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January 23, 2020

2020 Doomsday Clock

To: Leaders and citizens of the world

Re: Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight

Date: January 23, 2020

Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode. Read more.

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Realizing Universal Dharma: 普遍法の実現

 

Good morning!

 

As most buildings were closed yesterday due to inclement weather and dangerous conditions, we also closed our center last night. This morning I saw two big boughs falling on our neighbor’s driveway, next to ours. If they had fallen on people, heavy injuries or even death might have happened. We don’t know what might happen to us the next moment.

 

Dogen said that birds and fish live their lives with air and water, using them as much as they need to, realizing universal truth, not waiting to realize their limits. We must live and realize the universal truth as much as we need to, not waiting to realize its ultimate limits. The universal ethic, however, must be awakened and acted upon in nirvana, no wind of karma.

 

Karma is the culprit in all problems and sufferings in this world. So, we must cease it to see its nature and function. Zen is to still karma, see the Dharma (truth/ethic), and serve and save all by realizing it. I forwarded my recent translation of the Fukanzazengi-no Hanashi, Commentary on the Universal Recommendation of the True Zazen, by Hashimoto Roshi.

 

Please read and realize the subtle suitable ways of it, using your right judgement with newly available information. Birds and fish can fly and swim by concentration and continuity, the two wings to fly or fins to swim freely and fully. Without them we can’t witness nirvana and prognosis to solve our problems and save ourselves and all from sufferings as Bodhisattvas.

 

January 19, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます!

 

昨日は悪天候と危険状況の為殆どの建物が閉鎖され、私達のセンターも昨夜は閉鎖しました。今朝私は私達のとすぐ隣のドライブウェーに大きな二本の大枝が落ちているのを見ました。それが人の上に落ちたら重傷を受けたか死んだかもしれません。次の瞬間に何が起きるか私達は知らないのです。

 

道元は鳥や魚は空気や水と共に生き、必要なだけ使い、その極限を知るのを待つことなく普遍的真実を実現しています。私達もその究極を知るのを待つことなく普遍的真理を、必要なだけ使い、実現して生きなければなりません。普遍的倫理はしかしながら業の無風である涅槃の中で覚醒し行動しなければなりません。

 

業はこの世で一切の問題と苦悩の張本人なのです。だから、私達はその性質と機能を知る為にそれを静止しなければならないのです。禅は業を静止し、法(真理・倫理)を見て、それを実現して一切に奉仕し救済するものです。私は橋本老師の「普勧坐禅儀の話」の最近翻訳した分を皆さんに贈りました。

 

どうか、新しく入手できる情報を得て正しい判断をして、その微妙で適切な方法を読み実現して下さい。鳥や魚は集中と継続によって飛び泳ぐことができますが、これらは自由に十分に飛ぶ二つの翼であり鰭です。これら無しで涅槃と智慧は直証できず、菩薩として自分と一切の苦悩から救うことは出来ません。

 

2020共通年1月18日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

Dharma World for All

Penland Lake in Oregon

Taken by Rev. Erin Daiho, Wisdom/Grace Forest Great Dharma

 

一切の為の法界

デシュッツ国立公園、オレゴン州

大法恵林師撮影

 

 

So cool! (hamming birds) (Click to see movies)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/840625086685212328/

 

 

 

A whale swimming:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/840625086685211838/

 

 

 

A girl dropped her phone, a whale picked and delivered it to her:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/322429654573274810/

 

 

 

Majestic Manta:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/645422190333938511/

 

 

Eagle flight:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/277323289540814686/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/864620828446175426/

 

 

Heaven on Earth: Birds & Fish in Spa (?)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/833165999796685626/

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Paradigm Shift from Karma to Dharma

 

Good morning!

 

After our sittings we have a serene morning! The world, however, is full of miseries. A Ukrainian passenger plane with 176 people on board was mistaken for an American missile and shot down by Iranian military forces four hours after Iran hit American bases in Iraq, in revenge for General Soleimani, et al., being killed by American forces. This shows the folly and savagery of human karma. When and how can we stop such miseries?

 

The Buddha said, “Enmity is never appeased by enmity, but by non-enmity. This is the eternal truth here.” If we stick to the karma of ego, I, and me, my, we can’t follow this advice and continue the endless tit for tat miseries as we’ve seen in abundant examples all over the world throughout history. This is the misery for all to lose our precious life, life resources, and rewards in holy harmony, health, and happiness for death in misery.

 

Only when we go beyond the karma of ego and me, or delusion and desire/divisiveness, can we stop the human miseries of bad karma. The Buddha clearly foresaw the destruction of the world due to the karma of the triple poisons (delusion, desire, divisiveness) and provided us with the way to still karma, see the Dharma of the dependent co-origination of all dharmas, thus neither ego nor me. We truly need his way.

 

Civilization, i.e., urbanization, created an artificial uni-directional pyramid system with the five calamities, precipitating a world brought to devastation and doom. This global crisis can only be solved by the paradigm shift of it to a natural cyclical Indra-net culture with the five blisses. For it we need more awakened people to share the Awakened Way in nirvana/awakening to save all from folly and savagery.

 

January 11, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

Note 1. I talked about an NHK TV program, “White Bear Peace,” that I watched that morning. The zoo keeper Atsuhiro Takaichi had to find the appropriate milk with correct fat content, etc., for a newborn polar bear. He took her home, as her mother, herself raised in a zoo, could not nurse her. Every night for three months he secretly took the bear home to nurse and raise her with his family (daughter 8, son 6), to take care of her 24 hours a day, because his apartment prohibited keeping animals. They became one family, and separating after three months made them all sad. While training the bear to swim, he used her favorite milk. When he did not give milk, to bring her into the water and to swim longer, he was bitten. He hit at her nose to tell her not to do that, and watched to see if she understood, unlike a raccoon, who didn’t and tried to attack him before. She understood it was wrong to bite. Peace was cerebrated at the zoo on her 20th birthday with the family (Peace now included in Takaichi’s three generations) and other spectators. This story shows that we can live together with other species and that training is very important for living together in harmony, health, and happiness with others; if Peace had not been properly trained, she might have attacked him or others from her natural karma at any time. Vinaya, Discipline, one of the Three Baskets of Holy Scriptures, means disciplinary training (lit. vi- : parting, naya, leading/eye, separating from bad karma to lead to good one).

 

Note 2. Civilization is to fight for money, matter, and might, which can be resolved by resolving mammonism (capitalism), materialism, militarism, epitomized in nationalism, all combined and causing the century of nationalism and wars. Culture is to cultivate and contribute to the common values of holiness (wholly wholesome way world) of health (life, truth), harmony (goodness), and happiness (beauty), which can be retained by retaining cultivation/verification of karma (stilling/stopping bad karmas of the triple poisons of delusion, desire, divisiveness, and starting/strengthening good karmas of the triple learnings of morality, concentration, and prognosis). The paradigm shift can be done by shifting all resources – individual, social, and ecological – from civilization (mammonism, materialism, militarism, nationalism, etc.) to Indra-net culture (holiness, health, harmony, happiness: life, truth, goodness, beauty: philosophy, science, morality/ethic, art). We must incorporate this shift in our individual/social/ecological views, lives, programs, systems, institutions, budgets, etc.

 

お早うございます!

 

坐禅の後に私達は静澄な朝を迎えています。世界は、しかしながら、悲惨に満ちています。アメリカ軍がイランのソレイマニ将軍他を殺した復讐にイラクにある米軍危機を爆撃した4時間後、176人の乗客を乗せたウクライナの旅客機がアメリカのミサイルと誤認されてイラン軍により撃ち落されました。これは人間の業の愚劣と野蛮を露呈しています。何時どのようにして私達はこのような悲惨事を止めることができるのでしょうか?

 

仏陀は言いました「怨みは怨みによって鎮まらず、怨み無きによりて鎮まる。これここに永遠の法なり。」と。私達が我と我所(我所有)の業に執着する限りこの忠告に従うことはできず、世界中の歴史に沢山の例を見るように終わりなきしっぺ返しの悲惨を続けるでしょう。これは一切が貴い命、命の資源、と聖(全体健全)なる調和、健康と幸福の報酬を失い悲惨の死に至るという悲惨なのです。

 

私達が我・我所、あるいは貪瞋痴の業を超える時にのみ、悪業の人間悲惨を止めることができるのです。仏陀は明かに三毒(貪瞋痴)によって世界の破滅を予見しており、業を止め、諸法の因縁生起の法を見、だから我も我所も無いという道を提供しました。私達はその道を本当に必要としています。

 

文明、即ち都市化、は五禍のある人工的な一方向の金字塔体系を生み、世界を破壊と破滅の断崖へ突き落とします。この地球的危機はそれを五福のある自然の循環的帝網文化に枠組転換することによってのみ解決できます。その為には私達が一切を愚劣と野蛮から救う涅槃・覚醒の覚道を共有する為に、もっと多くの目覚めた人々を必要としています。

 

2020共通年1月11日 法話

 

註1.私はその朝見たNHKのテレビ番組「しろくまピース」の話をしました、動物園の飼育係の高市淳宏さんは新しく生まれた北極熊の為に丁度良い脂肪分にした牛乳を見つけなければなりませんでした。母熊が自ら動物園で育てられた為に赤ちゃんを哺乳できなかったので、彼はピース(平和)と名付けられた熊を家に連れ帰りました。彼は24時間ピースの面倒を見る為に、アパートの自宅が動物を禁じていたのでこっそりと三ケ月間毎晩家に連れ帰り家族(娘8歳、息子6歳)と共に授乳し育てました。みんなが一つ家族になり三か月後別れる時には皆が悲しみました。熊を泳がせる訓練の為にピースの好きなミルクを使いました。水に入り長く泳ぐようにミルクを与えないでいるとピースが噛みつきました。彼がその鼻を叩いて、以前にアライグマをそうした時に、向ってきたのと違い、判るかを見守りましたが、ピースは噛むのは悪いことだと判りました。ピースは動物園で20歳の誕生日をその家族(三世代の一員となって)や観客達と祝いました。この話は私達が他の種と一緒に住めること、一緒に仲良く、健康に、幸福に住むには訓練が非常に大切であることを示しています-もしピースがちゃんと訓練されていなかったら自分の自然な業にって何時なん時彼や他の者を攻撃したかも知れないのですから。仏典の三蔵(経蔵・律蔵・論蔵)の一つである律(蔵:Vinaya、vi:分離、naya:導く・眼で、「悪業から離れ善業に導く」の意)は躾けの訓練を意味します。

 

註2.文明は金・物・力を求めて戦うことで、拝金主義(資本主義)、物質主義、軍事主義、国家主義(前のもの全部を持って「国家主義と戦争の世紀」をもたらした)を解消することによって解消できます。文化は健康(生命・真理)・調和(善)・幸福(美)の聖(全体健全な方法・世界)の共通価値を耕し(修養し)資することですが、業(貪瞋痴の三業の悪業を減・止、戒定慧の三学の善業を始・増)の修・証を保持することで、保持できます。枠組転換は一切の資源-個人・社会・生態-を文明(拝金主義・物質主義・軍事主義・国家主義等)から帝網文化(聖・健康・調和・幸福:命・真・禅・美・哲学・科学・真理・倫理・芸術)へ転換することで出来ます。私達はこの転換を個人・社会・生態の見方・生き方・計画・組織・制度・予算など(の転換)に取り込まなければなりません。

 

 

 

 

A. “White Bear Peace~Trace of “Life” Walked with the Family” Pics. w/ Videos

https://www.nhk.or.jp/matsuyama/peace/

  1. Peace born:

       https://www.nhk.or.jp/matsuyama/peace/movie/peace_01.html

2. Peace nap:

https://www.nhk.or.jp/matsuyama/peace/movie/peace_02.html

 

B.

https://www.nhk.or.jp/matsuyama/campaign/program/vol20.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Human karma (triple poisons of delusion, desire, divisiveness) disclosed: Stop it to solve all problems!

 

Human karma (triple poisons of delusion, desire, divisiveness) disclosed: Stop it to solve all problems!

 

Iran shot down the Ukraine flight!

 

This was caused by Iran, U.S., allies of them, human institutions, individuals.

 

No reason, excuse, compensation can regain life lost!

 

Stop this folly/barbalism, by stilling karma (nirvana) and do paradigm shift by awakening therein:

 

paradigm shift:

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/

 

nirvana/awakening:

https://buddhism869196463.wordpress.com/%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%ef%bc%9ahome/?frame-nonce=166327dc1f

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Realizing Dharma (truth/ethic): 法(真理・倫理)を実現する

 

Good morning!

 

Holy happy new year! I received a card in which someone asked the Buddha how to become happy, the Buddha replying, “Remove ego and desire. Then, you are only happy.” He taught us that the Triple Poisons destroy the world and that the Triple Learnings save it. Anyone can sit still, stilling karma, seeing the Dharma, serving and saving the world.

 

A small child saw a thirsty plant and watered it with a cup. We know many different species of animals grow friendly together. As they grow older, they may be separated into different kingdoms due to their karmas – habit, heredity, institution, etc. Humans developed customs, conventions, symbolisms, and systems, becoming separated from the original Dharma world.

 

Thus, we created an artificial, uni-directional pyramid civilization with the fivefold calamity of delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination, causing the global problematique that will lead to total extinction. We must reunite with the original, natural, cyclical Indra-net culture with the fivefold bliss of awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace.

 

The Buddha lived the universal Dharma (truth/ethic) without the Triple Poisons and with the Triple Learning, like a jigsaw piece reuniting with its puzzle. We must know that our life is extravagant and live like him as much as possible, without selfish delusion, desire, and the divisiveness of nationalism, capitalism, militarism, racism, home-centrism, etc.

 

January 4, 2020 C.E. Dharma talk

 

お早うございます!

 

聖なる幸せな新年でありますように! 私は一枚のカードを受け取りましたがそこには、ある人が仏陀にどうしたら幸せになれるかと尋ねると仏陀は我と欲を除けば、幸せだけと答えたとありました。彼は私達に三毒は世界を滅ぼし三学はそれを救うと教えました。誰でも静かに坐り、業を静め、法を見、世界に奉仕し救うことができます。

 

小さな子供が「渇いた植物」を見てカップで水をあげました。私達は多くの違う種の動物たちが一緒に仲良く育つのを知っています。それが大きくなるにつれてその業―習性、遺伝、制度等―によって違う王国に分かれるかも知れません。人間は習慣、慣習、シンボリズム、システムを発展させて原初の法界から離れました。

 

こうして、私達は錯誤、束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮の五禍をもった人工的一方向の金字塔文明を創り全体破滅へ導くような地球問題群を起こしています。私達は覚醒・自由・平等・博愛・平和の五福をもった原初の自然的循環する帝網文化に再結合しなければなりません。

 

仏陀はジグソーパズルの一片が盤に再結合するように三毒なく三学で普遍的法(真理・倫理)を生きました。私達は自分達の生活が贅沢であることを知り、自己中心の錯誤・貪欲と国家主義・資本主義・軍事主義・人種主義・人間中心主義などの分裂性をなくし、出来るだけ彼のように生き無きればなりません。

 

2020共通年1月4日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proverb “ken en no naka, dog monkey relation” 

means “fighting relations,” but this is not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dog concentration

 

 

 

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/364439794848830034/

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy New Year in Holiness‼ : 聖性の中に幸福な新年を‼

 

Good morning!

 

We had dense fog early this morning. It’s now clearing and trees are showing up. Tree and true came from the same root, dhṝ (to endure or hold), the root of dharma. Trees can endure ten thousand years, truth forever. Trees are harmonious with air, water, earth, light, etc., giving us oxygen, shade, shelter, wood, genes, etc. We are all in the tree of life.

 

Dharma means form/thing/phenomenon (from harm) and norm/truth/law (from darm). We call a holding form “thing” and an enduring norm “truth.” The Buddha was awakened to the Dharma (law) of all dharmas (phenomena), i.e., Inter-dependent Co-origination (phenomena are inter-dependently co-originated on causes and conditions). We are all dharmas.

 

This form of sitting is called bus-shin-in, Buddha-heart-seal, which anyone can take to realize the Buddha-heart, like a seal. This is the ideal holding form to realize the enduring norm (truth/ethic), like a jigsaw puzzle piece fitting into the puzzle. Anyone can realize holy (wholly wholesome) harmony, health, and happiness with all, always, anywhere. We can be the Dharma.

 

To fit in this ideal form, we must learn from the Buddhas and Ancestors – how to cross the legs, align the backbone and head, etc., form the arms, hands, etc., wear clothing, keep the environment, etc. Constant and concentrated cultivation makes us fit into perfect posture and verify unsurpassed awakening in unconditioned peace, nirvana. Happy new year in holiness with all!

 

December 28, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます!

 

朝早くには濃霧でしたが。今は晴れてきて樹々が見えだしました。樹と真理は同じ語根dhṝ(永続する、保持する)から来ていますが、dharmaの語根です。樹は一万年も永続しますが、真理は永遠です。樹々は空気、水・土、光等と調和し、私達に酸素、木陰、避難所、木材などを与えてくれます。私達は皆命の樹の中にあります。

 

Dharmaは(harmから)form: 形・物・現象と(darmから)norm: 規則・真理・法則を意味します。私達は保持する形を「物」、永続する規則を「真理」と呼びます。仏陀は諸法(現象)の法(法則)、即ち因縁生起(現象は原因・条件により相互依存・共同発生)に目覚めました。私達は皆諸法です。

 

この坐(禅)の形は仏心印と呼ばれ、印のように誰でもその形をして仏心を実現できます。それはジグソーパズル片がパズル盤に嵌る様に永続する規則(真理・倫理)を実現する理想的な保持する形です。誰でも常に何処でも聖(全体健全)なる調和・健康・幸福を一切と共に実現できます。私達は法(性・界)になれます。

 

この理想的形に適合するために、私達は仏祖から学ばなければなりません-どの様に脚を組み、背骨や頭等を調整し、腕や手の形をし、着衣し、環境を整える等を。常時・集中した修行が完全な姿勢に適合し条件付けられない平和である涅槃に入り無上の覚醒を実証させてくれます。一切と共に聖性の中に幸福な新年を‼

 

2019共通年12月28日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wholly Wholesome Way World: 全体健全な道の世界

 

Good morning!

 

We have a bright, serene, sunny morning on the winter solstice, the shortest daytime. We had the Buddha’s awakening day a fortnight ago and a new year will arrive soon. Time flies! All things change except for nirvana and the Dharma of Dependent Co-origination. The Buddha witnessed and shared them, calling them the “come and see” truth with all. Anyone can attain them.

 

Overlooking a fire along with new converts, formerly fire devotees, he said, “The world is on fire!” We are witnessing the global problematique of global warming, etc. All living beings have the Four or Eight Sufferings. It is said, “In short, the five aggregates are rampant.” They are forms, feelings, ideas, formations, and consciousness, originally those of an individual, and later of all.

 

He said, “Our eyes are on fire, our ears are on fire, our noses…, our tongues…, our bodies…, our minds are on fire.” This means that our sense bases, on fire, cause our problems in the world. This means our Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, i.e. our bad karmas, cause our individual, social, and ecological problems, causing the eventual doom of the world.

 

The Dharma of D.C. tells us that we can change our karma, its consequences, and thus all problems. The solution lies in nirvana and awakening in it. This means we need to still our karma, see the Dharma, serve and save all. All religions aim at reunion with holiness (wholly wholesome way/world) from sin (separated sick self/system) in holy harmony, health, and happiness.

 

We can become holy, like fitting a jigsaw piece into a jigsaw puzzle or finding a crystal ball in the Indra-net, reflecting with all other crystal balls limitlessly. We must live in the holy Dharma of eco from the sinful karma of ego, changing our individual, social, and ecological systems, changing the Fivefold Calamities into the Fivefold Blisses to save ourselves and all others.

 

December 21, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk.

 

Note: Anyone can individually attain nirvana, no wind of karma, and awakening and prognosis there in limitless life, light, liberation, and love, tasting amrita, ambrosia of immortality, going beyond gain and loss, birth and death, self and other, etc. We must change our social system and ecological ethic from an artificial uni-directional pyramidal civilization (urbanization for money, matter, might) with its Fivefold Calamity (delusion, bondage, discrimination, exploitation, and extermination) to a natural, recycling, Indra-net culture (cultivation for health, heart, and harmony) with its Fivefold Bliss (awakening, freedom, equality, love, and peace), changing our egoistic economy, politics, society, and system (capitalism, nationalism, individualism, materialism, etc.). For more detailed discussion on this, please refer to the Paradigm Shift: 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/

 

お早うございます‼

 

私達は最短日中である冬至の明るく静寂で陽光の朝の中にあります。半月前仏陀の成道会をもち、すぐ新年を迎えます。時は飛ぶ。涅槃と縁起の法以外はすべて変化します。仏陀は「来たれ見よ」の真理と呼ぶそれらを実証し一切と共有しました。

 

仏陀は、かつては火を信奉した新しい改宗者達と共に火事を見ながら「世界は燃える」と言いました。私達は地球温暖化他の地球問題群を目の当たりにしています。一切の生き物には四苦あるいは八苦があります。「要約すれば、五蘊の盛苦である。」五蘊とは色受想行識(物質・感受・思想・行為・意識)ですが、これは元来個人(を分析する為の)ものでしたが後には一切のもの(構成要素)とされました。

 

縁起の法は私達が自分達の業とその結果、そうして一切の問題を変えることが出来ることを告げています。解決は涅槃とそこでの覚醒にあります。それは私達が業を静め、法を見て、一切に奉仕し救う必要があると言うことを意味します。一切の宗教は聖なる調和、健康、幸福のうちに罪(分離病患の我・組織)から聖(全体健全の法・世界)に再結合することを目標にしています。

 

私達はジグソーパズルの一片がその基盤にピタッと嵌る様に、あるいは帝釈網の水晶の珠が一切の珠を無限に反映するのを見るようにして、聖になることができます。私達はエゴの罪ある業からエコの聖なる法のうちに生きて五禍から五福へ変えて、自分達と一切の他の者達を救わなければなりません。

 

2019共通年12月21日 法話

 

註:誰でも個人的に、業の無風である涅槃を得て無量寿・光・自由・愛のうちに覚醒と般若の智慧を得、得失、生死、自他等を超えて不死の神饌である甘露を味わうことができます。私達は五禍(錯誤・束縛・差別・搾取・殺戮)のある人工の一方向的金字塔文明(金・物・力の為の都市化)から五福(覚醒・自由・平等・博愛・平和)のある自然の再循環的帝網文化(健康・心・調和の為の修養)へ変え、利己的経済・政治・社会・組織(資本主義・国家主義・個人主義・物質主義等)を変えて、社会組織と生態倫理を変えなければなりません。これに関する更に詳細な議論は枠組転換を参照して下さい: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. Koichi Okada

and posted in his FB

(Posting here is permitted by him)

 

上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮影しFBに投稿したものです。

(転載許可は認可されています)

 

 

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Attaining Awakening in Nirvana: 涅槃で覚醒を得る

 

 

 

Attaining Awakening in Nirvana

 

Good morning!

 

Today is December 8, when Gotama became Buddha, Awakened One. All over the world Zen centers, temples, and monasteries celebrate it as Jōdōe, Attaining the Way Assembly, after seven intensive sesshin, embracing/touching heart, days. After his renunciation of household life at 29, he strived six years sometimes with hard penance, but eventually renouncing both mortification and pleasure, he settled in sitting, attaining nirvana and bodhi, awakening. He enjoyed it for many weeks.

 

He was awakened to the Dharma, Norm/Law, of all dharmas, forms/phenomena, i.e., Dependent Co-origination of all. He witnessed nirvana, no-wind of karma; recognized that all beings are karma-heirs, -owners, -machines, -refuged; and attained the way to still karma, see the Dharma, serve and save all by solid sitting and practical prognosis. He became sure in attaining the true way to solving all problems of self, samsara, suffering, etc., attaining complete freedom.

 

He saw that the world is deeply sunken in stored karma, difficult to liberate, and foresaw that the world would be destroyed by it, which developed into the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion of Ego (I, Ich, Aham) and me (my, meine, mama)(”Beseech of Brahma” is his insight in it and determination to come out into the world for sharing its solution) . He provided antidotes these poisons with the Triple Learnings of sīla, samādhi, and prajňā, that is, morality, concentration, and prognosis. He was always with all, sharing all for forty-five years, from that time on traveling and spending no two nights in the same place.

 

Tokudo, Ordination, lit. Attaining Salvation, is to accept the Triple Treasures of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, the Triple Pure Vows, and the Ten Precepts (totaling Sixteen Precepts), joining the Buddhas and Ancestors family, living a life with the Buddha’s robes and bowls. The ordainees live as Bodhisattvas, vowing to save others first and themselves last, as Buddhas and Ancestors also lived in the Dharma, enjoying nirvana and bodhi, tasting amrita, ambrosia of immortality, in holy harmony and happiness.

 

December 8, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます!

 

今日は十二月八日、ゴータマが仏陀、覚者、になった日です。世界中の禅センター、寺院、僧院では、七日間の集中摂・接心の後で、それを成道会として祝います。二十九歳で出家した後六年間、時には過酷な苦行もしたが、結局は苦行と享楽を捨てて、静坐に安住して涅槃と悟りを得ました。彼はそれを何週間も楽しんでいました。

 

彼は諸法の法、即ち、一切現象の因縁生起に覚醒しました。彼は、業の無風である、涅槃を実証し一切生類は業相続者、-所有者、-機械、-依拠者であることを認識して、業を静める方法を得、法を観て、兀坐と実用的智慧により一切に奉仕し救済しました。彼は完全な自由を得て我、輪廻、苦などの一切の問題を解決する真実の道を得たとの確心を得ていました。

 

彼は世の中が積もり積もった業に深く沈んでいることを見て解放が難しいと判りましたが、また、それが貪、瞋、我我所(我所有:我・我が物という根本)の痴の三毒に発展して、世界が滅ぶことも予測しました(「梵天勧請」はその洞察と伝道法施の決意)。彼は三毒の解毒剤である戒定慧の三学を(皆の為に)提供しました。彼はその後常に二晩と一所に留まらない旅をして四十五年間一切を共有し一切と共に(真の友:観音菩薩・弥勒菩薩で)ありました。

 

得度とは仏法僧の三宝、三聚浄戒、十戒(まとめて十六戒)を受けて、仏祖の家族に加わり、仏衣と仏鉢を持つ生活をすることです。得度者は仏祖が法に生き、涅槃と悟りを享受し、聖なる調和と幸福の中に甘露、不死の神饌、を味わって生きたように、「自未得度先度他」(自分より他者を先ず救う)を誓って、菩薩として生きるのです。

 

2019共通年12月8日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken

by Mr. Koichi Okada and posted in his FB

(Permissions are given to post here by him)

 

上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮りFBに掲載したものです

(ここに転載する許可は得ています)

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Hiking Low Austria/Greetings for Rohatsu Sesshin

Dear all,

For three days, I had been hiking in Lower Austria with my sisters. The place we hiked was less than 2 hours northwest of Vienna. I was in total awe of the beauty I found – realising, that I was looking for this beauty in Japan, recently in Italy and wherever climate allows for this kind of nature to emerge. Thick, green moss covered roots and granite boulders, waterfalls and little greeks were flowing through the landscape of forests and fields. Very often, thick fog prevented to see far, making the land even more mystical. I was constantly in awe (Staunen) and was realising that this feeling is for me sacredness.

I would like to share some photos I made with you, sending you with the impressions Rohatsu greetings.

Garyo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mitra, Mithra, Miroku, Messiah, et al:ミトラ、ミスラ、ミロク、メシアなど

 

Good morning!

 

We have a bright winter morning in peace after sittings. The Awakened Way is in awakening, bodhi, and a wakeful way of life in unconditioned peace, nirvana. Awakening in nirvana is attained by stilling karma, settling in the Dharma-dhātu, Dharma-realm or matrix, yoni, like jigsaw pieces fitting into a jigsaw puzzle.

 

Dogen said, “Awakening is attained not by the mind, but by the body.” Awakening is witnessing the Dharma, dharma-abhisamaya, existential experience, in nirvana, not a simple intellectual understanding or enlightenment, flash of light. Nirvana is attained only in actual sitting, stilling karma as in the Four Stages of Zen.

 

The Buddha said that we can put on shoes in place of spreading leather all over the ground. We are now at two minutes to midnight, according to the Doomsday Clock, and individual awakening in peace can be instantly destroyed. Thus, we must work as bodhi-sattvas, awakening beings, to save all beyond selfish salvation.

 

All religions aim at reunifying with holiness (wholly wholesome way/world) from sin (selfish sick stress/suffering). They often become selfish, because they don’t experience/embody awakening/nirvana. Mitra, Mithra, Mazda, Massiah, Messiah, Maitreya, et al, true friends in need, need to witness nirvana/awakening.

 

November 16, 2019 C.E. Dharma talk

 

 

お早うございます!

 

坐禅の後には平和な明るい冬の朝ですね。仏(覚)道とは菩提の覚醒と涅槃の無条件の平和のうちの目覚めの道です。涅槃の中の覚醒は業を静め、ジグソーパズルの片々がパズル盤にピタリとはまったように、法界、法の領域あるいは母型・体系、に落ち着くことによって得られます。

 

道元は「覚醒は心ではなく身によって得られる」と言いました。覚醒とは涅槃に於ける法の直証、法現観、実存的経験であって、単なる知的な理解とか瞬間的発光のような悟りではありません。涅槃は四禅にあるように業を実際に沈めることによってのみ得られるのです。

 

仏陀は地上に皮を敷き詰める代わりに靴をはくことが出来ると言いました。私達は今や終末時計によれば真夜中まで二分にあり、個人的な涅槃における確証も瞬時に破壊され得るのです。だから、私達は自己中心的な救いを超えて一切を救う菩薩として働かなければならないのです。

 

全ての宗教は罪(自己中心の病患のストレス・苦)から聖(全体健全な方法・世界)に回帰することを目的にしています。それらは覚醒・涅槃を経験・体得しないが故に屡自己中心的になるのです。必要の時の真の友である、ミトラ、ミスラ、マズダ、マッシーア、メシア。ミロクなどは涅槃・覚醒を確証する必要があります。

 

2019共通年11月16日 法話

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above pictures were taken and posted in his FB

by Mr. Koichi Okada

(My posting them is permitted by him)

上の写真は岡田孝一さんが撮影しFBに掲載のものです

(転載許可済)

 

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