Good morning!
Today we have sesshin, embracing (摂心) and touching (接心) the heart/mind. Our hearts/minds are usually turned outward for survival, conditioned by karma that contains the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and the delusion of self-centeredness. The delusion of self-centeredness and self-substance are against the Dharma of Interdependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated, thus no self-sameness and self-sovereignty.
When we sit still, stilling our karma, coming in to our hearts/minds, we become awakened to the Dharma, Truth/Law, of I.C., not only of the out-going, but also in-coming hearts/minds or outer and inner world activities of them. The Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis counteract the Triple Poisons. Concentration reveals the Tathā-gata, Thus-being, being in thusness, truth state of inner and outer worlds, witnessing nirvana, śūnyatā, selflessness.
The Twofold Truths depict the conventional truth of our karma world as seen in the Twelvefold I.C., resulting in suffering and samsara and the ultimate truth in nirvana, unconditioned peace, and unsurpassed awakening and prognosis. The Four Stages of Zen show the process of un-conditioning our karma, stilling conceptions, emotions, volitions, and perceptions to reach nirvana, heart/mind freed from all bondages and boundaries, leading to awakening and prognosis.
Un-conditioning of karma is the primordial paramount practice, because it ensures unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening in the holy, wholly wholesome, truth, goodness, beauty and limitless liberation, light, love, life, etc. beyond samsara suffering. Like meals for physical life, Zen meditation is essential for mental life to continue and concentrate. Un-conditioning, cure, is the opposite of de-conditioning, deterioration, of muscles, etc. caused by no use.
February 23, 2019 C.E. Darma talk
始源的最高実習
お早うございます。
今日は接心ですが、それは心・意を包摂し、心・意に接触することです。私達の心・意は通常貪瞋痴（自己中心の無知）の三毒を含む業に条件付けされた生存の為に外向きに成っています。自己中心と自己実体という無知は縁起（因縁生起）、即ち一切現象は相互依存の創生であり、そこには自己同一と自己主宰はない、という法（法則・真理）に反するのです。
私達が静かに坐り業を静止して、私達の心・意に入る時には、縁起の法・真理に目覚め、外向のみならず内向の、即ち心・意の外界と内界の活動に覚醒します。戒定慧の三学は三毒に対抗するものです。定は如在、Tathā-gata, 涅槃・空・無我を確証して、内界・外界の真如、如に在ることを明らかにします。
二諦は苦と輪廻に至る、十二支縁起にみられる、業界の俗諦（世俗同意の真理）と、（業に）条件付けられない平和である涅槃と無上覚醒・般若（智慧）における真諦（究極の真理）を表示します。四禅は観念・感情・意志・感覚の静止により涅槃・一切の束縛と限界からの心の無罣礙に至り、覚醒と般若に導く、業の条件付け解除の過程を示しています。
業の条件付け解除は原初的最高の実習です、なぜならそらは輪廻・苦を超える聖、全体健全、真善美や無量自由・無量光・無量愛・無量寿など条件付けのない平和（涅槃）と無上覚醒を保証するからです。身体生命の食事のように精神生命の継続と集中の為に禅瞑想は必須のものです。治癒である条件付け解除（un-conditioning）は不使用に依って起きる筋肉などの退化である廃用症（de-conditioning）の反対のものです。
2019共通年2月23日 法話
The above pictures were taken and shared by Erin, 恵林
in Washington State, U.S.A.