Good morning!
Beautiful flowers at the altar represent natural, holy truth, goodness, and beauty. We have a silent, sunny Saturday morning with sitting, suddenly down to the 30s. The top news on TV in Japan and NPR on the way here was the six decades’ record super typhoon with banks collapsing, casualties, missing, injured, and the highest heavy rain warning. Japan has typhoons in three seasons due to global warming, though it had them only in September half century ago.
To reform our artificial pyramidal civilization (= urbanization, revolution) for 5 millennia for money, matter, and might with the fivefold calamity of delusion (of a separate self), bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination, we had a natural life-Indranet culture (= cultivation/spiritual revolution) 2.5 millennia ago for life, heart, and harmony, with the fivefold bliss of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace. We must complete this paradigm shift.
Civilization is conquering others (exploiting nature, nation, etc.) for sin (karmic, unnatural separation, selfishness, suffering), but culture is conquering the self (cultivating spirit, system, etc.) for holiness (Dharmic natural wholly harmony, health, happiness). All problems and suffering comes from sinful (delusion of a separated self and its desire and divisiveness: craving and hatred) karma (physical, verbal, mental actions/function, habits, heredities).
The 12-limbed Interdependent Co-origination diagram shows this very clearly: Suffering comes from formations (past/present actions/functions) based on the two roots of nescience (no witness, of nirvana: no wind, of karma) and craving (desire/divisiveness, like/dislike), both sides (truth/ethic) of the Dharma (of I.C.) or karma based on the Triple poisons. A person with nothing is holy with holy things and a holy world. The treasure house opens for use/appreciation.
October 12, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk
Note. “Nothing/eventless is the noble/holy person” (Linchi, Lin-chi’s Record), who has good/holy things and a good/holy world. “A holy person has no self, therefore, has all as self.” “Dropping off the body and mind” is “(verified by) all dharmas,” (attaining the Dharma body). “Practice in such a way constantly, you will never fail to realize suchness. The treasure house will open by itself, and you will appreciate and use it at will.” (Dogen, A Universal Recommendation for the Right Zazen)
お早うございます！
祭壇の花は自然の聖なる真善美を表わしています。私達は、突然五度程に気温が下がりましたが、坐って静かな陽光の土曜日を迎えています。日本のテレビも、ここへ来る途中のNPR（全国公共放送）のトップニュースも堤防破壊、死者、行方不明、負傷者、や最高レベルの豪雨警報の六十年来の記録的スーパー台風のことでした。日本では半世紀前は9月だけだった台風が、温暖化の為に春夏秋三期のものになりました。
五千年の金・物・力の為の（分離我の）錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮の五禍を伴う人工の金字塔文明を変革する為に、私達は二千五百年の命・心・和の為の覚醒・自由・平等・博愛・平和の五福を伴う自然な命帝網文化（修養・精神革命）を持ちました。私達はこの枠組転換を完成しなければなりません。
文明は罪（業の不自然な分離、自己中心主義、苦）の為に他者制服（自然・国家などを搾取）をしますが、文化は聖（法の自然な全体調和・健康・幸福）の為に自己制服（心・系等を修養）をします。一切の問題と苦は罪（分離された我の痴とその欲と別：貪欲と嫌悪）の業（身口意の活動・機能、習慣、遺伝）から生まれます。
十二支縁起はこれを非常にはっきり示しています：苦は無明（涅槃の無確証・業の無風）と渇愛（欲望・差別：好き・嫌い）の二根（縁起）法と三毒に基付いた業に基付いた行（過去・現在の行動・機能）の二面（真理・倫理）から来ます。無事貴人は聖なるものと聖なる世界を持って聖者です。「宝蔵は自ずから開き受用如意」です。
2019共通年10月12日 法話
註：無事是貴人（臨済、臨済録）は好・聖事と好・聖世界を持っています。「聖人に我なし、我ならざる無し。」「身心脱落」は「諸法により証される。」「久しく恁麼を為すならば、これ恁麼なり。宝蔵自ずから開き受用如意なり。」（道元、普勧坐禅儀）
The above pictures were taken and posted
on Mr. Koichi Okada’s FB
(posting here approved by him)
上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮影して
FBに掲載したものを拝借しました
（転載許可を得ています）