Awakening for All: Zazen Value: Truth-Goodness-Beauty-Holiness
We have lies-evils-uglinesses-sins, which collide, corrode, corrupt, and collapse individuals, societies, and environments, with the global problematique and suffering, making the doomsday clock tick to the midnight of catastrophe.
These vices are man-made as the Sino-Japanese letter 偽 (man + action) shows. Human actions (karmas) are imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, poisoning individuals, societies, and ecologies.
Truth-goodness-beauty-holiness are the essential, eternal, universal virtues / values, natural in the natural world. Their integrities are not violated by trickeries by humans, et al. This is called the Dharma world / realm.
Zazen stills human artifices, as the Sino-Japanese letters 不 / 無為 (no + action) show, with no triple poisons and returning to original nature. We must cultivate ourselves in the triple learnings of morality, integration, and prognosis.
January 25, 2025 C.E.
Notes:
- Are there universal standards in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness? It seems that life is the essential, fundamental standard of these values? Living beings find truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness in life affirming things. Even if it seems difficult to define beauty, living beings want to appreciate fresh clean air, water, bright sunrise and sunset, bright warm sunlight, beautiful flowers, tasty fruits, etc. Spirit is related with spirare: to breath, the vital, fundamental function of life, underlying the brain functions of intellection, emotion, and volition. Truth, goodness, beauty may be limited by areas and eras, so need to become holy to become more universal.
- Sitting still (zazen: sitting meditation) makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing the of truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya). Anyone can become like a harmonious, cooperating tree (harmonious with elements, giving oxygen, flowers, fruits, building materials, etc.), and truthful tree (both true and tree have the same etymological root of dhṝ, lasting: ten thousand year old tree found in Africa). (cf. Zen koan of a cypress tree in the garden).
- The solution of the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, poverty, 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. of Buddhism, etc.).The Inter-Action Institute drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (counterpart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) to the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved until now.
- The solution of the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, poverty, 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. of Buddhism, etc.).The Inter-Action Institute drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (counterpart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) to the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved until now.
- 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：
一切の為の覚醒：坐禅 価値：真善美聖
私達は偽悪醜罪を持っており、それらは地球問題群と苦で個人、社会、環境を衝突させ、腐食させ、腐敗させ、破滅させており、世界終末時計を破局の真夜中に向かって時を刻ませている。
これらの悪徳は中国・日本語の偽（人が為す）が示すように人為である。人間の業は貪瞋痴の三毒に浸潤されており、個人、社会、生態を毒する。
真善美聖は本質的、普遍的、永続的徳性・価値であり、自然界では自然のものである。それらの完結性は人間その他による欺瞞に犯されることはない。これは法界・領域と呼ばれる。
坐禅は中国・日本語の不/無為(無業)が示すように、三毒と共に人間の人為（策略）を静め本性に復帰させる。私達は戒定恵の三学で自らを修養しなければならない。
２０２５共通年1月25日
註：
- 真善美聖に普遍的基準があるのであろうか？ これらの価値には生命が本質的、根本的基準がある様に見える。生物は生命肯定的な事柄に真善美聖を見出す。美を定義することは困難の様であるが、生物は新鮮で清浄な空気・水、明るい日昇・日没、明るく暖かい日光、美しい花、美味い果物などを好む。霊（spirit）は生命の生死に関わる根本的機能であり、知情意の脳機能の根底にあるspirare (呼吸する)と関係している。真善美は地域と時代に制限されるかも知れないので、更に普遍的である為に聖（全体健全）になる必要がある。
- 静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にする。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し、法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実人体)になる。だから誰でも、調和協働している樹（一切元素と調和し酸素、花、果、建築材などを提供する）、真実である樹（true/tree両者共法：dharmaの語根 dhṝと同様永続を意味し：一万年生き延びる樹もある）の様に成れる （参考：禅公按：庭前柏樹子）。
- 地球問題群、地球温暖化、大量絶滅、国家主義、戦争、核、ドクサイ、独断、差別、汚染、貧困の様な相互関連した地球諸問題、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宣言）地球倫理を必要とするが、これは（不殺、不盗、不偽、不淫、不飲酒の）五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいている。インターアクション協議会は（世界人権宣言の対応として、その五十周年に発表する様）世界人務宣言の草案を作り国連が発出するように提出したが今に至るも棚上げされたままである。
- 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ある。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ある。
詳細説明は下記を参照：
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