Good morning!
Again we have rain, now with thunder. Dogen made a poem:
Being heard as it is, and
For the one without the mind,
The water-gem from the eave,
Is the true self indeed.
Raindrops, thundering, vapor, blinking electricity, the darkening world, etc., are our true selves indeed.
In his Realizing the Universal Truth, Genjokoan, 現成公案, Dogen said, “To learn the Awakened Way is to learn the self; to learn the self is to forget the self; to forget the self is to be verified by all dharmas. To be verified by all dharmas is to drop off the bodies and minds of the self and of others. The trace of awakening is at rest and extinct. The traceless awakening is furthered on and on.” As we sit stilling karma, we are united, penetrated, and verified by universal truth and ethic, holiness, the wholly wholesome world and way, more, deeper, and firmer.
“Dropping off the body and mind,” shinjin-datsuraku or shinjin-totsuraku, 身心脱落, in language more faithful to the original words is: “shedding and dropping off the bodies and minds,” like cicadas or snakes shedding their skins and dropping them off. It is also said “penetrated and shedding,” todatsu, 透脱, “shedding skins and penetrated through and throughout” by all dharmas or the world. We become penetrated by universal truth and peace, holy harmony, health, happiness, universal ethic, goodness, gratitude, greatness, bountiful beauty, and beatitude.
When we settle in nirvana, unconditioned peace, we are unmoved by sin, i.e., separation, selfishness, sickness, and suffering, we stay in holiness, i.e., the wholly wholesome way and world of, harmony, health, and happiness, going beyond self and other, here and now, life and death, tasting amrita, ambrosia, deathless, fearless, sinless, and saved from samsara suffering. This is the ultimate universal solution for all of the global problematique, the related problems of global warming, mass extinction, nuclear holocaust, isms, ideologies, karma conditionings, etc.
June 22, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk
お早うございます！
又雨ですね、今度は雷も．道元はこのようなうた（和歌）を作りました：
聞（く）ままに
また心なき身にしあれば
おのれなりけり
軒（のき）の玉水
雨だれ、かみなり、湿気、明滅する電気、暗くなる世界など、はまことに私達自身ですね。
彼は自分の「現成公案（普遍的真理の実現）」でこう言っています：「仏道をならふというふは、自己をならふ也。自己をならふといふは、自己をわするるなり。自己をわするるといふは、万法に証せらるるなり。万法に証せらるるといふは、自己の身心および他己の身心をして脱落せしむるなり。悟迹の休歇なるあり、休歇なる悟迹を長長出ならしむ。」坐って業を静めるにつれ、より多く、より深く、よりしっかりと普遍的な真理・倫理、全体健全な世界・方途に結合し、貫かれ、証明されます。
身心脱落を原文の言葉に忠実に言うと、蝉や蛇が殻からぬけてそれを落とすように「身心を脱ぎ捨てる」ということです。それはまた透脱一切法即ち世界に「透過貫通され殻を脱する」とも言われています。私達は普遍的真理と平和、聖なる調和、健康、幸福、普遍的倫理、善、感謝、偉大さ、溢れる美と至福によって貫通されます。
涅槃、即ち何者にも条件付けされない平安、に安住すると、罪即ち分離、自己中心、病患、苦悩に動ぜず、聖性即ち全体健全な調和・健康・幸福の方途・世界に留まり、自他・今此処・生死を超越し、甘露・不死・不畏・無罪を味わい、輪廻・苦から救われます。これが相互に関連する地球温暖群・大量絶滅・核の冬・主義・イデオロギー・業などの問題群、地球問題群の一切を究極的普遍的に解決です。
2019共通年6月22日 法話
