Zen Is Zero State ! 禅はゼロ状態である!

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Zen Is Zero State

 

Meditation (of Ātman: Self) has been identified in the old Upanishads as the Fourth (Catrīya/trīya) State beyond the states of awake, dreaming, and dreamless. Zen meditation, however, is Zero State, beyond these four states that are bound by karma, by stilling karma (the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, and the Two Roots of craving and nescience: no witness of nirvana).

 

Zen meditation stills the triple actions of the body, mouth, and mind bound by karma setting them in the best states. One settles in nirvana, sees the Dharma of all dharmas (Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions), and serves and saves all with the prognosis of the Four Holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways.

 

It facilitates freedom from karmic bondages and freedom of the triple actions of body, mouth, and mind in calm, clear, careful condition. It is full function with all dharmas (forms/phenomena), in the Dharma (norm/ law/ truth) world in Dependent Co-origination. It is the fair and friendly function with all in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness.

 

It endows limitless life, light, liberation, and love for anyone, in any area, and in any era, regardless of age, gender, position, possession, etc., by constant cultivation and verification to attain nirvana/awakening. It frees karma since life started, and the complex causes and conditions beset anyone, in any place, at any time. We’d better work together to attain these.

 

March 15, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

  1. The fourth state is also called Tulya (Balanced).

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya

 

  1. Zen is to attain freedom from karma and freedom of dharma/Dharma in full function, returning to zero (suñña/śūnya), more awakened and wakeful than the wakeful state in karma, to  and reuniting with holiness (wholly wholesomeness) and limitlessness (cf. four limitlessnesses: friendship, compassion, joy, equanimity).

 

3.“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 (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider – beyond conventions, conceptions, objects, etc.). 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.

 

 

禅はゼロ状態

 

古いウパニシャッドでは(アートマン:自我)の瞑想は覚醒、夢眠・熟眠状態を超えた第四状態とされた。禅の瞑想はしかし業に束縛されたこれら四状態を超えて、業(貪・瞋・痴三毒、貪欲・無明:涅槃無確証の二根)を静めたゼロ状態である。

 

禅瞑想は業に束縛された身口意の三業を静めてそれを最善状態にする。人は涅槃に安住し、諸法の法(一切現象は無量の因縁に依り生起するという縁起)を見、四聖諦と八聖道の般若(知恵:処方)で一切に奉仕し救済する。

 

それは業縛から自由にし、静寂・明澄・注意状態にした身口意の三業を自由になるように資する。それは縁起の法(規範・法則・真理)界において諸法と共にある十全な機能である。それは聖(全体健全)なる調和・健康・幸福の中に一切と共なる公正で友愛の機能である。

 

それは常時の修証により涅槃・覚醒を得させて、年齢、性別、地位、所有などに関わりなく誰にもどの地域でもどの時代でも無量寿・光・自由・愛を恵む。それは誰にも時空に拘わらず複雑な因縁に置かれている生命が始まって以来の業から解放する。これらを達成するには共に働く方がより良い。

 

2024共通年3月15日

 

註:

1.第四状態はトゥリヤ(均衡)とも呼ばれる。

参考: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya

2.禅はゼロ(suñña/śūnya:空)に帰り、業にある覚醒状態より更に目覚め覚醒しており、聖(全体健全)と無量(慈悲喜捨の四無量参照)と再結合する十全な活動である。

3.諸法(形態・現象)の法(規則・法則・真理・倫理)は縁起(因縁生起)、即ち、一切現象は無量の直接原因と間接条件により相依生起するということである(因果則に似ているがさらに深く広い-世俗、観念、対象などを超える)。これは私達が他者(多種、要素、星宿など)と相依関係にあることを意味し、相互に相対的であり、私達が調和、健康、幸福になる為には共に調和して生き、全体健全な世界を作る努力をしなければならないことを意味する。

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