Good morning!
A few days ago while I was watching TV, I heard Dr. Tasuku Honjo, this year’s Nobel Prizer in Physiology and Medicine, mention Concentration and Continuity as the last of six Cs given as his research driving forces. I often speak of these as two wings or wheels to fly or advance. The rest are Curiosity, Courage, Challenge, and Confidence.
All of them are necessary for anyone who wants to achieve anything meaningful in advancing life quality. We need Curiosity and Challenge to aspire, Courage and Confidence to advance, Concentration and Continuity to attain our goal. These mirror aspiring, advancing, and attaining good views and values at peaks and places at each step.
The Awakened Way advises the Fourfold Potency Bases, the Fivefold Faculties, the Sixfold Perfections, the Sevenfold Awakening Limbs, and the Eightfold Holy Ways, etc. to aspire for peace/awakening, to advance in the Fourfold Embracing Matters and the Fourfold Limitlessness, and to attain awakening/prognosis in nirvana, unconditioned peace.
While we live, we learn limitless life, light, liberation, and love in the Way Cycle of Practice – aspiration, cultivation, nirvana, and awakening – courageous challenge, continuous cultivation, calm contentment, and clear concentration. Zen embraces the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis, and the Triple Samadhi Limbs of striving, mindfulness, and concentration.
10/13/18
Note:
Fourfold Potency Bases (Iddhi-pāda): desire (chanda), striving (viriya), mind (citta), investigation (vīmaṁsā)
Fivefold Faculties/Powers (Indriya/Bala): faith (saddhā), striving (viriya), mindfulness (sati), concentration (samādhi), prognosis (paňňā)
Sixfold Perfections (pāramitā): giving (dāna), morality (sīla), patience (kānti), striving (viriya), concentration (samādhi), prognosis (paňňā)
Sevenfold Awakening Limbs (Bojjhaṅga): dharma analysis (dhamma vicaya), mindfulness (sati), striving (viriya), joy (pīti), lightness (passaddhi), concentration (samādhi), equanimity (upekkhā)
Eightfold Holy Ways (Ariya-magga): right view (sammā diṭṭhi), right thinking (sammā saṅkappa), right speech (sammā vacī), right action (sammā kammanta ), right livelihood (sammā ājīva), right striving (sammā viriya), right mindfulness (sammā sati), right concentration (sammā samṭdhi)
Eightfold Consideations/Awakenings of Great Persons (Mahā-purisa-vitakka/-bodhi): little desire (appiccha), contentment (santuṭṭha), seclusion (pavivitta), striving (viriya), mindfulness (sati), concentration (samāhia), prognosis (paňňā), no speculation (appapaňca)
Fourfold All-embracing Matters (S aṅgaha-vattu): giving (dāna), loving words (piya-vacana), beneficial action (attha-cariyā/artha-kṛtya), sameness (samana-arthatā/samana-arthatarthatā)
Fourfold Immeasurable/Brahma-abode (Apramana/Brahma-vihāra): friendship (mettā), compassion (kaluyāna), joy (mudita), equanimity (upekhā)
お早うございます！
数日前テレビを見ている時今年の生理学医学のノーベル賞受賞者本庶佑博士が自らの研究駆動力の６Ｃの最後として集中と継続と言っていました。私は屡これを飛翔・前進の両翼・両輪として話して来ました。残りのＣはCuriosity（好奇）Courage（勇気）Challenge（挑戦）Confidence（自信）です。
これら全ては生命の質を向上させるのに意味のある事を成就したいと望む誰にも必要なものです。私達は志すには好奇心と挑戦を、前進するには勇気と自信を、目的を達成するには集中力と継続を必要とします。 これらは頂上と歩歩の所で善い眺望と価値を志し、前進し、獲得するのを反映しています。
覚道は平和・覚醒（涅槃・覚悟）を志し、四摂事・四無量を進め、涅槃（無条件の平和）の中に覚醒・般若（智慧）を達成する為に四神足、五能力、六波羅蜜、七覚支、八聖道などを勧めています。
私達は生きて行く上で発心・修行・涅槃・覚悟の行持道環、８Ｃではcourageous challenge（勇気ある挑戦）continuous cultivation（継続的修行）calm contentment（平穏な満足）clear concentration（明澄な集中）、で無量寿・無量光・無量自由・無量愛を学びます。禅は戒定慧の三学、精進・専念・集中の三三昧支を包摂します。
2018共通年10月13日
註：以下原語（パーリ語）は英文註参照：
四超能力：意欲・精進・心識・探求
五力・器官：信念・精進・専念・集中（三昧）・智慧（般若）
六波羅蜜：布施・戒律・忍耐・精進・集中（三昧）・智慧（般若）
七覚支：法分析・専念・精進・喜悦・軽安・集中（三昧）・平静（捨離）
八聖道：正見・正思・正語・正行・正命・正念・正精進・正集中（三昧）
八大人覚・大人慮：小欲・知足・離俗・精進・専念・集中（三昧）・智慧（般若）・不妄想（不戯論）
四摂事:布施・愛語・利行・同事
四無量・梵住：慈・悲・喜・捨
