Good morning!
I watched an NHK program titled “Autonomous Nerve System Self Care Technique, Irritation Changed.” The doctor said that irritation comes from self-centeredness, which stimulates the sympathetic nerve system, making blood pressure high, breathing shallow, etc., making one stressful and suffering. The cure is to breath slowly to balance with the parasympathetic nerve system. Contact with pets makes one relaxed and other-oriented, excreting oxytocin, love hormone.
Self-centeredness makes one in fight flight mode, stressful and suffering, and other-orientedness makes one in wholly wholesome mode, healthy and happy. The former is the triple poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness, coming from the karma of our survival instinct. The triple learning of morality, concentration, and prognosis makes one freed from the triple poisons, eventually from karma, which is called nirvana, no wind (of karma), no self-centeredness.
Self-centeredness is the source of all suffering, individual, social, and environmental – birth-death, loss-parting, war, nukes, global warming, mass extinction, etc. So, the Buddha said that conquering one-self is the true conquering. If a majority of humans does this, we can have a holy (wholly wholesome), harmonious, healthy, and happy world. If not, we are destined to destruction of the world, part and parcel of human caused mass extinction.
“Flowers blooming, the world is arisen.” Cherry blossoming makes a spring world. A flower makes a new world. A flower held, a smile rises. “A holy person has no self, nothing beside self.” For a holy one, the whole world is holy. Many seeing a holy one may make their holy worlds. The more, the better and quicker the world becomes holy, wholly wholesome, harmonious, healthy, and happy. If not, the world becomes more selfish, sinful, sick, stressful, and suffering.
9/1/18
Dharma talk
お早うございます！
私はＮＨＫの「自律神経セルフケア術『イライラが変わる』」を観ました。医師は「イライラは自己中から起き、それは交感神経系を刺激し、血圧上昇・呼吸急迫などを起こす」と言います。その療法は副交感神経で平衡に戻す為にゆったりした呼吸をすることです。ペットに触れると人はゆったりし他者志向になり、愛情ホルモンのオキシトシンを分泌します。
自己中は人を闘争逃亡様態にしストレスと苦を齎しますが、他者志向は全体健全にし健康と幸福を齎します。前者は生存欲の業に由来し欲望・差別・愚痴（貪瞋痴）の三毒です。戒律・禅定・智慧（戒定慧）の三学は三毒から解放し、最終的に業から解放しますが、それは涅槃（無［業］風）、無我と言われます。
自己中は、生死・失別・戦争・核・地球温暖化・大量絶滅など、個人・社会・環境一切苦の根源です。だから、一自己に勝つことが真の勝利であると言われました。人類の多数がそうすれば聖性（全体健全）・調和・健康・幸福な世界を得ることが出来ます。そうでなければ、人類の起こした大量絶滅と一体不可分の絶滅の運命にあります。
「華開世界起」桜が咲けば春の世界となります。一輪の花が新世界を作ります。拈華微笑。「聖人に自己なし、自己ならざる無し。」聖人を見る多くの人は聖界を見るかも知れません。多くなればなるほど、より良く早く世界は聖：全体健全・調和・健康・幸福になるでしょう。そうでなければ世界は更に自己中・罪悪・病患・ストレス・苦になるでしょう。
共通年2018年9月1日 法話
