MZC HERE-NOW

“Truth only wins (satyam eve jayate)” with the Ashokan Dharma
Wheel is the Indian national emblem. Satya is made up with sat
(is, being) plus ya (suffix making abstract noun). Buddhists use
Dharma (from the root dhrî, holding, holding all phenomena),
because satya sounds static substance.

When the Buddha at his last bed was asked by Subaddha about
the true religious leader, he said, “I walked only on the Dharma
and the true way (naya: leading, eye, reasoning, morality, cf.
vi-naya, discipline). There is no other than the one who strives
in the way.”

Unless a blind turtle getting off its head from the floating log and
opening its eyes, it can’t see the vast sky and the great ocean and
swim free and full – humans with karma are like born blinds
groping a huge elephant, guessing, fighting for their limited views
or following other blind people.

We live on the earth at a corner of the solar galaxy in the
unlimited universe with billions of similar galaxies since
the big bang 150 billion years ago. In the cosmic calendar
the Buddha’s time was five seconds ago, thus almost
simultaneous for our awakening with other beings.

Anyone is a foam in the great ocean or a spec in the great

universe, appearing and disapearing instantly in this

limitless truth universe.

Dogen said to put our lives into the house of the Buddhas.
When we put our lives into the Dharma world, great ocean
of truth, being, holding life, etc., we attain the Dharma
bodies. We call one universal truth in different names like
Dharma, Dao (Way), Deva (God), Dei (God), etc.

The last picture in Garyo’s travelog I forwarded to our
listserv is the stupa of Amida (Amita-âyus: Limitless Life,
Amita-âbha: Limitless Light) Buddha. Namu-Amidabutsu,
Namo- Amita-âyus/ âbha Buddhâya, means “I dedicate
my life to Amida Buddha.”

Please dedicate your life to the limitless life, light,
liberation, and love!

Thank you!

「真理のみが勝つ（सत्यमेव जयते）」とアショーカ王の
法輪が描かれたものがインドの国章です。
サティヤ（Satya）は、サット（Sat：「ある」「存在」）と、
抽象名詞を作る接尾辞ヤ（ya）から成り立っています。
仏教では「サティヤ」という言葉が静的実体を示すように
聞こえるため、「ダルマ（Dharma）」を用います
（語源は dhrî：「保持する」、すべての現象を保持するもの）。

仏陀が臨終の床において、スバッダから真の宗教指導者に
ついて尋ねられた際、次のように答えました。
「私はただダルマと真の道（ナヤ：導く、眼、理性、道徳、
修養、cf. ヴィナヤ：律：悪を離れ善に導く）を歩んできた。

他に道の精進者はいない。」

盲亀が偶然、浮かぶ丸太の穴に頭を突っ込んだ（という人間
に生まれることの稀有の例えで）、丸太を外し目を開けなければ、
広大な空や大海原を見ることも、自由に泳ぐこともできません。

 

人間もまた、カルマに縛られた盲人のようなものです。
巨大な象を手探りしながら、自らの限られた視野で推測し、
争い、他の盲人に従っているのです。

私たちは、ビッグバンから150億年の時を経た無限の宇宙の
中で、何十億もの銀河と同じように存在する太陽系の片隅の
地球に生きています。宇宙カレンダー（ビッグバンから今日
までの出来事を一年のカレンダーに収めたもの）において、
仏陀の時代はわずか5秒前のことに過ぎず、私たちが他の存在
と共に覚醒するのも、ほぼ同時と言えます。誰でも大海の

泡沫や大宇宙の塵のようで、その無限の真理宇宙の中で瞬時

に消滅するのです。

道元禅師は「ただわが身をも心をも放ち忘れて、仏の家に

投げ入れて」と説きました。
私たちが己の命を法界、大いなる真理の海、存在の海、生命
の海へと投じるとき、私たちは法身を得ます。
私たちは一つの普遍的真理を、ダルマ、道（ダオ）、天

（デーヴァ、デイ：神）など異なる名で呼んでいるのです。

私がリストサーブに転送した Garyo の旅行記の最後の
写真は、阿弥陀（アミターユス＝無量寿、アミターバ
＝無量光）仏のストゥーパです。「南無阿弥陀仏
（Namu-Amidabutsu）」「ナモー・アミターユス／
アミターバ・ブッダーヤ（Namo-Amita-âyus/ âbha
Buddhâya）」とは、「南無阿弥陀仏（私は阿弥陀仏に
己が命を捧げます」という意味です。

どうか、あなたの命を無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛
へと献身してください！

有難うございます！

 

Friendship, 2

 

After staying in Phoenix, we traveled up north heading towards the Grand Canyon. I was not in top shape. Several days before the arrival of my friends, I had an outbreak of shingles and had to take strong medicine. The loving care of my friends helped me not to be bothered by it too much.

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Every morning, we formed a talking circle and voiced what was in our minds. We did Silat exercises together. Sigrid, as a Silat martial arts trainer, showed us how to do it. We also meditated and read poetry. At the end of the day, Silvia massaged my feet. Her hands did miracles. The intimate relationship between us and the beauty of the landscape also helped me to heal very fast.

On the way to Sedona, we stopped at Arcosanti. It is a desert town envisioned by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri. He started the project in the year 1970. His goal was to combine architecture and ecology and create a sustainable urban environment. He envisioned a town without cars and wanted to create the best conditions for social interactions. It is still a school for architecture and influenced many architects and designers who studied and worked with him. Unfortunately, visitors were not allowed the day we came. Without getting a tour, we admired the bells and wind chimes in the shop.

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The main funding for this project comes from handcrafted bells and wind chimes made out of bronze or clay. Over the years, I have bought several. I love the organic textures and the design motifs. Each bell is “original”.

Not far from Arcosanti, in the Verde Valley, is the natural limestone sinkhole Montezuma Well. A huge amount of water emerges each day from this spring, even during droughts. No fish can live in this water. It is highly carbonated and contains a high level of arsenic. The water was even used in prehistoric times. Ditches of the ancient irrigation systems can still be seen today.

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Montezuma Well

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The walkway down is a true oasis of green, light and shade. it is a favorite place for birds.

Our first overnight stay was in the Red Agave Resort in Oak Creek. I come to this place every year. It is located outside of Sedona and faces the nature and Bell Rock. It is a magical place.

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Chalets at the Red Agave Resort

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Breakfast in front of the Chalet with the view to Bell Rock and Courthouse Rock

Sedona is very special. The bizarre formations of the red rocks are remarkable. I was so happy that I was able to show my friends my favorite hikes.

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The first hike was beside Oak Creek behind Cathedral Rock.

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Embraced by the powerful roots of the tree, we enjoyed the peace of this place.

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Every time when I am in Sedona, I climb up Cathedral Rock.

Cathedral Rock faces the Chapel of the Holy Cross. For years, Silvia wanted to see it. She was so happy that she finally was able to visit it.

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Chapel of the Holy Cross, a building in total harmony with the surroundings.

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There seemed to be no inside or outside in the Chapel anymore, just space. For a long time, we were sitting in silence. After a while, we started to sing one of our favorite songs from the 8th century:

Ubi caritas et amor

Ubi caritas, deus ibi est

(Where charity and love are, where charity is, there is God). We often were singing songs on our journey – a very bonding activity. We sang the melody very quietly. Nevertheless, after we had finished, a lady behind us thanked us.

We also hiked on the Oak Creek Canyon Trail. I loved to hike this trail with my kids when they were small. The path starts at a former apple orchard and follows the creek.

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High pine trees grow in the valley between steep rocks

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Several times we had to take off our shoes and cross to the other side of the creek

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It is always good to take a rest. It is especially nice on a warm, smooth rock beside rushing water in the warm sun.

We also hiked the Boynton Canyon trail, a hike of about 7 miles in and out of the canyon. The trail winds by gorgeous red rocks, passes an ancient Indian rock dwelling and leads through an old, established forest. I also wanted to show my friends a cave off the trail. A secret cave. It is off the well marked path and hard to find.

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Hiking to the cave

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It is tricky to climb up the steep slope. But one is rewarded with this spectacular view.

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Another cave like structure…..

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Before leaving Sedona, we also visited the Peace Park.

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Amitabha Stupa (Infinitive Light) with Tibetan prayer flags and a big statue of a meditating Buddha in the background. It matches the vertical, red rock on the top of the mountain. T

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Friendship

 

Two years ago, two of my good Austrian friends came for a visit to Phoenix, Arizona. I planned to show them some of my favorite places. We never before did things together as a group. It became a precious time of friendship and connection. The bond and connection was not only with each other but also with the land we visited.

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Silvia, Sigrid and my husband, David, on our porch in the back yard

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Although I made the overall plan for the visit, we structured our daily activities as a group. One of our group activities was preparing simple and very delicious meals, when circumstances allowed it.

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We all love vegetarian meals.

All three loved to hike, but have different levels of fitness. This was not a problem. Our first hike was a trail near my house in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. We hiked only as far as the group managed. On this hike, there was a funny incident. Another hiker saw a rattlesnake near the path. To be bitten by a rattlesnake was Silvia’s biggest fear. I had to convince her that rattlesnakes want to be out of sight of humans. Her fear was understandable. When I first came to Arizona, I was very anxious when my sons hiked up the hill behind our house. I also thought that rattlesnakes would wait for them behind every rock.

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Evening hike on the foothills of Piestewa Peak

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We did not meet a rattlesnake, but a little beetle crawling across the path.

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One of the very special things in Phoenix is the sunrise ritual on Piestewa Peak. Every morning, in chilly or very hot weather, Ken Koshio carries up his heavy Taiko drum. He greets the rising sun with powerful beats and ancient songs.

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Ken Koshio and his drum.

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Sunrise near my secret rock chapel

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We lit three candles for peace and harmony in the group and peace in the world. Whenever I hike up Piestewa Peak, I light a candle.

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Sigrid and I already had many hikes together.

We also visited the Botanical Garden in Phoenix. April was the perfect time. Nearly every cactus was blooming.

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Glass art at the entrance to the Botanical Garden

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The yellow blooming Creosote bush grows in the Sonoran desert just about everywhere. After a rain, the desert is full of its earthy and sweet smell.

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Butterflies, bees, birds, rabbits – the Botanical garden has many visitors.

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We also visited the Phoenix art museum. My favorite piece of art there is an installation by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It is called Fireflies Infinity Mirror Room. It is a room where you can experience infinite connection and beauty.

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Photo from the Website of the Phoenix Art Museum

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Another art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She used burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.

Another art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She uAnother art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She used burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.sed burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.

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 Silvia and Sigrid in front of the installation by Cornelia Parker

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We also hiked in the Superstition Mountain Wilderness located one hour drive southeast of Phoenix. Not far away is one of the four desert lakes, built at the beginning of the last century. It was created as a flood control and also used as a water reservoir for the greater Phoenix area.

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We rested at the shore of Canyon Lake and enjoyed the views.

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After spending a relaxing time at the water, we visited the Goldfield ghost town near Superstition Mountains. It was a gold mining town in the 19th century. It had three saloons, a general store, a hotel, a meat market, a school, post office and a jail. When the mine was no longer profitable, the town was abandoned. It was later revived as a tourist attraction and has a very authentic feeling.

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Goldfield with the Superstition mountains in the background

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It is fun to walk through this ghost town and feel the energy of the Wild West.

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One of the many old machines and vehicles once used for mining. A short train ride takes you around the area. When my grandchildren were still small, I loved to go with them to this place. We went on a train ride and ate ice cream afterwards.

We also drove to the shore of Salt river. Wild horses live there. They come to drink water and bathe.

We did not meet wild horses but experienced a beautiful sunrise.

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Sunrise at the banks of Salt River

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Water is very precious in the desert. When I lived in Phoenix during the summer, we sometimes went to the river and floated down on a tube. It is a popular activity in the heat.

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This trees reminded me of the trees in the Amazon jungles. They seem to walk. Major floods washed away the soil around the roots. But the tree is still holding on – very impressive!

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Awakening for All: Zazen Ultimate: Free Full Function

 

The doomsday clock is ticking with the individual, social, and environmental problems of inevitable birth, aging, sickness, and death: urgent dictatorship, war, nuke, species mass extinction, ecological devastation, environmental destruction, etc. Human problems are now the global problems leading to doomsday.

 

The Buddha, the greatest and happiest person in history according to AI, said that our problems are due to the two roots of craving and nescience. Homo sapiens, intelligent man, is not wise now, but like a hungry ghost, fighting devil, hell being, etc., with self-conceit, social corruption, and ecological collapse.

 

Dogen said, “Hand off, hand full!” Discarding the karma of the two roots let us function free and full of and with all. Anyone can sit still, stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma, savoring ambrosia of immortality in limitless life, light, liberation, love, solving suffering, serving and saving all.

 

The paths are seeing the Dharma and cultivating in the triple learnings of morality, samadhi, and prognosis. We must observe the global ethic based on the five/ten precepts and ten commandments. We must shift from a pyramidal civilization to a life Indra-net culture for friendship, freedom, equality, etc.

 

March 1, 2025 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. We must solve the most urgent intertwined problem of dictatorship, war, nuke, and nationalism that will lead to nuclear holocaust. For this we must be awakened to the universal truth of the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination (all related/relative) and ethic and act in global solidarity as one life family beyond selfishness (self, status, states, species, symbolism) to avoid catastrophe.
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 to become harmonious, healthy, and happy.
3. Karma (grow/create with the past/present physical/verbal/mental action, habit, heredity) 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. The practice of Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation), the key and core practice of za-zen, sitting meditation, is to still karma, settle in nirvana (nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma), 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). As shown in the Four Zen Stages thoughts, emotions (the representative five coverings: lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worries, doubts), and volitions (the representative four fluxes: lust, becoming/identification, views/dogmas, nescience/no witness, of nirvana) are stilled in this order.

Please refer to 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

5. The solution to the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, and 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 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) for the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved for the time being. https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
6. 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-

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅　究極：自由で十全な働き

 

世界終末時計は、避けられない生老病死、独裁、戦争、核、呪の大量絶滅、生態系崩壊、環境破壊などの緊急の個人、社会、環境の諸問題を抱えて刻々に時を刻んでいる。人間の諸問題が今や終末に向かって地球の諸問題となっている。

 

人工頭脳によれば最も偉大で幸福な人である仏陀は、諸問題は渇愛と無明の二根によると言った。ホモ・サピエンス、知的人間、は自惚れ、社会腐敗、と生態系崩壊で餓鬼、修羅、地獄住人などのようになり、賢明ではない。

 

道元は「放てば手に満てり」と言った。二根を持つ業を放擲することは私達を皆一切と共に自由で完全に活動させる。誰でも静かに坐わり、業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛の中に不死の神饌である甘露を味わい、苦を解き、一切に奉仕し救済できる。

 

その方途は法を見、戒定慧の三学を修行することである。私達は五/十戒や十戒に基づいた地球倫理を守らなければならない。私達は友情、自由、平等などのために金字塔文明から命帝網文化に転換しなければならない。

 

註：

1. 私達は核ホロコーストに導く最も緊急で結合した問題独裁、戦争、核、国家主義を解決しなければならない。この為に私達は（一切が相依・相対である

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（karma, grow/create: 過去現在の身口意行動・習慣・遺伝）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。

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

 

４． 鍵となる静坐の実践は業を静め、涅槃（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, 無風、業風の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。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：

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

5. 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。

6．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-Wxk

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Awakening for All: Zazen Now: Dwell in Dharma

 

We are now facing the urgent problems of dictatorship, war, and nuclear holocaust, leading to social disorder, environmental devastation, and global doom among the global problematique of individual suffering, social injustice, ecological degradation, biological decimation, climate change, etc.

 

This is due to our ignorance and inaction in the universal truth of dependent co-origination, interrelation and relativity of all things, which requires equality, peace, freedom, and friendship. Ignorance comes from selfish views and values, which come from fundamental nescience (no witness, of nirvana / karma).

 

The solution lies in stilling karma, esp. of the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of self). Still sitting stills karma (action, habit, heredity), seeing the universal Dharma (truth / ethic), settling and serving it with all (dharmas) and observing the global ethic based on the five precepts.

 

The paths are observing the Dharma and cultivating ourselves and others in it to create a new global system and ethic with holy harmony, health, and happiness of all. We must awaken and act for a new Indra-net culture of life, heart, and harmony, beyond a power pyramidal civilization of money, matter, and might.

 

February 22, 2025 C.E.

 

Notes:

 

1.  All (dharmas) live in the universal truth (Dharma), but humans created symbolic systems like self, society, status, sovereign, state, etc. (see Ernst Cassirer’s An Essay on Man, The Myth of the State, etc.). Depending on the delusion of self-substance, sovereign state, etc., we now have the problems of dictatorship, war, nuclear holocaust problems, etc. We must be awakened from such delusions and act to solve these problems so that all can live in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness.

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 to become harmonious, healthy, and happy.

 

3.  Ernst Cassirer defined humans as homo symbolicum in his Philosophy of Symbolism, its summary An Essay on Man, where humans are described as skillful in handling the symbolisms of language, myth, religion, art, science, history, etc. The Myth of the State is an important work that to shows how states operate and how people are misled to wars and even nuclear demise.

4.  Karma (grow/create with the past/present physical/verbal/mental action, habit, heredity) 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.  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, and who lives in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.

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 (nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma, 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).  As shown in the Four Zen Stages thoughts, emotions (the representative five coverings: lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worries, doubts), and volitions (the representative four fluxes: lust, becoming/identification, views/dogmas, nescience/no witness, of nirvana) are stilled in this order.

Please refer to 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

7.  The solution to the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, and 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 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) for the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved for the time being.

8.  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-

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅　今：住法

今私達は個人の苦、社会の不公正、生態の劣化、生命の貧弱化、気候変動などの地球問題群の中で、社会的無秩序、環境的破壊、地球的破滅に導く独裁、戦争、核ホロコーストの緊急の問題に直面している。

 

これは私達の縁起、即ち一切事象の相関、相対は平等、平和、自由、友愛を要求するという、普遍法の無知と無行動に由来している。無知は自己中心的観点と価値から来るが、根本的な無明（無覚証、涅槃/業の）。

 

その解決は業、特に貪瞋痴（我の）の三毒、を静めることにある。静坐は業（行為、習慣、遺伝）を静め、普遍法（真理/倫理）を見、五戒に基盤を置く地球倫理を守るように、そこに安住し一切（法：事物に）奉仕する。

 

その道は法を守りそこに私達と他者を修行して一切の聖なる調和、健康、幸福のある新しい地球体系と倫理を創造することである。私達は金、物、力の権力金字塔文明を超える命、心、和の新しい生命帝釈網文化のために覚醒し活動しなければならない。

 

2025共通年２月２２日

 

註

１．一切（法）は普遍真理（法）の中に生きているが、人間は自我、社会、地位、国家などの象徴組織を創造した（エルンスト・カッシラーの「人間」「国家の神話」など参照）。自己物質、主権国家などの迷妄に依り私達は今独裁制、戦争、核ホロコースト問題などを持っている。私達は、一切が聖（全体健全）な調和、健康、幸福に生きることが出来るように、そのような迷妄から覚醒し、これらの問題を解決するよう行動しなければならない。

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.  エルンスト・カッシラーは人間を言語、神話、宗教、芸術、科学、歴史などの象徴を巧く操るものであるとする「象徴の哲学」やその要約である「人間」等で「象徴人間」と定義しました。「国家の神話」は諸国家がどのように機能するかそしてどのように人々が戦争やさらには核の破滅に誤り導かれるかを知るのに重要である。

4.  エゴやエゴ集団の小さく分離した泡沫から無限の生命の大会の聖性に再結合するのは誰でもの又普遍宗教の目標であるが、 Mitra, Mithra, Metteya, Maitreya, Mazda, Massiah, etc（友を意味する）で表されるように、一切の必要の時の友は真の友として生きることであり、無量寿、無量光、無量解（脱：解放）、無量愛を生きるものである。

5.  鍵となる静坐の実践は業を静め、涅槃（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, 無風、業風の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。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：

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

6.  業（karma, grow/create: 過去現在の身口意行動・習慣・遺伝）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。

7.  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。

8.  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-Wxk

 

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                                            My days in Ecuador, 4

 

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The parents of my daughter in law invited me to spend my last two days on a hacienda called PapaGayo. They had rented a small house. It had enough rooms for the extended family, including the family of my son, two grandmothers and one grandfather. We spoke three languages – German, Spanish and English. The common language was English. It was great to spend time with them!

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View from PapaGayo to the Corazón Volcano. Last year, when I visited my son, we hiked on this mountain.

PapaGayo offers many activities, especially for kids. One activity was feeding the animals like goats, sheep and alpaca. Rio’s favorite thing was walking with the pigs and feeding them.

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Each pig had a name. One was called A and another O. They are washed and brushed three times a day and did not smell at all like pigs.

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The pigs listened to the command “sit” like a dog before they got food. We all fed them.

The scariest and most fun activity was visiting the cloud forest. The high jungle is about a 20-minute car ride up the mountain. We were sitting on straw bales on an open carriage pulled by a car. The car was sometimes going up to 60km/hour. We had no rails to hold onto – unimaginable, something like that would not have been allowed in Austria. It was so much fun!

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The photo was taken at the start of our drive. Rio sits in between the Ecuadorian abuela (grandmother) and my son at the far end. They were holding him tightly – he did not show any fear.

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On the way up the mountain, dark clouds were approaching and it started to rain.

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Luckily, they brought umbrellas.

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The cloud forest is a piece of land left in its primary condition and is owned by indigenous people. The owner of PapaGayo pays the owners a fee for letting tourist walk through this fairy tale landscape.

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Eight hundred to one thousand years old trees patched with mosses and ferns grow in this place. Often, we did not need umbrellas to walk through this dense vegetation.

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Rio Amadeo was well equipped with rain gear and boots. He hiked nearly all the time.

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Only when the terrain was too difficult to walk with his little legs and feet, Lorenz carried him.

The first afternoon after we arrived in PapaGaya, we all were at the playground with Rio. Suddenly the Ecuadorian grandfather (abuelo) said “look, the climbing net is shaking and trembling. I think it is caused by an earthquake!” It was true. Hours after the quake, they received a phone call. Part of their garden wall around the house in Quito had collapsed. In Ecuador, earthquakes as well as volcano eruptions belong to the way of life.

Before I left Ecuador, I gave Rio a gift – a jaguar mask for his room

This mask reminded me of my jaguar experience in Peru. I stayed for four weeks in a simple wooden cabin in the jungle. Meeting a jaguar was my biggest fear. It never happened. The Shaman called me later the Jaguar woman. I gave the mask of a Jaguar to Rio Amadeo as a symbol for protection. We all need protection in our lives.

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This mask reminded me of my jaguar experience in Peru. I stayed for four weeks in a simple wooden cabin in the jungle. Meeting a jaguar was my biggest fear. It never happened. The Shaman called me later the Jaguar woman. I gave the mask of a Jaguar to Rio Amadeo as a symbol for protection. We all need protection in our lives.

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My days in Ecuador, 3

 

 

“I want to go with you to an indigenous community. It’s only two hours away from Quito,” Lorenz said to me one morning. “It is a place which was highly recommended to me and I want to see it too! We will take Rio Amadeo with us! He will like it.” I was excited!

The indigenous community is called San Clemente and is located in the district of Esperanza. it consists of 12 communities with 200 families. Over 30 years ago, one of their members was inspired by the life of the indigenous Norwegian community. The Norwegian community is known as the Sami people. They learned how to live in the modern world, while keeping their identity and values. He brought back their ideas. It needed 15 years, he told us, to really convince all the people to give up selfish desires and work together. Now, San Clemente is a healthy, thriving community. They care for their environment, cultural identity, education and help each other. Helping each other is called Mingo in Quechuan. They all speak and learn the Quechuan language. We were able to stay and live with the family of the man responsible for this change. We were inspired too.

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The first work they had to do was to build a road. The government supported this project. Now, the steep road leads through a beautiful landscape with charming houses. When we entered the area, we instantly recognized the difference to the other communities.

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One of the houses in the community

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The house we stayed in for one night

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The dogs were so kind. Rio loved to touch and play with them.

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Mara, the dog welcoming Rio Amadeo

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Zoila, the lady of the house, welcomed us in the traditional clothing of the Karanki people. Nearly everything the Karanki people do is done by hand – like the needlework of her outfit.

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She does not have a washing machine and washes the laundry in this basin outside. From here, you have a beautiful view to the nearby town in the valley called Ibarra. San Clemente lies at the base of the Imbaburo Volcano.

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The loving care for beauty is shown by the many plants

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Juan and Zoila also have grandchildren. Rio instantly found the plastic truck in the garden and brought it into the house (see in entrance door).

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The house was full of music instruments. This is a horn used for traditional festivals

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Another view

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The family has won a lot of awards for their musical performances

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Zoila cooked traditional meals for us. She has her own vegetable garden.

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Every meal came with fresh squeezed fruit juice. We loved the food.

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Vegetable dish

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Fried cooking bananas, yellow carrot puree, green beans, carrots and meat as main dish

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We were taught how to grind the corn to produce flour.

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Rio Amadeo pealed the corn with deep concentration and joy

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After lunch, the nephew of Juan gave us a tour. Not far from the house stands an Andean sun calendar. The Karanki people have an intimate relationship with earth and the cosmos. They grow and harvest their crop according to the calendar, the sun and the moon.

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Eddie, the nephew of Juan and Zoila, explains the Andean Calendar. Each corner inside the circle represents a month. The circle holds light and shade, hot and cold. Four times a year, they celebrate a festival according to the calendar. The most important festival is on June 21st.

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This costume is worn by the leader on the festival of June 21st. The pants are made out of goat fur. The head gear also has a face in the back. They dance in a circle, clockwise, with music. The celebration lasts 5 days. The first day is a day of cleansing. The second day, everybody goes from house to house to dance, eat and drink. On the third day, they make a big fire. On days 2,3, and 4, the celebrations goes through the night. On day five, they eat chicken soup and then at noon, the celebration is over.

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The tongue, Eddie said, symbolizes wisdom. The world, according to him, has three levels. On the lowest level is wisdom. Above wisdom is everyday life. On the upper level is the sun, the moon, and the universe.

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We also fed chicken, rabbits, guinea pigs called cuy, alpaca and cows. Rio was fascinated.

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The sheep wanted to be fed too.

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Guinea pigs are not only a delicacy, but also used by the Shamans for diagnosing sicknesses. They are very sensitive animals and take over the sickness of a person when pulled over a person’s body. The Shaman opens the body of the Guinea pig and looks what it shows. Shamans also use eggs for diagnosing illnesses.

Eddie also went on a walk with us through the cloud forest and showed us many medicinal plants. There are plants for stomach aches, tooth aches, joint pains and much more. We also went to a well where the ritual cleansing for the festivals is done.

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The sacred well was a little hole filled with water underneath a tree.

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Before our departure the next day, Tupac showed us the house he is building. It is a beautiful construction made out of mostly natural materials. He got these materials from the nature around. ” I am not rich” he said. “But I build most of the house with my own hands and the help of the community.” He, like all the other people we met, looked happy and content.

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At the end of our stay, Zoila agreed to have a photo with me. She lives a hard but joyful life.

 

 

 

 

My days in Ecuador, 2

 

About one hour drive from Puembo lies the picturesque thermal bath Papallacta. Since there was no convenient public transportation, I decided to use Uber to take me there. On the way to Papallacta, we had to drive over the 4000 m high Papallacta pass. Thick fog and rain covered the rugged area. I could not see anything except the immediate road before me.

I planned a hike before my spa visit. I was very concerned because I did not bring waterproof hiking shoes. I also did not have rain gear with me. What a mistake! However, I was lucky! When we arrived in the valley, the rain had stopped and the mist dissolved.

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The nearly 2 miles long hike started just beside the entrance building of the spa. The hike called Sendero de la Isla is a circular trail and follows mainly the Papallacta river. I was totally alone in this enchanted area. Sometimes bears come down from the mountain. I would have loved to see one. Instead, only a little mouse crossed my path.

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The jungle is called cloud forest. You do not normally think of a jungle at an elevation of over 9000 feet. Orchids and bromeliads, ferns and other plants grow on the trees and give it sometimes a mysterious appearance.

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Bromeliads

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An ancient tree beside the river

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Wild and untamed water of the Papallacta river.

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Wooden bridges lead over the river and offer a wonderful view

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I was intrigued by the beauty of the plants, many visited by hummingbirds.

 

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Lamas grazing on the meadow beside the path

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When I returned to the spa, I walked through this gate reminding me of Japanese temple gates.

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Papallacta means “potatoe earth” in Quechuan. The volcanic fertile soil and the cold climate are ideal for growing potatoes. Now, Papallacta is famous for the thermal bath. Located between the Antisana volcano and the Cotopaxi, it is also a gorgeous area for hiking. Unfortunately, it was so misty that I only managed to see the lower parts of the mountains.

The Papallacta spa consists of 5 pools. Each pool holds water with different temperatures and different features for massages. I planned to stay 7 hours in the spa and took a book with me to read. However, I did not read one page. I wandered from pool to pool. I soaked in the hot water. Then I went to the freezing cold pool in between to refresh. Afterwards, I returned to the hot water again. It was so relaxing. The water has minerals which increase the blood circulation, reduces stress and relieves pain and aches. I did not suffer from any pain, but the water really relaxed me..

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View from the inside to two of the pools

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I spent most of the time in the hottest pool. Constant steam was rising up and created a misty atmosphere.

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Each area had another beautiful view

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This was a pool with cooler water. Each section had a headrest at the end and two handles at the sides to hold on. One time, I put my ear on the rock serving as a headrest. It seemed to me that I heard the deep voice of the earth.

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Only a few people spent time at the spa. For most people it is a destination for the weekend or holidays. I also signed up for a one-hour massage – it was wonderful! I could also have had a chocolate wrap and I am sorry now that I did not sign up for that. Maybe next time.

At 8 pm, the Uber driver picked me up. His 14-year-old daughter came with him. She wanted to practice English. We chatted the entire hour until I was brought back

 

 

 

My days in Ecuador

 

Nothing was planned for my stay in Ecuador. It was a fast decision to visit my son and his family in Puembo near Quito. I wanted to see them, especially my grandson Rio Amadeo. I also wanted to bring books, rocks, photos, and other things they needed, wanted, or appreciated. Without any expectations, I was open to everything, even boredom. It turned out that those nine days where filled with magic and love. Everything was in a flow.

For several years, my son planned to build a house out of natural materials near Quito. It was great timing for me to be in Ecuador. I was able to witness the signing of the contract and the start of the house project. We celebrated it with a bottle of Champagne.

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The architect Pedro with Rumi (Quechua name meaning stone), Ale and Rio playing with the dog, Lorenz and I

The property is located beside a deep gorge. Last year, big wildfires destroyed the vegetation and burned down many of the Eucalyptus trees. In one year, the area became green again and many of the Eucalyptus trees recovered.

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View from the edge of the property down to the river

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They planted fruit trees and shrubs to keep the soil from eroding

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Heavy rain washed away the fertile soil. Diego, the gardener, is fixing the terrain with stacked up plastic bags filled with fertile soil. Roots of trees and shrubs planted later will prevent the erosion of the soil.

Rumi and his helper study the plan of the house and talk things over with my son.

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The first load of hand made adobe bricks arrived when I was there. They consist of mud, cow dung and straw and are excellent for insulation. I was so impressed watching the couple Orlando and Luz unloading the bricks. Their movement was in total sync, like musical notes.

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One of the bushes they planted last year – plants in Ecuador grow very fast.

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My son Lorenz and I

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It was a coincident that Ale, my daughter in law, found out about a concert in the Cuevas del Ilaló. The place was magical. The caves are located on the extinct volcano Ilaló close to Quito. The caves have several rooms connected by bending and turning walkways. Each room holds an art object representing one of the 4 elements. The most fascinating object was a pendulum hanging down from a spiral ceiling. The bottom of the pendulum made patterns in the sand below. The only light source is burning candles in carved out niches. It was a mystical experience.

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When we drove up the steep road to the cave, four alpacas where welcoming us.

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Before entering the caves, we passed a labyrinth

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Art objects are also placed outside of the caves. You can see Tumbaco down below and Quito in the distance.

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The tickets for the concert also included a glass of delicious hot wine. On the way to the outside bar, we passed a huge room built into the mountain. It is used for meditation, Yoga, sound healing, and other activities. Unfortunately, I did not have time to join a meditation session. They follow the Soto Zen Buddhism. I am practicing in the same tradition.

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The concert was played by two jazz guitarists, Bjorke Lund and Andres Noboa. They played beautifully together. It was like an intimate conversation between two people who really knew each other. The raw earth of the walls made me feel at home, back in the womb of mother earth. The warm light of the candles added to this feeling. The music filling the space completed the experience.

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The art object representing earth

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The room with the pendulum was dark and mysterious. It was fascinating to watch the pendulum swinging silently back and forth. The calligraphy made by it was fascinating. Each moment, it made another streak, calmly, without stopping. During earthquakes, we were told, the patterns are especially interesting.

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Time does not stop, but it always leaves a mark….. (Photo taken from the internet)

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Even the door to the toilet is artistic and beautiful.

The person who created this place is an architect called Juan Alfonso Peña. It is his extented family who is managing the property. I did not find much information about this place. However, there is a short description about the Cuevas. The place is dedicated to natural beauty, arts wellness and a simple lifestyle. ” Living in harmony with nature is not a sacrifice but a pleasure”. What a beautiful philosophy!

 

 

 

 

Awakening for All: Zazen Necessity: Awakening & Action

 

We have grave global problems and sufferings as the doomsday clock clicks, adding to the individual and social ones. They are more dangerous due to ignorance and inaction of masses of people; they either leave or rely on others, thinking it neither their responsibility nor within their ability to solve them.

 

The causes are due to old habits of individuals and societies of egoism, homo-centrism, state-centrism, etc., ignoring other selves, species, states, ecology, etc. A majority of people simply strive for 2 Fs, 3 Ms, 3 Ss, etc. as these are great gains or successful states, ignoring others and other ways of life.

 

The solutions lie in awakening and action to solve them by simple still sitting, stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma, serving and saving all, done by awakening others to act by connecting people for better global systems and observing a global ethic. Then, we can make a holy, healthy, happy world.

 

The paths are to observe the universal Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, i.e., that all are interrelated and relative, and to realize the harmonious world of life with friendship, without the triple poisons, beyond egoism, nationalism, Mammonism, etc. – mitra-net of the awakened in solidarity.

 

February 15, 2025 C.E.

 

Notes：

 

Notes:

 

1. 2Fs are Fame & Fortune. 3Ms are Money, Matter, Might. 3Ss are Sports, Screen, Sex.

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 to become harmonious, health, and happy.

3.  The practice of Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation), the key and core practice of za-zen, sitting meditation, is to still karma, settle in nirvana（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma, 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).  As shown in the Four Zen Stages thoughts, emotions (the representative five coverings: lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worries, doubts), and volitions (the representative four fluxes: lust, becoming/identification, views/dogmas, nescience/no witness, of nirvana) are stilled in this order.

Please refer to 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

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.  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.

No-wind of karma stills the two roots (craving and nescience) and stills their results of suffering and samsara [six ways/realms of hell beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), animal beings, human beings, celestial beings], thus become freed (liberation, freedom) from samsara and suffering. One opens the right Dharma-eye there (Right Dharma-eye stored in the exquisite heart of nirvana), attaining countless merits of no moving (blowing) of karma (no moving, no death: ambrosia: amṛta), freed from discrimination, bondage of self, other, that, this, etc. (nothingness, emptiness, no-self, limitless: limitless life, limitless light, no attachment, no obstruction, etc.), realizing the true world (Dharma world, Buddha world, paradise, pure land), freed from straying, delusion, etc.

Please refer to 4. What is Nirvana? in the “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

6.  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). Religion can be defined as the way of life (custom, ritual, habit, tradition) and the way to life (cultivation, perfection, witness, attainment). Religions have been developed from particular to universal, from primitive to developed, from mystical to rational, from pre-scientific to post-scientific – from individual, tribal, racial, world-wide, and universal.

7.  The solution to the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, and 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 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) for the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved for the time being.

8.  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-

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅　必要：覚醒と活動

 

私達は個人と社会の問題と苦に加えて、世界終末時計が刻々と時を刻んでいるように、重大な地球的諸問題と諸苦悩を抱えている。これは多くの人々が無知と、自分達の責任ではないとか解決する能力がないとかして他者に任せあるいは頼む、無活動により更に危険である。

 

原因は利己主義、人間中心主義、国家中心主義などにより、他の自己、種族、国家、生態系などを無視していることによる個人的社会的旧習の為である。多数の人々は単に２F,３M,３Sなどを偉大な利得、成功状態などとしてそれらを求め努力し、他者や人生の他の道を無視している。

 

解決は、簡単な静坐をし、業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、人々を地球倫理を守りより良い地球体系の為に人々を結合することで他の人々を覚醒させることにより一切に奉仕し救済することで、それらを解決する為に覚醒し活動することにある。そうすれば、私達は聖（全体健全）で健康で幸福な世界を創り得る。

 

この為の道は、一切は相互依存し相対的であるという縁起法を守ることにあり、利己主義、国家主義、守銭主義などを超え、三毒無しの友情を持った調和ある世界―連帯の為の覚者達の「友（共）の網」―を実現することにある。

 

2025共通年２月１５日

 

註：

１.  ２FはFame Fortune (名利)。３MはMoney, Matter, Might (金、物、力)。３SはSports, Screen, Sex (映画、スポーツ、性)。

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.  鍵となる静坐の実践は業を静め、涅槃（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, 無風、業風の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。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：

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

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.  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。

業の無風は二根（渇愛と無明）を静止してその結果の苦（四苦八苦など）と輪廻 [地獄、餓鬼、（修羅）、畜生、人間、天上の五（六）道（界）] を静止する、即ち輪廻・苦から自由になる（解脱・解放）。そこでは業による動揺が無く（不動、不死：甘露: amṛta）、我他彼此などの分別・束縛から自由になり（無・空・無我・無量：無量寿・無量光・無著・無碍など）、真理世界（法界、仏界、極楽、浄土）を現観し、迷・惑から自由になり、大局観・甚深・微妙な世界（法身、真実人体）を覚るなど涅槃による正法に眼を開き、無数の功徳を得る（正法眼蔵涅槃妙心）。

「今何故仏教か？」の４．涅槃とは何か？参照

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

6.  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。宗教は生活の道（慣習、儀式、習慣、伝統）と生命への道（修行、完成、確証、達成）と定義る。諸宗教は特定から普遍へ、原始的から発展的へ、神秘的から合理的へ、前科学的から科学的へ‐個人的、部族的、民族的、世界敵、普遍的へと発展してきた。

7.  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。

8.  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-Wxk

 

 

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