Good morning!
We can enjoy birds’ singing surrounded by beautiful flowers in quiet sitting. I posted the people’s movement making the EU prohibit bee killing chemicals, and Rob Kall’s interview with David Swanson on his Curing Exceptionalism in the Limitless Life. Not only 4% of the human population, but less than 1% believe Exceptionalism antagonizes other humans along with all living beings.
Wars are human exceptionalism with mass murder, stealing, lying, raping, etc. Mass murder, etc. are immoral in any country, but permitted to other countries due to the delusion of ego. Delusional dictators and their followers created these atrocities. Awakened religionists condemned them. Thus, the global ethic employed the first four of the Five Precepts as irrevocable directives.
Religion means reunion with holiness (wholly wholesome way/world) from sinfulness (= separation, selfish sickness). Curing and caring it is curing and caring karma. It is essential to be awakened to the truth of our being karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, looking after ourselves in taking care of and refuge in good actions1.
We have now exceptional karma in that we can destroy the world at any moment with delusion, but we have the common karma to cooperate with all in the world with awakening. The Life Wheel2 tells us how our delusion and desire lead to suffering, and the Zen Stages3 teach us how to attain nirvana/bodhi (awakening) with the Various Ways4.
5/5/18
Note 1. Four Applications of decreasing/stopping bad actions and starting and increasing good ones
- 12-limbed Dependent Co-origination, the compound of the Dependent Co-origination of sense organs, objects, and perceptions/consciousnesses (called the Triple Conjunction), of Dependent Origination of craving, formation, suffering (called the Triple Steps), and of Dependent Origination of samsara (appropriation/identification, becoming, i.e., birth, aging and death).
- 4-stages of Zen (Jhana/Dhyana/Chan) advancing from the 1st (with the Zen components, i.e., investigation, contemplation, mental joy, physical comfort, single-pointedness of the mind), 2nd (discarding the former three of the Zen components, and the five coverings of lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worry, and doubt, which represents emotions), 3rd (discarding the former four Zen components, and the Four Leaks of lust, becoming, views, and nescience) identified as equipoise (upekhāko, lit. discardor), 4th identified as equanimity (upekhā, lit. discarding) tantamount to nirvana, mind freed.
- Various Ways composed of the 37 Awakening Limbs of the 8 Holy Ways (right view, thinking, speech, action, livelihood, striving, mindfulness, concentration), 7 Awakening Limbs (dharma analysis, mindfulness, striving, joy, lightness, concentration, equanimity), 5 Faculties/5 Powers (faith, striving, concentration, prognosis), 4 Mindfulness Applications (on body, feeling, consciousness, dharma), 4 Potency Bases/4 Powerd (desire, striving, concentration, investigation) in the Early Buddhism or 6 Prognosis Perfections in the Mahayana Bodhisattva Way.
For more detailed explanations on the above please refer to the following site or book:
https:// buddhism869196463.wordpress.com
Osamu Rosan Yoshida, NO SELF, A NEW SYSTEMATIC INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHISM, The World Sacred Text Publishing Society, Tokyo, 1994
お早うございます!
私達は靜坐の中に花に囲まれて小鳥達の歌うのを楽しむことが出来ます。無量寿(ブログ)に人々の運動がEUで蜜蜂を殺す化学物質を禁止させたニュースとロブ・カルがデーヴィッド・スワンソンの「例外主義を治す」について会見する録画を転載しました。人類の4%どころか、1%以下の例外主義の信仰が他の人類と一切生類を敵にしているのです。
戦争は大量殺戮・窃盗・虚偽・暴行などをもった人間の例外主義です。大量殺戮などはどの国でも不道徳ですが、エゴ(自己中心)という迷妄によって他の国には容認されるのです。迷妄の独裁者達とその信者達がこれらの非道暴虐を生むのです。覚醒した宗教家達はそれらを非難中傷します。だから地球倫理は五戒の初めの四戒を取り消し不能の教令として採用したのです。
宗教とは罪(sin = separation:利己病患 )から聖(holy = wholly wholesome:全体健全)に再結合するという意味です(religion < religare = reunion)。それを治療し手当するのは業を治療し手当することです。私達が業相続者、業所有者、業機械であり、みずから善業1で手当し拠り所を得るという真理に目覚めることが必須です。
私達は今や迷妄によって世界を何時でも破壊しうるという例外の業を持っていますが、覚醒によって世界中で一切と協働するという共通の業を持っています。生存の輪(十二縁起)2は私達の迷妄と欲望がどのようにして苦に導くかを私達に語り、禅階梯3は涅槃・菩提(覚醒)を諸道4によって得るかを私達に教えています。
2018共通年5月5日法話
註1.四正勤は悪業を減少し停止し、善業を始め増加することです。
2.12縁起は(三事和合と呼ばれ)感覚器官、感覚対象・知覚・意識の縁起、(三道:三段と呼ばれる)惑業苦(わくごっく:迷妄・行為・苦悩)の因果、(身体)所有・(自己)同定による(生成:生老死への同化、即ち)輪廻(サンサーラは完全流転:変化という意味)の因果の三つの合成です。
3.禅( (Jhāna: 梵語/Dhyāna:パーリ語/Chan: 禅:中国語の日本語音訳) は第一禅(推理・憶測・心喜・身楽・集中の禅支あり)、第二禅(前二禅支と感情の代表五蓋:貪欲・慳貪・惰眠・不安の捨)、第三禅(前三禅支と意欲の代表四漏:淫貪・生成・邪見・無明:涅槃無経験の捨)、第四禅(前四禅支と一切捨:涅槃)。
4.諸道は八聖道(正見・正思・正語・正行・正業・正念・正精進・正定)、七覚支(法分析・念・精進・喜・軽・集中・捨)、五器官・五力(信・精進・集中・般若:洞察)、四念住(身・(感)受・心・法)、四超能力・四力(欲・精進・集中・法)の合計三十七道目(原始仏教)。大乗菩薩道では六波羅蜜:完成(布施・戒律・忍耐・精進・般若:洞察の完成)。
更に詳細な説明は以下を参照ください:
https:// buddhism869196463.wordpress.com
吉田収魯参著「無我-仏教の新組織的解釈」東京:世界聖典刊行協会、1994年