MZC HERE-NOW

 

JOHANNESWEG 2

 

Walking with Sigrid is always very special. She is a Silat instructor (Indonesian martial arts) and during every hike we find time to practice Silat together. We did so before we started our hike. We have also developed a tradition to read poetry at certain places. Most of the time it is John O’Donohue’s book, “Bless the space between us”, containing poetry for every phase of life.

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Typical landscape with “Vierkanthof” (farmhouse with a square court) in the background

We soon arrived at a majestic ruin called “Ruine Prandegg. It was built in the beginning of the 13th century, when the entire area was still wilderness. After several hundreds of years, it lost its function of protecting the population and became a ruin when the roof was removed. Many castles became ruins because of the expensive roof tax which was introduced by the Habsburgs at the end of the 18th century (the taxes were determined according to the size of the roof).

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                       Ruine Prandegg photographed from the Bergfried (tower)

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                                                Information about the castle

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We were in awe seeing the ancient walls and learning about the old ways of life. We started by walking through a medieval herb garden containing flowers and all kinds of poisonous plants. In the Middle ages, they were used for medical purposes but also for magic and everyday life.

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                                               Medieval herb garden

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One of the poisonous plants is the Alraune (mandrake). It is still used for medical purposes.

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                                  The stairway down from the keeper

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                                   View from the keeper with Sigrid waving

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The beauty of the margaritas was enhanced by ancient stone walls

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Windows which are not windows anymore, doorways, cellars, stairs leading to nowhere and the many former levels of the castle – all having lost their purposes and are at the same time so beautiful, embraced by the huge sky and becoming ground for new life.

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After walking around the ruin on wooden walkways and stairs, we had a drink at the former castle dairy, now a restaurant. The smell of the fresh baked bread made in a pizza oven was so delicious, that we bought some for lunch later in the day.

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There was also a museum at the castle, showing many interesting things.

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When a married couple had too many fights, they were punished. Husband and wife had to publicly lay together in a crib, where they were bound together until they stopped fighting.

Soon after we left the castle, we arrived at a powerful rock formation called “Herzogsreitherfelsen”, an ancient place of worship. It provided us with a fantastic view of the surrounding area.

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                                               Narrow ladder to the top

 

Another ancent monument was a moss covered rock with a cutout basin at the top, used for offerings. We climbed up another ladder to see it.

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               One of many “Schalensteine” called shuttering stone in English

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   On the top of the rock, the hand made, chiseled out rock cup used for offerings

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On our way, we could pick strawberries and blueberries

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Sigrid and I are doing the same style of hiking – we want to experience things. A friend suggested this bakery in St. Leonhard, a small village. The pastries were not only big, but very delicious!

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A toilet in the middle of the forest was a big surprise. I have seen toilets like this on my Japanese hikes, but never before in Austria.

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                 A waterfall of different moss, soft and thick like a sponge.

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                                                     A magical forest

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This structure in the middle of the forest is a former “Galgen”, a gallows. The place is called Galgenbuehel. An inscription nearby says that the lord of this area never used it to hang people, but built it to scare them

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We stayed at the hotel Neulinger in Weitersfelden.

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JOHANNESWEG

 

About twelve years ago, a dermatologist from Upper Austria created an 85 km long pilgrimage through a landscape of forests and boulders covered by thick mosses, murmuring creeks, meadows reaching up to the horizon with abundant blooming wildflowers , castles, churches and traditional “Vierkanthoefe” (farmhouses with square courtyards). This pilgrimage meanders like a lily (symbol for light) through the countryside. By constantly hiking up and down hills and low mountains, at the end of the pilgrimage, one has made elevation changes totaling 9000 feet.

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                           Sigrid and I with our bag backs

 

On our way to the starting point of our pilgrimage, we stopped in a village called St. Thomas am Blasenstein. This charming little place is known for a mummy resting in a casket for over 300 years. The mummy is called ” der Gselchte Pfarrer” (smoked priest) and can be publicly seen by just paying two Euros. He died pretty young and his belly was stuffed with small pieces of wood, cloth and other things. His body was probably mummified by sealing it from air. Nobody knows why they wanted to preserve the body. Now, he smiles at every visitor, reminding the viewer of the shortness and preciousness of life.

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                                     Entrance to the crypt

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Franz Xaver, one of 13 children, was born on June 4, 1709. He became a priest and died when he was 37 years old. The reason for his death is unknown. It might have been tuberculosis.

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The first day we only walked about 15 km. I filled my water bottle at the Johannesbrunnen, a well with delicious, fresh water.

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Sigrid walking toward the chapel

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A sign beside the chapel says ” Humor should be a companion in your life. It vitalizes your spirit and enjoys people”. It was the first of twelve wisdom sayings located on different places along our path. Humor and joy were truly our third companion.

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Very typical for the countryside in Austria are those little shrines called Marterl. Most of the time they house a statue of Mary or Jesus.

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The area inside the wooden fence has a vegetable garden. Each farmhouse grows its own vegetables.

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A shrine with Jesus pointing to his burning heart – a very common symbol

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A powerful thunderstorm was approaching when we stood in front of the church dedicated to St. James. It was the right place to take refuge from the rain. When we entered, one man was sitting in the front of the church, praying. He turned around and ask us if we want a ride to our accommodation. With Sigrid not liking to hike in a thunderstorm, it seemed to be a blessing. ” Just wait for 20 minutes” he said, “then I will have finished my “Andacht” (prayer). After 15 minutes, sunlight was suddenly breaking through the windows and the sky was clear again. We did not need his offer, but thanked this kind man. It was the beginning of us meeting many nice and warmhearted people.

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Many churches on our pilgrimage were decorated with birch trees. It is a tradition in this part of Austria to celebrate the Eucharist on a special day called “Fronleichnam”. This day is still an official holiday in Austria. Fronleichnam was special for me as a child because I could wear a white dress, have a wreath in my hair and carry a basket of roses during the procession of the monstrance.

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                                   Walking through the forest

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We arrived at a rock formation called “Herrgottssitz” (throne of God). Since ancient times, this rock was considered as a sacred place. Offerings and rituals were performed on the top. A steal rope was helpful for climbing up.

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                                                              Typical landscape

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I was in awe of the many rock formations with thick moss in many shades of green. This is a truly mystical landscape.

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Large meadows and stone walls overgrown by succulents alternated with forests and rock formations covered by thick moss. It was fascinating to see both vegetations so close together.

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Sigrid and I stayed the first night in a farmhouse similar to the one above. We were the only guests. The lady of the house provided dinner for us because there was no restaurant nearby. The building is typical for this area – white facade imbedded with large rocks.

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Game ragout with noodles, potato croquettes, mixed vegetables and green lettuce – a real treat!

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From Hell Horror to Pure-land Peace!

 

The Buddha realized nirvana (no wind, of karma) and awakened to the Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (form/phenomena), Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. This was prognosticated in the Four Holy Truth, Eight Holy Ways, Twelve-limbed Dependent Co-origination, etc.

 

Our sufferings are originated on the karma (action, habit, heredity) of the triple poisons (desire, divisiveness, and delusion) in samsara (constant flow of birth and death: impermanence). We desire life, comfort, gain, praise, fame, but must die, suffer, lose, be censured, and be defamed. Karma has a long history of struggle for survival and is thus imbued with selfish instinct.

 

No one can escape from suffering and the selfish survival struggle, unless one stills karma with its triple poisons and stops suffering in samsara.  However, anyone can sit still and still (present, past, and future physical, verbal, mental) karma to settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, serve and save all, individually, socially, and environmentally.

 

The concrete way to realize these things is in the Eight Holy Ways (right view, thinking, speech, action, livelihood, mindfulness, striving, concentration). These are summarized in the triple learnings (morality, concentration, prognosis) countering and ceasing the triple poisons. We must apply these in our political, economic, social, and cultural lives.

 

June 28, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

1. The first turning of the Dharma wheel by the Buddha is said to be in the Four holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways, the Twelve-limbed Dependent Co-origination, etc., but these are essentially the same as the application or illustration of the Dependent Co-origination for different audiences on different occasions.
2. Sotōha (Zudongpo) sat alone and prostrated to the Buddha, and instantly composed a verse:

       I bow to the Divinity of the Divinities,

                Whose light at the forehead illuminates the great thousand world,

                Eight winds blow, but it remains unmoved by these winds,

                Sitting upright upon the purple gold lotus.

 

The eight winds are gain, loss, fame, criticism, censure, praise, suffering,               and comfort.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Shi

 

4. We can’t and shouldn’t choose and elect anyone who doesn’t live by the Eight Holy Ways and the Five Precepts (fundamental morality, basis of the Global Ethic) lest they should cause and create problems and sufferings individually, socially, and environmentally.

 

地獄の恐怖から浄土の平和へ‼

 

ブッダは涅槃（無風、業の）と諸法（形態/現象）の法（規則/法則）、縁起、即ち一切の現象は無限の因縁に依り起きることを実現した。これは四聖諦、八聖道、十二支縁起等に(般若：智慧：診断)として示されている。

 

私達の苦は輪廻（生死の常時の流転：無常）における三毒（貪瞋痴）の業（行為、習慣、遺伝）に依り起きる。私達は生命、安穏、利得、褒美、名誉を欲するが、死亡、苦悩、損失、批判、不名誉に逢わなければならない。業は生存競争の長い歴史を持ち、その為利己的本能を備えている。

 

誰も、三毒を持つ業を静め輪廻の苦を止めない限り、苦と利己的生存競争から逃れることはできない。しかしながら、誰でも静かに坐り、（現在・過去・未来の身口意の）業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、個人的、社会的、環境的一切のものに奉仕し救うことが出来る。

 

これらを実現する具体的方法は八聖道（正見・正思・正語・正業・正命・正念・正精進・正定）である。これらは三毒を退治し止める三学（戒定慧）に要約されている。私達はこれらを政治、経済、社会、文化の生活に適用しなければならない。

 

2024共通年6月28日

 

註：

1．ブッダによる初転法輪は四聖諦・八聖道、十二支縁起などと言われているが、これらは異なる聴衆と機会での縁起の応用・例示であり本質的に同じである。

２．蘇東坡は一人坐りブッダに礼拝し、即座に詩を作った：

その智光が大千世界を照らし

八風吹けども不動にして

紫金蓮に端坐しませる

諸聖中の聖者に礼す。

 

…八風とは得失、毀誉、褒貶、苦楽である。

 

３．私達は八聖道と五戒（根本道徳、地球倫理の基礎）に従って生きない、個人的、社会的、環境的に問題と苦しみを起こし作るような誰も選び選出すべきではない。

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Politics Polarizes, Religion Reunites!

 

Siddhattha was legendarily prophesied to become a universal king or a religious leader. King Bimbisara of Magadha offered him military power and financial support. He rejected the power of “punishing rods and swords” and chose truth and goodness.

 

Since city states until nation states, power politics has polarized people and states, now endangering to the point of total annihilation all living beings with wars, nuclear holocaust, ecological destruction, etc. due to karmic sin (separation: selfish sickness).

 

Religion has been reuniting with holiness (wholesome whole), but often falls back to karmic sin (self, state, symbolism, etc.). Karma is a billion years old, since life started, and strong, difficult to see and sever. There is a way to still it and its sinfulness.

 

The Buddha provided us with the way to still karma by sitting and stilling the body and mind in nirvana and awakening in the Dharma (universal truth/goodness). All our problems and sufferings can be stilled in nirvana and awakening, individually, socially, and ecologically.

 

June 15, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes：

1. Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to that in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
2. 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 5). 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.).

 

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.

 

 

政治は分極化し宗教は統一化する！

 

シダッタは伝説では普遍王か宗教指導者になると予言された。マガダのビンビサーラ王は彼に軍事力と資金援助を申し出た。彼は「罰杖と剣」の力を拒否し真理と善を選んだ。

 

都市国家以来国民国家まで権力政治は人々と国々を分極化し、今や業の罪（分離：利己的病患）の故に戦争、核ホロコースト、生態的破壊等で一切生類の完全絶滅の危機の点に至らしめている。

 

宗教は聖（健全な全体）に再統一して来たが、屡々業の罪（我、国、象徴など）に戻り陥った。業は、生命誕生以来、何十億年と長く、強固で、それを見て、断つことは難しい。それとその罪を静める方法はある。

 

ブッダは私達に坐り心身を静めることで業を静め涅槃に入り法（普遍的真理/善）に目覚める方法を提供した。私達の全ての問題と苦は、個人的、社会的、生態的に、涅槃と覚醒の中に静めることができる。

 

2024共通年6月15日

 

註：

1. 業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。
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5参照）。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. 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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There Is Universal Truth and a Solution!

 

Suffering is threefold – individual, social, and environmental. The Buddha was awakened to the universal truth/law of all phenomena, Dependent Co-origination, and to the universal solution for suffering, the Four Holy Truths.

 

The Twelve-limbed Dependent Co-origination explains how individual suffering originates from the Triple Poisons of karma, driven by karma, fundamentally by nescience. The Triple Learnings can solve these.

 

Social suffering originates as the collective of individual karmas and nescience. Our social systems and institutions must be reformed but, fundamentally, individual and social karma must be awakened, cultivated, and reformed.

 

Our ecological suffering is increasingly affected by human karma even to total collapse. The Buddha foresaw this and worked to save all from destruction. We can and must do so as well, cultivating and verifying nirvana/awakening.

 

June 1, 2024 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 (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.

 

2. The four holy truths are that of suffering (duk-kha, wrong-going, going against wishes), cause of it (identified as craving: taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, as drinking seawater), cessation of it (identified as nirvana: no-wind, cf. nivāte padīpa: lamplight in no-wind), and way for it (identified as the eight holy ways).

 

3. 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.

 

Please refer to part 3 of “Why Buddhism Now?” for a detailed explanation with the structural system of the “Becoming Wheel” (bhava cakka/cakra):

 

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4. Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to that in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).

 

5. Nescience (avijjā/avidyā) means no witness of nirvana (no wind, of karma) and the world in it (cf. Latin video) due to our being karma-machines, like a mouse continuously running on a treadwheel, not stopping to sit still, settle in nirvana, and see the Dharma, serving and saving all.

 

6. The Triple Poisons are desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of a self-same, self-sovereign self). The “Triple Only” are only me, only now, and only money (short-sighted views and actions, which make the wider world worse) , which can be cured by the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.

 

7. Religion derives from Latin religare (reunion). Religion is, thus, to reunite with holiness (wholly wholesomeness, cf. Rudolf Otto’s definition of religion as the Holy) from sin (=separation, separated sick, cf. a-sun-der, sundry).

 

8. The solution of the global problematique 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.).
9. 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.
10. 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

 

11. We must abolish a system that allows one or a few to use nuclear bombs to devastate the whole world, even to the point of destroying the total global system, together with the nationalism, nukes, war, dictatorship, discrimination, and dogmatism that make it possible.

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普遍的真理と解決はある‼

 

苦は三重である‐個人的、社会的、そして環境的。ブッダは一切法の普遍的真理/法則、縁起、と苦の普遍的解決、四聖諦、に目覚めた。

 

十二支縁起は個人的苦が業の三毒に由来し、業、根本的には無明、に駆られれることを説明している。三学がこれらを解決する。

 

社会的苦は個人の業と無明の集合として起きる。私達の社会的組織と制度が改革されなければならないが、根本的には、個人的と社会的業に覚醒し、修行し、改革されなければならない。

 

私達の環境的苦は増々人間の業に悪影響を受けており完全な破滅にさえなりかねない。ブッダはこれを予見し、一切を破壊から救うよう活動した。私達は同様に、涅槃/覚醒出来るし、しなければならない。

 

2024共通年6月1日

 

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１．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。

２．四聖諦（catur-ārya-satya/cattāri ariya-saccāni）は苦 (duk-kha, 上手く行かない：不満), その原因 (欲：taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, 字義：海水でも飲む渇愛), その滅 (涅槃: 無風、業の, cf. nivāte padīpa: 無風の灯明), とその道程 (八聖道).　聖（ariya/ārya) は全体健全（全体が健全：調和、健康、幸福）であること。

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る。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ある。

生成輪 (bhava cakka/cakra)の構造的形態の詳細説明については「何故今仏教か？」の３を参照：

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４．業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。

５．無明（無確証: avijjā/avidyā)）は、私達が、鼠が踏み車を踏み続けるように、業機械として止まらず、静坐せず、涅槃に安住せず、法を見ず、一切に奉仕、救済しない為に涅槃（無風、業の）とその中に在る世界を直証（参照：ラテン語video）しないということである。

６．三毒は貪瞋痴（自己同一、自己主宰の我という愚痴）である。三だけは今だけ、金だけで自分だけということであり（短見・短絡行動で、より広い世界を悪化させる）が、戒定慧の三学はこれらを治癒できる。

７．Religion(宗教）はラテン語religare (再結合)に由来する。だから、宗教は罪（sin = 分離、分離病患, cf. a-sun-der, sundry)から聖（holiness = wholly wholesomeness 全体健全、参照 Rudolf Ottoの宗教の定義：the Holy）に再結合することである。

８．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。

９．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ある。

１０．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：

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

１１．私達は一人や少数の人が、国家主義、核、戦争、独裁、佐s別、独断をもって、全世界を破壊し、全地球系を破滅させるに至る極点にも到る核爆弾の使用を可能にするような事を許してはならない。

 

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The triple poisons come from nescience!

 

The Buddha was awakened to the truth of the problem of the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, and of the solution of suffering, strife, and samsara. He found that they come from karma. He taught us to know the Dharma and to practice the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis to solve them.

 

If we know the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination of all phenomena, we see that our suffering comes from desire, like the thirst that causes us to drink sea water when shipwrecked, even if we know that it makes us thirstier. We can apply the four holy truths of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the eight holy ways to solve it.

 

Our divisiveness, anger, fighting, and war come from our ignorance and inaction in solving them. If we know the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination of all phenomena, we can understand that there is no separate, sovereign self from others, and that we must co-exist in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, friendship, and peace.

 

Our samsara (constant change) through the six ways (states) of humans, animals, fighting devils, celestials, hungry ghosts, and hell beings comes from our nescience (no witness) of nirvana (no wind, of karma) due to constant karma kinetics (action, habits, heredity) for food, mates, etc. Nirvana makes us awakened (buddha).

 

May 18, 2024 C.E.

 

Note：

 

 

1. Nescience (avijjā/avidyā) means no witness of nirvana (no wind, of karma) and the world in it (cf. Latin video) due to our being karma-machines, like a mouse continuously running on a treadwheel, not stopping to sit still, settle in nirvana, and see the Dharma, serving and saving all.

 

2. 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 5). 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.).

 

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.

 

4. 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.

 

Please refer to part 3 of “Why Buddhism Now?” for a detailed explanation with the structural system of the “Becoming Wheel” (bhava cakka/cakra):

 

https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/

 

5. The Six Ways (States) of human being, celestial being, animal being, fighting devil, hungry ghost, and hell beings are alegorical states of our mind-world states from moment to moment, not like the Hindu idea of being born to be such after death.
6. The four holy truths are that of suffering (duk-kha, wrong-going, going against wishes), cause of it (identified as craving: taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, as drinking seawater), cessation of it (identified as nirvana: no-wind, cf. nivāte padīpa: lamplight in no-wind), and way for it (identified as the eight holy ways).

 

7. The eight holy (ariya/ārya) ways (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) are right view (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), right thinking (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), right speech (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), right action (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), right livelihood (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), right striving (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), right mindfulness (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), right concentration (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi).

 

三毒は業に由来する！

ブッダは私達の貪瞋痴三毒の問題と苦争輪廻の解決の真理に目覚めた。彼はそれが業に由来することを見出した。彼は私達にそれを解決する為に法を知り三学を実践することを教えた。

 

もし私達が一切現象の縁起（因縁生起）の法（法則：真理）を知れば、私達の苦は、難破して、海の水を飲めばもっと渇くと知りながら、私達に海の水を飲ませる渇きのように、渇愛にゆらいすることが判る。私達は苦、その原因、その停止、それを解決する八聖道の四聖諦を適用できる。

 

私達の分裂、怒り、争い、戦争は私達がそれを解決することの無知、無行動に由来する。もし私達が一切現象の縁起を知れば、他から離れ、主宰となる我は存在せず、私達は聖（全体健全）な調和、友情と平和に共存しなければならないことが理解できる。

 

私達の人間、修羅、動物、天人、餓鬼、地獄の六道（状態）の輪廻（常時変化）は食料や同伴に対する常時の業動態（行動、習慣、遺伝）による涅槃（無風、業の）の無明（無直証）に由来する。涅槃は私達を覚醒（ブッダ）させる。

 

2024共通年5月18日

 

註：

１．無明（無確証: avijjā/avidyā)）は、私達が、鼠が踏み車を踏み続けるように、業機械として止まらず、静坐せず、涅槃に安住せず、法を見ず、一切に奉仕、救済しない為に涅槃（無風、業の）とその中に在る世界を直証（参照：ラテン語video）しないということである。

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5参照）。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．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。

４．十二支縁起（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る。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ある。

５．人、天、畜生、修羅、餓鬼、地獄の六道（境涯：状態）は刻々の私達の心‐境（境涯：心‐世界）の比喩的状態のことで死後に生まれるものヒンドゥー教の考えとは違う。

６．四聖諦（catur-ārya-satya/cattāri ariya-saccāni）は苦 (duk-kha, 上手く行かない：不満), その原因 (欲：taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, 字義：海水でも飲む渇愛), その滅 (涅槃: 無風、業の, cf. nivāte padīpa: 無風の灯明), とその道程 (八聖道).　聖（ariya/ārya) は全体健全（全体が健全：調和、健康、幸福）であること。

７．八聖 道 (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) は正見 (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), 正思 (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), 正語 (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), 正行 (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), 正業 (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), 正精進 (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), 正念 (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), 正定 (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi)。

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1 = ±∞ One Can Create/Cause Limitless Happiness/Suffering!

 

One can create/cause limitless happiness/suffering in oneself/others by one’s cultivation/indolence to awakening/delusion in nirvana (no wind, of karma)/karma to limitless life, light, liberation, and love/death, darkness, bondage, and hatred.

 

One, as karma-born, -heir, -owner, -machine, can remain in indolence to delusion, in bad karma to limitless death, darkness, bondage, and hatred, even causing the total annihilation of all life forms on earth by nuclear holocaust (entire extermination).

 

One, as karma-born, -heir, -owner, -refuged in good karma, can cultivate to awakening in nirvana to limitless life, light, liberation and love, even benefitting all in complete cooperation of all life forms on earth by friendship holiness (whole wholesomeness).

 

One can remain indolent and bound in the three paths/pedlings of delusion-karma-suffering, or can cultivate and verify the three paths/practices of awakening-path-happiness. Anyone can witness the four holy truths and walk on the eight holy paths.

 

May 3, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. Karma is imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to one in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
2. The solution of the global problematique 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.).
3. 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.
4. 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

5. We must abolish a system that allows one or a few to use nuclear bombs to devastate the whole world, even to the point of destroying the total global system, together with the nationalism, nukes, war, dictatorship, discrimination, and dogmatism that make it possible.
6. The four holy truths are those of suffering (duk-kha, wrong-going, going against wishes), the cause of it (identified as craving: taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, as drinking seawater), the cessation of it (identified as nirvana: no-wind, cf. nivāte padīpa: lamplight in no-wind), and the way for it (identified as the eight holy ways).
7. The eight holy (ariya/ārya) ways (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) are right view (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), right thinking (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), right speech (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), right action (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), right livelihood (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), right striving (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), right mindfulness (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), right concentration (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi).

 

1 = ±∞ 人は無限の幸福/苦悩を創造/惹起し得る!

 

人は自ら涅槃（無風、業の）/業において覚醒/迷惑する修行/放逸により無量寿・光・自由・愛/死・暗黒・束縛。憎悪の中に無限の幸福/苦悩を創造/惹起し得る。

 

人は、業‐誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械として、迷惑する放逸に留まり、悪業に留まり無量死・暗黒・束縛。憎悪に向かい、核ホロコースト（全体絶滅）により地上の一切の生命体の完全な破滅さえ起こしうる。

 

人は、業‐誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、善業—依拠者として、覚醒/迷惑する修行/放逸により無量寿・光・自由・愛に向かい、友情の聖（全体健全性）により地上一切生命体の完全な共同により一切に恩恵を与える事さえし得る。

 

人は放逸に留まり、惑業苦の三道/妄動に束縛されることも可能であり、或いは覚道楽の三道/実践に修行し直証を得るいことも可能である。誰でも四聖諦を直証し八聖道を歩むことが出来る。

 

2024共通年5月3日

 

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1. 業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。
2. 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。
3. 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ある。
4. 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：

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

5. 私達は一人や少数の人が、国家主義、核、戦争、独裁、佐s別、独断をもって、全世界を破壊し、全地球系を破滅させるに至る極点にも到る核爆弾の使用を可能にするような事を許してはならない。
6. 四聖諦（catur-ārya-satya/cattāri ariya-saccāni）は苦 (duk-kha, 上手く行かない：不満), その原因 (欲：taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, 字義：海水でも飲む渇愛), その滅 (涅槃: 無風、業の, cf. nivāte padīpa: 無風の灯明), とその道程 (八聖道).　聖（ariya/ārya) は全体健全（全体が健全：調和、健康、幸福）であること。
7. 八聖 道 (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) は正見 (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), 正思 (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), 正語 (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), 正行 (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), 正業 (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), 正精進 (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), 正念 (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), 正定 (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi)。

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0 = ∞　Zeroness Is Boundless Bounty!

 

We are all karma-born and -bound, possessing the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion and living the triple paths (steps) of delusion, karma, and suffering. The delusion of self divides others, desiring others, resulting in suffering (dissatisfaction).

 

We act as karma-machines, driven by karma imbued with the triple poisons in self-survival strife since life started four billion years ago. Karma (action, habit, heredity) continues to reinforce the triple paths in time, space, scale, speed, and synergy.

 

Stilling this process lies in stilling the triple actions of our bodies, mouths, and minds (body, breathing, brain). The Buddha found that through still sitting, karma can be stilled; we can settle in nirvana (no wind, of karma), see the Dharma, and serve and save all from suffering.

 

Sitting meditation (za-zen) is the core practice of it. Zen leads to suññatā / śūnyatā (zeroness, of karma, self, life-death, etc.), which leads to boundless bounty; we can witness the Dharma world, like the Indra-net, in freedom and fulness, the wholly wholesome way and world.

 

April 19, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

1. Earth Day (April 22, 2024 C.E.) is a step closer to eco from ego, Dharma from karma, holiness (wholly wholesomeness) from sin (separated sickness), unity from division, etc. which can open the door to friendship (cf. Friend: Mitra, Mithra, Metteyya, Maitreya, Miroku, Mazda, Massiah, et al) of all, the common ideal of universal religions (cf. Buddhist four limitlessnesses or Brahma-vihāra, pure/supreme-abode of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity/emancipation/letting go: upekhā)
2. The two refuges of self and Dharma are for the self to become Dharma, making oneself into boundless bounty as mentioned “I (Buddha seeing the morning star) with all beings on earth simultaneously attain the Way,” “In (possessing) nothing is (the storage of) the inexhaustible,” “in the falling away of the body and mind, realization of the universal truth,” “the entire world in ten directions in a clear crystal ball,” which is“the storage of light,” “the Buddha body,” “the Dharma body,” “the true human body,” etc.
3. Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego / mei: I / my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth / Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to that in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
4. 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 5). 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.).
5. “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.
6. 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.
7. The life system is in a limitlessly interdependent and interrelated system throughout limitless space and time. If we can acknowledge and activate it, we can function as limitless life, light, liberation, and love, like the crystal balls of the Indra-net, making it holy (wholly wholesome), harmonious, healthy, and happy, calm and clear, collectively and continuously.
8. Za-zen (sitting meditation) orders and stills body, breath, and brain (bodily, verbal, and mental) karmas. The Four Zen Stages illustrate the stilling process of mental (intellectual, emotional, and volitional) karmas, stilling contemplation/investigation, joy, and comfort, resulting in the reaching of equanimity (upekhā/upekṣā, lit. discarding), nirvana.

Please refer to parts 4 (nirvana) and 5 (zen) of “Why Buddhism Now”:

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9. Samādhi is essential to go beyond karma (especially its Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion) and settle in nirvana (by sitting still, stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma/dharmas/Dharma world, and serving and saving all), in which true meditation and its prognosis (paññā/prajñā) can function.
10. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems such as global warming, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nuke, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, prolusion, 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.).

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0 = ∞ 空性は無限の豊驍である!

 

私達は皆、貪瞋痴三毒を所有し、惑業苦の三道（歩）を生きている、業生者、業縛者である。我の愚痴は他を分離し、他を貪り、苦（不満）の結果になる。

 

私達は、生命発生40億年以来、自己生存闘争での三毒の浸潤した業に駆られて、業機械として行動する。業（行動、習慣、遺伝）は時空、規模、速度、相乗効果中に強化され続ける。

 

この過程を静めるのは、身口意（身息脳）三業を静めることにある。仏陀は静坐を通じて業が静まることを発見した；私達は涅槃（無風、業の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し、一切を苦から救うことが出来る。

 

坐禅は禅の核心である。禅は空性（業、我、生死などのゼロであること）に導くが、これは無限の豊驍に導く；私達は自由と十全の中に帝釈網のような法界、全体健全な方法、世界を直証できる。

 

2024共通年4月20日

 

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１．地球日（2024共通年4月22日）はエゴからエコ、業から法、罪（分離病患）から聖（全体健全）、分割から統合などへの一歩接近であるが、これは普遍宗教の共通理想である一切友情（参考：トモ：Mitra, Mithra, Metteyya, Maitreya, Miroku, Mazda, Massiah, et al）への扉を開く（参考：仏教の慈：Maitrī:友情、悲、喜、捨：upekkhā/upekṣā:平静/解脱/放棄の四無量：四梵住：純粋/崇高住）。

２．自洲法洲の二洲は、「（仏陀が明星を見て）我と大地有情同事成道」、「無一物中無尽蔵」、「心身脱落現成公按」、「尽十方一顆明珠」、でありそれが「光明蔵」、「仏身」、「法身」、「真実人身」などであると言われるように自己を無限豊驍にして、自が法に成る為である。

３．業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。

４．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5参照）。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。

５．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。

６．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）と結びついている。

７．私達の生命組織は無限の時空を通じて縁起と関連の組織です。もし私達がそれを認知し実行するなら、私達は、帝釈網の水晶の珠のように、それを集団的に継続的に、聖（全体健全）なる調和、健康、幸福で、静かに明らかに、無限の生命、光明、自由、愛情として機能出来る。

８．坐禅（静坐瞑想）は身体・呼吸・頭脳（身口意）業を整え静止する。四禅は、尋求、伺候、喜悦、安楽を静め平静 (upekhā/upekṣā, 字義は捨離)・涅槃に到達する結果の心的（知性・感情・意欲）業を静止する過程を表示している。

「今何故仏教か？」の４（涅槃）と５（禅）を参照：

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９．定（Samādhi）は業（特にその貪瞋痴の三毒）を超え、（静坐、止業、住涅槃、観法/諸法/法界、一切奉仕・救済し）涅槃に安住するのに必須であり、この中で本当の瞑想とその般若の智慧（paññā/prajñā）が働くことが出来る。

１０．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。

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Flower Festival

 

April 8 is celebrated as the Flower Festival or Buddha’s Birthday, called Bathing Buddha Meeting (灌仏会), in northern Buddhist countries (Vesak in southern Buddhist countries). People gather to bathe the baby Buddha with sweet tea to celebrate him as the future awakening being (bodhisattva) and the awakened one (buddha) to save all from suffering.

 

Siddhatta Gotama saw the suffering of aging, sickness, and death and strove to solve it by sitting still (za-zen), settling in nirvana (no wind, of karma), seeing the Dharma (Law of Dependent Co-origination), and serving and saving all. He found that our suffering comes from our karma, imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion.

 

He found the solution in stilling karma (of the body, mouth, and mind), reaching nirvana and awakening in the Dharma. He practiced zazen as the fundamental practice to attain nirvana / awakening / prognosis and advised that all attain the same. He devoted his whole life to sharing his awakened way with all to become awakened and to save all from the destruction of the world.

 

He foresaw the destruction of the world and prognosticated the triple learnings, the four holy truths, the eight holy ways, etc., as practical ways for all to become awakened (buddha) and strive as bodhisattvas to save themselves and the world in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness. As the doomsday clock is ticking to zero, we all must practice these ways of all and for all.

 

April 5, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

1. Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to one in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).

2. Zazen (still sitting meditation) stills karma (of the body, mouth, and mind), removing the five coverings of lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worry, and doubt, the four defilements of lust, becoming, view, and nescience, stilling intellection, emotion, and volition to reach zero (emptiness, emancipation, neutral, no-thingness, nirvana) state, where one for the first time wakes up from the long night of nescience (no witness, of nirvana) to see the selfless truth/ethic (Dharma/dharma). It un-conditions our karma and reconditions our new actions to function freely and fully with all. It orders the body, breathing, and brain into the best condition, becoming holy (wholly wholesome: all – self/other healthy), harmonious, healthy, and happy.

3. Nirvana means no wind (of karma imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion), where one can for the first time witness the Dharma world and become awakened from the long night of nescience to the Dharma of all dharmas in calm, clear, controlled, and careful conditions, then prognosticate problems and sufferings in the Four Holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways.

4. 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 5). 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.).

5. “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, healthy, and happy.

6. The practice of zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation), the key and core practice of za-zen, sitting meditation, is to still karma, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, and serve and save all. This process is categorized in the Four Zen Stages and the Eight Concentration (samādhi) Stages (actually Four Zen Stages plus Four Concentration Stages combined, going together).

7. The Triple Poisons are desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of a self-same, self-sovereign self). The “Triple Only” are only me, only now, and only money (short-sighted views and actions, which make the wider world worse), which can be cured by the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.

8. The four holy truths are those of suffering (duk-kha, wrong-going, going against wishes), the cause of it (identified as craving: taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, as drinking seawater), the cessation of it (identified as nirvana: no-wind, cf. nivāte padīpa: lamplight in no-wind), and the way for it (identified as the eight holy ways).

9. The eight holy (ariya/ārya) ways (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) are right view (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), right thinking (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), right speech (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), right action (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), right livelihood (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), right striving (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), right mindfulness (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), and right concentration (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi).

 

花祭り

 

四月八日は北方仏教諸国では花祭り即ち灌仏会と呼ばれる仏誕生日南方仏教諸国ではヴェーサック）として祝われている。人々は集まって彼を一切を苦から救う将来の菩薩、仏として祝う為に赤子の仏陀に甘茶をかける。

 

シダッタ・ゴータマは老病死の苦を見て静坐（坐禅）し、涅槃（無風、業の）に安住し、法（縁起の法）を見、一切に奉仕し救う事で解決する為に精進した。彼は私達の苦は貪瞋痴の三毒を持つ業から来ることを見出した。

 

彼は世界の破滅を予見して、一切が聖（全体健全）なる調和、健康、幸福に目覚め（buddha）、菩薩として精進するように三学、四聖諦、八聖道などを実際的方法として処方した。世界終末時計がゼロ秒に向かって時を刻んでいる時に、私達皆が皆の皆の為のこれらの方法を実践しなければならない。

 

2024共通年4月6日

 

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１．業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。

２．坐禅（静坐瞑想）は（身口意の）業を静め、貪欲・欲求、吝嗇・悪意、怠惰・眠気、動揺・心配、疑念の五蓋、貪欲、同定、見解、無明の四漏を除き、観念、感情、意志を静めてゼロ（空、解脱、中立、無、涅槃）状態に達するが、そこで初めて無明（無経験、涅槃の）長夜から目覚めて、無私のDharma/dharma（法則・現象:倫理・真理)を見る。それは業の束縛を離れ、一切と自由・十全に機能する新しい行為に再構成する。それは身体・呼吸・頭脳を最善状態にして聖（全体健全：全部―自他共に健全）な調和、健康、幸福にするように整える。

３．涅槃は（貪瞋痴で染汚した業の）無風を意味するが、そこで人は静謐・明澄・統制・注意状態で法界を直証し諸法の法に初めて無明長夜から目覚めて、問題と苦に対する四聖諦、八聖道で般若（の知恵：処方）を得る。

４．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5参照）。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。

５．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。

６．禅（jhāna/dhyāna: 瞑想)、鍵となり核となる坐禅の実践、は業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。この過程は四禅と八定（samādhi）である（実際には四禅と四定は一緒で結合している）。

７．三毒は貪瞋痴（自己同一、自己主宰の我という愚痴）である。三だけは今だけ、金だけで自分だけということであり（短見・短絡行動で、より広い世界を悪化させる）が、戒定慧の三学はこれらを治癒できる。

８．四聖諦（catur-ārya-satya/cattāri ariya-saccāni）は苦 (duk-kha, 上手く行かない：不満), その原因 (欲：taṅhā/tṛṣṇā, 字義：海水でも飲む渇愛), その滅 (涅槃: 無風、業の, cf. nivāte padīpa: 無風の灯明), とその道程 (八聖道).　聖（ariya/ārya) は全体健全（全体が健全：調和、健康、幸福）であること。

９．八聖 道 (ariya-aṭṭhaṅgika-magga/ ārya-aṣṭāṅga-mārga) は正見 (sammā‑diṭṭhi/ samyag-dṛṣṭi), 正思 (sammā-saṅkappa/ samyak-saṃkalpa), 正語 (sammā-vācā/ samyag-vāc), 正行 (sammā-kammanta/ samyak-karmānta), 正業 (sammā-ājīva/ samyag-ājīva), 正精進 (sammā-vāyāma/ samyag-vyāyāma), 正念 (sammā-sati/ samyak-smṛti), 正定 (sammā-samādhi/ samyak-samādhi)。

 

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Flower Festival decoration at Zuioji, Niihama, Shikoku, Japan

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Baby Buddha and sweet tea

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Steps to Zuioji Entrance

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Zuioji Entrance and the Great Bell Tower above it

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Millions of cherry blossom petals in the Dragon Pond in front of the Entrance

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Zuioji Hatto (Dharma Hall)

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Zuioji Front Garden viewong the Entrance and Corridors

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(Above pictures were taken by Garyo, who stayed there eight years ago except the 2nd one)

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Equinox Is Equanimity, Nirvana

 

Equinox (equal in day and night, chill and heat) is celebrated as equanimity, nirvana, called higan, yonder shore, in Japan, with offerings of rice cakes to deceased ancestors, and with practice of the Six Paramitas, Perfections, of donation, morality, patience, striving, concentration, and prognosis over six days, three days before and after it.

 

Nirvana is no wind of karma (cf. stock phrase of nivāte padīpa, lamp-light in no wind, illuminating the world in a calm and clear state), renouncing the karma that tosses us up and down, merging into the Dharma world, witnessing the Dharma (Norm) of all dharmas (forms) in a calm, clear, controlled, careful state.

 

It is the Four Limitlessnesses, or Brahma (Supreme/Pure)-abodes, of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity, i.e., limitless love, light, liberation, and life and holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, happiness, and home. Equanimity in the original is upekhā, renunciation or throwing away of all.

 

Nirvana is described in many ways: the falling away of body and mind, the pail bottom broken away, shedding (snake) skin, the genuine human body, a clear crystal ball, the entire world in ten directions as a clear crystal ball, the Pure-land, the Dharma body, amata/amṛta (ambrosia, lit. immortality), the eight Nos, a hundred negations, etc.

 

March 21, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. Dharma means 1. form (from d-harm: phenomenon), 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 their objects, but later applied to all phenomena, cf. note 5). 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.).

 

2. “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 become harmonious, healthy, and happy.

 

3. Samādhi is essential to go beyond karma (especially its Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion) and settle in nirvana (by sitting still, stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma/dharmas/Dharma world, and serving and saving all), in which true meditation and its prognosis (paññā/prajñā) can function.

 

4. Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to one in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).

 

5. Nescience (avijjā/avidyā) means no witness of nirvana (no wind, of karma) and the world in it (cf. Latin video) due to our being karma-machines, like a mouse continuously running on a treadwheel, not stopping to sit still, settle in nirvana, and see the Dharma, serving and saving all.

 

6. Nirvana means no wind (of karma imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion), where one can for the first time witness the Dharma world and become awakened from the long night of nescience to the Dharma of all dharmas in calm, clear, controlled, and careful conditions, then prognosticate problems and sufferings in the Four Holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways.

 

 

彼岸は平静、涅槃

 

彼岸（昼夜、寒暖の均等）は日本では彼岸と呼ばれて平静、涅槃として祝われ亡くなった先祖へ牡丹餅・お萩をそなえ、その前後六日間は布施、戒律、忍辱、精進、禅定、般若（知恵：処方）の六波羅蜜を実践します。

 

涅槃（nir-vāṇa）は業の無風（ni=vāte padīpa：無風の灯火が平穏で明澄な状態で世界を照らすという常套句を参照）で、私達を上下に動揺させる業を放棄し、平穏、明澄、統御、注意の状態で法界に円融し、諸法の法を直証します。

 

それは慈・悲・喜・捨（放棄）の四無量あるいは四梵（至高・清浄）住、即ち無量愛、無量光、無量自由、無量寿であり、聖（全体健全）な調和、健康、幸福、家庭です。平静の原語はupekhāで一切を放棄・捨離することです。

 

涅槃は多くの方法で表現されています：心身脱落、打破漆桶底、脱（蛇）皮（蝉脱）、真実人体、一顆明珠、尽十方界一顆明珠、浄土、法身、甘露（amata/amṛta：ambrosia神饌、字義は不死）、八不、百非など。

 

2024共通年3月21日

 

註：

１．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5参照）。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。

２．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。

３．業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。

４．定（Samādhi）は業（特にその貪瞋痴の三毒）を超え、（静坐、止業、住涅槃、観法/諸法/法界、一切奉仕・救済し）涅槃に安住するのに必須であり、この中で本当の瞑想とその般若の智慧（paññā/prajñā）が働くことが出来る。

５．無明（無確証: avijjā/avidyā)）は、私達が、鼠が踏み車を踏み続けるように、業機械として止まらず、静坐せず、涅槃に安住せず、法を見ず、一切に奉仕、救済しない為に涅槃（無風、業の）とその中に在る世界を直証（参照：ラテン語video）しないということである。

６．涅槃は（貪瞋痴で染汚した業の）無風を意味するが、そこで人は静謐・明澄・統制・注意状態で法界を直証し諸法の法に初めて無明長夜から目覚めて、問題と苦に対する四聖諦、八聖道で般若（の知恵：処方）を得る。

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