December 8 has been celebrated throughout northern Buddhist countries as the Buddha’s awakening day for twenty-five centuries. The awakening was said to be to the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, the Four Holy Truths, etc. The first truth is the fundamental one, and the others are applications of it. It is basically same with the law of causation, but it is wider in application and more detailed in emphasizing conditions, not only objective and physical ones, but also subjective and psychological ones.
The Four Holy Truths are compared to a medical prognosis, but they are more comprehensive and wider in application to any issues and presentations. ”The truth of suffering” is the reality of existence due to the Dharma, which denies self-sameness (impermanence) and self-sovereignty (suffering, du-kkha, wrong-going, going against one’s wishes of permanence and pleasure). The Triple Poisons come from not recognizing this fact of life, death, disappointment, despair, etc.
””The truth of the cause of suffering” lies in wishes or desires. The wider and deeper causes are the Triple Poisons, which come from karma. ””The truth of the cessation of the cause of suffering” lies in nirvana, stilling karma, which can be done by still sitting (zen, concentration), which is perfected with the Triple Learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis. The practice of still sitting stills sinful actions, and is conducive to concentration and prognosis, to selfless (sinless), holy (wholly wholesome) wisdom.
”The truth of the path leading to the cessation of the cause of suffering” lies in the Six Perfections, the Seven Awakening Limbs, the Eight Holy Paths or the Eight Great Person’s Awakening, etc., including the Triple Concentration Limbs of right mindfulness, striving, and concentration. These are right paths and holy paths to live in the Dharma (truth/ethic) and to enjoy holy harmony, health, and happiness in the Two Paths of Prognosis and Practice, going beyond the Triple Poisons and karma.
The Five Precepts of no killing, no stealing, no adultery, no falsehood, and no intoxicants are observed by all Buddhists, both householders and renouncers, and are prerequisite to the Triple Concentration Limbs, without which right mindfulness, striving, and concentration are impossible. The Dharma dictates the truth, like the Hayabusa 2 hitting a 12m diameter area of the asteroid Ryūgū, more than 350,000,000 km away, and collecting subsurface rocks and returning the sample capsule to us.
The six years’ travel to Ryūgū, Dragon Palace, bringing the Tamatebako, Treasure Casket, observing hundreds of thousands of rocks, landing by trial and error, checking a hundred thousand possible accidents, and finally obtaining key materials to solve the origin of life, was like the six years’ striving of the Buddha to attain awakening, and choosing the right way to solve the source of suffering and the solution for it: karma and stilling karma. This was the unprecedented, unsurpassable great achievement of all living beings.
The unprecedented, extraordinary falsehoods of Trump, involving the whole world, created a post-truth period. His falsehoods have been debunked by fact checks and established democratic systems – the election, the judiciary, the media, vox populi, etc. Truth prevails throughout the total history of the universe. Truth can be found and applied to present the past, prescribe the present, and predict the future, unlike falsehoods that fail reality and real effects. “Only truth wins.” Only the Dharma wins.
December 8, 2020 C.E. Dharma note
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
12月8日はブッダの覚醒（成道）日として北方仏教国では二十五世紀に亘り祝われて来ました。覚醒は縁起（因縁生起）法、四聖諦などされています。最初の真理は根本的なもので、他はその応用です。それは基本的には因果律と同様ですが、応用はもっと広く、縁（条件）を強調してもっと詳細な物であり、対象に物質にだけでなく、主体に心理にも適用されます。
四聖諦は医療の診断に例えられますが、もっと包括的で広範でどのような問題（問題・原因・解決・方法）でも提題（起承転結）でも応用されます。「苦の真理」は法による存在の現実で、それにより自己同一（無常）と自己主宰の否定（苦、du-kkha：逆ｰ行：恒常と快適の希求に逆行すること）がされるのです。三毒は生、死、失望、絶望などの事実を認識しないことから来るのです。
「苦の原因の真理」は希求即ち欲望みにあります。もっと広く深い原因は三毒であり、業から来るのです。「苦の原因の停止の真理」は涅槃、止業であり、それは静坐（禅、三昧）によって得られ戒定慧の三学により完成されます。静座の実践は罪業を鎮め禅定と般若（智慧）に導き無我（無罪）の聖（全体健全）な智慧に導きます。
「苦の原因の停止に導く道」は六波羅蜜、七覚支、八聖道または八大人覚などにありこれらはみな正念、正精進、正定の定支を含んでいます。これらは三毒と業を超える般若と実践（見道と修道）の二道で法（真理・倫理）の中に生きて聖なる調和・健康・幸福を享受する正道であり聖道です。
不殺、不盗、不淫、不偽、不飲酒の五戒は在家・出家の全ての仏教徒が守るもので三定支の前提条件であり、それが無ければ正念・正精進・正定は不可能なのです。法は真理を決定付けます、はやぶさ2号が３億５千万km離れた小惑星竜宮の12ｍ直径の地点に達し、表面より下の岩を採取して私達にその試験岩石のカプセルを届けに戻ったように。
竜宮へ行き、何万という岩を観測し、試行錯誤着地を繰り返し、十万通りの事故可能性を点検し、ついに生命の起源を解明する鍵となる物質を入手し玉手箱を持ち帰った６年の旅は仏陀が苦の源泉とその解決、業と止業の正しい道を選び覚醒を得る６年の精進の様です。これは一切生類の未曾有無上の偉大な達成事でした。
世界を巻き込んだトランプの未曾有の途方もない偽りは真理以後の時代を生みました。彼の偽りは事実点検と確固たる民主的体系―選挙、司法、メディア、民の声などにより露見されて来ました。真理は宇宙の全歴史を通じて勝利するものです。真理は偽りが現実に合致せず現実の効果を持たないのとは違い、発見可能であり、過去を提示し、現在を診断し、未来を予見できます。「真理のみ勝つ。」法のみ勝つのです。
２０２０共通年１２月８日 法記
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