Attaining Awakening in Nirvana: 涅槃で覚醒を得る

 

 

 

Attaining Awakening in Nirvana

 

Good morning!

 

Today is December 8, when Gotama became Buddha, Awakened One. All over the world Zen centers, temples, and monasteries celebrate it as Jōdōe, Attaining the Way Assembly, after seven intensive sesshin, embracing/touching heart, days. After his renunciation of household life at 29, he strived six years sometimes with hard penance, but eventually renouncing both mortification and pleasure, he settled in sitting, attaining nirvana and bodhi, awakening. He enjoyed it for many weeks.

 

He was awakened to the Dharma, Norm/Law, of all dharmas, forms/phenomena, i.e., Dependent Co-origination of all. He witnessed nirvana, no-wind of karma; recognized that all beings are karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged; and attained the way to still karma, see the Dharma, serve and save all by solid sitting and practical prognosis. He became sure in attaining the true way to solving all problems of self, samsara, suffering, etc., attaining complete freedom.

 

He saw that the world is deeply sunken in stored karma, difficult to liberate, and foresaw that the world would be destroyed by it, which developed into the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion of Ego (I, Ich, Aham) and me (my, meine, mama)(”Beseech of Brahma” is his insight in it and determination to come out into the world for sharing its solution) . He provided antidotes these poisons with the Triple Learnings of sīla, samādhi, and prajňā, that is, morality, concentration, and prognosis. He was always with all, sharing all for forty-five years, from that time on traveling and spending no two nights in the same place.

 

Tokudo, Ordination, lit. Attaining Salvation, is to accept the Triple Treasures of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, the Triple Pure Vows, and the Ten Precepts (totaling Sixteen Precepts), joining the Buddhas and Ancestors family, living a life with the Buddha’s robes and bowls. The ordainees live as Bodhisattvas, vowing to save others first and themselves last, as Buddhas and Ancestors also lived in the Dharma, enjoying nirvana and bodhi, tasting amrita, ambrosia of immortality, in holy harmony and happiness.

 

December 8, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます!

 

今日は十二月八日、ゴータマが仏陀、覚者、になった日です。世界中の禅センター、寺院、僧院では、七日間の集中摂・接心の後で、それを成道会として祝います。二十九歳で出家した後六年間、時には過酷な苦行もしたが、結局は苦行と享楽を捨てて、静坐に安住して涅槃と悟りを得ました。彼はそれを何週間も楽しんでいました。

 

彼は諸法の法、即ち、一切現象の因縁生起に覚醒しました。彼は、業の無風である、涅槃を実証し一切生類は業相続者、-所有者、-機械、-依拠者であることを認識して、業を静める方法を得、法を観て、兀坐と実用的智慧により一切に奉仕し救済しました。彼は完全な自由を得て我、輪廻、苦などの一切の問題を解決する真実の道を得たとの確心を得ていました。

 

彼は世の中が積もり積もった業に深く沈んでいることを見て解放が難しいと判りましたが、また、それが貪、瞋、我我所(我所有:我・我が物という根本)の痴の三毒に発展して、世界が滅ぶことも予測しました(「梵天勧請」はその洞察と伝道法施の決意)。彼は三毒の解毒剤である戒定慧の三学を(皆の為に)提供しました。彼はその後常に二晩と一所に留まらない旅をして四十五年間一切を共有し一切と共に(真の友:観音菩薩・弥勒菩薩で)ありました。

 

得度とは仏法僧の三宝、三聚浄戒、十戒(まとめて十六戒)を受けて、仏祖の家族に加わり、仏衣と仏鉢を持つ生活をすることです。得度者は仏祖が法に生き、涅槃と悟りを享受し、聖なる調和と幸福の中に甘露、不死の神饌、を味わって生きたように、「自未得度先度他」(自分より他者を先ず救う)を誓って、菩薩として生きるのです。

 

2019共通年12月8日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken

by Mr. Koichi Okada and posted in his FB

(Permissions are given to post here by him)

 

上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮りFBに掲載したものです

(ここに転載する許可は得ています)

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