 

Good morning!

 

 

Did you see the renowned mid-fall full moon? The most famous haiku poet Basho made a poem:

 

The renowned moon,

                              I wandered around the pond

                              Throughout the whole night.

 

He might be wandering around the pond in a park, adoring the renowned bright beautiful full moon in the sky and in the pond alternately throughout the whole night. Throughout civilization (urbanization) of the original city states (citadels with walls) to modern nation states, citizens separated into insiders and outsiders, i.e., “others” like farmers, foreigners, flora and fauna, etc., waging wars, starting slavery, creating classes, encroaching on the environment.

 

 

Another famous haiku poet Issa, who well observed ordinary people, made a poem:

 

The renowned moon,

                              A baby cries for it to be

                              Taken and given to it.

 

The six decades’ record super typhoon claimed about a hundred casualties, banks breached, blackouts, water supply stopping, flooding with floating furniture piled up in parks, blocked traffic, rescued people in refuge centers, etc. Gandhi said, “Needs can be satisfied, but not desires.” We are like crying babies for the moon, never attaining the ends and dissatisfied. We’ve reached the moon and want to create a space force, but miseries are increasing on earth.

 

 

Dogen made a poem, sensing his passing away ten days ahead, perhaps with fatigue from his trip from Eiheiji in the deep mountains to the capital city of Kyoto, “walking above the clouds” as he noted:

 

Even in the autumn, when

                              I’d expect seeing it again,

                              I could not have slept

                              With the moon of tonight.

 

The perfectly round, without crescent, not concave or convex, full moon for him was the Buddha heart and life – limitless light, life, liberation, and love, calm and clear in nirvana and bodhi (awakening) and prajňā (prognosis), beautifully beaming, lighting limitlessly throughout time and space, illuminating the whole world of heaven and earth. He gave his last Dharma talk on the Eightfold Awakening (or Awareness) as the Buddha did as his last teaching.

 

 

On the way home after sitting, I saw the renowned full moon in front of me, and found cars driving eastbound to the city didn’t. So, I made a poem:

 

       Turning back, I saw

                              The renowned moon –

                              That is this life of all.

 

When we sit in Zazen, we are with the universal truth and ethic (Global Truth and Ethic): Principle: Truth: the Five Ss (Systemic, Sustainable, Saving, Safe, Simple); Ethic: the Five Ls (Law, Life, Liberation, Lielessness, Love); Practice:  For material flow: the Five Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rearrange, Restore) and For information flow: Five As (Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advice). Anyone can sit, see, serve the Dharma in nirvana, and save all by following this.

 

October 19, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

Note: 1. The Eightfold Awakening or Awareness of a Great Person (Pali: mahā-purisa-bodhi/vitakka, Skt.: mahā-purṣa-bodhi/vitarka):

 

little desire (apiccha/apicchā),

contentment (santuṭṭha/santuṣṭa),

seclusion (from the secular world) (pavivitta/pravivitta),

striving (viriya/vīrya),

mindfulness (sati/smṛti),

concentration (samāhia),

prognosis (paňňā/prajňā),

no speculation (a-ppapaňca/a-prapaňca).

 

The last is translated as “no idle talk,” but the original words ap-papaňca/ a-prapaňca means no projection/expansion/ speculation (of the mind), thus no mental fabrication, i.e., nirvana (cf. the fourth stage of the Four Stages of Meditation, where there are no mental fabrications of conceptions, emotions, or volitions).

 

  1. The last four of the 5Ls are the Four Irrevocable Rights/Responsibilities of the Global Ethic, employed from the Five Precepts (their correspondences are):

 

Five Ls      Five Precepts         Four Irrevocable Rights/Responsibilities

 

Life             no killing                 non-violence and respect for life

Liberation    no stealing               solidarity and a just economic order

Lielessness  no lying                    tolerance and a life of truthfulness

Love            no sexual misdeed    equal rights and partnership between

men and women

 

お早うございます。

 

仲秋の名月を見ましたか? 最も有名な俳人芭蕉はこの俳句を作りました:

名月や

池を巡りて

夜もすがら

 

彼は多分庭園の中の池の周りを、空にある月と池にある月を交互に見て美しい名月を愛でながら一晩中歩き回ったのでした。原初の都市国家(壁に囲まれた城砦)から現代の国民国家まで文明(都市化)を通じて市民達は内部者と外部者、即ち、百姓、外人、動物、植物などを「他者」として分離し、戦争を仕掛け、奴隷制を始め、階級を創り出し、環境を侵害して来たのです。

 

庶民を良く観察したもう一人の有名な俳人一茶はこの俳句をつくりました:

名月を

取ってくれろと

泣く子かな

 

六十年来の記録的スーパー台風は約百人の死者を出し、百余りの堤防を決壊し、停電や断水を起こし、氾濫して浮上した家具を公園に山積みにし、通行を妨げ、救助された人々を避難所へ送るなどをさせました。ガンジーは「必要は満たせても、欲望は満たせない」と言いました。私達は月を取ってくれという泣く子のように目的を達せず不満に陥っています。私達は月に達し宇宙軍を創設したいと願っていますが、地上では悲惨が増えているのです。

 

道元は「雲の上を歩く」ようにと述懐するように深山の永平寺から首都の京都への旅で多分疲労したでしょうが、十日後の死を薄々予感しながら次の最後の歌を作りました:

 

また見んと思いし時の秋だにも

今夜の月に寝られやはする

 

欠けてもいず凹凸もない、完全に丸い満月は道元にとっては仏心であり仏命でした-無量光・無量寿・無量脱・無量慈であり、涅槃と覚醒・般若に静穏・明澄であり、時空に無限に明るく美しい輝きであり、天地一切世界を照らすものでした。仏陀が最後の教えとしたと同様に道元も八大人覚を最後の法話としたのでした。

 

私は坐禅の後家へ帰る途中、正面に名月があるのを見て、東方の市街に向かう車列がそうでないのに気付きました。それで詩を作りました:

 

振り向けば

名月よみな

このいのち

 

私達が坐禅する時、私達は普遍的真理と倫理(地球真理・’倫理)と共にあります:原則:真理5S (体系的、維持可能、節約救済、安全、単純)、倫理5L (法、命、自由、真実、慈愛)、実践:物質流5R(削減、再使用、再循環、再配慮、再生)、情報流5A(接近、評価、賛成、行動、告知)。誰でも坐り、涅槃において法を見て仕え、これに従って一切を救済できるのです。

 

2019共通年10月19日 法話

 

註:1.八大人覚・慮((Pali: mahā-purisa-bodhi/vitakka, Skt.: mahā-purṣa-bodhi/vitarka):

小欲  (apiccha/apicchā),

知足 (santuṭṭha/santuṣṭa),

離俗 (pavivitta/pravivitta),

精進 (viriya/vīrya),

専念 (sati/smṛti),

集中(三昧)(samāhia),

智慧(般若)(paňňā/prajňā),

不妄想(不戯論)(a-ppapaňca/a-prapaňca).

最後は不戯論と訳されていますが原語は上の通りで(心の)投射・投機・拡張しないこと、心の構想・妄想しないこと、即ち涅槃です(四禅の第四禅では概念・感情・意欲の心的構成の止むことです)。

 

2.5Lの最後の4Lは「地球倫理」の四つの取り消し不能の権利・責任ですが、それは五戒から採用されたもので、以下のような関係にあります:

 

L      5戒      4取り消し不能権利・責任

生命                      不殺生                    非暴力と生命の尊重

自由                      不偸盗                    連帯と公正な経済

不偽                      不妄語                    寛容と真実の生活

愛情         不邪淫                    男女の平等権利と共同精神

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above picture was taken and sent by

Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka

上の写真は大塚卿之さんが

撮影し送ってくれたものです

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken by and shared in FB

Mr. Koichi Okada

(post permitted)

上の写真は岡田孝一さんの写真です

(転載許可済)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above photo was taken by Mr. Masayoshi Hirasawa

and shared with Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka (and me)

上の写真は平澤正義さんのもので

大塚卿之さん(と私)に共有されたものです

(右下の白点は木星です)

 

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