Take Refuge in Oneself and Dharma: Two Islands (Refuges): 自らと法に帰依せよ:二洲(二帰依所)

Take refuge in yourself and the Dharma: Two Refuges

 

The Buddha was awakened in the Dharma (Norm/Law/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/truths), Dependent Co-origination, that is, all phenomena are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. This means that all are related and relative, i.e., nothing is separate and absolute.

 

He said, “Take refuge in yourself, not others. Take refuge in the Dharma, not others.” One can take refuge in oneself and must be responsible for oneself. Eventually and essentially, we can take refuge in the Dharma (Universal Truth/Ethic) and must be responsible for it.

 

He achieved his awakening in the Dharma and advised us to take refuge in the Two Refuges of self and Dharma by stilling karma in nirvana and awakening to the Dharma. He showed that one can still the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion by the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.

 

Anyone can attain the five blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace in oneself and with others, individually, socially, and ecologically in the Dharma world, becoming the Dharma body, enjoying limitless life and light, and the four limitlessnesses of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

 

September 29, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

  1. “The Dharma (Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/ truths/ethics)” is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. This means that we are interrelated with other beings (other species, elements, stars, etc.), and relatives to each other, and that we must therefore live together harmoniously and strive to make a wholly wholesome world to become harmonious, health, and happy.

 

  1. Dharma means 1. form (from d-harm: phenomenon) and 2. norm (from d-h-arm: norm: law operating through phenomena: ethic), and 3. the teaching of the law of all phenomena, that is, Dependent Co-origination (originally awakened on the origination of perception/consciousness depending on the sense organs and objects, but later applied to all phenomena, cf. note 1). This law is similar to the law of causality, now used by sciences, but deeper and wider, applied beyond objects – more on subjects and symbols – ideas, etc.).

 

  1. The twelve-limbed Dependent Co-origination (bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra, becoming wheel) is the most well-known representative application of the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, though it is misinterpreted due to its linear presentation by oral tradition and the Hindu idea of transmigration (an embryogenetical interpretation called two causalities in three generations). Actually, it is a compound formed from the Dependent Co-origination of consciousness on sense organs and objects, of suffering on craving, and of samsara (total flow: moment-to-moment change, not like transmigration in Hinduism) on appropriation. It illustrates how our life goes with the five aggregates (originally identifying and analyzing so-called “self,” later “world”), resulting in suffering due to the triple poisons.

 

 

  1. The Indra-net, whose crystal balls on its knots reflect each other mutually and limitlessly in space and time, illustrates the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination well, showing that all phenomena are interdependently co-originated and co-originating among themselves. One (person or thing) is interconnected with others (persons or things) by elements (air, water, light, magnetism, chemicals, particles, sounds, colors, etc.), molecules, microorganisms, communications (words, arts, media, internet, etc.), actions (of viruses, plants, animals, humans, stars, etc.), etc. inside and outside, in space and time limitlessly.

 

  1. Dogen said, “Loving effectively words have the power to turn the heavens.” Words, actions, machines, nukes, the weather, earthquakes, etc., can change the world, planet, etc., and can make ripple effects limitlessly in space and time. Dreams, dictatorships, isms, ideologies, lifestyles, living beings, natural events, etc., can change communities, countries, species, planets, histories, etc., as we observe every day throughout the world.

 

  1. Our outlooks, instincts, insights, actions, attitudes, etc., can change ourselves and others inwardly and outwardly, hierarchically and historically. The triple learnings can change the triple poisons to provide prognoses on our problems. Moralities can make our globe more moral and ethical with the Global Ethic. Concentration can conduce oneself into a good dharma body, mouth, mind and consummate into the cosmic body, Dharma body, in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.

 

  1. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems, requires the global ethic (issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993 with more than seven thousand people from all religions and from all over the world attending), which is based on the Five Precepts (and the fundamental common elements in the Ten Precepts, the Ten Commandments, etc.).
  2. To reunite with the holiness of the limitless ocean of life from being a separated small bubble or foam of ego or group ego is the goal of anyone or a universal religion, where one lives as a true friend in need of all, as expressed in Mitra, Mithra, Metteya, Maitreya, Mazda, Massiah, etc., and who lives in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.

 

  1. A paradigm shift from our artificial, unilateral pyramidal civilization to a natural, cyclical Indra-net life culture for sharing life, heart, and harmony with the five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace) is essential to solve the global problematique. Culture is the cultivation of our potential in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness (cf. sciences, philosophies, arts, and religions).

 

Please refer to the following for more detailed explanation:

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

 

自帰依・法帰依:二洲(二帰依)

 

ブッダは諸法の法、縁起、即ち一切の現象は無限の原因と条件に依存して共生起するということに目覚めた。これは一切は関係し相対的である、即ち、分離し絶対のものは何もないという事を意味する。

 

彼は「自らに帰依し、他に帰依するなかれ。法に帰依し、他にきえすることなかれ」と言った。人は自らに帰依することが出来、自らに責任を負わなければならない。結局、本質的に私達は法(普遍真理・倫理)に帰依することが出来、それに責任を負わなければならない。

 

彼は法に目覚めることを達成し、私達に、涅槃の中に業を静めて法に目覚めて自らと法に帰依するよう忠告しました。かれは戒定慧の三学によって貪瞋痴の三毒を静めることができることを示しました。

 

誰でも法界の中に自己の中に他己と共に、個人的に社会的に、覚醒、自由、平等、友愛と平和の五福を達成し、法身となり無量寿、無量光と慈悲喜捨の四無量を享受することが出来ます。

 

2023共通年9月29日

 

註:

1.「諸法(dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic)の法(Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic)」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在(他種、元素、星など)と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味します。

2.  法(dharma)は 形態(form: d-harmより: 現象:真理)、2.規則(norm: d-h-armより:現象中の規則:倫理)、3.諸法の法、縁起(元来は感覚器官と感覚対象に依る知覚・意識の発生に覚醒したが後に一切現象に適用されたもの。註3参照)。この法則は、現今諸科学に用いられる、因果律と同様であるが、もっと深く広い-客体を越えて主体と観念などの象徴に適用される。

3.  十二支縁起(bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra生成輪、輪廻輪)は縁起の法の適用例の最もよく知られた代表ですが、口碑による線形の表出(三世両重の因果と呼ばれる胎生学的解釈)の為とヒンズー教の輪廻説により誤解されています。実際には感覚器官と感覚対象にって共縁起する意識、割愛による苦、専有(同定:執着)によるサンサーラ(全流:全体刻々変化の意で、ヒンズー教の輪廻ではない)の複合形です。(元来は所謂「自己」後に世界を同定し分析する為の)五蘊と共に、三毒の故に苦に成る私達の生がどのように展開するかを例示したものです。

4.  帝釈網は、その結び目にある水晶の珠が時空中に相互に無限に反映し合うが、一切現象が共に生起し生起させる縁起の法を例示しています。一(人又は物)は(気、水、光、磁力、化学物質、素粒子、音、色等)の要素、分子、微生物、(言葉、芸術、メディア、インターネット等)の通信、(ウィルス、植物、動物、人間、星等)の行動などに依り内外、時空に無限に他(諸人又は諸物)と結びついています。

5.  道元は「愛語よく回天の力あり」と言いました。言葉、行為、機会、核、天候、地震などは世界、惑星等を変え、時空に無限に波及効果を及ぼし得ます。私達が毎日世界中で見ているように、夢、独裁、主義、イデオロギー、生活様式、生物、自然出来事等が諸共同体、諸国家、諸種族、諸惑星、諸歴史等を変え得ます。

6.  私達の見通し、本能、洞察、行動、態度等が私達と諸他者を内的、外的に、階層的、歴史的に変え得ます。三学は三毒を変え私達の諸問題に対する般若(智慧・診断)を提供し得ます。道徳は地球倫理に依り私達の地球をもっと道徳的、倫理的にするように良く働くことが出来ます。集中力は自らを良い(個々の)法身口意にするよう良く働きついには無量寿、無量光、無量解脱(自由)、無量愛の宇宙的身体、(全体的)法身に究竟することが出来ます。

7.  地球問題群は(1993年シカゴで世界中から諸宗教の七千人を超える人々が集まった世界宗教会議により発出された)地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒(と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素)に基づいたものです。

8.  エゴや集団エゴの分離狭小の泡沫あるいは泡群から無限の命の大洋に再結合することは誰もあるいは普遍宗教の目標です、そこでは無量寿、無量光、無量解放、無量愛を生きる友・友情(Mitra, Mithra, Metteya, Maitreya, Mazda, Massiah)で表される一切の必要の時の真の友として生きるのです。

9.  私達の人工的で一方向の金字塔文明から命・心・和の分かち合いによる五福(覚醒、自由、平等、友情、平和)をもつ自然的で循環的な命帝網文化への枠組転換が地球問題群を解決する為には必須です。文化は私達の真善美聖(参考:諸科学、諸哲学、諸芸術、諸宗教)における潜在能力を修養することです。

詳細説明は書きを参照ください:

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

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The above pictures were taken and sent by 

Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka, in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

The Renowned Moon in Mid-Autumn,

Flowers and insects

Lotus

 

上の写真は日本・静岡・下田の大塚卿之さんが

撮影し送ってくれたものです。

中秋の名月

花と昆虫

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