2012年11月29日
Essence of Buddha's Teaching
Buddha’s Wisdom is about your LIFE.
Buddha’s Wisdom is centered upon your mind and its true nature or the awakened state of your mind.
Allow yourself to be the master of your mind and let your mind be the follower of your awakened nature.
Quite often, people are discouraged to affirm the presence of this essential nature because they have been captivated by their desire, judgment and suffering from their deprivation of spiritual freedom.
The most essential theme lies in how to tame your mind.
Just as you must face your inner fear of death alone, you must face your inner peace of life alone.
Stay aware of the transient nature of the universe that surrounds you and makes you what you are.
Everything in the world comes into a being according to the causation.
Flowers and leaves are both the expressions of this world and causation. Your desire, anger, fear, or purity or serenity is equally the expression of such causation.
Because everything that exists in the universe is an expression of the lasting and spreading causation, they cannot be seen as an expression separate from your own.
All things cast on you the notion of coming and going or appearing or disappearing, yet, you grasp nothing but the notion of attaining and losing them.
Life is an expression of causation not separated from the expression of death, Right action is an expression of causation not separated from the expression of the wrong.
Buddha’s view transcends this dualistic separation of reality and looks at the reality as a floating cloud in the air.
Haves and not haves, good and bad, right and wrong. Notion of reality contrasted in two colors of black and white brings about confusion and suffering.
Moderate your desire, your way of dressing or eating, your state of mind, and your speech and thought. Plant the seed of good causation and be aware of the wheel of the viscous cycle and make a vow to start turning the wheel of beneficial cycle or Dharma wheel.
Let your mind stay clear with the absence of mind disturbing deeds and by allowing the presence of mind uplifting deeds.
When you are possessed with anger, that anger can only cease when you allow it to dissolve with your patience and awareness of causation and its consequence.
Allow your greed and anger to cease, and allow yourself some space between yourself and sources of wrongful views.
Shadow of the world is merely the shadow of your own mind while the light of the world is equally that of your own mind.
Those who grieve for their ignorance should know that they have already turned the wheel of Dharma by walking on the path of Buddha.
In the cycle of life forms, you happened to be formed to be a human merely by chance, you happened to live this very moment merely by the miraculous causation.
Buddha’s Wisdom is centered upon your mind and its true nature or the awakened state of your mind.
Allow yourself to be the master of your mind and let your mind be the follower of your awakened nature.
Quite often, people are discouraged to affirm the presence of this essential nature because they have been captivated by their desire, judgment and suffering from their deprivation of spiritual freedom.
The most essential theme lies in how to tame your mind.
Just as you must face your inner fear of death alone, you must face your inner peace of life alone.
Stay aware of the transient nature of the universe that surrounds you and makes you what you are.
Everything in the world comes into a being according to the causation.
Flowers and leaves are both the expressions of this world and causation. Your desire, anger, fear, or purity or serenity is equally the expression of such causation.
Because everything that exists in the universe is an expression of the lasting and spreading causation, they cannot be seen as an expression separate from your own.
All things cast on you the notion of coming and going or appearing or disappearing, yet, you grasp nothing but the notion of attaining and losing them.
Life is an expression of causation not separated from the expression of death, Right action is an expression of causation not separated from the expression of the wrong.
Buddha’s view transcends this dualistic separation of reality and looks at the reality as a floating cloud in the air.
Haves and not haves, good and bad, right and wrong. Notion of reality contrasted in two colors of black and white brings about confusion and suffering.
Moderate your desire, your way of dressing or eating, your state of mind, and your speech and thought. Plant the seed of good causation and be aware of the wheel of the viscous cycle and make a vow to start turning the wheel of beneficial cycle or Dharma wheel.
Let your mind stay clear with the absence of mind disturbing deeds and by allowing the presence of mind uplifting deeds.
When you are possessed with anger, that anger can only cease when you allow it to dissolve with your patience and awareness of causation and its consequence.
Allow your greed and anger to cease, and allow yourself some space between yourself and sources of wrongful views.
Shadow of the world is merely the shadow of your own mind while the light of the world is equally that of your own mind.
Those who grieve for their ignorance should know that they have already turned the wheel of Dharma by walking on the path of Buddha.
In the cycle of life forms, you happened to be formed to be a human merely by chance, you happened to live this very moment merely by the miraculous causation.
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07:08
2012年11月24日
仏教伝道協会
今回訪問をしたカリフォルニア州ロングビーチの仏教教会。曹洞宗の寺院に登録されていながらも、non-denominational特定の宗派に属さないという特殊な教会です。
つまり浄土真宗や真言宗、禅宗といった区別無く、仏教という大きな枠のなかで社会と関わっていくということを意味します。
仏教聖典は、キリスト教の聖書同様に世界でひろく読まれている聖典です。
教会の牧師と同じように、仏教の伝道をするならばキリスト教の聖書に相当する聖典が必要となります。
自分にとっては全ての基本にかえるという意味でおおいいに意義のある活動となりそうです。
仏教伝道協会
人間の完成をめざす仏教
現代のような物質偏重、心不在の混迷なる社会において、今、いちばん求められているものは、一人ひとりのよりどころと平和なる社会の実現ではないでしょうか。
平和な社会は人間の完成によって得られますが、人間の完成をめざす宗教に仏教があります。
釈尊は、苦から脱却し、苦を超える道を求め、ついに迷いの世界を転じて悟りの世界に至る教えを説かれました。
私たちがこの教えを学ぶとき、人生の真の意味を見いだすことになるでしょう。
そして、私たちが仏の教えを人生の究極の拠り所として仰ぐとき、思い通りにならない現実の人生そのままが、「生かされて生きている」慶びへと転じ、お蔭さまと一切のものを生かし切る、人間完成の道が開かれることでしょう。
仏教伝道協会の発願者沼田惠範師が「生きたみ仏の教え」を世界中のひとりでも多くの人々に理解していただくため、「仏教聖典」の全世界への普及を発願して以来、すでに全世界の６３ヵ国に約７９０万 冊を普及いたしました。
また、各国語への翻訳・刊行は、４６言語に及び（２０１１年４月現在）、世界各地の仏教伝道協会の拠点を通じて広がり、「仏教聖典」は、今日も世界のあらゆる国で人々の生きた指針となっています。
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00:03
2012年11月05日
Samadhi サマディ = Concentration
What is the state of forgetting oneself?
Samadhi サマディ （Concentration 集中する力）
濁ったバケツの水は、静かにしておけば透明になるけれど、人の心は静かにしていても自然に濁ってくる。
それが心の性質。
心という水を透明に保つためにはどうしたらよいか。
数を数えたり、深く呼吸を吸するなど簡単な行為を続けることで集中力を高める。
簡単な行為を継続的に行うことで集中の度合いを高めることができる。
サマディを高めるには時間をかけなくてはならない。
一朝一夕でできるものではなく同じ行為を続けることがポイント。
もっとも基本的な行為とそのかたちを自分のものにしてしまう。
継続的に無心に何かを行うことで、心と体を強めることができる。
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01:31