Awakening for All: Zazen Living: Living Dharma
Karma-born/owner/machines imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion live with samsara-sufferings of four inevitable and four common sufferings in the triple ways of individual, social, and environmental living being.
Sufferings are summed up as “In short, commotions of the five aggregates (of physical forms, mental ideas, feelings, consciousnesses, and psycho-physical actions),” which are driven by the triple poisons accumulated since life started billions of years ago.
Zazen is still solid sitting, stilling karma (commotions of the five aggregates), settling in nirvana (no-wind, of karma), seeing (abhismaya: witnessing/realizing) the Dharma, serving and saving all with prognosis (prajñā), striving as a living dharma in the Dharma.
A living dharma (person) is seeing Dharma (law: truth/ethic) and cultivating it. Practicing Zazen is constant cultivation in the renewal of seeing truths wider and deeper and acting on ethics with all beings seeing and settling in the Dharma realm, savoring amṛta.
January 17, 2025 C.E.
Notes:
- 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.).
“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.
- 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).
- 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.).
- 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).
- 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: a-mṛta: no-death: ambrosia, tasting joy of no samsara-suffering: no commotion of the five aggregates, no transmigratory shifts with craving and nescience: thus no suffering), 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:坐禅活動:活動者
貪瞋痴三毒所有の業誕生/所有/機械は四つの不可避苦と四つの普遍的苦の輪廻‐苦をもって個人、社会、環境の三重の在り方で生物として生きている。
苦は「要するに、(身/物的形態、心的な観念、感覚、意識と心身的行為の)五蘊盛苦である」と要約されているが、これは何十億年も前から蓄積した三毒に依って駆動されている。
坐禅は静かで安定した静坐であり、(五蘊盛苦の)業を静め、(業の、無風である)涅槃に安住し法を見(abhismaya:現観/確証)し、般若(paññā/prajñā:智慧)で一切に奉仕し救済し、法の中の法活動者として精進する。
活動する法(人間)は法(法則:真理・倫理)を見てそれを修養する(見道・修道の二道)。坐禅の実践は法を見てそこに安住し、甘露を享受して一切と共に真理をより広く深く見て倫理に従って行動することの更新である。
2025共通年1月18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。
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.(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)。
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: a-mṛta: 不‐死、甘露、輪廻苦無しの喜悦を味わうこと:五蘊盛苦無し、渇愛と無明の輪廻流転無し:故に無苦)、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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