How to Save the World from Destruction? 如何にして世界を破壊から救うか?

The Buddha’s decision to enter the world to save it from destruction, rather than enjoying his personal peace in the forest, is recorded in the Ariya-pariyesana Sutta, Holiness-search Scripture. This scripture describes his search for holiness, his attainment of liberation, and the launching of his life mission to save all beings, despite the world being sunken in ālaya, attachment, and the difficulty of understanding the Dharma of all dharmas, the Law of Dependent Co-origination.

It is clear that he sought holiness, a wholly wholesome way, and discovered the Dharma of all dharmas, but the world is under deep-seated clinging (karma: the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion of ego), which would destroy the world; he therefore determined to dedicate his whole life to saving all beings, the whole world. He attained awakening, thus was called Buddha, in the Dharma, and he taught the Dharma, sharing it with all, creating Sangha, Community of all.

Dogen said that if not with all, it is neither the Awakened Way nor the Great Vehicle. If we truly understand the Dharma of all dharmas that we are all related and relative, we can be liberated from the Triple Poisons, especially their root, egocentricity. He also said, “The Zazen of even one person at one time mutually merges with all dharmas in profundity and perfectly penetrates all time.” Like him and the Buddha, we can become one with the whole world, like the Indra-net.

The Awakened Way has the Triple Treasures of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, not money, matter, and might; and the Triple Learnings of Morality, Concentration, and Prognosis to pacify the Triple Poisons; and the Quadruple Limitlessness or Brahma-vihara, Prime / Purity-abode, of friendship, compassion, joy, and renunciation. A friend (Mitra, Mithra, Maitreya, Mazda, Messiah, et al.) is actually everyone’s potential to become “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

Note:

  1. Ariya (: Pali, ārya: Sanskrit) is a cognate of Greek hagia (English holy, from which Aryan, Iranian came). Rudolf Otto defined religion as holy. Religion came from the Latin religare (reunion). Thus we can define religion as reunion with holiness, a wholly (all) wholesome (harmonious, healthy, happy) way and world from sin (separation, selfish sickness, cf. asunder, sundry).
  1. Ālaya means accumulation, as in Hima-ālaya, Snow-stored (mountain), and accumulated habit / heredity or karma (action, habit, heredity). Ālaya-viññāṇa (vijñāṇa), stored consciousness, is considered to be the eighth consciousness, deep-seated defiled consciousness.

 

  1. Saham-pati, the Lord of the Shared or Common World, whom the Buddha described to the people, so they could understand easily, as the Lord who besought him to go into the world, is Brahma or Indra in Indian Mythology, but also the personification of the universal law of Dependent Co-origination, penetrating throughout the world. Sahā is often (mis)understood as forbearance (from sah, to forbear), but seems to come from Saha-loka, Shared-world, in contrast to Ātma-loka, Self-world. Sahampati, the Lord of the Pure Abode, is difficult to be considered as the Lord of the Forbearance or Suffering:

 

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198605607.001.0001/acref-9780198605607-e-1534

 

  1. The Indra-net, which covers the whole world and has crystal balls on each of its knots, reflecting each other limitlessly, is an illustration of the Dharma of all dharmas, the Norm / Law of all forms / phenomena. If all understood and activated the Dharma, there would be no one to wage war, pollute the world, cause the demise of species, including themselves, and destroy the world, our life network, which is like the Indra-net.

 

  1. If we become good friends (kalyāna-mitta, kalyāna-mitra), globally making the world like the Indra-net, we can solve all our problems and avoid all suffering. And we can make all harmonious, healthy, and happy in peace and awakening.
  1. It is easily said and difficult to do. The Buddha said that it is as difficult to be born a human being as a blind turtle, living at the bottom of ocean, coming up to the surface, and accidentally sticking its head into the hole of a piece of driftwood, but even that much more difficult to meet the Awakened Way. It is easier to meet it, but hard to practice it. We, moving animals, want to move (fight for food, flight from enemies, etc.), and we consider sitting to be killing time, thus we live like mice running on treadwheels, never getting off of them. As the Buddha said, we are karma-born, -heirs, -owners, and -refuged for four billion years with heredity and evolution. Thus, it is difficult to still karma, and only practice makes perfect in taking refuge in good karma, avoiding bad karma. Dogen said that we can become one with the whole world in space and time when we do Zazen, which is the core practice of the Awakened Way to still karma and witness nirvana and awakening.

 

   Chiggala Sutta, The Hole Scripture:

   https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.048.than.html

 

  1. Please refer to A Paradigm Shift from an artificial pyramid uni-directional civilization (urbanization, from civitas, city: citadel) for money, matter, and might in the five calamities (delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination) to a natural cyclical life culture for life, heart, and harmony with the five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace):

  https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-WxkuM

 

  1. Ariya-pariyesana Sutta, Holy-search Scripture:

Text:

https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh198_Horner_The-Noble-Quest–Ariyapariyesana-Sutta.pdf

English translation: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html

如何にして世界を破壊から救うか?

ブッダが森の中で個人的平安を楽しむよりも、世の中に出てその破滅を防ぐ決断は聖求経(アリヤ・パリイェーサナ・スッタ)に記録されています。この経は彼が聖を探求し、解脱を得て、世の中が執着に沈んでおり、諸法の法である縁起を理解するのは難しいにも拘わらず、一切衆生を救済するとうい自らの人生の使命に取り掛かったことを述べています。

彼が聖、全体健全の方法を追求し、諸法の法を発見しましたが、世間は根深い執着(業:貪、瞋、エゴの痴の三毒)の下にあり、それが世界の破滅になるだろうから、彼は一切衆生、全世界を救う為に自らの全生涯を奉げる決意をしました。彼は法の覚醒を得たのでブッダ(覚者)と呼ばれ、法を教え、それを一切と共有し、一切のサンガ(共同体)を創りました。

道元は、一切でなければ覚道でも大乗でもない、と言いました。もし私達が本当に一切が相依し相対であるという諸法の法を真に理解するならば三毒、特にそれらの根源である我中心から自由になるでしょう。彼はまた「一人一時の坐禅なりといへども諸法とあい冥し諸時とまどかに通ず」と言いました。彼やブッダと同様、私達も帝釈網の様に、全世界と一つになることが出来るのです。

覚道は、金物力ではなく、仏法僧の三宝を持ち、三毒を鎮静化する戒定慧の三学を持っています、そして慈悲喜捨の四無量あるいは四梵住、即ち最高/清浄住、を持っています。友(ミトラ、ミスラ、弥勒、マズダ、メシア等)は実際には「必要の時の友は真の友」になる誰でもの可能性です。

1.アリヤ(パーリ語、梵語ではアーリャ)はギリシャ語のハギア(英語のholyで、これからアーリヤン、イランが語が出来ました)。ルードルフ・オットーは宗教とは聖であるとしました。宗教(religion)はラテン語religareに由来します。したがって宗教は罪(sin=separation, selfish sickness: 自己中病患、参考:asunder, sundry)から聖に再結合することである、と定義出来ます。

2.アーラヤはヒマ‐アーラヤ、雪貯蔵(山)の様に、累積を意味し、累積習慣・遺伝または業(行動、習慣、遺伝)を意味します。アーラヤ識(Ālaya-viññāa,vijñāa: 蔵識、阿頼耶識)は第八識、根深い染汚識と考えられています。

3.サハン‐パティは共有/共同社会の主とはインド神話ではブラフマンかインドラで、自分に世に出るように頼まれたと、ブッダが人々が判りやすいようにそう言ったもので、世界に貫徹する普遍法、縁起、を人格化したものです。サハーは(sah:堪忍する)で堪忍世界と(誤)解されているが、アートマ・ローカ(自己世界)に対するサハ・ローカ(共同世界)から来たものと思われます。清浄世界主が堪忍世界の主とは考えにくいのです:

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198605607.001.0001/acref-9780198605607-e-1534

4.全世界を多い、その結び目に水晶の珠が付いてお互いに無限に反映し合う帝釈網は形態/現象の理法/法則である諸法の法の象形例示です。その法を皆が理解し行動するならば、戦争をしかけ、世界を汚染し、自らを含む諸生物種を絶滅させ、帝釈網の様な私達の生命網である世界を破壊する者は居ないでしょう。

5.もし私達が善友(kalyāna-mitta, kalyāna-mitra)になり地球的に世界を帝釈網のようにするならば、私達の一切の問題を解決し、一切苦を排除できるでしょう。そして私達は一切を平和と覚醒の中に調和、健康、幸福にすることが出来ます。

6.言うは易く行うは難し。ブッダは海底に住む盲亀が百年に一度大海の表面に浮かび上がり偶々浮いている一片の木の穴に首を突っ込む程に人間として生まれることは難しいが、更にもっと難しいのは覚道に遭うことだと言いました。それに遭うのは比較的易しいが、それを実践することは更に難しいのです。動物である私達は(食の為戦い、敵から逃げるなど)動きたく、坐ることは時間の浪費と思い、踏み車の中で走る鼠のように生活し、決してそれから抜け出そうとしません。ブッダが言ったように私達は四十億年の遺伝と新化の業生者、業相続者、業所有者、業依拠者です。こうして業を静めることは難しいのですが、悪業を避け善業に依拠するには実践のみ完成に導くのです。道元は、私達が坐禅をすれば時空全世界と一つになると、言いましたが、これが業を静め涅槃と覚醒を実体験する覚道の核心です。

Chiggala Sutta, 穴経:盲亀浮木の喩:

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.048.than.html

7.金・物・力の為の五禍(錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮)の人工一方向金字塔文明から命・心・和の為の五福(覚醒・自由・平等・友愛・平和)の自然循環命帝網文化への枠組転換を参照ください:

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-WxkuM

8.聖求経:Ariya-pariyesana Sutta:

Text:

https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh198_Horner_The-Noble-Quest–Ariyapariyesana-Sutta.pdf

抜粋訳:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E6%B1%82%E7%B5%8C

.

.

.

.

.

 

 .

.

.

.

.

.

 

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply