Awakening for all: Zazen Gift: Great Respite
The Dharma (Law) of all dharmas (phenomena) is that all are dependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions. We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and the four common ones of not getting the desired, parting with loved ones, meeting with the hated, and the five component elements rampant, totaling eight. We must undergo the samsara (life flow) sufferings of them.
The two roots of craving (taṅā/tṛṣṇā, lit. thirst, resulting in suffering) and nescience (a-vijjā/a-vidyā, no-witness of nirvana, resulting in divisiveness and samsara) cause suffering and samsara (usually involving suffering). The triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego, involving samsara) is imbued in our karma (actions, habits, heredity), which is the dynamo of samsara suffering.
Sitting stills karma (past/present physical, verbal, mental), leading to nirvana (no-wind, of karma), called sitting stilling (za-dan), stilling both roots of craving and nescience, thus stilling samsara suffering. Za-zen, sitting meditation, involves stilling intellection, emotion, and volition, leading to samādhi (concentration: calm and clear, stable and solid, free from karma and now full function of it).
Zazen is the Dharma gate of peace and happiness. The Buddha called it the great respite (mahā-assāsa/-aśvāsa, lit. great breath/exhalation). It is the state of great peace and happiness (sukha-vatī, lit. happiness-full), later considered to be paradise/pure-land, but it is not any place, but the mind/body/world state in peace and happiness. Anyone can sit, settle in nirvana, see the Dharma, and serve and save all.
October 25, 2024 C.E.
Notes：
- “The Dharma (Norm/Law/Truth/Ethic) of all dharmas (forms/phenomena/ truths/ethics)” is Dependent Co-origination, i.e., all phenomena are interdependently co-originated on limitless causes and conditions (similar to the Law of Causality, but deeper and wider – beyond conventions, conceptions, objects, etc.). This means that we are interrelated with other beings (other species, elements, stars, etc.), and relatives to each other, and that we must therefore live together harmoniously and strive to make a wholly wholesome world to become harmonious, health, and happy.
- The Twelve-limbed Dependent Co-origination (bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra, becoming wheel) is the most well-known representative application of the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, though it is misinterpreted due to its linear presentation by oral tradition and the Hindu idea of transmigration (an embryogenetical interpretation called two causalities in three generations). Actually, it is a compound formed from the Dependent Co-origination of consciousness on sense organs and objects, of suffering on craving, and of samsara (total flow: moment-to-moment change, not like transmigration in Hinduism) on appropriation. It illustrates how our life goes with the five aggregates (originally identifying and analyzing so-called “self,” later “world”), resulting in suffering due to the triple poisons.
Please refer to 3 of the “Why Buddhism Now?” for the detailed explanation of the structural explanation of the Becoming Wheel (bhava cakka/cakka):
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
３．The practice of Zen (jhāna/dhyāna: meditation), the key and core practice of za-zen, sitting meditation, is to still karma, settle in nirvana（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, of karma, see the Dharma, and serve and save all. This process is categorized in the Four Zen Stages and the Eight Concentration (samādhi) Stages (actually Four Zen Stages plus Four Concentration Stages combined, going together). As shown in the Four Zen Stages thoughts, emotions (the representative five coverings: lust-desire, covetousness-malevolence, sloth-drowsiness, agitation-worries, doubts), and volitions (the representative four fluxes: lust, becoming/identification, views/dogmas, nescience/no witness, of nirvana) are stilled in this order.
Please refer to 5. What is Karma? in “Why Buddhism Now?”
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
４．said that all living beings are karma-birthed, -heirs, -owners, -machines, and -refuged. He clarified that there is no self-substance with self-sameness (permanent) and self-sovereignty (wishful) entities due to the Dharma (Truth/Law) of all dharmas (phenomena), Dependent Co-origination. We as karma-machines must change to the Dharma-refuged in order to change the world in suffering to that in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
５．Nirvana means no wind (of karma imbued with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion), where one can for the first time witness the Dharma world and become awakened from the long night of nescience to the Dharma of all dharmas in calm, clear, controlled, and careful conditions, then prognosticate problems and sufferings in the Four Holy Truths and the Eight Holy Ways.
No-wind of karma stills the two roots (craving and nescience) and stills their results of suffering and samsara [six ways/realms of hell beings, hungry ghosts, (fighting devils), animal beings, human beings, celestial beings], thus become freed (liberation, freedom) from samsara and suffering. One opens the right Dharma-eye there (Right Dharma-eye stored in the exquisite heart of nirvana), attaining countless merits of no moving (blowing) of karma (no moving, no death: ambrosia: amṛta), freed from discrimination, bondage of self, other, that, this, etc. (nothingness, emptiness, no-self, limitless: limitless life, limitless light, no attachment, no obstruction, etc.), realizing the true world (Dharma world, Buddha world, paradise, pure land), freed from straying, delusion, etc.
Please refer to 4. What is Nirvana? in the “Why Buddhism Now?”
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
一切の為の覚醒：坐禅：大安息
諸法の法は一切が無限の原因と条件により縁起するというものである。私達は不可避の生老病死の四苦、求不得、愛別離、怨憎会、五蘊盛の普通の四苦、合わせて八苦を持っている。私達はそれらの輪廻苦を経験する。
渇愛（taṅā/tṛṣṇā, 字義は渇き、結果は苦）と無明（a-vijjā/a-vidyā、字義は無確証、涅槃の、結果は差別と輪廻）の二根は苦と輪廻（通常苦になる）を惹起する。貪瞋痴（エゴの愚痴、輪廻になる）の三毒は私達の業に浸潤したものであるが、業は輪廻苦の原動力である。
静坐は（過去/現在の身口意）業を静め、坐断といわれる、涅槃に導き、渇愛と無明の二根を静め。かくして輪廻苦を静める。坐禅は知情意を静め、三昧（samādhi、精神集中：静穏明澄、安定堅固、業から自由、かくして業の十分な機能）に導く。
坐禅は安楽の法門である。ブッダはそれを大安息（mahā-assāsa/-aśvāsa、字義は大呼吸/出息）と呼んだ。それは安楽に満ちた（sukha-vatī，字義は幸福充満：極楽）状態である、後には楽園/浄土と考えられたが、場所では無く平安幸福な心身世界の状態である。誰でも坐れ、涅槃に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕・救済できるのである。
2024共通年10月26日
註：
１．諸法（形態・現象）の法（規則・法則・真理・倫理）は縁起（因縁生起）、即ち、一切現象は無量の直接原因と間接条件により相依生起するということである（因果則に似ているがさらに深く広い－世俗、観念、対象などを超える）。これは私達が他者（多種、要素、星宿など）と相依関係にあることを意味し、相互に相対的であり、私達が調和、健康、幸福になる為には共に調和して生き、全体健全な世界を作る努力をしなければならないことを意味する。
２．十二支縁起（bhava-cakka/bhava-cakra、生成輪、輪廻輪）は縁起の法の適用例の最もよく知られた代表ですが、口碑による線形の表出（三世両重の因果と呼ばれる胎生学的解釈）の為とヒンズー教の輪廻説により誤解されている。実際には感覚器官と感覚対象にって共縁起する意識、割愛による苦、専有（同定：執着）によるサンサーラ（全流：全体刻々変化の意で、ヒンズー教の輪廻ではない）の複合形です。（元来は所謂「自己」後に世界を同定し分析する為の）五蘊と共に、三毒の故に苦に成る私達の生がどのように展開するかを例示したものである。
生成輪 (bhava cakka/cakra)の構造的形態の詳細説明については「何故今仏教か？」の３参照： https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
３．鍵となる静坐の実践は業を静め、涅槃（nir-vāṇa = ni-vāta: no-wind, 無風、業風の）に安住し、法を見、一切に奉仕し救済する。坐禅（静坐瞑想）は身体・呼吸・頭脳（身口意）業を整え静止する。四禅は、尋求、伺候、喜悦、安楽を静め平静 (upekhā/upekṣā, 字義は捨離)・涅槃に到達する結果の心的（知性・感情・意欲）業を静止する過程を表示している。
「今何故仏教か？」の４（涅槃）と５（禅）を参照：
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
４．業は貪瞋（エゴ/メイ：我/我所の）痴の三毒が植え込まれている。ブッダ（覚者）は一切衆生は業—誕生者、—相続者、—所有者、—機械、—依拠者であると言った。彼は、諸法（現象）の法（真理/倫理）である縁起の故に自己同一（永住）と自己主宰（意欲通り）の実態をもった自己物質は存在しないことを明らかにした。業—機械である私達は、苦しむ世界を聖（全体健全：調和、健康、幸福）なる世界に変える為には、法₋依拠者にならなければならない。
５．涅槃は（貪瞋痴で染汚した業の）無風を意味するが、そこで人は静謐・明澄・統制・注意状態で法界を直証し諸法の法に初めて無明長夜から目覚めて、問題と苦に対する四聖諦、八聖道で般若（の知恵：処方）を得る。
業の無風は二根（渇愛と無明）を静止してその結果の苦（四苦八苦など）と輪廻 [地獄、餓鬼、（修羅）、畜生、人間、天上の五（六）道（界）] を静止する、即ち輪廻・苦から自由になる（解脱・解放）。そこでは業による動揺が無く（不動、不死：甘露: amṛta）、我他彼此などの分別・束縛から自由になり（無・空・無我・無量：無量寿・無量光・無著・無碍など）、真理世界（法界、仏界、極楽、浄土）を現観し、迷・惑から自由になり、大局観・甚深・微妙な世界（法身、真実人体）を覚るなど涅槃による正法に眼を開き、無数の功徳を得る（正法眼蔵涅槃妙心）。
「今何故仏教か？」の４．涅槃とは何か？参照
https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
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