MZC HERE-NOW

 

Transcend Tribalism: Two Modes of Being

 

Humans have been suffering, but are now causing suffering to all in the global life system, even to the brink of total catastrophe with the global problematique, interrelated problems such as global warming and mass extinction. One man can cause a nuclear holocaust, supported by masses of people with the delusion of ego, of individual and national life, of I, my, and my nation, etc.

 

People have been deluded by conventional common views in limited time and space, causing devastations in their communities and others’, in their own age and into the future. This is due to ego-centric views and values, perspectives and practices, by which we ignore others in space and time. We must replace them with eco-centric views and values, perspectives and practices, to serve and save all.

 

The Awakened Way teaches two modes of being, conventional and universal, and the necessity to shift from the former to the latter in order to solve problems and save us all from suffering. Universal (eco-related) perspectives and practices need to replace conventional ones (ego-related) and, further, the karmic mundane mode needs to be corrected by the nirvanic (karma to dharma) supramundane mode.

 

If we remain in our old, conventional egoism, localism, and tribalism, we remain in deprivation and are doomed to demise. If we are awakened and act in our new, universal ecology, life, and holiness, we can live in limitless life, light, liberation, and love. We can make a paradigm shift from the unnatural unidirectional pyramid civilization a natural cyclical life-embracing Indra-net culture.

 

October 6, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems such as global warming, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nuke, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, poverty, requires the global ethic (issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993 with more than seven thousand people from all religions and from all over the world attending), which is based on the Five Precepts (and the fundamental common elements in the Ten Precepts, the Ten Commandments, etc.).

 

2. 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.

 

3. The Two modes of being, conventional and universal, are usually called two truths of mundane and supramundane. With regard to the conventional mode, sammutti-sacca, original Pali, literally means an agreed-upon mode of being; its Sanskritization samvṛtti-satya, covered/hidden mode of being, is a mistranslation. Sac-ca/sat-ya is a compound of being with a suffix making it an abstract noun, lit. mode of being, not truth. As for supreme/ultimate mode, paramaṭṭha-sacca/paramartha-satya is, literally, a mode of being in the supreme/ultimate sense. The former is local, limited by space and time, and the latter is a universal mode of being (views/values, perspectives/practices) beyond space and time. The former should be replaced by the latter, avoiding ego-centric views and values such as dogmatism, dictatorship, nationalism, homo-centrism, etc.

 

4. “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.

 

5. 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

 

部族主義を超越せよ：二存在様態

 

人間は苦しんできた、が今や地球生命系の一切を苦しめ、地球温暖化、大量絶滅等の相互に関連する地球問題群で全体破局の瀬戸際に至ろうとさえしている。一人の人間が個人的、国家的生活の我、我・我所（有）、我国など、の迷妄の大衆に支えられて核ホロコーストを惹き起すことが出来る。

 

人々は限られた時空の慣習的で普通の見方に惑わされて、自らの時代から未来に向かい自らの共同体と他者のそれに惨害を起こす。これは我中心の見方と価値、見通しと実践に依るが、それは時空中の他者を無視している。私達はそれらを一切に奉仕し救う為に生態中心の見方と価値、見通しと実践に変えなければならない。

 

覚道は問題を解決し私達一切を苦から救う為に、慣習的と普遍的の二つの存在形態と、前者から後者に転換する必要を教えている。普遍的（エコ関連）見通しと実践は慣習的（エゴ関連）のそれに換え、更には業の世俗様態を涅槃（業から法）の超世俗的様態に換える必要がある。

 

もし私達が古い慣習的な自己中、地方主義、部族主義に留まるなら、私達は剥奪に留まり破滅の運命にある。もし私達が新しい普遍的な生態、生命、聖性に目覚め活動するなら、私達は無量寿、無量光、無量自由、無量愛に生きることが出来る。私達は不自然一方向の金字塔文明から自然循環的な命帝網文化に枠組転換出来る。

 

2023共通年10月6日

 

註：

1. 地球問題群、地球温暖化、大量絶滅、国家主義、戦争、核、独裁、独断、差別、汚染、貧困の様な相互に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）地球倫理を必要とするが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものである。

 

2. 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。

 

3. 慣習的と普遍的の二存在様態は通常世俗（俗諦）と超世俗（真諦：超俗諦）の二諦（真理）と呼ばれている。慣習的様態は元のパーリ語ではsammutti-saccaで字義通りには存在の（特定地域・時代の人間の）合意した様態であり、そのサンスクリット語化はsamvṛtti-satya、字義通りでは被覆/隠覆様態であるが（隠されてはいないが地域・時代に限定的）、誤訳である。Sac-ca/sat-yaは存在（sat）に抽象名詞を創る接尾語（ya）のついたもので、存在様態であり真理ではない。最上/究極様態：paramaṭṭha-sacca/paramartha-satyaは字義通りには最上/究極の意味での存在様態を意味する。前者は時空に制限された地方的なものであり後者は時空を超えた普遍的存在様態（見方/価値、見通し/実践）である。前者は、独断、独裁、国家主義、人間中心主義の様な我中心の見方と価値を避ける為に後者に取って代わられるべきものである。

 

4. 「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味する。

 

5. 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ください：

 

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

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Take refuge in yourself and the Dharma: Two Refuges

 

The Buddha was awakened in the Dharma (Norm/Law/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/truths), Dependent Co-origination, that is, all phenomena are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. This means that all are related and relative, i.e., nothing is separate and absolute.

 

He said, “Take refuge in yourself, not others. Take refuge in the Dharma, not others.” One can take refuge in oneself and must be responsible for oneself. Eventually and essentially, we can take refuge in the Dharma (Universal Truth/Ethic) and must be responsible for it.

 

He achieved his awakening in the Dharma and advised us to take refuge in the Two Refuges of self and Dharma by stilling karma in nirvana and awakening to the Dharma. He showed that one can still the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion by the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis.

 

Anyone can attain the five blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace in oneself and with others, individually, socially, and ecologically in the Dharma world, becoming the Dharma body, enjoying limitless life and light, and the four limitlessnesses of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

 

September 29, 2023 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. 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. 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 1). 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 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.

 

 

4. 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.

 

5. Dogen said, “Loving effectively words have the power to turn the heavens.” Words, actions, machines, nukes, the weather, earthquakes, etc., can change the world, planet, etc., and can make ripple effects limitlessly in space and time. Dreams, dictatorships, isms, ideologies, lifestyles, living beings, natural events, etc., can change communities, countries, species, planets, histories, etc., as we observe every day throughout the world.

 

6. Our outlooks, instincts, insights, actions, attitudes, etc., can change ourselves and others inwardly and outwardly, hierarchically and historically. The triple learnings can change the triple poisons to provide prognoses on our problems. Moralities can make our globe more moral and ethical with the Global Ethic. Concentration can conduce oneself into a good dharma body, mouth, mind and consummate into the cosmic body, Dharma body, in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.

 

7. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems, 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.).
8. 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.

 

9. 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

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自帰依・法帰依：二洲（二帰依）

 

ブッダは諸法の法、縁起、即ち一切の現象は無限の原因と条件に依存して共生起するということに目覚めた。これは一切は関係し相対的である、即ち、分離し絶対のものは何もないという事を意味する。

 

彼は「自らに帰依し、他に帰依するなかれ。法に帰依し、他にきえすることなかれ」と言った。人は自らに帰依することが出来、自らに責任を負わなければならない。結局、本質的に私達は法（普遍真理・倫理）に帰依することが出来、それに責任を負わなければならない。

 

彼は法に目覚めることを達成し、私達に、涅槃の中に業を静めて法に目覚めて自らと法に帰依するよう忠告しました。かれは戒定慧の三学によって貪瞋痴の三毒を静めることができることを示しました。

 

誰でも法界の中に自己の中に他己と共に、個人的に社会的に、覚醒、自由、平等、友愛と平和の五福を達成し、法身となり無量寿、無量光と慈悲喜捨の四無量を享受することが出来ます。

 

2023共通年9月29日

 

註：

１．「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味します。

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３参照）。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.  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ます。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す。

4.  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）と結びついています。

5.  道元は「愛語よく回天の力あり」と言いました。言葉、行為、機会、核、天候、地震などは世界、惑星等を変え、時空に無限に波及効果を及ぼし得ます。私達が毎日世界中で見ているように、夢、独裁、主義、イデオロギー、生活様式、生物、自然出来事等が諸共同体、諸国家、諸種族、諸惑星、諸歴史等を変え得ます。

6.  私達の見通し、本能、洞察、行動、態度等が私達と諸他者を内的、外的に、階層的、歴史的に変え得ます。三学は三毒を変え私達の諸問題に対する般若（智慧・診断）を提供し得ます。道徳は地球倫理に依り私達の地球をもっと道徳的、倫理的にするように良く働くことが出来ます。集中力は自らを良い（個々の）法身口意にするよう良く働きついには無量寿、無量光、無量解脱（自由）、無量愛の宇宙的身体、（全体的）法身に究竟することが出来ます。

7.  地球問題群は（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）地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものです。

8.  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す。

9.  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す。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す。

詳細説明は書きを参照ください：

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

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The above pictures were taken and sent by 

Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka, in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

The Renowned Moon in Mid-Autumn,

Flowers and insects

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From Ego to Eco: Dharma of all dharmas

 

The Buddha was awakened to the Dharma (Norm/Law/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/truths), i.e., Dependent Co-origination, that all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions in space and time. This means that there is no self-same (separate/eternal), self-sovereign (independent/absolute), self-substance (Ātman/Absolute, etc.). It is irrational to imagine that an absolute, separate, sovereign being controls our phenomenal world. If this were the case, there would be no relationship between them.

 

The Buddha decided to come out into the world to save it from destruction by selfishness, this fundamental delusion becoming the triple poisons, now causing the critical global problematique with nuclear holocaust, dictatorships, discrimination, nationalism, wars, mass extinction, etc. All problems and sufferings come from karma, (whose) source of surviving strife, which is ego (I, mine, my group, etc.) sacrificing eco (life, life system, etc.), embraces and enables egoes.

 

The solution lies in a paradigm shift from ego to eco, karma to Dharma, civilization (urbanization) to culture (cultivation), etc. We must see the truth of the global system and observe the global ethic, clarifying how an artificial, uni-directional pyramidal civilization affects the global eco system, and then change it to a natural, cyclical life Indra-net culture to provide holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness for all in space and time according to the Dharma.

 

The concrete way is in stilling karma (which causes the triple poisons), settling in nirvana (no wind, of karma), seeing the Dharma, sharing, serving, and saving all in coexistence and cooperation as true friends in need. More concretely it is to practice still sitting, seeing the world (ego/eco in the Dharma world), sharing prognoses (four holy truths and eight holy ways), and saving the world as a whole to make it in harmony, health, and happiness, avoiding sectional, sick selfishness.

 

September 22, 2023 C.E.

 

 

1. 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 4). 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 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.

 

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. 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 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.

 

6. Sitting still makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing the of truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya).

 

7. The key practice of sitting still is to still karma, settle in nirvana (nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma), and see the Dharma, serving and saving all. The Four Limitlessnesses (Brahma-abodes) are friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (upekkhā/upekṣā, lit. throwing away, the triple poisons).

 

8. 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).

 

9. 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”:

 

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

 

 

10. 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.

 

11. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems, 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.).

 

12. 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.

 

13. 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).

 

14. 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.

 

15. A paradigm shift from our artificial, unilateral pyramidal civilization ( = urbanization, from Latin civitas: city) to a natural, cyclical Indra-net life culture ( = cultivation, originally of land, then one’s potential) 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：

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エゴからエコへ：諸法の法

 

ブッダは諸法の法、縁起、即ち一切の現象は時空の無限の原因と条件に相互に依存して生起するということに目覚められた。これは自己同一（個別・永遠）で自己主宰（個別・絶対）の自己実体（アートマン・絶対者等）は無いことを意味する。私達の現象世界を管理する絶対・個別・主宰存在は無いことを意味する。もしその様な場合があるなら、それらの間には関係が無いことになる。

 

ブッダは自己中心、現在では核ホロコースト、独裁、差別、国家主義、戦争、大量絶滅等を引き起こして言う三毒となった根本迷妄、により世界が破滅するのを救う為に世に出られた。一切の問題と苦は、生残り闘争の根源である業から来るのであり、これは諸エゴを抱擁し可能ならしめるエコ（生命、生命系等）を犠牲にするエゴである。

 

解決はエゴからエコへ、業から法へ、文明（都市化）から文化（修養）へ等の枠組転換にある。私達は、人工的で一方向的な金字塔文明が地球生態系に悪影響しているかを明らかにして、それを法に従い時空一切が聖（全体健全）な調和・健康・幸福にする自然的で循環的な命帝網文化に変えて、地球システムの真理を見地球倫理を守らなければならない。

 

具体的方法（三毒を惹き起す）業を静め、涅槃（無風、業の）に安住し、法を見、必要の時の友として共生し協働して一切を共有、奉仕、救済することである。更に具体的には静坐し、世界を見（法界のエゴ・エコ）を見、般若（知恵、四聖諦、八聖道）を共有し、区別・病患・自己中を避けて世界を全体として調和・健康・幸福にして救うことである。

 

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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４参照）。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. 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。

 

3. 「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味します。

 

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ます。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す。

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を参照ください：

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5, 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ます。

 

6. 静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にします。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実身)になります。

 

7. 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のです。四無量（四梵住）は慈（愛：友情：与楽）、悲（泯：抜苦）、喜(悦)、捨（離：upekkhā/upekṣā）です。

 

8. 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、一切に奉仕し救済します。この過程は四禅と八定（samādhi）です（実際には四禅と四定は一緒で結合しています）。

 

9. 坐禅（静坐瞑想）は身体・呼吸・頭脳（身口意）業を整え静止します。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ます。

 

「今何故仏教か？」の４（涅槃）と５（禅）を参照ください：

 

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10. 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）が働くことが出来ます。

 

11. 地球問題群、相互関連した地球諸問題、の解決は（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）地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものです。

 

12. 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す。

 

13. Religion(宗教）はラテン語religare (再結合)に由来します。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す。

 

14. 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す。

 

15. 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す。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す。

 

詳細説明は下記を参照ください：

 

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

 

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SEBALDUSWEG

 

Sebaldusweg in Ennstal/Upper Austria

 

 

The name of this four day hike is connected to Saint Sebaldus, a little known saint in Austria, except by locals living in this area. Tradesmen brought the story of St. Sebaldus (a saint venerated in Nuremberg, Germany) to the area called Ennstal at the foothills of the Alps. Legend tells that he stopped on the way from Rome to Nuremberg at the place “Heiligenstein” where he lived as an hermit in a cave for fifteen years. Heiligenstein (Sacred stone) is at the top of a 782 meter high mountain with bizarre rock formations and a small well. The rock was venerated since ancient times. Like so often, Christians usurped this sacred place for their own needs. They built a church and made the cave into a grotto containing a stone sculpture of the saint. It became such a popular pilgrimage destination during the time of counterreformation that an inn was built beside the church.

 

Pilgrimage church St. Sebaldus at Heiligenstein

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View to the chapel containing the grotto of St. Sebaldus

 

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Stone sculpture of St. Sebaldus – the shells and walking stick symbolizing him as a pilgrim. In former times, he was venerated by women looking for good husbands. Little statues of newly married couples show that this custom even exists today. Another custom probably going back to prehistoric times survived for a long time: the “Hebekult”. Young men who could lift the stone sculpture from the ground where said to be free of the cardinal sin. Women who could lift a wooden crucifix were promised to find a husband in one year. The stone sculpture was later anchored to the ground and the custom died out.

 

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The area, “Nationalparkregrion Ennstal” in Upper Austria, is only a two hour car drive west of Vienna. The river Enns flows through this peaceful, open land with uniquely shaped hills and mountains. Single, huge farmhouses are nestled into the landscape.

 

 

Sometimes, a wonderful scent of freshly cut grass filled the air.

 

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For a long time, this little deer did not recognize us and was grazing peacefully in the meadow.

 

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On the first day of the hike, this beautiful butterfly landed on my left hand and stayed there for at least 10 minutes. It was great walking with this gorgeous being!

 

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The bright, red fruit of wild roses are always a sign that fall is approaching

 

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A beautiful renovated inn in the village Losenstein

 

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View from a “Gastgarten” (garden of an inn) of the surrounding area

 

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Little chapels and shrines are scattered along the way. This chapel is called Nösteltaler Kapelle.

 

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There are many pictures of a burning heart pierced by a sword – a Christian symbol of compassion.

 

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Many candles were donated in front of the altar of the Virgin Mary. The energy in this chapel was so peaceful that we stayed there for quite a while and read poetry of John O’Donahue. His book ,”To bless the space between us”, is always a companion on our hikes.

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We were in awe of this powerful beech tree.

 

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Looking up at the thick foliage and round branches covered by lichen

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My friend Sigrid and I under the beech tree

 

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This charming little village called Maria Neustift even had a Cafe where I had my favorite Eiscafe with lots of whipped cream.

 

 

A special treat was the hotel Ennstalerhof in Großraming were we stayed every night. The  innkeeper’ s wife is half Russian and half Ukrainian and an excellent cook. One of my favorite meals was Plov, an Uzbekistan rice dish. At the end of the meal, we were served Vodka in tasteful, delicate Russian glasses on a mirror tray with a little tea candle in the center – a treat not only for the stomach but also for the eyes.

 

Plov, an Uzbekistan food

 

 

 

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On our pilgrimage, we had interesting encounters. One time we met a 95 year old hiker in good health with refreshing vitality. We also got to know a woman who raised three children, two of them were severely disabled at birth.  Both of her boys received doctorates at a university. Her warm, joyful heart was a great inspiration for handling difficult life situations. We left with great thankfulness for everything we experienced.

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Awaken and Act: Four Meditations

 

We have the inevitable and common individual sufferings of sickness, aging, death, etc., social sufferings such as discrimination, destruction, etc., and global problems like global warming, mass extinction, war, and nukes, which may grow into a global extinction. Most people are too occupied or oppressed by individual sufferings to be able to see how social and global ones threaten our future.

 

All sufferings and problems come from our karmic triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and the delusion of self, set in self-survival strife. Karma (action, habit, heredity), created by physical, verbal, and mental actions, grows and create individual, social, and global forms as a network of crystal balls on its knots of the Indra-net, reflecting each other in space and time.

 

The solution to suffering lies in stilling karma in still sitting, settling in nirvana, and seeing the Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena), i.e., Dependent Co-origination, sharing awakening and action related to it, serving and saving all. Nirvana means no-wind (of karma) attained in the Four Zen (meditation) stages, thus the stilling of physical, verbal, and mental karma.

 

The witness of nirvana reveals the state of no karma – no action or appropriation, no becoming separated, sick, suffering, sovereign, self, Self, soul, etc. Our constantly becoming hungry, angry, attached, divisive, deluded, dissatisfied, devilish, etc., is due to dependent co-origination of our body, mouth, mind, and the world. The long night of nescience is awakened by nirvana.

 

September 15, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and also eight, adding to these the four common ones of parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, not attaining the desired, and, in short, the sufferings that arise from the five aggregates of form, feeling, idea, formation, and consciousness. Now we are endangered by nuclear holocaust and demise of the global life system, even by a single man-made decision.

 

2. 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.

 

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. 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):

 

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5. 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.

 

6. Sitting still makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing the of truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya).

 

7. The key practice of sitting still is to still karma, settle in nirvana (nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma), and see the Dharma, serving and saving all. The Four Limitlessnesses (Brahma-abodes) are friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (upekkhā/upekṣā, lit. throwing away, the triple poisons).

 

8. 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).

 

9. 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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10. 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.

 

11. The solution of the global problematique, interrelated global problems, 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.).

 

12. 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.

 

 

覚醒し活動せよ：四禅

 

私達は病老死等の必然的あるいは普通の個人的苦、差別や破壊等の社会的苦、地球的破滅に至るかも知れない地球暖化、大量絶滅、戦争、核などの地球的問題を持っています。ほとんどの人々は個人的苦に余りにも掛かり切っているか襲われているので社会的、地球的苦が私達の未来をどれ程脅威にさらしているかを見ることが出来ません。

 

一切の苦や問題は自己の生残り闘争に組み込まれた自己の貪瞋痴の業の三毒に由来します。身口意により創られた業（行為、習慣、遺伝）は帝釈網の結び目にある水晶の珠が網細工でお互いに反映するように時空に成長し個人的、社会的、地球的な形態を創造します。

 

苦の解決は静坐での業の静止、涅槃への安住、諸法の法、即ち縁起、の静観、それに関する覚醒と活動を共有し、一切に奉仕し救済することにあります。涅槃とは四禅階梯により得られる身口意の静止により得られる（業の）無風を意味します。

 

涅槃の直証は無業の状態‐無作為・無所有、分離、病患、苦悩、主宰、自我、「自己」、霊魂に成らないこと等を啓示します。私達が常時空腹、憤怒、執着、分別、迷妄、不満、魔性等に成ることは私達の身口意と世界の因縁生起に依るのです。無明長夜は涅槃により目覚めるのです。

 

2023共通年9月15日

 

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1．私達は不可避の生老病死の四苦、これに加えて普通の求不得苦、愛別離苦、怨憎会苦、要するに、形態・感受・観念・形成・意識の五蘊盛苦の八苦を持っています。今や、一人の人間の決定によってさえ起きうる地球生命系への核の冬や破滅の危機に曝されています。。

2.  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。

 

3.  「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味します。

 

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ます。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す。

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を参照ください：

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5.  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ます。

 

6.  静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にします。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実身)になります。

 

7.  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のです。四無量（四梵住）は慈（愛：友情：与楽）、悲（泯：抜苦）、喜(悦)、捨（離：upekkhā/upekṣā）です。

 

8.  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、一切に奉仕し救済します。この過程は四禅と八定（samādhi）です（実際には四禅と四定は一緒で結合しています）。

 

9.  坐禅（静坐瞑想）は身体・呼吸・頭脳（身口意）業を整え静止します。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ます。

 

「今何故仏教か？」の４（涅槃）と５（禅）を参照ください：

 

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10.  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）が働くことが出来ます。

 

11.  地球問題群は（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）地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものです。

 

12.  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す。

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No belittling of a little: Four Dedications

 

King Pasenadi of Kosala visited the Buddha at Jetavana Monastery in the suburbs of Savatthi, the capital city, and asked, “Do you say, ‘I’ve attained unsurpassed complete right awakening?’ The Buddha said, “Yes.” The king said, “There are many renowned teachers with many followers. Even they don’t claim that, and you are still young and it is not so long after your renunciation.” The Buddha said, “You should not belittle such a one as fire, serpent … even if it is young.”

 

The Buddha recommended that we decrease and destroy bad karma (action, habit, heredity) and start and strengthen good karma, which are called the four applications. If we allow bad karma, even if it is young or small, it will grow older and bigger, causing more and greater casualties and calamities in time and space. If we start and strengthen good karma, even if it is young or small, it will grow mature and multiply, creating greater goodness and gratitude in space and time.

 

One’s karmic Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion can grow nation-wide and on a global scale just as nukes, creating radiation, cause sickness throughout the world, can eventually terminate all life forms with accidental, accumulated radiation or all-round nuclear war and winter. Our global problematique of climate change, mass extinction, war, waste, etc., are nothing but the accumulated causes of our habitual, unnoticed, and unchanged small actions.

 

“Many a mickle makes a muckle.” The Dharma of all dharmas, Interdependent Co-origination, i.e., that all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions, affects limitlessly beyond individual, society, ecology, etc. Radiation has no safe limit, but nuke advocates (nuclear power plants or bombs) decide limits short sightedly without long-range responsibilities, allowing radiation to be spewed into the air, land, and water all over the world for millions of years.

 

September 8, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. The Infant Scripture (Dahara Sutta: Samyutta Nikaya1), etc. tells the story (the above translation is an abridged one).

 

2. The Four Dedications (cattāro samma-padhāna: 四正勤) is the Four Applications (totally applying oneself to) these four ways. The Sanskritization prahāna: discarding, and its Chinese translation 正断are mistaken, which only express the half of the four and the rest are ignored (starting and strengthening). The correct translation is pradhāna (正勤).

 

3. Disastrous nuclear power plant accidents (Chernobyl in 1986, Fukushima in 2011, Three Mile Island in 1979) produced millions of people dislocated from radiation contaminated areas or still living in hot spots, over a million of people physically and mentally affected with cancer, etc. Unknown numbers of people will still develop diseases such as thyroid cancer, etc., and people in hundreds of nations continue to be affected through their living, jobs, etc. The statistics are widely different depending on whether they have been produced by those in favor of or against nukes. Much less has been written about the total consequences of radiation, its effects, etc.

 

          Chernobyl disaster:

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

           Fukushima disaster：

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

           Three Mile Island disaster:

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

 

4. The global problematique means interrelated global problems such as climate change, mass extinction of species, nukes, wars, waste, water/earth/ air pollution, starvation, discrimination, development, destruction, etc.

 

5. Nuclear fission (nuclear bomb or power plant) is made by men, not nature, and is fatal to life and even to the total global life system. It is only possible by using a staggering amount of resources (human, national, natural, etc.), sacrificing the conversion of them to natural systems (life, ecology, economy in a safe system). Nuclear power plants are susceptible to accidents, terrorism, natural disasters, and war, and they are used to make nuclear bombs (inevitably producing plutonium, the deadliest nuclear particle used for nuclear bombs), giving no limits or responsibilities to stop and solve problems such as unauthorized and unsafe storage of radioactive material (such as plutonium – Japan has stored enough to make 4,000 nuclear bombs of the kind dropped on Nagasaki – spent fuels) in the geosphere for hundreds of thousand years, especially when accidents and disasters happen. The merits of nuclear power are groundless (carbon dioxide emissions must be calculated throughout the entire process of searching for materials, mining, transporting, and processing them, etc., not only of electricity generation. The system is economically unpayable and ecologically endless in time for decommissioning in case of meltdown; uranium resources are less than coal, of course incomparable with renewable energy sources which are limitless and safest, etc.).

 

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

 

6. The global life system is endangered by tens of thousands of stockpiles of nuclear weapons under the control of one man or just a few, the release of nuclear radiation, and the ever-increasing stockpiles of radioactive nuclear waste that must be stored safely, constantly and continuously.

 

7. Mankind with all species are entangled in the endless dilemma of nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors (called a peaceful use of nuclear power, but coming from the inevitable process of enriching uranium, producing plutonium, and producing nuclear bombs), which power politicians, military men, money mongers, et al. (called military-industry complex, nuclear village, nuclear mafia, etc.), want to make their might, money, and matter with the endless rhetoric of nuclear bomb deterrence and nuclear power development, which engulfs everyone in endless fear for ecological, social, and individual problems, and even planetary catastrophe. If only humans become awakened from these deadly delusions by deceptions and demagogies, they can be freed from endless fear from nukes, wars, waste, and worldwide collapse.

 

 

小事を侮らず：四正勤

 

コーサラのパセナディー王が首都のサーバッティ（舎衛城）の郊外にあるジェータ園（祇園）精舎にいるブッダを訪れて尋ねました「あなたは、自分が無上正等覚を得た、と言うのですか。」ブッダは「その通り」と言いました。王は「多くの信奉者を持つ多くの有名な師がいますが、彼等でさえそうは主張しませんが、あなたは未だ若く出家して間もないのです」と言いました。ブッダは「例え若くても、火、毒蛇・・・のようなものを侮るべきではありません」と言いました。

 

ブッダは私達が悪業（行為、習慣、遺伝）を減らし、消して善業を始め、強化するようにと勧めましたが、これは四正勤と呼ばれています。もし私達が、例え若く小さくとも悪業を許すならば、それは時空中に年をとり大きくなり、更に大きな損害と破滅を惹き起します。もし私達が、例えそれが若く小さくとも、善業を始め強化するなら、それは時空中に熟して増え、さらに大きな善と感謝を生みます。

 

人の業の貪瞋痴の三毒は、丁度核（破壊）が世界中に放射能を生み、病を起こし、ついには事故や放射能の蓄積、全面的核戦争や核の冬で一切生命体を終わらせるように、世界中地球規模に成長します。気候変動、大量絶滅、戦争、廃棄などのような地球問題群は私達の習慣的で、気付かず改めない小さな行動の蓄積した原因によることに外ならないのです。

 

「塵も積もれば山となる。」諸法の法、因縁生起、即ち一切現象は無限の原因と条件に縁って共に起きることは個人、社会、生態を超えて無限に影響します。放射能には安全な限界はありませんが、（原発や原爆の）核推進者は長期的責任なしに、短見から、何百年にわたり世界中の空中、地中、水中にまき散らしています。

 

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1. 幼少経　(Dahara Sutta: Samyutta Nikaya1) などがこの話を伝えています（上記訳は簡略化してあります）。

 

2. 四正勤 (cattāro samma-padhāna: 四正勤) はこれら四方法の適用：専修です。この梵語化prahāna:とその中国語訳正断は、四の中二しか表さず他の二（始めて強化する）を無視しています。正しい訳はpradhāna (正勤)です。

 

3. 大惨事となった原発事故（チェリノブイリ原発1986年、福島原発2011年、スリーマイル島原発1979年）は何百万人が放射能汚染地域から避難し、又はホットスポットに住み続けることになり、百万人以上が癌などで身体的・精神的に侵されました。これから甲状腺癌などの病気を発症する人々の数は明らかにされず、何百の国の人々は住所、職などの悪影響を受けます。統計数字はそれが核に対する好悪により大きく異なります。放射能とその影響などの全体的結果についてはそれにも増して少ないのです。

 

チェリノブイリ原発事故：https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%96%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E5%8E%9F%E5%AD%90%E5%8A%9B%E7%99%BA%E9%9B%BB%E6%89%80%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85

 

福島原発事故：

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%8E%9F%E5%AD%90%E5%8A%9B%E7%99%BA%E9%9B%BB%E6%89%80%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85

スリーマイル島原発事故：

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E5%B3%B6%E5%8E%9F%E5%AD%90%E5%8A%9B%E7%99%BA%E9%9B%BB%E6%89%80%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85

 

 

4. 地球問題群とは気候変動、種の大量絶滅、核、戦争、廃棄、水地空汚染、飢餓、差別、開発、破戒などの相互に関連する地球規模の諸問題を意味します。

 

5. 核分裂（原爆や原発）は人間に依って作られたもので、自然によるものではなく、生命にとっては致命的であり全地球生命系にさえ致命的なものです。それは驚異的量の資源（人的、物的、自然的など）を使用し、それらを自然体系（生命、生態、経済の安全体系）に転換する事を犠牲にしています。原発は事故、テロ、自然災害や戦争に対して脆弱であり、原爆を作るのに使用されます（必然的に生み出される最も殺傷能力のある原爆に使用される核質であるプルト二ウム）（そのプルトニウムーこれを日本は長崎投下型原爆4千発分の保管―や使用済み核燃料は）何十万年も地層に、事故や災害時には特に、放射能物質の正当化されず安全でない保管などの問題を止め、解決する為の制限もなく責任も持たないのです。

 

6. 地球生命系は、常時に継続的に安全に貯蔵されなければならないのですが、一人または極く少数の人間の統制下におかれた何万の原爆、各放射能の放出、そしてのますます増えて行く山積みの放射能核廃棄物により、危険にさらされています。

 

7. 人類と一切の生類は原爆と原発（核力の平和利用と呼ばれているが、ウラニウムの濃縮の必然的工程に由来し、プルトニウムを生み原爆を生む核分裂器）の終わりなきジレンマに飲み込まれており、権力政治屋、軍人、守銭奴など（軍産複合体、核部落、核マフィアなどと呼ばれる）が、終わることのない原爆（核）抑止力と原発（核）力（エネルギー）開発という詭弁により自分達の力、金、物を得ようと望んでおり、全ての人々を生態的、社会的、個人的問題、更には惑星のは破局に至る、終わりない恐怖に飲み込んでいるのです。もし人間がこれらの欺瞞とデマに依る致命的な迷妄から目覚めるなら、核、戦争、廃棄そして世界大の破滅の恐怖から自由になることが出来るのです。

 

 

 

 

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Embracing All: Four Embracing Matters

 

The Buddha said that our life and awakening are rare and precious, like a blind turtle living at the bottom of ocean coming up to its surface once in a hundred years and happening to fit its head into the hole of a floating log. Every living being values its life more than anything and wants to make it the best life. Every living being must, however, die in an instant, compared to the limitless time of the universe, like a dewdrop on a leaf in the morning sun.

 

How, then, can we make our life the best possible life? The Buddha was awakened to the fact that all living beings are karma-born, -heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged, bound by the karmic Triple Poisons, but can be freed from them by taking refuge in good karma, avoiding bad karma, eventually being awakened from the long night of nescience, realizing nirvana and prognosis. We can make our life and others’ best in holy harmony, health, and happiness.

 

He advised the concrete good karma of the Four Embracing Matters of donation, loving words, beneficial action, and sameness, which go beyond the short-sighted, small selfishness of the Triple Poisons or the Triple Only, making oneself and others holy harmony, health, and happiness. Donation is the first step to go beyond short-sighted, small selfishness, and loving speech, beneficial action, and sameness make the world holy (wholly wholesome).

 

Religion is the reunion with holiness (wholly wholesomeness), but its perspective and practice has been limited by tribalism, racism, nationalism, etc., becoming tribal religion, etc.  The global age requires global ken and kinetic to make the Global Ethic a foundation for them. The Buddha was awakened to the Dharma of all, embracing all, becoming the Dharma body to make himself in sameness with the world, making a universal religion.

 

September 1, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

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. The Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena) is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently originated on limitless causes and conditions (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider).

 

3. 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).

 

4. The Four Embracing Matters/Dharmas (cattāri saṅgaha-vatthūni) are donation (dāna), loving words (piya-vācā), beneficial action (attha-cariyā), and sameness (samāna-atta-tā, lit. same-self-ness).

 

5. Donation (dāna) can be material or immaterial (wealth or Dharma), so anyone without wealth can donate one’s kind eyes, harmonious face, loving words, helping body, sympathetic heart, seat, and shelter (called the Seven Donations without wealth).

 

6. Sameness (samānāttatā) is to put oneself in another’s position, working with others in the same situations. If one can put oneself with the whole world, being the same with it, one can be truly holy (wholly wholesome with the world), like the Buddha in the Dharma-body (Dharma-kāya), Dharma-nature (Dharmatā), Dharma-thusness (Dharma-tathatā), and Dharma-world (Dharma-dhātu).

 

7. 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.).

8.  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).

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.

 

 

 

一切摂取：四摂法

 

ブッダは私達の（人間としての）誕生と覚醒は、海底に住み百年に一度海面に上がり浮木の穴に頭を嵌めるように、稀有で貴重であると言いました。どんな生物でもその命を何よりも価値あるものとしそれを最善にしたいと望みます。どんな生物も、しかしながら、宇宙の無限の時間に比べれば、朝日に照らされ（消える）露のように、瞬く間に死ななければなりません。

 

それでは、私達は自らの命をどのようにして最善に出来るでしょうか？　ブッダは一切の生物は業誕生者、業相続者、業所有者、業機械、業依拠者であり、業の三毒に束縛されているが、善業に依拠し悪業を避けることにより自由になり、ついには無明長夜から目覚めて涅槃と般若（智慧）を実現できるという事実を覚りました。私達は自らと他者の命を最善：聖なる調和、健康、幸福に出来ます。

 

彼は、三毒または三だけの短見で矮小な自己中心を超えて自らと他者を聖なる調和、健康、幸福にする、布施、愛語、利行、同事の四摂法の具体的な善業を勧めました。布施は短見で狭小な自己中心を超える第一歩であり、愛語、利行、そして同事は世界を聖（全体健全）にします。

 

宗教は聖性（全体健全性）と再結合することですが、その視野と実践は部族主義、人種主義、国民主義などにより制限されて、部族宗教等になって来ました。地球時代には地球的範囲と行動が必要とされ、地球倫理がその基盤となります。ブッダは諸法の法に目覚めて、一切を摂取して、自らを世界と同事し（同じものとして仕え）て法身となり、普遍宗教を創りました。

 

2023共通年9月1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す。

 

2. 諸法の法は縁起、即ち一切諸現象は無限の因縁（原因・条件）に依り生起したものである、ということです（因果律と同様ですがそれより深く広いものです）。

 

3. 三毒は貪瞋痴（自己同一、自己主宰の我という愚痴）です。三だけは自分だけ、今だけ、金だけで（短見・短絡行動で、より広い世界を悪化させます）。

 

4. 四摂法（四摂事・四恩：cattāri saṅgaha-vatthūni）は布施（dāna）、愛語（piya-vācā）、利行（attha-cariyā）、同事（samāna-atta-tā、字義通りには、自己同化、他を自とし、仕：事える）です。

 

5. 布施(施与)は物も物でないものもあります（財施、法施）ので財物がなくとも誰でも愛眼、愛語、身行、慈心、床座、房舎を与えることができます（「無財の七施、無くて七施と言われています）。

 

6. 同事（同じにする事、事：仕かえる）は他者の立場になり、他者と同じ状況において共に働くことです。もし人が一切世界と同一であるとなることが出来れば、その人は真実に聖（世界と全体健全）になり、ブッダが法身（Dharma-kāya),）、法性（Dharmatā）、法如（Dharma-tathatā）、法界（Dharma-dhātu）になったようになります。

 

7. 地球問題群は（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）地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものです。

 

8. Religion(宗教）はラテン語religare (再結合)に由来します。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す。

 

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す。

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From Limited Life Suffering to Limitless Life Bliss: The Four Limitlessnesses

 

Our sufferings are Four (the inevitable ones of birth, aging, sickness, and death) and Eight (these Four plus the universal ones of not getting the desired, being separated from the beloved, meeting with the disliked, in essence the five aggregates rampant). As human societies expand, they give rise to societal problems like discrimination, exploitation, war, nukes, etc., further causing the global problematique, interrelated problems such as climate change and mass extinctions.

 

The cause lies in the five aggregates (form, feeling, ideas, formations, consciousness), as said above “in essence, the five aggregates rampant.” It can be said to be the Triple Poisons of survival instinct (desire, divisiveness, and delusion), or the “Triple Only” (only ego, only now, and only money), now often mentioned to criticize egocentric attitudes and actions, especially those of selfish, shortsighted politicians. That is the delusion that becomes divisiveness (discrimination, hatred) and the desire for money.

 

The solution is to be awakened, as the Buddha (Awakened One) did, to the fact that we are karma-born, -heirs, -owners, and -refuged, and to become friends with all with good karma, serving and saving all. We must, as the Buddha did, still our karmic (past/present body, mouth, mind) Triple Poisons by still sitting, settle in nirvana (no blowing, of karma-winds), see the Dharma (Dharma of all dharmas: Dependent Co-origination), and thereby understand the arising of all phenomena, repaying our grace to all, serving and saving all.

 

Anyone can settle in nirvana by concentration-meditation (Four/Eight Zen/Samadhi), see the Dharma/Dharma-world, take refuge in it (Dharma refuge), and enter into it (Dharma-body), and that way anyone can live the limitless life, light, love, and liberation of the Four Limitlessnesses (friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity) in holy (wholly wholesome) equality, peace, health, and happiness, becoming friends with all by becoming free and full (self-refuge), freed from the bondage of the Triple Poisons/”Triple Only.”

 

August 25, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. The five aggregates (form, feeling, idea, formations, consciousness) were originally organized by the Buddha to analyze a person beyond the common way of two – body and mind – which involve ambiguity, especially of the mind (leading to Soul, Self, Ātman, etc.). Form represents the physical aspect and the rest are psychological ones, though formations include both physical and psychological (bodily, verbal, and mental formations). The original terms for them are rūpa, vedanā, saññā (saṁjñā), saṅkāra (saṁskāra), and viññāṇa (vijñāṇa) (in Pali, and Sanskrit in parentheses, when different).

 

2. Buddhist philosophy and practice are based on this fundamental Dharma of the Dependent Co-origination of all dharmas, which is similar to the fundamental law of Causality, but wider, including and stressing the subject, and deeper, including the whole universe, evolution, and depth of existence. Our life is limitless, far beyond our small shallow views of our life. Our ordinary life is usually small and shallow compared to the true universal life in the Dharma world. So, we make our true limitlessly related life into false, limited, separate lives due to our karmic views and actions.

 

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. 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) 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.

 

5. The life system is in a limitlessly interdependent and interrelated system through 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.

 

6. Sitting still makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads from calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing the of truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya).

 

7. The key practice of sitting still is to still karma, settle in nirvana (nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma), seeing the Dharma, serving and saving all. The Four Limitlessnesses (Brahma-abodes) are friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity (upekkhā/upekṣā, lit. throwing away, the triple poisons).

 

8. 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)

 

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 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.).

 

11. 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 important to know how states operate.

 

12. The Five Ss are the representations of Francisco Bacon’s Four Idola (cave, agora, theatre, species) in Self, Society, Status, and Species, plus Cassirer’s Symbolism.

 

13. Karmic views and actions are limited, like those born blind who groped only a part of a huge elephant and fought for their partial findings as being the only right ones. Karma has developed through four billion years of evolution, essentially on the self-survival instinct, magnified by human civilizations, the artificial pyramidal system, fighting for money, matter, and might with the five calamities (delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction).

 

14. 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.

 

15. Our coarse views are limited by the short, shallow, small self, like seeing only the apparent competition among plants above ground, but subtle scientific findings show that under the ground micro-organisms connect their root systems to cooperate in nutritional exchange, etc. Micro-organisms help plants and animals, enabling them to go over the land, develop their life functions, create fantastic flora and fauna, and interact with the universe throughout time and space.

 

16. Our life is limitless dependent co-origination and co-operation, thus great limitlessness, but due to karmic limited views and actions, we make it limited, small, and shallow in suffering, which is like one ofits bubblesstarting to think of itself as an independent, separated self (conventional, commonsense truth), separate from the ocean, which is transcendent truth beyond bubble thoughts (ultimate, universal truth).

 

17. Friendship (mettā/maitṝ) is future saviors in universal religions (intended to mean everyone’s potential to become the true friend in need of all, cf. Friend: Mitra, Mithra, Mazda, Maitreya, Milu, Miroku, Massiah, Messiah).

 

 

制限生苦から無限生楽へ：四無量

 

私達の苦は四苦八苦に纏められる（不可避の生老病死の四苦に普遍的な求不得苦、愛別離苦、怨憎会苦、要するに、五蘊盛苦を加えて八苦）。人間は集団の拡大により、差別、搾取、戦争、核などの社会問題を起こし、更に地球暖化、種大量絶滅などの地球問題群（地球規模の相互関連問題）を生み出しています。

 

その原因は「要するに、五蘊盛苦」とある通り、私達の業の結果である色受想行識（形態、感受、観念、行為、意識）が引き起こすものです。それは業の生存本能の三毒（貪瞋痴）と言ってよく、今良く自己中心的態度・行動、特に我執の強い短見の政治屋達、について言われる「三だけ」（我だけ、今だけ、金だけ）とも言えるでしょう、即ち我の愚痴が今の瞋恚（差別、憎悪）と金の貪欲になるのです。

 

その解決は、ブッダ（覚者）がそうした様に、私達が業‐誕生者、‐相続者、‐所有者、‐依拠者であると言う事実に目覚めて、善業により一切と共に友となり一切に奉仕、救済することです。ブッダが実践した様に静坐により業（新旧身口意）の三毒を静止して涅槃（無風、業風の）に安住して諸法の法（現象の法則：縁起＝因縁生起）を見て、それにより一切の因縁生起を知り、報恩し奉仕し助け救うことです。

 

誰でも静坐・（四・八）禅定により涅槃に安住して法・法界を見てそれに依拠（法洲）し同化（法身）すれば、三毒・「三だけ」に束縛された生から、自由・自治（自洲）により一切と共に友になり聖（全体健全）なる平等・平和・健康・幸福な四無量（慈悲喜捨）の無限生・無限光・無限愛・無限自由を生きることができます。

 

2023共通年8月25日

 

註：

1. １．五蘊（色、受、想、行、識：形態、感受、観念、行為、意識）は元はブッダが普通の（霊、我、アートマンなどに導く）曖昧さのある二分法―身心―そ超えて人を分析する為に組織化されたものです。色（色形：形態）は身体面を、その他は心理面を表します、但し行（行為）は身体と心理（身口意：身体・言論・意識）両面を含みます。その原語は) (パーリ語で、サンスクリット語で違う場合はカッコ内).rūpa, vedanā, saññā (saṁjñā), saṅkāra (saṁskāra), and viññāṇa (vijñāṇa)です。

 

2. 仏教の哲学と実践はこの諸法の法である縁起の根本法に基づいていますが、これは因果（律）の根本法と同様ですが、更に深く（客体だけでなく、むしろ）主体を含み強調しており（三毒の対処など）、更に深く、一切宇宙、新化、存在の深淵まで含みます。私達の生活は法界の普遍的生命より通常は小さく、浅いのです。だから私達は真の無限に関連する生命を私達の業の見解と行動で誤った、限られた、分離した署生活にしているのです。

 

3. 「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということです。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味します。

 

4. 十二支縁起（bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra、生成輪、輪廻輪）は（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す。

 

5. 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ます。

 

6. 静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にします。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実身)になります。

 

7. 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のです。四無量（四梵住）は慈（愛：友情：与楽）悲（泯：抜苦）喜捨（upekkhā/upekṣā）です。

 

8. 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、一切に奉仕し救済します。この過程は四禅と八定（samādhi）です（実際には四禅と四定は一緒で結合しています）。

 

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）が働くことが出来ます。

 

10. 地球問題群は（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）地球倫理を必要としますが、これは五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいたものです。

 

11. 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を知るのに重要です。

 

12. 五Sはフランシス・ベーコンの四イドラ（洞窟、広場、劇場、種族）の代表しカッシラーの象徴を加えたものです.

 

13. 業の見解と行動は、生まれつき盲目の者達が巨大な象の一部を撫でて自分たちの部分的発見を唯一の正しいものであるとお互いに争ったように、限られたものです。業は四十億年の新化により、本質的には自己保存の本能により、さらに金・物・力の奪い合いにより五禍（愚痴、束縛、差別、搾取、破戒）をもつ人工的金字塔組織により拡張されたものです。

 

14. 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す。文化は私達の真善美聖における潜在能力を修養することです。

 

15.  私達の粗大な見解は、地上の植物間に見かけ上競争があると見て、短く浅く小さな我により限られていますが、微細な科学的発見は地下に微細生物がその根の組織を繋ぎ栄養交換などで協力させているのです。微細生物は植物、動物を助け、それらが陸上に上がりその生命機能を発展させ、驚異的な植物相、動物相を創造し、時空を通して受注と相互交流するのです。

 

16. 私達の生命は無限の縁起と協力であり、こうして偉大な無限ですが、業による限られた見解と行動により私達はそれを限られた、小さく浅いものにして苦しんでいるのですが、これは大洋の泡沫の一つがそれから離れ独立した我であり（世俗的・常識的真理）、その泡沫の思いを超えた超越的真理である大洋（究極的・普遍的真理）から分離されている見做す様なものです。

 

17. 友情 (mettā/maitṝ)は諸普遍宗教では未来の救済者です（が、誰でもが一切の必要の時の真の友になる可能性を意図したものです。参考: トモ（共・友）：Mitra, Mithra, Mazda, Maitreya, Milu, Miroku, Massiah, Messiah).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Avoiding Nuclear Holocaust: Four Holy Truths

 

Putin’s war on Ukraine, with the threat of nuclear bombs, endangers the world, making World War III and nuclear holocaust possible. The U.N. cannot stop it, due to the veto power held by its five permanent security council members, and to the very few nations that support Russia. Thus, tens of millions of people have been ousted from their homes and homeland; hundreds of thousands have been killed, and many more have been maimed, tortured, raped, deported, abducted, etc.

 

The causes are the karmic triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, have developed into individual ones (fame and fortune), social ones (nationalism, militarism, mammonism, dictatorships, and pyramidal systems), and environmental ones (greed for natural resources, etc.). The five major players of the modern world – states, corporations, media, religion, and education – expand these triple poisons and their resultant effects (war, nukes, climate change, mass extinction, etc.).

 

The solutions lie in stopping the triple poisons and their resultant systems and synergies. Individuals must awaken and see that they are karma-machines with the triple poisons, then still their karma, settle in nirvana (no-wind, of karma), see the Dharma (Law/phenomena) of Dependent Co-origination, and serve and save all by reforming the present social systems and redirecting their synergies. We need to go beyond nationalism to globalism (global governance, etc.), and to a life system.

 

The concrete ways to solutions include analyzing the four holy truths of our problems, causes, solutions, and ways of solving them (the eight holy ways of right view, thinking, speech, action, livelihood, striving, mindfulness, and concentration) and applying these in our lives. We must decry the lawlessness and immorality of war, nukes, dictatorships, militarism, etc., and devote ourselves to working with others, living in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness.

 

August 19, 2023 C.E.

 

Note:

1. The Four Holy Truths are the truth of suffering (problem), its cause, cessation of the cause, and way of cessation. They are similar to the medical prognoses of sickness, its cause, its cure, and its curing, but wider in perspective and application.

 

2. The United Nations needs to reform its Security Council, especially its veto system, to avoid it, adopting majority rule in its General Assembly.

 

3. The five major players in the modern world are dependent on their components, surroundings, and their interactions in space and time, thus changing and changeable, fictitious bodies agreed upon by people’s thoughts and beliefs, cf. Ernst Cassirer’s The Myth of the State.

 

4. War, arsenal, nuke, etc. are due to the delusive belief in “the myth of the state.” The sovereignty of a state is succeeding the superstition of the sovereignty (=absolute power given by God) of a king, which is wrong from the truth of Dependent Co-origination, causality law, and from the global view.
5. Wars, nukes, climate change, mass extinction, discrimination, poverty, etc. are typical of the global problematique, interrelated problems, which create global sufferings. Wars and nukes are hampering the solutions to other grave sufferings. Resources (human, natural, etc.) used by them should be converted to the solutions to other problems and sufferings.

 

6. To avoid nuclear holocaust, nuclear weapons-holding nations should declare non-first use of nuclear weapons, strive to decrease the number of nuclear weapons (endeavoring in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), and attend as observers at, and then join the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. People holding power may want to hold onto nukes, enhancing their power position, but masses of people, as individual and organizations, must move to not let them do so. This is the most important and improving power in the progress of human history.

 

7. Mankind must move from tribal, regional, and national communities to a global one, and create a global governance (such as a world federation, NGOs, NPOs, people’s organizations, communities, etc., and the means for their cooperation and coordination) to avoid nuclear holocaust, and anti-war institutions (advancing and going beyond “the century of nationalism and war”) with mass movements all over the world. This will lead, hopefully, to a more natural, cyclical life Indra-net culture (going beyond the present artificial, unidirectional pyramidal civilization).

 

8. See the modern world federalist view on abolishing nukes and nuclear holocaust:

 

http://missourizencenter.org/mzcherenow/?p=15029

 

9. See a paradigm shift from the artificial, unidirectional pyramidal civilization for money, matter, and might with the five calamities (delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and destruction) to the life Indra-net culture for life, heart, and harmony with the five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace):

 

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

 

10. “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. This means that we, humans, 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.

 

核ホロコーストを避ける：四聖諦

 

プーチンのウクライナへの戦争は、核爆弾の威嚇で、第三次世界大戦と核ホロコーストの危険がある。国連は、その安保理五常任理事国の拒否権と、ロシアを支持するごく少数の国の為に、それを止めることが出来ない。かくして、何千万の人々が家や家郷を追い出され、何十万の人々が殺され、さらに、多くの者が身体障碍を受け、拷問され、暴行され、追放され、誘拐されるなどしてきている。

 

原因は業による貪瞋痴の三毒であり、進んで個人的（名誉ヤ地位）、社会的（国家主義、軍事主義、守銭主義、独裁制、金字塔組織）、環境的（資源欲等）のものとなっている。現代世界の五主要行動体―国家、企業、メディア、宗教、教育―はこれらの三毒とその結果（戦争、核、気候変動、大量絶滅等）を拡大している。

 

解決は三毒とその結果である組織と相乗効果を止める事にある。個人は自らが三毒を持った業機械であることに覚醒して、自らの業を静め、涅槃（凪、業風の）に安住し、縁起の法を見、現在の社会組織を改革しその相乗効果を方向転換して、一切に奉仕し救済しなければならない。私達は国家主義を超えて、地球主義（地球統治、など）、そして生命組織に移行する必要がある。

 

解決の具体的方途は私達の問題、原因、解決、それら解決の方法（正見、正思、正語、正行、正命、正精進、正念、正定の八聖道）の四聖諦を分析し、自らの生活にこれらを適用することを含む。私達は戦争、核、独裁、軍事主義等を非難し、他者と協働し、聖（全体健全）なる調和、健康、幸福に生きることに献身しなければならない。

 

2023共通年8月19日

 

註：

1. 四聖諦は苦（問題）、その原因、原因の停止、停止の方法の真理である。これらは医学の処方、病気、原因、治癒、治療に似ているがそれよりも視野と適用が広い。
2. 国連はその安全保障理事会、特にその拒否権、を止め、その総会の多数決を採用する必要がある。
3. 現代世界における五主要行動体は時間・空間においてその構成員、周囲事情や相互の関わり方に依存しているので、変化し変更し得るし、人々の思想や信仰による世間合意による仮構体であるー参照：エルンスト・カッシラー「国家の神話」。
4. 戦争、軍備、核などは「国家の神話」の妄信である。国家の主権は王様の（神が与えた絶対権力＝）主権という迷信を引き継いだものであり、縁起や因果律の真理や地球的観点からは誤りである。
5. 戦争、核、気候変動、大量絶滅、差別、貧困等は地球問題群、相関する諸問題、の典型的なものであり、これらは地球的苦悩を創っている。戦争と核は他の重大な苦悩の解決を妨げている。これらに使われる諸資源（人的、自然的等）は他の問題と苦悩の解決に転換されなければならない。
6. 核ホロコーストを避けるには、核兵器所有国が核兵器の先制不使用を宣言し、（核不拡散条約を推進努力して）核兵器の数を減らし、国連核兵器禁止条約にオブザーバーとして参加し、更にはそれに参加すべきである。権力の座にある者達は、自らの権力の座を強化する為に、核に固執するかもしれないが、大衆は、個人としても組織としても、彼らがそうしないように動かなければならない、それは人間の歴史での最も重要で改善の力である。
7. （「国家主義と戦争の世紀」を超え前進する為）世界中で大衆運動で反戦組織と協働し、核ホロコーストを避け、人類は部族、地方、国家の共同体から、地球のそれに移行し、（世界連邦、非政府組織、非営利組織、人々の組織、共同体、組合、連携など）地球管理を創り、（前進して「国家主義と戦争の世紀」を超え）反戦気候を創らなければならない。これは、望むらくは、（現在の人工的、一方向的金字塔文明を）もっと自然的で循環的な命帝網文化に導くであろう。
8. 核と核ホロコーストを避ける為の現代の世界連邦論者の見解を参照されたい：http://missourizencenter.org/mzcherenow/?p=15029
9. 五禍（迷妄、束縛、差別、搾取、破戒）を伴う金・物・力を求める人工的、一方向的金字塔文明から五福（覚醒、自由、平等、友愛、平和）を伴う命・心・和の自然的、循環的命帝網文化への枠組転換については下記を参照されたい：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
10. 「諸法（dharma: form/phenomena/truth/ethic）の法（Dharma: Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic）」は縁起、即ち、一切現象は無量の原因と条件により因縁生起するということである。これは、私達、人間、は他の存在（他種、元素、星など）と相関し互いに相対であり、だから、共に調和して生き、調和的、健康、幸福になる為に全体健全な世界を作らなければならないということを意味する。

 

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Live Limitless Life: Triple Learnings

 

The Buddha, Awakened One, illustrated the rarity and value of human life and its awakened way by saying that it is more rare and valuable than a blind turtle living at the bottom of the ocean, coming up to the surface once in a hundred years, and  sticking its head into a hole in a floating log. How can we live our precious life in the best way possible in a world of impermanence and suffering?

 

He made an example of his life, cultivating the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis, and verifying the Four Limitlessnesses of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity. He knew that all beings are karma-born, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged, and that we must cultivate ourselves and take refuge in good karma, avoiding bad karma in our will, emotion, and intelligence.

 

Good karma in our will, emotion, and intelligence are cultivated in the Triple Learnings of morality (sīla), concentration (samādhi), and prognosis (prajñā). Sīla is the pillar/backbone that makes a house/body stand firmly and function well. Samādhi stills and stabilizes our bodies and minds. Prajñā provides profound insight and wide perspective in truth and ethic, the bases for sīla and samādhi.

 

Prajñā, based on the awakening of the Dharma of all dharmas, i.e., Dependent  Co-origination, prognosticates truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness (wholly wholesomeness) in cultivating our karma in the limitlessly interdependent world, providing limitless friendship and compassion. Samādhi and prajñā provides limitless joy and equanimity beyond karma kinetics and ken.

 

August 12, 2023 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. The blind turtle represents the blind life of karmic existence, and the ocean the vast and violent waves of the suffering world. It would be almost impossible for the turtle to find and fit its head into a small hole of an aimlessly floating log, and encountering the Awakened Way and living it within the limitless life world is also this way.

 

2. The Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena) is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originating on limitless causes and conditions throughout time and space. So, all phenomena are related and relative, changing and changeable.

 

3. The life system is in a limitlessly interdependent and interrelated system through 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.

 

4. Sīla/śīla is to cultivate and conform to the Dharma of our life functions in will, emotion, intelligence (expressed in bodily, verbal, and mental forms), concretely in the Five/Ten Precepts (Sīla/śīla: backbone: cultivated character):

 

Five Precepts:

No killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, intoxicants (the first four, then all five, became the bases of the Declaration toward a Global Ethic, issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993 in Chicago).

 

Ten Precepts:

Physical: No killing, stealing, sexual misconduct

Verbal: No lying, eccentric words, abuse, double tongue

Mental: No desire, divisiveness, delusion

 

5. 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), within which paññā/prajñā can function.

 

6. Paññā/prajñā provides profound insight and holy perspective, not only prognostication’s after-care, but precautions beyond the partialities, preconceptions, and preoccupations of karma.

 

無量寿を生きよ：三学

 

ブッダ、覚者、は人間の生命と覚道の稀有と価値を、大海の底に棲む盲亀が百年に一度海面に上りその頭を浮木の穴に嵌るより稀有で価値があると例え話で表現しました。私達は自らの尊い生命を無常と苦の世界で如何にして最善に生きることができるでしょうか？

 

彼は戒定慧の三学を修行し慈悲喜捨の四無量を実証して自己の生命を例示しました。彼は一切衆生は業‐誕生者、‐相続者、‐所有者、‐機械、‐依拠者であり、私達は自ら修養し、知情意において悪業を避け、善業に依拠しなければならないことを知っていました。

 

知情意の善業は戒定恵(sīla, samādhi, prajñā)の三学によって修養されます。戒(sīla)は家・身を強固にし機能するようにする柱・背骨です。定 (samādhi)は私達の心身を静止し安定させます。恵 (prajñā)は戒・定の基盤となる真理・倫理における深甚の洞察と広大な視野を提供します。

 

諸法の法である縁起（因縁生起）に基づいた智慧（般若：prajñā/prajñā)は無限に相依する世界における私達の業を修養するのに真善美聖（全体健全）を処方し、無限の慈（友情）悲（同情）を提供します。定・恵は業の活動と範囲を超えた無限の喜（歓喜）捨（捨念清浄：静謐）を提供します。

 

2023共通年8月12日

 

註：

1．盲亀は業存在の盲目の生活を表し、大海は苦世界の広大・荒涼な波を表します。盲亀がその頭を当てもなく浮遊する丸太の小さな穴を見つけて入れるのは殆ど不可能ですが、覚道に遭遇し無量寿の世界内でそれを生きるのも又その様です。

 

２．諸法（形態・現象）の法（規範・法則）は縁起（因縁生起）です、即ち諸現象は時空における無量の原因と条件に基づいて生起するということです。だから、諸法は相関し相対であり、変化し変えることも可能です。

 

３．生命組織は無限の時空を通じての無限の相依相関の組織です。もし私達がそれを認知し実践するなら、私達は帝釈網の（結び目にある）水晶の珠のように無量寿、無量光、無量自由、無量愛として機能し、集合的に持続的にそれを聖（全体健全）、調和、健康、幸福にし、静謐・明澄に機能できます。

 

４．戒（Sīla/śīla）は知情意（身口意の形で表出）の生活機能を法に合致し修養することですが、具体的には五戒・十戒（背骨：修養した性格）です：

 

五戒：不殺生、不偸盗、不邪淫、不妄語、不飲酒（先ず前四項が、後に全五項が1993年シカゴでの世界宗教会議で発出された「地球倫理宣言」の基盤となりました。）

 

十戒：

身業：不殺生、不偸盗、不邪淫

口業：不妄語、不綺語、不悪口、不両舌

心業：不貪欲、不瞋恚、不愚痴

 

５．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、この中で般若の智慧（paññā/prajñā）が働きます。

６．恵（Paññā/prajñā）は（医学）処方のアフターケア（事後手当）のみならず、業の部分性、先入見、先入主を超えた予防の為の深甚の洞察と聖（全体健全）なる視野を提供します。

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