Awakening for All: Zazen Goal: Limitless
Zazen is stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeking, serving and savoring the Dharma of all dharmas. This is the process from limitedness to limitlessness. Anyone can witness limitless life, light, liberation, love, etc., both in quantity and quality. One’s life is not limited to the physical, but the psychological, social, ecological, and historical, beyond limited space and time, ever more engaged and enjoyed.
One can light up, look up, line up, link up – endeavored, enlightened, engaged, enjoyed, connected, comprehending, communicated, etc., ever more, wider, deeper, further, subtler, sensible, sensitive, etc. – self, others, societies, environment, people, plants, planets, stars, the universe, visible, invisible, past, present, future, actions, activities, truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, morality, ethics, laws, etc.
One can be liberated from karma – ideas, intellections, emotions, volitions: isms, ideologies, symbols, selves, societies, statuses, states, sins, lusts, cravings, crimes, desires, divisiveness, delusions, destruction, drowsiness, sloth, agitation, attachment, worries, fears, doubts, nescience, birth, aging, sickness, death, fame, fortune, matter, might, money, bondage, discriminations, devastation, destruction, etc.
One can love oneself, Dharma, dharmas: humans, species, things – flowers, fruits, bees, birds, planets, stars, aspiration, actions, activities, families, friends, homes, hobbies, hopes, truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, arts, sciences, cultivation, verification, nirvana, awakening, freedom, friendship, peace, prognosis, compassion, joy, equanimity, life, light liberation, etc., beyond limited space and time.
November 2, 2024 C.E.
Notes:
１．Dharma means 1. form (from d-harm: phenomenon) and 2. norm (from d-h-arm: norm: law operating through phenomena: ethic), and 3. the teaching of the law of all phenomena, that is, Dependent Co-origination (originally awakened on the origination of perception/consciousness depending on the sense organs and objects, but later applied to all phenomena, cf. note 5). This law is similar to the law of causality, now used by sciences, but deeper and wider, applied beyond objects – more on subjects and symbols – ideas, etc.).
2. “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, healthy, and happy.
３．Karma is instilled with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of ego/mei: I/my). The Buddha 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 of one in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
４．Sitting still (zazen: sitting meditation) makes one calm and clear, as a bowl settling down makes the water inside of it become calm and clear, reflecting the world. Constant cultivation of still sitting leads to calming (samatha/śamatha) and observation (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), nirvana and awakening (bodhi), witnessing of the truth world (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu), and becoming the truth body (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya). Anyone can become like a harmonious, cooperating tree (harmonious with elements, giving oxygen, flowers, fruits, building materials, etc.), and a truthful tree (both true and tree have the same etymological root of dhṝ, lasting: ten thousand year old tree found in Africa). (cf. Zen koan of a cypress tree in the garden).
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], and 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 the 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 “Why Buddhism Now?”
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一切の為の覚醒：坐禅目標：無量
坐禅は業を静め涅槃に安住し、諸法の法を求め、仕え、味わう。これは制限から無限への過程である。誰でも量・質両者で無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛等を確証できる。人の命は身体的にも心理的にも、社会的にも、生態的にも、歴史的にも限られた時・空を超え、制限されず、更に益々親密になり享受される。
人は更に多く、広く、深く、進み、微妙に、分かり、敏感などに照らし、見つめ、整頓し、連携し、努力し、照らされ、関わり、教授し、連結し、分かり、疎通するなどを出来るー自他、社会、環境、人々、植物、惑星、星々、宇宙、可視、不可視、過去、現在、未来、行動、活動、真、善、美、聖、道徳、倫理、諸法等において。
人は業―概念、知、情、意、主義、イデオロギー、象徴、自我、社会、知意、国家、罪、欲、渇愛、犯罪、貪、瞋、痴、破戒、眠気、怠惰、浮つき、執着、懸念、恐怖、疑念、無明、生、老、病、死、名誉、財産、物、力、金、束縛、差別、壊滅、破壊等―から自由になりうる。
人は自己、法：他：人間、種族、事柄―限られた時空を超えて花、果、蜂、鳥、惑星、星々、誓願、行動、活動、家族、友人、家、趣味、希望、真、善、美、聖、芸術、科学、修行、覚証、涅槃、覚醒、自由、友情、平和、智慧、同情、喜悦、不動、生命、光明、自由等を愛すことが出来る。
2024共通年11月2日
註：
１．法（dharma）は 形態（form： d-harmより: 現象：真理)、２．規則（norm： d-h-armより:現象中の規則：倫理)、３．諸法の法、縁起（元来は感覚器官と感覚対象に依る知覚・意識の発生に覚醒したが後に一切現象に適用されたもの。註5参照）。この法則は、現今諸科学に用いられる、因果律と同様であるが、もっと深く広い－客体を越えて主体と観念などの象徴に適用される。
２．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。
３．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。
４．静坐は、椀が安住するとその中の水が静謐に透明になり世界を映すように、人を静謐に明澄にする。静坐の常時の修行は止（止静）(samatha/śamatha) と観（観法） (vipassanā/vipaśyanā), 涅槃と覚醒 (bodhi), に導き法界 (Dhamma/Dharma-dhātu：真理世界)を直証し,法身 (Dhamma/Dharma-kāya：真実人身)になる。誰でも、調和協働している樹（一切元素と調和し酸素、花、果、建築材などを提供する）、だから真実である樹（true/tree両者共法：dharmaの語根 dhṝと同様永続を意味し：一万年生き延びる樹もある）の様に成れる （参考：禅公按：庭前柏樹子）。
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：
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