Good morning!
We have a very brilliant, peaceful morning in the natural world. However, the pandemic and disasters are also occurring. Our global problems are human problems of pandemic, global warming, wars, mass extinction, etc. Humans and their civilization with its Five Calamities of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination have been disturbing the natural system, causing them.
Civilization is urbanization with the human Triple Poisons of delusion, desire, and divisiveness, fighting for money, matter, and might, creating a pyramidal society with wars, slavery, classes, ecological destruction, etc., for 50 centuries. Culture is cultivation with the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis to counter it, sharing life, heart, and harmony to realize the life Indra-net in holiness.
Life is the natural, holy (wholly wholesome) system, like the Indra-net, representing the Dharma world in Dependent Co-origination, with its crystal balls reflecting limitlessly among them. Dr. Kazuya Yamanouchi in his Viruses and Humans tells us that virus was the original form of life, now composing about half the human genome, functioning as an endogenous virus creating the placenta and protecting the fetus.
The Awakened Way is cultivating the life potential to realize holy truth, goodness, and beauty for all. Our Three Pillars of the Awakened Way, Voluntary Simplicity, and Global Ethic is for the culture of them in individual, social, and global levels. We take the Triple Refuges of the Awakened One, Dharma, and Sangha, taking refuge in the self and the Dharma for the benefit of Sangha, community of all.
July 11, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk
Note: Endogenous retrovirus
お早うございます！
私達は自然界では明るく平和な朝を持っています。しかし、全人類的流行病と災害も起きています。私達の地球問題は全人類的流行病、地球温暖化、戦争、大量絶滅などの人間問題です。人間とその錯誤、束縛、差別、搾取、殺戮の五禍を伴う文明は自然体系を乱してこれらを惹き起こしているのです。
文明はここ五千年間、人間の貪瞋痴の三毒で、金、物、力を求めて戦い、戦争、奴隷制、階級、生態破壊を伴う金字塔社会を創る都市化でした。文化はそれに対抗する為戒定慧の三学で修養して命、心、和を共有し聖性の中に命の帝釈網を実現するものです。
命は、縁起の法を表わす、網の結び目の水晶がお互いに無限に反映しあう帝釈網の様に、自然で聖（全体健全）なるものです。山内一也博士は自著「ウィルスと人間」で、ウィルスは命の原型で、今や人間遺伝子の約半分を構成し、胎盤の内在ウィルスとして、胎児を守る機能を果たしていると述べています。
覚道は一切の為に聖なる真善美の命の可能性を修養することです。私達の覚道、自発的質素、地球倫理の三本柱は個人、社会、地球レベルでそれらを（修養・実践する）文化です。私達は仏法僧の三宝に帰依し、一切の共同社会であるサンガの利益の為に自己と法を拠り所とします。
2020共通年7月11日 法話
