MZC HERE-NOW

 

Good morning!

 

We have a quiet and clear Saturday morning with beautiful nature. The human world, however, is in turmoil with pandemic, people’s protests against discrimination, etc. The upheaval of protests against George Floyd’s murder by a policeman’s kneeling down and choking him to death about fortnight ago is occurring not only in this country, but around the world. He pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, even crying for his Mama, which makes us also feel choked, without breath.

 

Yesterday Mr. Shigeru Yokota died at 87, waiting for his daughter, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977, the head of the families whose family members were also abducted. Police brutality, abduction, oppression of protestors, wars, etc., by nations are institutionalized violence. From home violence to violence to nature, like mass extinction and global warming, are human karma, individual and social (ātma-/saha-karma: self-/co-karma, cf. ātma-/saha –loka: self-/co-world).

 

George’s brother, Terence, appealed for peace against violence and looting, which seemed to make the demonstrations more orderly. Martin Luther King’s movement traces back to Gandhi, who made his life an experiment of truth with non-harming, inseparable unity. The Buddha, Awakened One, was awakened to the truth (Dharma of Dependent Co-origination) in peace (nirvana, unconditioned by karma). He was socially engaged throughout his life.

 

Global problems, especially the pandemic, make us realize the Dharma of Co-dependent Origination and reunite humanity to solve our common problems. We must shift the paradigm from our pyramidal civilization with its five calamities to a Life Indra-net culture with the five blisses. The modern triple revolutions of information, democratization, and globalization will help facilitate this. Only truth-peace will win with a billion-year universal life, the Dharma world.

 

June 6, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

Note 1. George Floyd murder:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/8-minutes-and-46-seconds-how-george-floyd-was-murdered/

2. Shigeru Yokota death:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/shigeru-yokota-father-of-n-korea-abductee-dies-at-8/

3. Five Calamities: Delusion, Bondage, Discrimination, Exploitation, Extermination.
4. Five Blisses: Awakening, Freedom, Equality, Love, Peace.
5. Paradigm Shift:

Good morning!

 

We have a quiet and clear Saturday morning with beautiful nature. The human world, however, is in turmoil with pandemic, people’s protests against discrimination, etc. The upheaval of protests against George Floyd’s murder by a policeman’s kneeling down and choking him to death about fortnight ago is occurring not only in this country, but around the world. He pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, even crying for his Mama, which makes us also feel choked, without breath.

 

Yesterday Mr. Shigeru Yokota died at 87, waiting for his daughter, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977, the head of the families whose family members were also abducted. Police brutality, abduction, oppression of protestors, wars, etc., by nations are institutionalized violence. From home violence to violence to nature, like mass extinction and global warming, are human karma, individual and social (ātma-/saha-karma: self-/co-karma, cf. ātma-/saha –loka: self-/co-world).

 

George’s brother, Terence, appealed for peace against violence and looting, which seemed to make the demonstrations more orderly. Martin Luther King’s movement traces back to Gandhi, who made his life an experiment of truth with non-harming, inseparable unity. The Buddha, Awakened One, was awakened to the truth (Dharma of Dependent Co-origination) in peace (nirvana, unconditioned by karma). He was socially engaged throughout his life.

 

Global problems, especially the pandemic, make us realize the Dharma of Co-dependent Origination and reunite humanity to solve our common problems. We must shift the paradigm from our pyramidal civilization with its five calamities to a Life Indra-net culture with the five blisses. The modern triple revolutions of information, democratization, and globalization will help facilitate this. Only truth-peace will win with a billion-year universal life, the Dharma world.

 

June 6, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

Note 1. George Floyd murder:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/8-minutes-and-46-seconds-how-george-floyd-was-murdered/

2. Shigeru Yokota death:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/shigeru-yokota-father-of-n-korea-abductee-dies-at-8/

3. Five Calamities: Delusion, Bondage, Discrimination, Exploitation, Extermination.
4. Five Blisses: Awakening, Freedom, Equality, Love, Peace.

 

 

お早うございます！

 

美しい自然の静かで明るい土曜日の朝です。人間界は、しかしながら、全人類的流行病や差別反対の人々の抗議などで騒然としています。約二週間前の警官によるジョージ・フロイドの膝落としで窒息させた殺人に対する抗議の高まりはこの国の身ならず世界中に起きています。彼が息が出来ない、お母さんとさえ泣いて頼む、訴えましたが、それは私達も息が出来ず窒息する気にさせます。

 

昨日1977年に娘さんが北朝鮮により拉致され、同様に拉致された家族達の代表だった、横田滋さんが87歳で亡くなりました。国家による警官の野蛮、抗議者の鎮圧、戦争等は制度化された暴力です。家庭内暴力から自然に対する大量絶滅や地球温暖化等の暴力まで人間の個人や社会の業です（ātma-/saha-karma: self-/co-karma: 我業/共業、参考ātma-/saha –loka: 我界/共界）。

 

ジョージの弟テレンスは暴力と略奪に反対して平和を訴えましたが、それはデモをもっと平和なものにしたようです。マーテイン・ルーサー・キングの運動は真理と平和を不可分の一つのものとして人生の実験としたガンジーに遡ります。ブッダ、覚者、は平和（業に条件付けられない涅槃）における真理（因縁生起の法）に目覚めました。彼は生涯にわたり社会参加をしていました。

 

地球的問題、特に全人類的流行病、は縁起の法を現実化させ自らの共通問題の解決をさせる為人類を再結合します。私達は五禍の金字塔文明から五福の命帝網文化へ枠組を転換しなければなりません。情報化・民主化・地球化の三革命はこれをやり易くするでしょう。何十億年の普遍生命、法界、は「真理・平和のみ勝つ」でしょう。

 

2020共通年6月6日　法話

註１．ジョージ・フロイドの殺人：

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/8-minutes-and-46-seconds-how-george-floyd-was-murdered/

２．横田滋さん逝去：

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/shigeru-yokota-father-of-n-korea-abductee-dies-at-8/

３．五禍：錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮。

４．五福：覚醒・自由・平等・平和。

５．枠組転換：

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/

 

 

Good morning!

 

We have a quiet and clear Saturday morning with beautiful nature. The human world, however, is in turmoil with pandemic, people’s protests against discrimination, etc. The upheaval of protests against George Floyd’s murder by a policeman’s kneeling down and choking him to death about fortnight ago is occurring not only in this country, but around the world. He pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, even crying for his Mama, which makes us also feel choked, without breath.

 

Yesterday Mr. Shigeru Yokota died at 87, waiting for his daughter, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977, the head of the families whose family members were also abducted. Police brutality, abduction, oppression of protestors, wars, etc., by nations are institutionalized violence. From home violence to violence to nature, like mass extinction and global warming, are human karma, individual and social (ātma-/saha-karma: self-/co-karma, cf. ātma-/saha –loka: self-/co-world).

 

George’s brother, Terence, appealed for peace against violence and looting, which seemed to make the demonstrations more orderly. Martin Luther King’s movement traces back to Gandhi, who made his life an experiment of truth with non-harming, inseparable unity. The Buddha, Awakened One, was awakened to the truth (Dharma of Dependent Co-origination) in peace (nirvana, unconditioned by karma). He was socially engaged throughout his life.

 

Global problems, especially the pandemic, make us realize the Dharma of Co-dependent Origination and reunite humanity to solve our common problems. We must shift the paradigm from our pyramidal civilization with its five calamities to a Life Indra-net culture with the five blisses. The modern triple revolutions of information, democratization, and globalization will help facilitate this. Only truth-peace will win with a billion-year universal life, the Dharma world.

 

June 6, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

Note 1. George Floyd murder:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/8-minutes-and-46-seconds-how-george-floyd-was-murdered/

2. Shigeru Yokota death:

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/shigeru-yokota-father-of-n-korea-abductee-dies-at-8/

3. Five Calamities: Delusion, Bondage, Discrimination, Exploitation, Extermination.
4. Five Blisses: Awakening, Freedom, Equality, Love, Peace.

 

 

お早うございます！

 

美しい自然の静かで明るい土曜日の朝です。人間界は、しかしながら、全人類的流行病や差別反対の人々の抗議などで騒然としています。約二週間前の警官によるジョージ・フロイドの膝落としで窒息させた殺人に対する抗議の高まりはこの国の身ならず世界中に起きています。彼が息が出来ない、お母さんとさえ泣いて頼む、訴えましたが、それは私達も息が出来ず窒息する気にさせます。

 

昨日1977年に娘さんが北朝鮮により拉致され、同様に拉致された家族達の代表だった、横田滋さんが87歳で亡くなりました。国家による警官の野蛮、抗議者の鎮圧、戦争等は制度化された暴力です。家庭内暴力から自然に対する大量絶滅や地球温暖化等の暴力まで人間の個人や社会の業です（ātma-/saha-karma: self-/co-karma: 我業/共業、参考ātma-/saha –loka: 我界/共界）。

 

ジョージの弟テレンスは暴力と略奪に反対して平和を訴えましたが、それはデモをもっと平和なものにしたようです。マーテイン・ルーサー・キングの運動は真理と平和を不可分の一つのものとして人生の実験としたガンジーに遡ります。ブッダ、覚者、は平和（業に条件付けられない涅槃）における真理（因縁生起の法）に目覚めました。彼は生涯にわたり社会参加をしていました。

 

地球的問題、特に全人類的流行病、は縁起の法を現実化させ自らの共通問題の解決をさせる為人類を再結合します。私達は五禍の金字塔文明から五福の命帝網文化へ枠組を転換しなければなりません。情報化・民主化・地球化の三革命はこれをやり易くするでしょう。何十億年の普遍生命、法界、は「真理・平和のみ勝つ」でしょう。

 

2020共通年6月6日　法話

註１．ジョージ・フロイドの殺人：

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/8-minutes-and-46-seconds-how-george-floyd-was-murdered/

２．横田滋さん逝去：

https://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/shigeru-yokota-father-of-n-korea-abductee-dies-at-8/

３．五禍：錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮。

４．五福：覚醒・自由・平等・平和。

５．枠組転換：

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/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken by Mr. Mikio Shimizu.

 

 

The following pictures were taken from Pinterest.

 

 

 

 

 

waterfall

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning!

 

Even though the human world is in great trouble with the COVID-19 pandemic, the natural world is full of life wonders. The strong side shows its beauty, goodness, and truth, the weak side its frailty, evil, and failure. Life is strong, surviving difficulties for about four billion years, but also fragile, due to old experiences and their effects (abnormalities dealt with as in apoptosis), and to new dangers like pandemics, mass extinction, etc.

Our hearts can be great to realize holiness or small to fall into sin, depending on our cultivation and culture. In this pandemic we must shift our paradigm from sin to holiness – money to life, matter to heart, might to harmony. After Corona we must cultivate ourselves to limitless life from limited life in limited values, limitless light and liberation from limited matter, and limitless love from limited might.

 

Individually we must be awakened and activate to live holy, harmoniously, healthy, saving, safe, simple, and secluded as in the Eightfold Great Person’s Awakening. Socially we must observe the Global Ethic’s 5Ls with more 5As (local autonomy, tele communication, etc.), and 5Rs (life service, local culture, etc.). Ecologically we must live eco-first and -friendly (Ego to Eco) with 5Ss to save all.

 

It has been recommended that we return to nature. The Buddha recommended that we reorient our mind and life from the source. We must return to nature’s nature and reunite with its Dharma nature. Religion is the reunion with holiness (wholly wholesome way world), beyond race, religions (tribal, ethnic, sectarian), etc., cultivating human karma to create a new culture of genuine holiness.

 

May 30, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます！

 

人間世界はCOVID-19全人類的流行病で大変な苦難にありますが、自然世界は命の脅威に満ちています。強い面は真・善・美を見せ、弱い面は軟弱・邪悪・失敗を見せています。命は、約四十億年の困難を生きのびて、強く、(アポトーシスのような異常に対処する）古い経験とその結果や、全人類的流行病や大量絶滅等の新しい危険により、弱いのです。

 

私達の心は修養と文化に依って聖性を実現する偉大にも成り、罪過に陥って矮小にも成り得ます。この全人類的流行病で私達は罪過から聖性に枠組を転換させなければなりません－金から命へ、物から心へ、力から和へと。コロナ後には有限な価値の有限な命から無限な命へ、有限な物から無限な光明と自由へ、有限な力から無限な愛へと自ら修養しなければなりません。

 

個人的には八大人覚におけるように聖（全体健全）で、調和して、健康で、救済（節約）し、安全で、質素に、俗を離れるよう覚醒し活動しなければなりません。社会的には更なる５A(生命サービス、地方的文化など)や５R（地方自治、遠隔通信など）のある地球倫理の５Lを遵守すべきです。生態的には一切を救済（節約）する５Sによる生態第一で生態に優しい（エゴからエコへの）生き方をすべきです。

 

自然に帰れと今まで勧められてきました。ブッダは根源から私達の心と生活を方向転換するよう勧めました。私達は自然の本姓へ帰り、法（一切現象のあり方・法則）の本性に再結合すべきです。宗教とは人種や（部族・種族・分派）宗教を超え、真正な聖の新しい文化を創造する為に人間の業を修養して、聖性（全体健全な方法世界）に再結合することです。

 

2020共通年5月30日　法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The following pictures were taken by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka

Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning!

 

We now have many flowers blooming – azaleas, irises, peonies, pinks, roses, radishes, wisteria, clover, creeping Charlie, etc. Dogen said, “Flowers fall in lamentation; weeds only thrive in detestation.” As gardeners we detest clover and creeping Charlie. A wisteria I long thought flowerless, and one I bought two years ago, are blooming with fragrance, the latter climbing the trellis high and wide now, which might once have been thought a damaging vine for bushes and trees.

 

I hope you read the COVID-19 Global Solidarity Manifest calling for a paradigm shift from money, matter, and might to life, heart, and harmony, as we have been advocating and acting with our Triple Pillars. This is the earth’s message to humans for global truth and ethic. Homo-centric excesses must strike a balance with nature’s system in the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination. Clover is important for bees’ survival, but also for humans that survive on fruits, etc.

 

Ryokan, a Zen monk, said, “When disasters come, we’d better meet them.” This is not a heartless way, but a hearty way to cope with disasters after and before disasters. We must prepare for them well and partake in cooperation. Human Triple Poisons’ inroads, exploitation, and pollution cause pandemics, global warming, mass extinction, etc. Human life is part and parcel of the natural system, one three thousandths, its civilization, one three millionths.

 

Ego is part and parcel of eco, almost zero in time and space in comparison with the latter’s infinity. The pandemic has showed that our life is one with all, limitlessly intertwined with others’ lives, like the Indra-net. The pandemic has given us holidays to keep and consider in the holy (wholly wholesome) way world in holy harmony, health, and happiness in the global system ethic’s 5Ss, 5Ls, 5As, and 5Rs. Why don’t we cultivate ourselves in culture for the Awakened Way in peace and harmony?

 

May 23, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

Note 1. COVID-19 Global Solidarity Manifesto:

https://globalethics.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/covid-19%e3%80%80%e5%9c%b0%e7%90%83%e9%80%a3%e5%b8%af%e5%a3%b0%e6%98%8e/

 

2. The Triple Pillars: Awakened Way, Global Ethic, Voluntary Simplicity as at the Missouri Zen Center.
3. The Dharma of Dependent Co-origination: The Buddha was awakened to this “Dharma (Norm/Law) of all  dharmas (forms/phenomena),” that is, all phenomena are dependently co-originated on causes and conditions.
4. The Triple Poisons: Delusion, desire, divisiveness.
5. The Global Ethic is put into 5Ss, 5Ls, 5As, and 5Rs for facilitating memory and practice:

5Ss: Systemic, Sustainable, Saving, Safe, Simple in the global system.

5Ls: Law (Dharma), Life, Love, Liberation, Lielessness as the global ethic.

5As: Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advise in information flow.

5Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rearrange, Restore in material flow.

 

お早うございます！

 

今沢山の花が咲いています－躑躅、菖蒲、芍薬、撫子、薔薇、大根、藤、クローバー、クリーピング・チャーリー（オカトラノオ属つる草）など。道元は「花は愛惜に散り 草は棄嫌におふるのみなり」 と言いました。菜園に関わる者としてはクローバーやクリーピング・チャーリーは嫌ですね。長いこと咲かないと思っていたのと二年前に買った藤が香って咲いています、後者は棚に高く昇って広がっていますが、以前は灌木や喬木に損害を与えるものと見られていたのかも知れませんね。

 

皆さんは、私達がずっと私達の三柱で勧め実行してきた金・物・力から命・心・和への枠組転換を呼びかける「COVID-19地球連帯宣言」を読んでくれたことと望みます。これは地球からの地球の真実・倫理の為の声明ですね。人間中心の行き過ぎは縁起の法の自然体系と均衡を取らなければなりません。クローバーは蜂の生き残りに重要ですが、果物その他によって生き残る人間にとってもそうですね。

 

禅僧の良寛は「災難に遭う時節には災難に遭うがよく候。」と言いました。これは非情なやり方ではなく災難の前後にどう対処するかの心のこもった対処法なのです。私達は災難に十分に準備して共同に参加しなければなりません。人間の三毒の侵略・搾取・汚染は全人類的流行病、地球温暖化、大量絶滅などを引き起こしています。人間の生存は自然体系と一体のものですが、その三千分の一、その文明は三百万分の一という極小のものなのです。

 

エゴはエコと一体ですが、後者の時空の無限に比べれば殆どゼロなのです。全人類的流行病は私達の生存は一切と一体であり、帝釈網のように無限に他の生存と絡み合っているのです。全人類的流行病は私達にホリデー（祝日、元の意味は「聖日」）を与てくれて地球体系倫理の5S、5L、5A,5Rに聖（全体健全）なる調和、健康、幸福の中に聖なる道の世界にあるようにし、それを考慮するようにしてくれました。平和と調和の中に覚道の為に文化の中に自らを修養すべきではないでしょうか？

 

2020共通年5月23日　法話

 

註１．COVID-19地球連帯宣言：

https://globalethics.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/covid-19%e3%80%80%e5%9c%b0%e7%90%83%e9%80%a3%e5%b8%af%e5%a3%b0%e6%98%8e/

 

２．ミズーリ禅センターの三柱：覚道・地球倫理・自発的質素

３．縁起の法：ブッダ（覚者）は「一切諸法（dharma：形・現象）は原因・条件によって因縁生起したものである」というこの法（Dharma:規則・法則）に目覚めました。

４．記憶と実践の便利の為に地球倫理を５S,5L,５A, 5Rにまとめたもの：

5Ss: Systemic, Sustainable, Saving, Safe, Simple in the global system.

(5S: 地球体系の体系的、維持可能、救済（節約）、安全、簡素)

5Ls: Law (Dharma), Life, Love, Liberation, Lielessness as the global ethic.

(5L: 地球倫理の法（縁起法）、生命、愛情、自由、不偽)

5As: Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advise in information flow.

(5A: 情報流の接近可能、査定、賛成、行動、忠告)

5Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rearrange, Restore in material flow.

(5R: 物資流の削減、再利用、再循環、再配慮、回復)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wisterias

藤

 

 

 

 

Russian Irises

シベリアアヤメ

 

 

 

 

Nockout roses

ノックアウト・ローズ

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow flags

黄菖蒲

 

 

 

 

 

Pinks

撫子

 

 

 

 

 

Peonies

芍薬

 

 

The following pictures were taken and sent by

Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

以下の写真は静岡県下田市の大塚卿之さんが

撮影し送ってくれたものです。

 

 

 

 

African daisies

オステオスペルマム

 

 

 

 

 

Calla lily

カラー

 

 

 

 

 

Colombines

西洋オダマキ

 

 

 

 

Cherokee roses

ナニワイバラ

 

 

 

 

 

Crown daisies

春菊

 

 

 

 

 

Bugle lilies

ワットソニア

 

 

 

 

 

Petunias

ペチュニア

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daisy Margaret flowers

マーガレット

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese violet cress

紫花菜

 

 

 

 

 

Bush lilies

君子蘭