Solution of Suffering

 

Good morning!

 

Hard is it to receive a human body, rare is it to meet the Buddha Dharma. By virtue of previous merits, we not only have received human bodies difficult to receive, but also have met the Buddha Dharma rarely met. We are in the best lives among various births and deaths and in the most blessed lives. We should not leave our dew-like lives to the mercy of the wind of impermanence, treating carelessly the most blessed lives.

 

Dogen, Shushogi, Significance of Cultivation-verification

 

 

Time flies. One and a half months have passed since New Year’s Day. The corona virus outbreak has swiftly spread globally. We don’t know when impermanence will overtake us. Sufferings are triple: individual, social, and environmental. To cope with them we have the triple pillars of the Awakened Way, Global Ethic, and Voluntary Simplicity in our center. These may roughly become the countermeasures to those, though they are all interconnected and integrally working.

 

The Awakened Way can solve all problems and sufferings: birth, sickness, aging, and death, which include not acquiring the desired, separating from the beloved, meeting with the hated, and karma kinetics. We can attain nirvana, no-wind of karma, and awakening in the Four Holy Truths, solving all problems and sufferings. We know we are karma machines, and work with them in nirvana, amrita, ambrosia of immortality, enjoying holy harmony, health, and happiness.

 

The Global Ethic is the new standard for the old ones of individualism, nationalism, racism, etc. The Awakened Way of the Dharma of Interdependent Co-origination in the Global Age will abolish the sinful (separate) Self, State, etc. with war, class, etc. against no killing, no stealing, no lying, and equal partnership of all. We must live as global villagers with the Five Blisses of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace. Truth and ethics are not two separate things, but one holiness.

 

Voluntary Simplicity is the new paradigm for the old ones of fighting for matter, might, and money with the Five Calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. Compounded complexity enslaves life confined and confused, losing true appreciation of abundant life and active living in holy (wholly wholesome) truth, goodness, beauty, and peace, which will save all life from devastation and doom by nukes, wars, global warming, mass extinction, etc.

 

 

February 8, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

お早うございます！

 

人身（にんしん）得（う）ること難（かた）し仏法値（お）うこと希（まれ）なり、今我等宿善（しゅくぜん）の助くるに依りて、已（すで）に受け難き人身を受けたるのみに非ず、遭い難き仏法に値（あ）い奉れり、 生死の中の善生（ぜんしょう）、最勝の生なるべし最勝の善身を徒（いたづら）にして 露命を無常の風に任すること勿れ。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　道元、「修証義」

 

 

時は飛び去ります－元旦からもう一カ月半が過ぎました。コロナウィルス勃発はたちまち地球上に広まりました。無常が私達を何時襲うか判りません。苦は個人的、社会的、環境的に三重です。これに対処して私達のセンターでは覚道、地球倫理、自発的簡素を三柱としています。これらは皆関係して統合的に働きますが大体それらへの対処法です。

 

覚道は生老病死、求めて得られない、愛する者との別れ、憎い者と会うこと、業の活動のすべての問題と苦を解決します。私達は業の無風である涅槃を得て、一切の問題と苦を解決する四聖諦で覚醒出来ます。私達は自ら業機械ですが、聖なる調和・健康・幸福を享受しながら、不死の甘露である涅槃の中にそれらに対処できるのです。

 

地球倫理は個人主義、国家主義、人種主義などの古い規範に代わる新しい規範です。地球時代における相互依存の縁起の覚道は不殺生・不偸盗・不妄語・一切の平等な共同精神に反する戦争、階級などを伴う罪の（分離した）吾我・国家などを廃止するでしょう。私達は覚醒・自由・平等・友愛・平和の五福をもった地球村民として生きなければなりません。真理と倫理は分離した二つのものではなく、一体の聖性です。

 

自発的簡素は錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮の五禍を伴う物・力・金に対する闘争の古い枠組に代わる新しい枠組です。複合する複雑さは生命を閉塞させ混乱させて、核、地球温暖化、大量絶滅などの破壊を破滅から一切の命をすくう聖（全体健全）なる真善美和の豊かな生命と活動的な生活を真実に享受するのを失わせます。

 

 

2020共通年2月8日　法話