MZC HERE-NOW

 

Friendship, 4

 

The world is full of wonders. One can marvel even at a little daisy surviving beside a hot, busy street. Yet, there are places in the world which are beyond words. There is just awe. The Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons are examples of the world of wonder and awe. I had to make reservations for both of the tours months in advance. They are favorite tourist attractions. Both sites are in the Navajo country and Native Americans take much care of their land. Only a restricted amount of people can enter the Canyons. They also check the weather. It is very dangerous to enter during rain because of flash flooding.

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Sometimes, only a sliver of light can be seen when looking up. We are here in the Upper Antelope Canyon called Tsé bighánílíní, by the Navajo people. It means “the place where water runs through rocks.” The slot canyons were formed over millions of years. Flash flooding washed away the sandstone. This created these fantastic formations. When looking at the rocks and the patterns formed, one can also see the water rushing through.

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Sometimes, fine sand comes down caused by the wind above

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The Upper Canyon is easy to walk through. There is only one level.

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Looking up, one can see entire landscapes

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Every corner offers another stunning view

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When the flute player started his songs on a native American flute, there was absolute silence. The acoustics were astounding.

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The steep ladder up to the top

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The Lower Canyon is very narrow and has several ladders and iron walkways. Silvia is in the process of coming out of the canyon. In former times, one had to repel down into the canyon with ropes.

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A Navajo Indian performed a Hoop dance for the visitors waiting for the tour

We stayed in Page in a simple place called Lake Powell Motel. It was a two bedroom apartment unit. We were also able to cook there. We not only saved a lot of money by cooking ourselves, but it was very bonding.

After two days in Page, we drove to the Grand Canyon. Even the many tourists did not take away the awe for this place. We experienced it at sunset and sunrise, the most impressive times to be there.

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Deep down below, the Colorado River

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The Desert View Watch Tower built in 1932. It provides a fantastic view into the canyon. I learned that the Grand Canyon is a geological phenomena. The 250 million year old rock strata lie back to back with 1.2 billion-year-old rocks. It is a great mystery what happened during the hundreds of millions of years in between.

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In former years, I explored the Grand Canyon before the masses of tourists “invaded” it. I went twice down to the bottom of the Canyon. One time I stayed overnight in Phantom Range. The other time, I camped with my son Robert in Indian Gardens. When we hiked down, we could see the different horizontal layers of rocks, each layer having a different color and age. The most fascinating rock for me was at the bottom. It is a dark, black rock called Vishnu Schist which dates back 1.2 billion years. It looked to me like dark blood transformed into rocks: the blood of the earth.

Arizona has many more places to visit and experience. But everything has to end sometime.

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We spent the last night together in my home in Phoenix. We made fire in the Mexican fire place and were grateful that this precious time was gifted to us. Thank you, dear reader, for walking this adventure with us.

 

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Good morning!

 

The Four Holy Truths start with suffering. So, our talks start with suffering and lead to solution of it. Our world is heading to more arms race, nuke with dictatorship – vicious spiral to the dead end to the doom.

 

The causes are the triple poisons of desire,

Divisiveness, and delusion of selfishness, whose solution lies in the triple learnings of morality, integration (samadhi), and prognosis.

 

Homo sapiens must find out the wise way to solve the problems it created. Each and every one must be awakened and act for it.

We must orient our minds from the source (yoniso manasi-kâra). Gandhi said, “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” He walked the two ways of embracing the truth (satya-âgraha) and non-hurting (ahimsâ).

 

The Buddha provided pure punishment (Brahma-danda) for the evildoers by segregating them. If we all observe it, it is the best way. In our actual world, there are those dealing with war makers to get their own profits, breaking sanctions to punish.

 

We had better live on joy, rather than on the triple poisons. We must find our life source of the Dharma and cultivate ourselves in it to live on joy.

 

Religion is to reunite with holiness (whole wholesome) from sin (selfish sickness), but can become sectarian and selfish. So, we must be determined to truly wake up and walk on the universal truth and ethic.

 

We must walk on the two ways of observing the Dharma (truth/ethic) and cultivating in it with others. We must observe the global ethic based on the fundamental rule of life (no killing, stealing, lying, equal partnership between women and men, ecological care). We must shift from pyramidal civilization (urbanization) to life Indra-net culture (cultivation of truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness).

 

おはようございます！

四聖諦は苦から始まるので、やむを得ず

私達の話も苦から始め解決の道へ進みます。
私たちの世界は、軍拡競争,核、独裁へと

向かっており、悪循環の末に破滅へ至ろう

としています。

 

その原因は、貪瞋痴（無明・自己中心）

の三毒であり、その解決は三学（戒定慧）

にあります。

 

ホモ・サピエンスは、自らが作り出した

問題を解決する智慧ある道を見出さねば

なりません。一人ひとりが目覚めて、

行動しなければなりません。
私たちは、物事の根源から心を向けて

（yoniso manasikara）、進むべき道を見極

めるべきです。

 

ガンジーは「平和への道はない。平和こそ

が道なのだ」と言いました。
彼は、真理抱擁（サティヤーグラハ）と、

非暴力（アヒンサー）の二道を歩みました。

 

仏陀は、悪行をなす者に対し、「清浄刑」

（ブラフマ・ダンダ）という隔離すること

を示されました。もし私たち全員がそれを

実践すれば、それが最良の道となるでしょう。
しかし、現実の世界では、戦争を起こす者達

と手を組み利益を追求し制裁を破る者もいます。

 

私たちは、喜びを糧に生きるべきです、三毒

ではなく。根源である法を見出し、そこで修養

し、それによって生きることが大切です。

 

宗教とは、罪（自己中病患）から聖性（全体健全）

に再結合ですが、宗派的になり自己中心的にもなり

得ます。だからこそ、私たちは真に目覚めて、

普遍的な真理と倫理の道を歩む決意をしなければ

なりません。

 

私たちは、法（真理・倫理）を観察し、それを

共に修行するという二つの道を歩むべきです。
また、生命の基本的なルール（不殺生、不偸盗、

不妄語、男女平等、環境保全）に基づく地球倫理

を実践すべきです。

 

私たちは、金字塔文明（都市化）から、命帝釈網

文化（真・善・美・聖を育む文化）へと枠組転換

していかなければなりません。

 

 

 

 

Good morning!

 

Zuigan Osho (Teacher) called himself every day,

saying, “Master!”
And he would answer himself,
“Yes!”

Then he would say,
“Stay awake! Stay awake!
In the days to come,
Do not be deceived by others!”

And again, he would say,
“Yes! Yes!”

“Shujinkou” translated by the IA

“Master” (against “Slave”) may

be “Host” (against “Guest”) of

“True Person” (against “False Person”).

 

You and I are wonder work of the universe

in limtless space and time – true miracle,

invaluable and irreplaceable!

 

How can such a wonderful work become

wretched to corrupt and crippled to commit

kill life, steal life support, lie life truth,

mess life love, and intoxicate awakened life?

 

Modern sciences revealed that any living

being is inheriting its life from the original

life separated or evolved with genes thanks

to its environment in time and space. Any

living being now is 4 bil. yrs. old or actually

15 bil. yrs. old with bil. galaxies space, if

we understand inseparable relations of all

phenomena in the Dharma of Dependent

Co-origination.

 

Why don’t we become awakened to this truth

and repay for the limitless cultivation of our

ancestors and their graces given to all of us

today? How can we repay the whole world and

recreate it better?

 

Let’s work together to share the true Dharma

and strive for cultivating ourselves and others

to make a better world letting all to awaken

to their invaluable lives and appreciate their

irreplaceable lives in limitless light, liberation,

and love!

 

おはようございます！

瑞巌和尚（師）は毎日、自分に呼びかけました。
「主人公よ！」
そして自ら答えました。
「はい！」

さらにこう言いました。
「しっかり目覚めていろ！ しっかり目覚めていろ！
これからの何時いかなる場合でも、
他人に惑わされるな！」

そしてまた言いました。
「はい！ はい！」

「主人公（Shujinkou）」の訳について
IA（人工知能）は「Master」と訳しました。
「Master（主人）」は「Slave（奴隷）」と対になる言葉ですが、
「Host（主人）」と「Guest（客）」、あるいは

「True Person（真人）」と「False Person（偽者）」
と捉える方がよいかもしれません。

あなたも私も、宇宙の驚異作品
— 無限の空間と時間の中の真の奇跡、

価値の付けようもなく、かけがえのない存在！

そんな素晴らしい存在が、
どうして堕落し、破損し、
命を奪い、
命の資糧を盗み、
命の真実を偽り、
命の愛を乱し、
覚醒した命を酔わせることが出来るでしょうか？

現代科学は明らかにしました：
あらゆる生命は、
最初の生命から分割し、あるいは遺伝子を受け

継ぎながら進化し、
時空の環境に支えられつつ生きていることを。
今ここに生きる生命はどれも、

実は40億年の歴史を持ち、
いや、宇宙の誕生から

150億年の歴史を持つと言えます –
もし私たちが、あらゆる現象が互いに

切り離せない関係にある
「縁起の法」を理解するならば。

なぜ私たちは、この真理に目覚めないのでしょうか？
なぜ、無限の恩恵を受け継いできた

祖先に報いないのでしょうか？
なぜ、世界に恩返しし、

より良い世界を創ろうとしないのでしょうか？

さあ、共に真実の法を分かち合い、
自己と他者と共に修養するよに努めるように

働きましょう！
すべての人が、

自らの計り知れない価値の命に目覚め、
かけがえのない命を享受できるように、
無限の光、解放、そして愛の中で！

 

 

Friendship 3

 

On our way to Page, the northern most part of Arizona, we made two stops. One was at Meteor Crater. The other was at Walnut Canyon National Monument.

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The Meteor Crater, with a 1,200 m diameter and 170 m depth, was formed 50,000 years ago. A nickel-iron meteorite struck the former grassland, causing the crater. The meteor mostly vaporized at impact.

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There exist fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite (named after a nearby Canyon). The biggest piece of meteorite found, called the Holsinger Meteorite, is shown publicly. It was great to touch a material coming from space.

Beside the natural wonder of Meteor Crater near Flagstaff, there is a remarkable ancient place nearby. It is the Walnut Canyon National Park. Since ancient times, indigenous people built their homes in the cliffs and did farming along the rim of the Canyon.

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View from Walnut Canyon to the mountain range of San Francisco Peak near Flagstaff

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Walnut Creek is down below. The Creek carved a 600 m deep Canyon. It created an island where the remnants of the Cliff dwellings can be seen.

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The trail around this island passes 25 cliff dwellings. They were built under limestone ledges by the Sinagua people, who lived there between 1100 and 1250 AD.

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The dwellings are small and were only used for cooking and sleeping. About 80 cliff dwellings are found in the surrounding area. One does not know why the Sinagua people left the area.

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Cliff dwellings

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When we arrived in Page, we visited the Horseshoe Bend, another natural wonder.

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The Colorado River carved out this enormous Canyon. It also carved out an island. The latter is without access to the rim.

The Glen Canyon Dam near Page creates an enormous desert lake called lake Powell. In recent years, the water level fell to a record low. This happened because of the persistent lack of rain and snow.

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Glen Canyon Dam, started in 1956

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We were sitting at the shore watching canoes arriving in the evening. The water level is too low for larger boats.

Our travel back in time brought us to another interesting site – the Big Water Visitor center. It is part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Many different kinds of dinosaurs lived there once. Since 2005, fourteen new dinosaur species have been found.

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The staff member was very knowledgeable. He not only explained the different fossils exhibited, but he had also discovered a dinosaur fossil in the area.

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Going back in time and seeing the ancestors of our birds

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Not far away from the Big Water Visitor Center are the Wahweap Hoodoos. These are very unique sandstone formations. They have been shaped by 30 million years of erosion.

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Mushroom shaped formations

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Toadstool Hoodoo from farther away

 

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Toadstool Hoodoo

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It might take another million years until it disappears.

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In comparison to all these ancient formations, we humans on earth are just a very brief flash of light. If we compare the universe’s age to one year, the dinosaurs’ existence on earth lasted five days. The length of the existence of the human race is 21 seconds.

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Good morning!

 

Yesterday I quoted the Buddha’s words, “I have been walking only on the Dharma and Naya.” Naya is a little ambiguous in this case, if it means leading, reasoning, doing, etc. We say there are two paths of seeing and cultivating. Naya would fit to the latter, while the Dharma fits for the former.

 

Vi-naya means discipline or cultivation, separating (vi-) from bad/wild actions to lead (naya) to good/tamed person/animal. We have karma with the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion. We need to cultivate our triple actions (physical, verbal, mental) with the triple minds (intellect, emotion, volition) with the triple learnings (morality, samâdhi, and prognosis).

 

I forwarded my conversation with AI on the five precepts (no killing, stealing, lying, etc.) to our listserv. We found legal rules, as in the Hammrabi Codes, the stipulations of punishments on killing, stealing, etc., but not the set list of these five (or similar ones in the Ten Commandments).

 

The five precepts (with the similar stipulations in the latter half of the Ten Commandments, not exactly the same in their stipulated content) became the bases for the global ethic, issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993 in Chicago. If we observe it, there will be no wars, killing, stealing, lying, etc.

 

Gandhi’s ahimsâ, no-hurting, includes all of the five precepts. This with his satya-âgraha, truth-embracing makes good paralleles with the two paths of cultivation and observation. These two are knowing and acting, the two aspects of our living – two wings to fly free and full for birds, both needing unified, as often said.

 

Please have a good day with observing (seeing and following) the Dharma and Dharma deeds!

おはようございます！

昨日、仏陀の言葉「私はただダルマとナヤの上を歩んできた」を引用しました。
この場合の「ナヤ」はやや曖昧で、「導き」「推理」「実践」など、いくつかの意味が考えられます。
私たちは「見（seeing）道」と「修（cultivating）道」の二道があると言います。
ダルマは前者に、ナヤは後者に適合するでしょう。

ヴィナヤ（Vi-naya） は「律（discipline）」「修養（cultivation）」を意味し、
「ヴィ（vi-）」は「（悪しき／野生の行動から）離れること」、
「ナヤ（naya）」は「（善き／調和した人間・動物へと）導くこと」を表します。

私たちは貪（desire）、瞋（divisiveness）、痴（delusion）の三毒を離れて、
身（physical）、口（verbal）、意（mental）の三業を、
知（intellect）、情（emotion）、意（volition）の三心をもって、
戒（morality）、定（samādhi）、慧（prognosis）の三学により修養しなければなりません。

私は、AIとの五戒（不殺生、不偸盗、不妄語など）に関する会話を私達のリストサーブに転送しました。
ハンムラビ法典のように、殺人や窃盗に対する古来刑罰規定は見られますが、
五戒（または十戒の類似するもの）のように、明確なリストとして規定されているものは無いようでした。

五戒（規定内容は完全には一致しませんが、類似する十戒の後半）は、
1993年シカゴで開催された「世界宗教会議（Parliament of the World’s Religions）」によって発表された「世界倫理（Global Ethic）」の基盤となりました。
もし人々がこれを守るなら、戦争、殺生、盗み、虚偽などはなくなるでしょう。

ガンディーの「アヒンサー（ahimsā）＝非暴力（no-hurting）」 は五戒すべてを含みます。
彼の「アヒンサー」と「サティヤーグラハ（satya-āgraha）＝真理把持（truth-embracing）」は、
「修（cultivating）」と「観（observing）」の二つの道と良い対比をなしています。

この二つは、「知（knowing）」と「行（acting）」という、私たちの生の二側面であり、「知行合一」と言われるように、まるで鳥が自由に完全に飛ぶための両翼のようなもので、両方が統合される必要があります。

どうか、法を守り（観行、修養）して良き一日を過ごしてください！

 

“Truth only wins (satyam eve jayate)” with the Ashokan Dharma
Wheel is the Indian national emblem. Satya is made up with sat
(is, being) plus ya (suffix making abstract noun). Buddhists use
Dharma (from the root dhrî, holding, holding all phenomena),
because satya sounds static substance.

When the Buddha at his last bed was asked by Subaddha about
the true religious leader, he said, “I walked only on the Dharma
and the true way (naya: leading, eye, reasoning, morality, cf.
vi-naya, discipline). There is no other than the one who strives
in the way.”

Unless a blind turtle getting off its head from the floating log and
opening its eyes, it can’t see the vast sky and the great ocean and
swim free and full – humans with karma are like born blinds
groping a huge elephant, guessing, fighting for their limited views
or following other blind people.

We live on the earth at a corner of the solar galaxy in the
unlimited universe with billions of similar galaxies since
the big bang 150 billion years ago. In the cosmic calendar
the Buddha’s time was five seconds ago, thus almost
simultaneous for our awakening with other beings.

Anyone is a foam in the great ocean or a spec in the great

universe, appearing and disapearing instantly in this

limitless truth universe.

Dogen said to put our lives into the house of the Buddhas.
When we put our lives into the Dharma world, great ocean
of truth, being, holding life, etc., we attain the Dharma
bodies. We call one universal truth in different names like
Dharma, Dao (Way), Deva (God), Dei (God), etc.

The last picture in Garyo’s travelog I forwarded to our
listserv is the stupa of Amida (Amita-âyus: Limitless Life,
Amita-âbha: Limitless Light) Buddha. Namu-Amidabutsu,
Namo- Amita-âyus/ âbha Buddhâya, means “I dedicate
my life to Amida Buddha.”

Please dedicate your life to the limitless life, light,
liberation, and love!

Thank you!

「真理のみが勝つ（सत्यमेव जयते）」とアショーカ王の
法輪が描かれたものがインドの国章です。
サティヤ（Satya）は、サット（Sat：「ある」「存在」）と、
抽象名詞を作る接尾辞ヤ（ya）から成り立っています。
仏教では「サティヤ」という言葉が静的実体を示すように
聞こえるため、「ダルマ（Dharma）」を用います
（語源は dhrî：「保持する」、すべての現象を保持するもの）。

仏陀が臨終の床において、スバッダから真の宗教指導者に
ついて尋ねられた際、次のように答えました。
「私はただダルマと真の道（ナヤ：導く、眼、理性、道徳、
修養、cf. ヴィナヤ：律：悪を離れ善に導く）を歩んできた。

他に道の精進者はいない。」

盲亀が偶然、浮かぶ丸太の穴に頭を突っ込んだ（という人間
に生まれることの稀有の例えで）、丸太を外し目を開けなければ、
広大な空や大海原を見ることも、自由に泳ぐこともできません。

 

人間もまた、カルマに縛られた盲人のようなものです。
巨大な象を手探りしながら、自らの限られた視野で推測し、
争い、他の盲人に従っているのです。

私たちは、ビッグバンから150億年の時を経た無限の宇宙の
中で、何十億もの銀河と同じように存在する太陽系の片隅の
地球に生きています。宇宙カレンダー（ビッグバンから今日
までの出来事を一年のカレンダーに収めたもの）において、
仏陀の時代はわずか5秒前のことに過ぎず、私たちが他の存在
と共に覚醒するのも、ほぼ同時と言えます。誰でも大海の

泡沫や大宇宙の塵のようで、その無限の真理宇宙の中で瞬時

に消滅するのです。

道元禅師は「ただわが身をも心をも放ち忘れて、仏の家に

投げ入れて」と説きました。
私たちが己の命を法界、大いなる真理の海、存在の海、生命
の海へと投じるとき、私たちは法身を得ます。
私たちは一つの普遍的真理を、ダルマ、道（ダオ）、天

（デーヴァ、デイ：神）など異なる名で呼んでいるのです。

私がリストサーブに転送した Garyo の旅行記の最後の
写真は、阿弥陀（アミターユス＝無量寿、アミターバ
＝無量光）仏のストゥーパです。「南無阿弥陀仏
（Namu-Amidabutsu）」「ナモー・アミターユス／
アミターバ・ブッダーヤ（Namo-Amita-âyus/ âbha
Buddhâya）」とは、「南無阿弥陀仏（私は阿弥陀仏に
己が命を捧げます」という意味です。

どうか、あなたの命を無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛
へと献身してください！

有難うございます！

 

Friendship, 2

 

After staying in Phoenix, we traveled up north heading towards the Grand Canyon. I was not in top shape. Several days before the arrival of my friends, I had an outbreak of shingles and had to take strong medicine. The loving care of my friends helped me not to be bothered by it too much.

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Every morning, we formed a talking circle and voiced what was in our minds. We did Silat exercises together. Sigrid, as a Silat martial arts trainer, showed us how to do it. We also meditated and read poetry. At the end of the day, Silvia massaged my feet. Her hands did miracles. The intimate relationship between us and the beauty of the landscape also helped me to heal very fast.

On the way to Sedona, we stopped at Arcosanti. It is a desert town envisioned by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri. He started the project in the year 1970. His goal was to combine architecture and ecology and create a sustainable urban environment. He envisioned a town without cars and wanted to create the best conditions for social interactions. It is still a school for architecture and influenced many architects and designers who studied and worked with him. Unfortunately, visitors were not allowed the day we came. Without getting a tour, we admired the bells and wind chimes in the shop.

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The main funding for this project comes from handcrafted bells and wind chimes made out of bronze or clay. Over the years, I have bought several. I love the organic textures and the design motifs. Each bell is “original”.

Not far from Arcosanti, in the Verde Valley, is the natural limestone sinkhole Montezuma Well. A huge amount of water emerges each day from this spring, even during droughts. No fish can live in this water. It is highly carbonated and contains a high level of arsenic. The water was even used in prehistoric times. Ditches of the ancient irrigation systems can still be seen today.

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Montezuma Well

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The walkway down is a true oasis of green, light and shade. it is a favorite place for birds.

Our first overnight stay was in the Red Agave Resort in Oak Creek. I come to this place every year. It is located outside of Sedona and faces the nature and Bell Rock. It is a magical place.

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Chalets at the Red Agave Resort

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Breakfast in front of the Chalet with the view to Bell Rock and Courthouse Rock

Sedona is very special. The bizarre formations of the red rocks are remarkable. I was so happy that I was able to show my friends my favorite hikes.

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The first hike was beside Oak Creek behind Cathedral Rock.

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Embraced by the powerful roots of the tree, we enjoyed the peace of this place.

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Every time when I am in Sedona, I climb up Cathedral Rock.

Cathedral Rock faces the Chapel of the Holy Cross. For years, Silvia wanted to see it. She was so happy that she finally was able to visit it.

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Chapel of the Holy Cross, a building in total harmony with the surroundings.

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There seemed to be no inside or outside in the Chapel anymore, just space. For a long time, we were sitting in silence. After a while, we started to sing one of our favorite songs from the 8th century:

Ubi caritas et amor

Ubi caritas, deus ibi est

(Where charity and love are, where charity is, there is God). We often were singing songs on our journey – a very bonding activity. We sang the melody very quietly. Nevertheless, after we had finished, a lady behind us thanked us.

We also hiked on the Oak Creek Canyon Trail. I loved to hike this trail with my kids when they were small. The path starts at a former apple orchard and follows the creek.

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High pine trees grow in the valley between steep rocks

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Several times we had to take off our shoes and cross to the other side of the creek

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It is always good to take a rest. It is especially nice on a warm, smooth rock beside rushing water in the warm sun.

We also hiked the Boynton Canyon trail, a hike of about 7 miles in and out of the canyon. The trail winds by gorgeous red rocks, passes an ancient Indian rock dwelling and leads through an old, established forest. I also wanted to show my friends a cave off the trail. A secret cave. It is off the well marked path and hard to find.

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Hiking to the cave

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It is tricky to climb up the steep slope. But one is rewarded with this spectacular view.

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Another cave like structure…..

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Before leaving Sedona, we also visited the Peace Park.

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Amitabha Stupa (Infinitive Light) with Tibetan prayer flags and a big statue of a meditating Buddha in the background. It matches the vertical, red rock on the top of the mountain. T

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Friendship

 

Two years ago, two of my good Austrian friends came for a visit to Phoenix, Arizona. I planned to show them some of my favorite places. We never before did things together as a group. It became a precious time of friendship and connection. The bond and connection was not only with each other but also with the land we visited.

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Silvia, Sigrid and my husband, David, on our porch in the back yard

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Although I made the overall plan for the visit, we structured our daily activities as a group. One of our group activities was preparing simple and very delicious meals, when circumstances allowed it.

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We all love vegetarian meals.

All three loved to hike, but have different levels of fitness. This was not a problem. Our first hike was a trail near my house in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. We hiked only as far as the group managed. On this hike, there was a funny incident. Another hiker saw a rattlesnake near the path. To be bitten by a rattlesnake was Silvia’s biggest fear. I had to convince her that rattlesnakes want to be out of sight of humans. Her fear was understandable. When I first came to Arizona, I was very anxious when my sons hiked up the hill behind our house. I also thought that rattlesnakes would wait for them behind every rock.

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Evening hike on the foothills of Piestewa Peak

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We did not meet a rattlesnake, but a little beetle crawling across the path.

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One of the very special things in Phoenix is the sunrise ritual on Piestewa Peak. Every morning, in chilly or very hot weather, Ken Koshio carries up his heavy Taiko drum. He greets the rising sun with powerful beats and ancient songs.

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Ken Koshio and his drum.

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Sunrise near my secret rock chapel

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We lit three candles for peace and harmony in the group and peace in the world. Whenever I hike up Piestewa Peak, I light a candle.

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Sigrid and I already had many hikes together.

We also visited the Botanical Garden in Phoenix. April was the perfect time. Nearly every cactus was blooming.

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Glass art at the entrance to the Botanical Garden

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The yellow blooming Creosote bush grows in the Sonoran desert just about everywhere. After a rain, the desert is full of its earthy and sweet smell.

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Butterflies, bees, birds, rabbits – the Botanical garden has many visitors.

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We also visited the Phoenix art museum. My favorite piece of art there is an installation by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It is called Fireflies Infinity Mirror Room. It is a room where you can experience infinite connection and beauty.

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Photo from the Website of the Phoenix Art Museum

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Another art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She used burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.

Another art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She uAnother art piece I love is an installation by Cornelia Parker called Mass. She used burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.sed burned wood of a Texas church struck by lightening to create this beautiful installation.

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 Silvia and Sigrid in front of the installation by Cornelia Parker

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We also hiked in the Superstition Mountain Wilderness located one hour drive southeast of Phoenix. Not far away is one of the four desert lakes, built at the beginning of the last century. It was created as a flood control and also used as a water reservoir for the greater Phoenix area.

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We rested at the shore of Canyon Lake and enjoyed the views.

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After spending a relaxing time at the water, we visited the Goldfield ghost town near Superstition Mountains. It was a gold mining town in the 19th century. It had three saloons, a general store, a hotel, a meat market, a school, post office and a jail. When the mine was no longer profitable, the town was abandoned. It was later revived as a tourist attraction and has a very authentic feeling.

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Goldfield with the Superstition mountains in the background

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It is fun to walk through this ghost town and feel the energy of the Wild West.

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One of the many old machines and vehicles once used for mining. A short train ride takes you around the area. When my grandchildren were still small, I loved to go with them to this place. We went on a train ride and ate ice cream afterwards.

We also drove to the shore of Salt river. Wild horses live there. They come to drink water and bathe.

We did not meet wild horses but experienced a beautiful sunrise.

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Sunrise at the banks of Salt River

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Water is very precious in the desert. When I lived in Phoenix during the summer, we sometimes went to the river and floated down on a tube. It is a popular activity in the heat.

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This trees reminded me of the trees in the Amazon jungles. They seem to walk. Major floods washed away the soil around the roots. But the tree is still holding on – very impressive!

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Awakening for All: Zazen Ultimate: Free Full Function

 

The doomsday clock is ticking with the individual, social, and environmental problems of inevitable birth, aging, sickness, and death: urgent dictatorship, war, nuke, species mass extinction, ecological devastation, environmental destruction, etc. Human problems are now the global problems leading to doomsday.

 

The Buddha, the greatest and happiest person in history according to AI, said that our problems are due to the two roots of craving and nescience. Homo sapiens, intelligent man, is not wise now, but like a hungry ghost, fighting devil, hell being, etc., with self-conceit, social corruption, and ecological collapse.

 

Dogen said, “Hand off, hand full!” Discarding the karma of the two roots let us function free and full of and with all. Anyone can sit still, stilling karma, settling in nirvana, seeing the Dharma, savoring ambrosia of immortality in limitless life, light, liberation, love, solving suffering, serving and saving all.

 

The paths are seeing the Dharma and cultivating in the triple learnings of morality, samadhi, and prognosis. We must observe the global ethic based on the five/ten precepts and ten commandments. We must shift from a pyramidal civilization to a life Indra-net culture for friendship, freedom, equality, etc.

 

March 1, 2025 C.E.

 

Notes:

1. We must solve the most urgent intertwined problem of dictatorship, war, nuke, and nationalism that will lead to nuclear holocaust. For this we must be awakened to the universal truth of the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination (all related/relative) and ethic and act in global solidarity as one life family beyond selfishness (self, status, states, species, symbolism) to avoid catastrophe.
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 (grow/create with the past/present physical/verbal/mental action, habit, heredity) 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 in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).
4. 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/

5. The solution to the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, and poverty, requires the global ethic (issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993 with more than seven thousand people from all religions and from all over the world attending), which is based on the Five Precepts (and the fundamental common elements in the Ten Precepts, the Ten Commandments, etc. of Buddhism, etc.). The Inter-Action Institute drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (counterpart to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) for the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved for the time being. https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/
6. A paradigm shift from our artificial, unilateral pyramidal civilization to a natural, cyclical Indra-net life culture for sharing life, heart, and harmony with the five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace) is essential to solve the global problematique. Culture is the cultivation of our potential in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness (cf. sciences, philosophies, arts, and religions).

Please refer to the following for more detailed explanation：

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅　究極：自由で十全な働き

 

世界終末時計は、避けられない生老病死、独裁、戦争、核、呪の大量絶滅、生態系崩壊、環境破壊などの緊急の個人、社会、環境の諸問題を抱えて刻々に時を刻んでいる。人間の諸問題が今や終末に向かって地球の諸問題となっている。

 

人工頭脳によれば最も偉大で幸福な人である仏陀は、諸問題は渇愛と無明の二根によると言った。ホモ・サピエンス、知的人間、は自惚れ、社会腐敗、と生態系崩壊で餓鬼、修羅、地獄住人などのようになり、賢明ではない。

 

道元は「放てば手に満てり」と言った。二根を持つ業を放擲することは私達を皆一切と共に自由で完全に活動させる。誰でも静かに坐わり、業を静め、涅槃に安住し、法を見、無量寿、無量光、無量解、無量愛の中に不死の神饌である甘露を味わい、苦を解き、一切に奉仕し救済できる。

 

その方途は法を見、戒定慧の三学を修行することである。私達は五/十戒や十戒に基づいた地球倫理を守らなければならない。私達は友情、自由、平等などのために金字塔文明から命帝網文化に転換しなければならない。

 

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1. 私達は核ホロコーストに導く最も緊急で結合した問題独裁、戦争、核、国家主義を解決しなければならない。この為に私達は（一切が相依・相対である

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（karma, grow/create: 過去現在の身口意行動・習慣・遺伝）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。

https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/

 

４． 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/

5. 地球問題群、地球温暖化、大量絶滅、国家主義、戦争、核、ドクサイ、独断、差別、汚染、貧困の様な相互関連した地球諸問題、は（1993年シカゴで世界中から諸宗教の七千人を超える人々が集まった世界宗教会議により発出された宣言）地球倫理を必要とするが、これは（不殺、不盗、不偽、不淫、不飲酒の）五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいている。インターアクション協議会は（世界人権宣言の対応として、その五十周年に発表する様）世界人務宣言の草案を作り国連が発出するように提出したが今に至るも棚上げされたままである。

6．私達の人工的で一方向の金字塔文明から命・心・和の分かち合いによる五福（覚醒、自由、平等、友情、平和）をもつ自然的で循環的な命帝網文化への枠組転換が地球問題群を解決する為には必須である。文化は私達の真善美聖(参考：諸科学、諸哲学、諸芸術、諸宗教)における潜在能力を修養することである。

詳細説明は下記を参照：

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-Wxk

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Awakening for All: Zazen Now: Dwell in Dharma

 

We are now facing the urgent problems of dictatorship, war, and nuclear holocaust, leading to social disorder, environmental devastation, and global doom among the global problematique of individual suffering, social injustice, ecological degradation, biological decimation, climate change, etc.

 

This is due to our ignorance and inaction in the universal truth of dependent co-origination, interrelation and relativity of all things, which requires equality, peace, freedom, and friendship. Ignorance comes from selfish views and values, which come from fundamental nescience (no witness, of nirvana / karma).

 

The solution lies in stilling karma, esp. of the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion (of self). Still sitting stills karma (action, habit, heredity), seeing the universal Dharma (truth / ethic), settling and serving it with all (dharmas) and observing the global ethic based on the five precepts.

 

The paths are observing the Dharma and cultivating ourselves and others in it to create a new global system and ethic with holy harmony, health, and happiness of all. We must awaken and act for a new Indra-net culture of life, heart, and harmony, beyond a power pyramidal civilization of money, matter, and might.

 

February 22, 2025 C.E.

 

Notes:

 

1.  All (dharmas) live in the universal truth (Dharma), but humans created symbolic systems like self, society, status, sovereign, state, etc. (see Ernst Cassirer’s An Essay on Man, The Myth of the State, etc.). Depending on the delusion of self-substance, sovereign state, etc., we now have the problems of dictatorship, war, nuclear holocaust problems, etc. We must be awakened from such delusions and act to solve these problems so that all can live in holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness.

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.  Ernst Cassirer defined humans as homo symbolicum in his Philosophy of Symbolism, its summary An Essay on Man, where humans are described as skillful in handling the symbolisms of language, myth, religion, art, science, history, etc. The Myth of the State is an important work that to shows how states operate and how people are misled to wars and even nuclear demise.

4.  Karma (grow/create with the past/present physical/verbal/mental action, habit, heredity) 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 in holiness (wholly wholesome: harmonious, healthy, and happy).

5.  To reunite with the holiness of the limitless ocean of life from being a separated small bubble or foam of ego or group ego is the goal of anyone or a universal religion, where one lives as a true friend in need of all, as expressed in, and who lives in limitless life, light, liberation, and love.

6.  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/

7.  The solution to the global problematique, mutually related global problems such as climate change, mass extinction, nationalism, war, nukes, dictatorship, dogma, discrimination, pollution, and poverty, requires the global ethic (issued by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993 with more than seven thousand people from all religions and from all over the world attending), which is based on the Five Precepts (and the fundamental common elements in the Ten Precepts, the Ten Commandments, etc. of Buddhism, etc.). The Inter-Action Institute drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (counterpart to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be published at the 50th anniversary of its issuance) for the U.N. to publish, but it has been shelved for the time being.

8.  A paradigm shift from our artificial, unilateral pyramidal civilization to a natural, cyclical Indra-net life culture for sharing life, heart, and harmony with the five blisses (awakening, freedom, equality, friendship, and peace) is essential to solve the global problematique. Culture is the cultivation of our potential in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness (cf. sciences, philosophies, arts, and religions).

Please refer to the following for more detailed explanation：

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-

 

一切の為の覚醒：坐禅　今：住法

今私達は個人の苦、社会の不公正、生態の劣化、生命の貧弱化、気候変動などの地球問題群の中で、社会的無秩序、環境的破壊、地球的破滅に導く独裁、戦争、核ホロコーストの緊急の問題に直面している。

 

これは私達の縁起、即ち一切事象の相関、相対は平等、平和、自由、友愛を要求するという、普遍法の無知と無行動に由来している。無知は自己中心的観点と価値から来るが、根本的な無明（無覚証、涅槃/業の）。

 

その解決は業、特に貪瞋痴（我の）の三毒、を静めることにある。静坐は業（行為、習慣、遺伝）を静め、普遍法（真理/倫理）を見、五戒に基盤を置く地球倫理を守るように、そこに安住し一切（法：事物に）奉仕する。

 

その道は法を守りそこに私達と他者を修行して一切の聖なる調和、健康、幸福のある新しい地球体系と倫理を創造することである。私達は金、物、力の権力金字塔文明を超える命、心、和の新しい生命帝釈網文化のために覚醒し活動しなければならない。

 

2025共通年２月２２日

 

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１．一切（法）は普遍真理（法）の中に生きているが、人間は自我、社会、地位、国家などの象徴組織を創造した（エルンスト・カッシラーの「人間」「国家の神話」など参照）。自己物質、主権国家などの迷妄に依り私達は今独裁制、戦争、核ホロコースト問題などを持っている。私達は、一切が聖（全体健全）な調和、健康、幸福に生きることが出来るように、そのような迷妄から覚醒し、これらの問題を解決するよう行動しなければならない。

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.  エルンスト・カッシラーは人間を言語、神話、宗教、芸術、科学、歴史などの象徴を巧く操るものであるとする「象徴の哲学」やその要約である「人間」等で「象徴人間」と定義しました。「国家の神話」は諸国家がどのように機能するかそしてどのように人々が戦争やさらには核の破滅に誤り導かれるかを知るのに重要である。

4.  エゴやエゴ集団の小さく分離した泡沫から無限の生命の大会の聖性に再結合するのは誰でもの又普遍宗教の目標であるが、 Mitra, Mithra, Metteya, Maitreya, Mazda, Massiah, etc（友を意味する）で表されるように、一切の必要の時の友は真の友として生きることであり、無量寿、無量光、無量解（脱：解放）、無量愛を生きるものである。

5.  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/

6.  業（karma, grow/create: 過去現在の身口意行動・習慣・遺伝）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。

7.  地球問題群、地球温暖化、大量絶滅、国家主義、戦争、核、ドクサイ、独断、差別、汚染、貧困の様な相互関連した地球諸問題、は（1993年シカゴで世界中から諸宗教の七千人を超える人々が集まった世界宗教会議により発出された宣言）地球倫理を必要とするが、これは（不殺、不盗、不偽、不淫、不飲酒の）五戒（と仏教他の十戒の基本的共通要素）に基づいている。インターアクション協議会は（世界人権宣言の対応として、その五十周年に発表する様）世界人務宣言の草案を作り国連が発出するように提出したが今に至るも棚上げされたままである。

8.  私達の人工的で一方向の金字塔文明から命・心・和の分かち合いによる五福（覚醒、自由、平等、友情、平和）をもつ自然的で循環的な命帝網文化への枠組転換が地球問題群を解決する為には必須である。文化は私達の真善美聖(参考：諸科学、諸哲学、諸芸術、諸宗教)における潜在能力を修養することである。

詳細説明は下記を参照：

https://heiwasekai.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/%e3%80%8c%e6%9e%a0%e7%b5%84%e8%bb%a2%e6%8f%9b%e3%80%8d%ef%bc%9aparadigm-shift/?fbclid=IwAR2PEo9t4YwkwTSo4QRdVseqW08HeASD7orrenbOQLh181s72MAbV-Wxk

 

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