MZC HERE-NOW

 

Awakening for All: Zazen Value: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Holiness

 

Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, no wind of karma, thus settle in the universal truth beyond limited conditions of mental/physical/environmental, views/values, etc.

 

Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, thus settle in goodness, in the state of the five/ten precepts, etc., beyond limited conditions of money/matter/might, self/state, etc.

 

Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, savoring beatitude, shaping beauty in selves/ societies/systems, setting up beauty/beatitude/bounty throughout space/time.

 

Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, sharing holiness/harmony/health/happiness with all throughout selves/societies/systems beyond space/time/mind/matter.

 

November 15, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

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

 

2. 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/

 

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

 

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? inｓｈ “Why Buddhism Now?”

 

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

 

4. German definitions of Kultur and Zivilisation as above are important because of their potential and limit. Culture is cultivating individual, inner (spiritual) potential, limitless in person, but limited in transmitting between persons (one must start afresh). Civilization is increasing social, outer (material) power (in commodity and convenience), and limitless in sharing among people in time and space (one can add up to previous achievement), but limited in materials and ecology (limit in resources and sinks creating individual, social, ecological problems).

 

5. Zazen brings one back before/beyond delusion, discrimination, desire of mental/physical/ abstract/concrete/ cultural/civilizational, etc. to existential awakening, unity, equanimity of them (papañca-upasama/prapañca-upaśama, speculation/fabrication ceased), thus truth/goodness/beauty/holiness (wholly wholesomeness) are comprehensive/ expansive/ unified/unconditioned/ lawful/just/ universal/lasting. So, falsity/badness/ugliness/sin (separated sickness) can’t be lawful/just/ universal/lasting due to the system dynamics.

 

6. “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.

 

7. 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-

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一切の為の覚醒：坐禅価値：真善美聖

 

誰でも坐り、涅槃、業の無風、に安住することが出来る、だから心的/身的/環境的、見解/価値などの制限条件を超えた普遍的真理に安住できる。

 

誰でも坐り、涅槃に安住することが出来る、だから善に安住し、金/物/力、自我/我国などの制限条件を超えて、五/十戒などの状態に安住出来る。

 

誰でも坐り、涅槃に安住することが出来、至福を味わい、自己/社会/組織に美を造り、時間/空間に亙って美/至福/豊驍を構築できる。

 

誰でも坐り、涅槃に安住することが出来、時間/空間/心/物を超えて、自己/社会/組織に亙って聖性/調和/健康/幸福を分かち合うことが出来る。

 

2024共通年11月16日

 

註：

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

 

2. 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/

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

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/

4．文化Kultur (精神文化)と 文明Zivilisation (物質文明)のドイツ語の定義はそれらの可能性と限界の故に重要である。文化は個人の内面（霊性）可能性、個人的には無限であるが、個人間の転移には限界がある（各個人は最初から始める必要がある）。文明は社会的、外的（物質的）力（商品と便宜）であり時空（を超えて、以前の達成に加上して）人々の間で無限に共有できるが、物質と生態では制限がある（資源と沈下には限界があり個人・社会・生態の問題を生ずる）。

5. 座禅は、人を心的/身的/抽象的/具象的/文化的/文明的などの迷妄/差別/欲望を以前/超越に戻り、それらの実存的覚醒、統一、平静に至らせる（papañca-upasama/prapañca-upaśama、戯論寂滅/虚構静止）ので真善美聖（全体健全）は総合的/広大/統一/無条件/合法/正義/普遍的/永続的である。だから、偽/悪/醜/罪（分裂病患）はシステムダイナミクス（組織動態）によって合法/正義/普遍/永続ではありえない。

６．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。

７．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 Gift: Holiness

 

Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, serve and save all, becoming holy, harmonious, healthy, and happy, individually, socially, and environmentally.

 

Anyone can sit, step forward through the four stages of Zen, saved from emotions, volitions, samsara, and suffering, individually, socially, and environmentally.

 

Anyone can sit, stay in the four limitlessnesses of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity, serving and saving all from samsara suffering throughout space and time.

 

Anyone can sit, savor limitless life, light, liberation, and love, serving and saving all, securing all the treasures in the limitless world throughout space and time.

 

November 8, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

１．Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation) is to attain freedom from karma and freedom of dharma/Dharma in full function, returning to zero (suñña/śūnya), more awakened and wakeful than the wakeful state in karma, to  and reuniting with holiness (wholly wholesomeness) and limitlessness (cf. four limitlessnesses: friendship, compassion, joy, equanimity).

２．The practice of Zen, 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/

３．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).

４．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.

５．Samsara (saṁ-sāra, total flow) means all/constant change of phenomena due to Dependent Co-origination, represented as “birth-death.” Usually we are going through the shift among the six (five) states/ways of human beings, animal beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), hell beings, and celestial beings.　 These are allegorical states of our mind-world states from moment to moment, not like the Hindu idea of being born to be such after death

Please refer to 3. What Is Life? in “Why Buddhism Now?

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

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

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 “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

７．The Four Limitlessness (or Brahma-vihāra: Supreme/Pure-abode) is consisting of friendship (mettā, giving pleasure), compassion (karuṇā, removing suffering), joy (pīti), and equanimity (upekhā/upekṣā, lit. discarding/letting go).

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅贈物：聖性

 

誰でも坐り、涅槃に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済できて、個人的にも、社会的にも、環境的にも聖、調和、健康、幸福になれる。

 

誰でも坐り、禅の四状態を進み、個人的にも、社会的にも、環境的にも感情、意欲、輪廻と苦から救われることが出来る。

 

誰でも坐り、慈、悲、喜、捨の四無量に住し、時空何処でも輪廻苦から逃れ、一切に奉仕し救済することが出来る。

 

誰でも坐り、無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛を味わい、一切に奉仕し救済し、時空の無限世界で一切の宝を確保出来る。

 

2024共通年11月9日

 

註：

１．禅はゼロ（suñña/śūnya：空）に帰り、業にある覚醒状態より更に目覚め覚醒しており、聖（全体健全）と無量（慈悲喜捨の四無量参照）と再結合する十全な活動である。

２．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。

３．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。

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．輪廻　(saṁ-sāra, 字義は全‐流)は縁起の故に現象が全体/常時変化することで、生死（発生種滅）で代表される。通常人間、畜生、餓鬼、（修羅）、地獄、天上の五（六）状態/道を変化を経る。これらは私達の刻々の心‐境（境涯：心‐世界）の比喩的状態のことで、死後に生まれるものというヒンドゥー教の考えとは違う。

「今何故仏教か？」の３．生存とは何か？を参照：

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

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

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/

７．四無量（四梵住）は慈（愛：友情：mettā, 与楽）、悲（泯：karuṇā. 抜苦）、喜(悦: pīti)、捨（離：upekkhā/upekṣā）である。

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Awakening for All: Zazen Goal: Limitless

 

Zazen is stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeking, serving and savoring the Dharma of all dharmas. This is the process from limitedness to limitlessness. Anyone can witness limitless life, light, liberation, love, etc., both in quantity and quality. One’s life is not limited to the physical, but the psychological, social, ecological, and historical, beyond limited space and time, ever more engaged and enjoyed.

 

One can light up, look up, line up, link up – endeavored, enlightened, engaged, enjoyed, connected, comprehending, communicated, etc., ever more, wider, deeper, further, subtler, sensible, sensitive, etc. – self, others, societies, environment, people, plants, planets, stars, the universe, visible, invisible, past, present, future, actions, activities, truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, morality, ethics, laws, etc.

 

One can be liberated from karma – ideas, intellections, emotions, volitions: isms, ideologies, symbols, selves, societies, statuses, states, sins, lusts, cravings, crimes, desires, divisiveness, delusions, destruction, drowsiness, sloth, agitation, attachment, worries, fears, doubts, nescience, birth, aging, sickness, death, fame, fortune, matter, might, money, bondage, discriminations, devastation, destruction, etc.

 

One can love oneself, Dharma, dharmas: humans, species, things – flowers, fruits, bees, birds, planets, stars, aspiration, actions, activities, families, friends, homes, hobbies, hopes, truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, arts, sciences, cultivation, verification, nirvana, awakening, freedom, friendship, peace, prognosis, compassion, joy, equanimity, life, light liberation, etc., beyond limited space and time.

 

November 2, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

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 5). This law is similar to the law of causality, now used by sciences, but deeper and wider, applied beyond objects – more on subjects and symbols – ideas, etc.).

2. “The Dharma (Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/ truths/ethics)” is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider – beyond conventions, conceptions, objects, etc.). This means that we are interrelated with other beings (other species, elements, stars, etc.), and relatives to each other, and that we must therefore live together harmoniously and strive to make a wholly wholesome world to become harmonious, healthy, and happy.

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

４．Sitting still (zazen: sitting meditation) makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing of the truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya). Anyone can become like a harmonious, cooperating tree (harmonious with elements, giving oxygen, flowers, fruits, building materials, etc.), and a truthful tree (both true and tree have the same etymological root of dhṝ, lasting: ten thousand year old tree found in Africa). (cf. Zen koan of a cypress tree in the garden).

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], and 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 the 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 “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅目標：無量

 

坐禅は業を静め涅槃に安住し、諸法の法を求め、仕え、味わう。これは制限から無限への過程である。誰でも量・質両者で無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛等を確証できる。人の命は身体的にも心理的にも、社会的にも、生態的にも、歴史的にも限られた時・空を超え、制限されず、更に益々親密になり享受される。

 

人は更に多く、広く、深く、進み、微妙に、分かり、敏感などに照らし、見つめ、整頓し、連携し、努力し、照らされ、関わり、教授し、連結し、分かり、疎通するなどを出来るー自他、社会、環境、人々、植物、惑星、星々、宇宙、可視、不可視、過去、現在、未来、行動、活動、真、善、美、聖、道徳、倫理、諸法等において。

 

人は業―概念、知、情、意、主義、イデオロギー、象徴、自我、社会、知意、国家、罪、欲、渇愛、犯罪、貪、瞋、痴、破戒、眠気、怠惰、浮つき、執着、懸念、恐怖、疑念、無明、生、老、病、死、名誉、財産、物、力、金、束縛、差別、壊滅、破壊等―から自由になりうる。

 

人は自己、法：他：人間、種族、事柄―限られた時空を超えて花、果、蜂、鳥、惑星、星々、誓願、行動、活動、家族、友人、家、趣味、希望、真、善、美、聖、芸術、科学、修行、覚証、涅槃、覚醒、自由、友情、平和、智慧、同情、喜悦、不動、生命、光明、自由等を愛すことが出来る。

 

2024共通年11月2日

 

註：

１．法（dharma）は 形態（form： d-harmより: 現象：真理)、２．規則（norm： d-h-armより:現象中の規則：倫理)、３．諸法の法、縁起（元来は感覚器官と感覚対象に依る知覚・意識の発生に覚醒したが後に一切現象に適用されたもの。註5参照）。この法則は、現今諸科学に用いられる、因果律と同様であるが、もっと深く広い－客体を越えて主体と観念などの象徴に適用される。

２．諸法（形態・現象）の法（規則・法則・真理・倫理）は縁起（因縁生起）、即ち、一切現象は無量の直接原因と間接条件により相依生起するということである（因果則に似ているがさらに深く広い－世俗、観念、対象などを超える）。これは私達が他者（多種、要素、星宿など）と相依関係にあることを意味し、相互に相対的であり、私達が調和、健康、幸福になる為には共に調和して生き、全体健全な世界を作る努力をしなければならないことを意味する。

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

４．静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にする。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実人身)になる。誰でも、調和協働している樹（一切元素と調和し酸素、花、果、建築材などを提供する）、だから真実である樹（true/tree両者共法：dharmaの語根 dhṝと同様永続を意味し：一万年生き延びる樹もある）の様に成れる （参考：禅公按：庭前柏樹子）。

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/

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Awakening for all: Zazen Gift: Great Respite

 

The Dharma (Law) of all dharmas (phenomena) is that all are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and the four common ones of not getting the desired, parting with loved ones, meeting with the hated, and the five component elements rampant, totaling eight. We must undergo the samsara (life flow) sufferings of them.

 

The two roots of craving (taṅā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, resulting in suffering) and nescience (a-vijjā/a-vidyā, no-witness of nirvana, resulting in divisiveness and samsara) cause suffering and samsara (usually involving suffering). The triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego, involving samsara) is imbued in our karma (actions, habits, heredity), which is the dynamo of samsara suffering.

 

Sitting stills karma (past/present physical, verbal, mental), leading to nirvana (no-wind, of karma), called sitting stilling (za-dan), stilling both roots of craving and nescience, thus stilling samsara suffering. Za-zen, sitting meditation, involves stilling intellection, emotion, and volition, leading to samādhi (concentration: calm and clear, stable and solid, free from karma and now full function of it).

 

Zazen is the Dharma gate of peace and happiness. The Buddha called it the great respite (mahā-assāsa/-aśvāsa, lit. great breath/exhalation). It is the state of great peace and happiness (sukha-vatī, lit. happiness-full), later considered to be paradise/pure-land, but it is not any place, but the mind/body/world state in peace and happiness. Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, and serve and save all.

 

October 25, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes：

 

1. “The Dharma (Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/ truths/ethics)” is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider – beyond conventions, conceptions, objects, etc.). This means that we are interrelated with other beings (other species, elements, stars, etc.), and relatives to each other, and that we must therefore live together harmoniously and strive to make a wholly wholesome world to become harmonious, health, and happy.

 

2. The 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 3 of the “Why Buddhism Now?” for the detailed explanation of the structural explanation of the Becoming Wheel (bhava cakka/cakka):

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

 

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．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/

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅：大安息

 

諸法の法は一切が無限の原因と条件により縁起するというものである。私達は不可避の生老病死の四苦、求不得、愛別離、怨憎会、五蘊盛の普通の四苦、合わせて八苦を持っている。私達はそれらの輪廻苦を経験する。

 

渇愛（taṅā/tṛṣṇā,　字義は渇き、結果は苦）と無明（a-vijjā/a-vidyā、字義は無確証、涅槃の、結果は差別と輪廻）の二根は苦と輪廻（通常苦になる）を惹起する。貪瞋痴（エゴの愚痴、輪廻になる）の三毒は私達の業に浸潤したものであるが、業は輪廻苦の原動力である。

 

静坐は（過去/現在の身口意）業を静め、坐断といわれる、涅槃に導き、渇愛と無明の二根を静め。かくして輪廻苦を静める。坐禅は知情意を静め、三昧（samādhi、精神集中：静穏明澄、安定堅固、業から自由、かくして業の十分な機能）に導く。

 

坐禅は安楽の法門である。ブッダはそれを大安息（mahā-assāsa/-aśvāsa、字義は大呼吸/出息）と呼んだ。それは安楽に満ちた（sukha-vatī，字義は幸福充満：極楽）状態である、後には楽園/浄土と考えられたが、場所では無く平安幸福な心身世界の状態である。誰でも坐れ、涅槃に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕・救済できるのである。

 

2024共通年10月26日

 

註：

１．諸法（形態・現象）の法（規則・法則・真理・倫理）は縁起（因縁生起）、即ち、一切現象は無量の直接原因と間接条件により相依生起するということである（因果則に似ているがさらに深く広い－世俗、観念、対象などを超える）。これは私達が他者（多種、要素、星宿など）と相依関係にあることを意味し、相互に相対的であり、私達が調和、健康、幸福になる為には共に調和して生き、全体健全な世界を作る努力をしなければならないことを意味する。

２．十二支縁起（bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra、生成輪、輪廻輪）は縁起の法の適用例の最もよく知られた代表ですが、口碑による線形の表出（三世両重の因果と呼ばれる胎生学的解釈）の為とヒンズー教の輪廻説により誤解されている。実際には感覚器官と感覚対象にって共縁起する意識、割愛による苦、専有（同定：執着）によるサンサーラ（全流：全体刻々変化の意で、ヒンズー教の輪廻ではない）の複合形です。（元来は所謂「自己」後に世界を同定し分析する為の）五蘊と共に、三毒の故に苦に成る私達の生がどのように展開するかを例示したものである。

生成輪 (bhava cakka/cakra)の構造的形態の詳細説明については「何故今仏教か？」の３参照：　　https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/

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/

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Awakening for All: Zazen Ultimate: Universality

 

Dogen says, “Even one person’s one-time zazen, due to its harmonizing together with all dharmas and perfectly penetrating with all times, makes the Buddha’s performance of the Way in the limitless Dharma world, constantly through past, present, and future.” Zazen makes one universal, communicating and contributing the universal Dharma world throughout space and time.

 

“All ancestors residing in and maintaining the Awakened Way as well as all Buddhas have made upright sitting and practice, relying on it in self-appreciating Samadhi, as their right way of opening awakening.” Buddhas and bodhisattvas, awakening beings, understand and activate zazen as the right way to attain awakening in nirvana, no-wind of karma, imbued with the triple poisons.

 

“Zazen is the Dharma gate of peace and happiness.” “If cultivating, all attain the Way.” Zazen is stilling karma, freed from problems and suffering arising from the triple poisons. It is saving from samsara suffering, suffering from constant flow and transmigration through the six paths of hungry ghosts, fighting devils, etc., transcending sins, separated sickness, from the universal Dharma world.

 

“Not selecting the beginning heart or the later one, not arguing about saints and commoners, it is recommended to do zazen and strive in the Way by the Buddha’s teaching and the Way strivers,” he says, “Even if this Dharma is abundantly endowed with everyone’s part, it never manifests itself without cultivation; it never is attained without verification.” “Cultivation and verification are one.”

 

October 19, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

１．“The Dharma (Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/ truths/ethics)” is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider – beyond conventions, conceptions, objects, etc.). This means that we are interrelated with other beings (other species, elements, stars, etc.), and relatives to each other, and that we must therefore live together harmoniously and strive to make a wholly wholesome world to become harmonious, health, and happy.

２．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).

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．Samsara (saṁ-sāra, total flow) means all/constant change of phenomena due to Dependent Co-origination, represented as “birth-death.” Usually we are going through the shift among the six (five) states/ways of human beings, animal beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), hell beings, and celestial beings.　 These are allegorical states of our mind-world states from moment to moment, not like the Hindu idea of being born to be such after death

Please refer to 3. What Is Life? in “Why Buddhism Now?

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

 

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅究極：普遍性

 

道元は「わずかに一人、一時の坐禅なりといえども諸法とあい冥し、諸時とまどかに通ずるがゆえに、無尽法界のなかに去来現に常恒の仏化道事をなすなり。」と言う。坐禅は人を普遍にし、時空に亙る普遍的法界と疎通し貢献する。

 

「仏法を住持せし諸祖ならびに諸仏ともに自受用三昧に端坐依行するをその開悟のまさしき、みちとせり。」仏、菩薩、覚醒を求める者、は涅槃、三毒の浸潤した業の無風、の中に覚醒を得る正門として坐禅を理解し実践する。

 

「坐禅は、すなわち、安楽の法門なり。」「修すれば、みな得道す、」坐禅は業を静め、三毒から生ずる問題と苦から自由になる。それは輪廻苦、恒常的流転、餓鬼、修羅など六道の輪廻の苦、から救い、普遍的法界からの分離病患である罪を超越する。

 

「初心、後心をえらばず、凡人、聖人を論ぜず、仏のおしえにより宗匠の道をおうて坐禅弁道すべし、とすすむ。」と言い、「この法は、人人の分上にゆたかにそなはれりといへども、いまだ修せざるにはあらはれず、証せざるにはうることなし。」、「仏法には修、証これ一等なり。」と言う。

 

2024共通年10月19日

 

註：

１．諸法（形態・現象）の法（規則・法則・真理・倫理）は縁起（因縁生起）、即ち、一切現象は無量の直接原因と間接条件により相依生起するということである（因果則に似ているがさらに深く広い－世俗、観念、対象などを超える）。これは私達が他者（多種、要素、星宿など）と相依関係にあることを意味し、相互に相対的であり、私達が調和、健康、幸福になる為には共に調和して生き、全体健全な世界を作る努力をしなければならないことを意味する。

２．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。

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．輪廻　(saṁ-sāra, 字義は全‐流)は縁起の故に現象が全体/常時変化することで、生死（発生種滅）で代表される。通常人間、畜生、餓鬼、（修羅）、地獄、天上の五（六）状態/道を変化を経る。これらは私達の刻々の心‐境（境涯：心‐世界）の比喩的状態のことで、死後に生まれるものというヒンドゥー教の考えとは違う。

「今何故仏教か？」の３．生存とは何か？を参照：

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

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Awakening for all: Zazen Essence: Amrita: Ambrosia

 

My dentist pulled out an infected tooth, raised a loose and bad bite, and put back in order its original good position and good bite. I saw a TV story, “A Man Who Became a Crane.” He took care of the red-crowned crane, incubating its flood-soaked eggs, talking to them, and running with the baby birds, teaching them how to fly. Now a hundred times the number of cranes visit his park.

 

We can sit still and still bad karma to restore the good original state with good function. Zazen essence is amṛta, immortality/ambrosia, returning to the original state, before birth-death samsara, enjoying ambrosia, flying free and full, floating on air, high and low, fast and slow, far and near, with a wide and far-reaching bird’s eye view, directly seeing and directly attesting by free flying.

 

It is said that if an artificially hatched and raised crane is not taught to fly, it becomes reluctant to fly and never learns to fly. If we don’t learn to sit and still karma, we never learn to settle in nirvana, which is amṛta, limitless life, light, liberation, love, etc., seeing the Dharma of all dharmas, opening the treasure house to use it freely and fully according to one’s own will and wish.

 

Zazen stills bad karma, sees the Dharma of all dharmas, Dependent Co-origination, i.e., that all phenomena are dependently co-originated on causes and conditions. So, this is the easiest, shortest, surest, most natural, reasonable, economical, universal, and practical way to solve problems and sufferings in individuals, societies, and environments, preparing dharmas and enjoying ambrosia.

 

October 11, 2024 C.E.

 

Notes:

１．11, 22:30 NHK “A Man Who Became a Crane” originally aired in 1987. It tells the story of Yoshiji Takahashi of Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan.

２．Nirvana, no-wind (of karma), is expressed in many ways: immortality (amṛta), no birth-death, no samsara, before parents giving birth, un-made, emptiness, no fabrication/projection (papaňca/ a-prapaňca), pure-land, paradise (sukha-vatī, full of comfort/happiness), falling away of body/mind, undefinable (a-byākata), etc. Immortality is not only physical, but also mental (mind-world) while living, not falling into the hands of Māra (Devil, lit. Death).

３．Dharma means 1. form (from d-harm: phenomenon) and 2. norm (from d-h-arm: norm: law operating through phenomena: ethic), and 3. the teaching of the law of all phenomena, that is, Dependent Co-origination (originally awakened on the origination of perception/consciousness depending on the sense organs and objects, but later applied to all phenomena, cf. note 5). This law is similar to the law of causality, now used by sciences, but deeper and wider, applied beyond objects – more on subjects and symbols – ideas, etc.).

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, healthy, and happy.

５．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 of one in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).

６．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 of the structural explanation of the Becoming Wheel (bhava cakka/cakka):

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

７．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 part 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”

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

 

 

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Awakening for All: Zazen Advantages: Prognoses!

 

After awakening, the Buddha enjoyed the pure peace and bliss of nirvana. He found the world sunken deeply in the accumulated karma of the triple poisons, heading to destruction and demise. He first thought it difficult to change it, but was moved by his innermost aspiration to help suffering beings and avoid catastrophe.

 

Problems require prognoses, as necessity is said to be the mother of invention.  Prognoses come from profound, progressive, and productive perspectives. Awakened ones only can provide profound prognoses. The Buddha provided the Dharma in nirvana to solve karma, the triple learnings for the triple poisons.

 

From the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, the representative prognosis of the 4 holy truths was provided. Other dharmas were provided as corollaries, such as the 2 and 3 refuges, the 4 limitlessnesses, and 5 and 10 precepts, and 12-limbed Dependent Co-origination. Prognoses are attained by bodhisattvas, awakening beings.

 

The two ways are seeing (principle, as above) and cultivating (practice, as below). The so-called 37 awakening ways are the 4 mindfulness foundations, 4 exertions, 4 potency bases, 5 faculties, 5 powers, 7 awakening limbs, and 8 holy ways. Only practice makes perfect – only cultivation (zazen) perfects verification (awakening/prognosis).

 

October 5, 2024 C.E.

Notes：

 

１．Paññā/prajñāis the cognate of prognosis, meaning profound perspective, progressive insight, and productive wisdom to solve problems, identifying their causes and conditions, providing their solutions, and offering the concrete steps to solve them as in the four holy truths/realities.

２．In the Holiness Seeking Sutra (Ariyapariyesana Sutta), the Buddha spoke of his search for holiness in nirvana, visiting his two teachers, attaining awakening, hesitating to tell his finding by seeing the world sunken in store-consciousness (ālaya) where it is difficult to see Dependent Co-origination, and Brahma’s beseeching him to go out into the world to teach lest the world should be destroyed.

https://www.dhamma.uk/tipitaka/sutta-pitaka/majjhima-nikaya/mn-26-ariyapariyesana-sutta-noble-search/

３．Sitting still (zazen: sitting meditation) makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing the of truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya).　Anyone can become like a harmonious, cooperating tree (harmonious with elements, giving oxygen, flowers, fruits, building materials, etc.), and truthful tree (both true and tree have the same etymological root of dhṝ, lasting: ten thousand year old tree found in Africa). (cf. Zen koan of a cypress tree in the garden).

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．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 3 of the “Why Buddhism Now?” for the detailed explanation of the structural explanation of the Becoming Wheel (bhava cakka/cakka):

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

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅優位性！

 

開悟の後ブッダは涅槃の清浄な平和と喜悦を楽しんだ。彼は瀬かいが深く積もり積もった三毒の業に深く沈没し、破戒と終末に向かっｓていることを見た。彼はそれを変えることは難しいと最初考えたが、苦しむ者達を助け破局を避けたいという内奥の誓願に動かされた。

 

必要は発明の母と言われるように、問題は般若（知恵：処方）を要求する。般若は甚深の、進歩し、生産的な展望から来る。覚者達のみが甚深の般若を提供できる。ブッダは業を解決する為に涅槃の中に法を、三毒に対して三学を、提供した。

 

諸法の法から、四聖諦の代表的処方が出て来る。その自然の系列として、二、三洲、四無量、五、十戒、十二支縁起といった他の法が提供される。般若（処方）は菩薩、目覚めを目指す者達、によって得られるのである。

 

二道は見道（理論、上記のような）と修道（実践、下記のような）である。所謂三十七覚支は四念処、四正勤、四超能力、五機能、五能力、七覚支、八聖道である。実践のみが完成に至る－修行（坐禅）のみが確証（覚醒・涅槃）を完成に至る。

 

2024共通年10月5日

 

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Notes:

１．Paññā/prajñā はprognosis ()と同語源であり、四聖諦の様に、問題を解き、その原因と条件を特定し、解決を提供し、それを解決する具体的方途を提示する甚深の展望、シンポの洞察と生産的智慧である。

https://www.dhamma.uk/tipitaka/sutta-pitaka/majjhima-nikaya/mn-26-ariyapariyesana-sutta-noble-search/

 

２．聖求経でブッダは涅槃における聖を求め、二師を訪ね、覚醒を得たが、世界は蔵識 (ālaya)に深く沈没しており縁起を見ることは困難であるので自分で見出した事を語るのを躊躇したが、梵天が、それでは世界が滅ぶので、滅ばないように世に出て教えるようにと頼んだことを語っている。

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E6%B1%82%E7%B5%8C

 

３．静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にする。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実人身)になる。誰でも、調和協働している樹（一切元素と調和し酸素、花、果、建築材などを提供する）、だから真実である樹（true/tree両者共法：dharmaの語根 dhṝと同様永続を意味し：一万年生き延びる樹もある）の様に成れる （参考：禅公按：庭前柏樹子）。

 

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/

６．十二支縁起（bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra、生成輪、輪廻輪）は縁起の法の適用例の最もよく知られた代表ですが、口碑による線形の表出（三世両重の因果と呼ばれる胎生学的解釈）の為とヒンズー教の輪廻説により誤解されている。実際には感覚器官と感覚対象にって共縁起する意識、割愛による苦、専有（同定：執着）によるサンサーラ（全流：全体刻々変化の意で、ヒンズー教の輪廻ではない）の複合形です。（元来は所謂「自己」後に世界を同定し分析する為の）五蘊と共に、三毒の故に苦に成る私達の生がどのように展開するかを例示したものである。

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

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

 

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Maitreya, Friendship, Bodhisattva

弥勒（友情）菩薩

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Awakening for All: Zazen Merit: Awakening

 

The world has many problems, such as discrimination, poverty, starvation, crime, and climate change. Now wars are causing the genocide of hundreds of thousands people, threatening nuclear war and holocaust, making the Doomsday Clock advance to 90 seconds to doom.

 

This is due to karma, especially its triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion of ego. Self, society, status, species, and symbolism cause sin, the separated sick way/world, bringing us discrimination and devastation, individually, socially, and environmentally.

 

The Buddha said, “The world is on fire: Eyes, ears, etc. are on fire.” He sat zazen, stilled karma, settled in nirvana, saw the Dharma, served and saved the world, awakening from the long night of nescience, no witness of nirvana, providing prognoses for all problems and sufferings.

 

He provided the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis to solve the problems of the triple poisons. Not relying on sin, but on holiness, the wholly wholesome way/world, all can become awakened to live limitless life, light, liberation, and love in holy harmony and happiness.

 

September 27, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

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

２．The five aggregates (pañca-skhandha：form, feeling, ideation, formation, and consciousness) are to further analyze the common two parts of body and mind to critically investigate the latter (feeling, ideation, formation: volition, etc., consciousness). These are all interdependently originating and ceasing (related and relative, thus not independent and eternal). The Buddha advised that we rely on ourselves and the Dharma, not others. This means that we must rely on ourselves, not others carelessly, but we must see and judge for ourselves whether things are true and just. He also advised that we not to follow other a-Dharma (un-true, un-ethical, un-holy, un-effective, etc.) ways (cf. six other ways in his time: accidentalism, fatalism, skepticism, indeterminism, etc.).

３．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.

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

５．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/

 

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

７．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

 

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅長所：覚醒

 

世界は差別、貧困、餓死、犯罪、気候変動のような多くの問題をかかえている。今や戦争は何十万という人種殲滅を惹起し、核戦争と核ホロコーストの脅威があり、世界終末時計は終末の90秒前まで進められた。

 

これは業、特にエゴの貪瞋痴三毒の為である。自我、社会、地位、種族、象徴は罪、分離病患道/界、を惹起し、個人、社会、環境の差別と壊滅を齎している。

 

ブッダは「世界は燃えている：眼耳などが燃えている」と言った。彼は坐禅をし、業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、世界に奉仕し救済し、涅槃無確証である無明、長夜から目覚めて、一切の問題と苦の為の処方（般若：智慧）を提供した。

 

彼は三毒の問題を解決する為に戒定慧の三学を提供した。罪に依るのではなく、聖、全体健全道/界、に依って一切が聖なる調和と幸福の中に無量寿、無量光、無量解（脱）と無量愛に生きることに覚醒することが出来る。

 

2024共通年9月28日

 

註：

 

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

２．（色：色形：身、受：感受、想：思想、行：行動、識：意識：心）の五蘊（集合体）は普通の身心二分法を更に分析し後者（受想行識）を批判的に検討する為のものである。これらは全て相互依存して生起、消滅する（相関相対だから独立でも恒常でもない）。仏陀は自らと法に依り、他に依るなと忠告した。これは、私達が自らに頼り、他に不注意に頼ってはならないと言う事であり、物事を真実で正義であるかを自ら見て判断しなければならないということである。彼は又他の不法（非真実、非倫理、非聖性、非効果など）に従わないよう忠告した（参考：同時代の六師外道：偶然論、運命論、懐疑論、非決定など）。

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

４．静坐（坐禅:静坐禅定）は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にする。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実身)になる。誰でも真実にある樹（両者共法：dharmaの語根 dhṝと同様永続を意味し一万年生き延びる樹もある）調和している樹（一切元素と調和し酸素、花、果、建築材など与える）の様に成れる。

５．十二支縁起（bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra、生成輪、輪廻輪）は縁起の法の適用例の最もよく知られた代表ですが、口碑による線形の表出（三世両重の因果と呼ばれる胎生学的解釈）の為とヒンズー教の輪廻説により誤解されている。実際には感覚器官と感覚対象にって共縁起する意識、割愛による苦、専有（同定：執着）によるサンサーラ（全流：全体刻々変化の意で、ヒンズー教の輪廻ではない）の複合形です。（元来は所謂「自己」後に世界を同定し分析する為の）五蘊と共に、三毒の故に苦に成る私達の生がどのように展開するかを例示したものである。

６．涅槃は（貪瞋痴三毒を内包する業の）無風を意味するが、そこで人は初めて法界を直証することが出来、静寂、明澄、統御、注意部会状況で、無明長夜から諸法の法に目覚め、それから諸問題と諸苦に対して四聖諦、八聖道の処方（般若：智慧）出来る。

７．私達の人工的で一方向の金字塔文明から命・心・和の分かち合いによる五福（覚醒、自由、平等、友情、平和）をもつ自然的で循環的な命帝網文化への枠組転換が地球問題群を解決する為には必須である。文化は私達の真善美聖(参考：諸科学、諸哲学、諸芸術、諸宗教)における潜在能力を修養することである。

詳細説明は下記を参照：

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-WxkuM

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(Hereunder are pictures with notes on them, sent to Rosan, who wants to share these beautiful pictures):

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Today (Sept. 22, 2024), when I was walking on the Camino in Portugal, I saw an abundance of morning glories growing wild in the woods beside the path. They reminded me of you.

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Today (Sept. 24), we were walking over the bridge between Portugal and Spain crossing the river Minho. On the coast of Spain, the entire green foliage were morning glories. I never before have seen such fullness. It also was raining and the raindrops made beautiful, interrelating circles. So peaceful! The bridge we crossed before was a Roman bridge. It is great to walk in nature!

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Awakening for all: Zazen Benefit: Nirvana

 

Tomorrow will be the autumnal equinox, middle day of higan, yonder shore, meaning nirvana. For a thousand years in Japan, on this day and the three days before and after, Japanese people have practiced the six perfections and made offerings of ohagi, rice cake, etc., to the deceased, and shared them with neighbors.

 

Humans have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and eight sufferings: the four just mentioned along with not getting the desired, parting from the beloved, meeting with the hated and, in short, our five aggregates, forms, feelings, formations, etc., being rampant.

 

The human species is said to be the supreme among living beings, but it has become the worst in causing climate change, ecological devastation, biodiversity destruction, and now even nuclear holocaust, advancing the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to doom.

 

This is due to human karma, especially the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, of its psycho-physical evolution and science-technological revolution. The Buddha attained nirvana and awakening and shared them for us all to attain them also.

 

Zazen stills our psycho-physical karma with its intellection, emotion, and volition, especially the two roots of craving and nescience, no witness of nirvana, no wind (of karma). It stills suffering and samsara, the struggling shifts through the six paths or realms.

 

September 21, 2024 C.E.

 

Note:

1. The six perfections (pāramitā) are to perfect giving, morality, patience, striving, concentration, and prognosis.

 

2. The five aggregates (pañca-skhandha：form, feeling, ideation, formation, and consciousness) are to further analyze the common two parts of body and mind to critically investigate the latter (feeling, ideation, formation: volition, etc., consciousness). These are all interdependently originating and ceasing (related and relative, thus not independent and eternal). The Buddha advised that we rely on ourselves and the Dharma, not others. This means that we must rely on ourselves, not others carelessly, but we must see and judge for ourselves whether things are true and just. He also advised that we not follow other a-Dharma (un-true, un-ethical, un-holy, un-effective, etc.) ways (cf. six other ways in his time: accidentalism, fatalism, skepticism, indeterminism, etc.).

 

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

 

5. Samsara (saṁ-sāra, total flow) means all/constant change of phenomena due to Dependent Co-origination, represented as “birth-death.” Usually we are going through the shift among the six (five) states/ways of human beings, animal beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), hell beings, and celestial beings.

 

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

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅功徳：涅槃

 

明日は秋分の日、涅槃を意味する彼岸の中日である。日本で千年の間、この日とその前後三日、人々は六波羅蜜（完成）を行い、お萩を亡くなった人達に供えたり近所と分け合ったりしてきた。

 

人は生老病死の避けられない四苦と八苦をもっている、即ち先述の四苦に加えて求不得苦、愛別離苦、怨憎会苦、略して、身体、感受、行動など五蘊盛苦である。

 

人種は万物の霊長と言われているが、気候変動、生態劣化、生物多様性破壊、そして今では核ホロコーストで世界終末時計を終末まで90秒にまで進めている。

 

これは人間の業、特に心理‐身体の新化と科学‐技術の革命による貪瞋痴の三毒のせいである。ブッダは涅槃と覚醒を得て、一切の者も又それらを得ることが出来るようにそれらを共有した。

 

坐禅は知情意と共に心理‐身体業を静め、渇愛と、（業の）無風である涅槃を確証しないという、無明の二根を静め、苦と、六道即ち六界をもがき変転する、輪廻を静める。

 

2024共通年9月21日

 

註：

１．六波羅蜜（完成）は布施、戒律、忍耐、精進、禅定、智慧を完成させること。

２．（色：色形：身、受：感受、想：思想、行：行動、識：意識：心）の五蘊（集合体）は普通の身心二分法を更に分析し後者（受想行識）を批判的に検討する為のものである。これらは全て相互依存して生起、消滅する（相関相対だから独立でも恒常でもない）。仏陀は自らと法に依り、他に依るなと忠告した。これは、私達が自らに頼り、他に不注意に頼ってはならないと言う事であり、物事を真実で正義であるかを自ら見て判断しなければならないということである。彼は又他の不法（非真実、非倫理、非聖性、非効果など）に従わないよう忠告した（参考：同時代の六師外道：偶然論、運命論、懐疑論、非決定など）。

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

４．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。

５．輪廻　(saṁ-sāra, 字義は全‐流)は縁起の故に現象が全体/常時変化することで、生死（発生種滅）で代表される。通常人間、畜生、餓鬼、（修羅）、地獄、天上の五（六）状態/道を変化を経る。

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

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Pictures above and the following were taken and sent

by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

 

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