Good morning!
Before I came here I watched TV Japan, which was broadcasting predictions for the
Tokyo Gubernatorial Election. It seems that the two no nuke candidates had divided
the no nuke votes and that the candidate supported by the LDP, CGP, and Power
Companies League with its labor unions would win, even with some problems over
his gift giving and party money management. The voter turnout was low at 46%
with a 45-year record snowfall of about a foot. Money might win over life.
The previous premiers Hosokawa and Koizumi were always popular, with their street
speeches attracting gatherings of thousands of people, but they could not raise
enough attention due to media suppression and the last minute start. Another
ex-premier, Kan, published a book today describing the disaster on his duty and
saying that the only safe nuke is no nuke. If the new governor faces the same fate
as his predecessor, the no nuke side will win in the next election.
Without nukes we have the clean Dharma-dhātu, and anyone can enter it by sitting
and stopping karma, like the way one sees one’s own image in a clear mirror.
With nuke spewing radiation, however, there is no more clean Dharma-dhātu,
but only the Defiled-dhātu. We say we “share One World” or “are born in One
Lotus” (Ichiren-takushō: 一蓮托生). Now we must live in the muddy water rather
than be the lotus flower unattached to it.
In response to my request for Tokyoites on my Hitachi friends listserve to vote in
the spirit of the proverbial “no money overnight,” a friend said he wanted to
“live robustly and roll down quickly” (pin-koro) rather than living longer in
sickness knowing “the last jacket has no pockets“and “not leaving beautiful
paddies” to his successor. There is a way to quickly “roll above and live robustly”
(koro-pin), living the Eightfold Great One’s Awakening for the Economy of
Contentment and Dharma based on Eco, not that of Craving and Delusion bound
by Ego.
The Buddha knew that the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness would
destroy the world. He might have known that the poison of radiation can defile the
Dharma-dhātu in millennia or destroy it immediately. That was why he came out
into the world to save it from defilements and destruction. We must become
awakened and attain amrita, ambrosia or immortality, conquering egos and
becoming true conquerors.
2/9/14
Note:
Please refer to 1/26/14 blog post regarding the Eightfold Great One’s Awakening
