What does sentient beings mean? It means what exists and has their life. It means human being in the first sense and all living things in the broad sense. It is written in Sanskrit as ‘sattva’ and means that there is blood flow.
Animals do not need Buddha’s teaching because they already have Buddha’s appearance. Carnivorous eat something else, but it is not bad thing. It is a providence of nature. It is human merely that have to learn Buddha’s teaching. Because we have selfish desire. If we leave desire running, our lives will be confused, and the world will be corrupted. It can be said that all evil things are due to human’s selfish desire.
What is Buddha? It means Gautama Siddhartha who was a historical person in the first meaning. The Mahayana Buddhist sutras teach us many kinds of Buddhas, just as Vairocana’s virtue illuminates in the world and Amitabha Buddha gives a sermon forever from the land of Perfect Bliss.
A student asked Dr. Kiyoshi Inokuchi who is an emeritus professor at Kyushu University.
‘What is my own truth?’
Dr. Inokuchi took some time into consideration and answered him.
‘Do you have ever volunteered to do your best and kindness to others? When he expressed his gratitude, did you feel joy at him then? That is your own truth.’
It is the Buddha’s heart that Dr. Inokuchi taught him ‘my truth’.
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I made a first visit to Sri Lanka in June 2016 by invitation of friend of mine. At the beginning, I would like to make a visit with friend of mine who is a German monk, however, he got a disease. So I visited Sri Lanka alone. After that, this is the fourth trip.
When arriving Colombo Air Port, there is a big Buddha’s image at the lounge. It might be only Colombo Air Port where worshiped Buddha. And there are many large Buddha’s image wherever located a street corner, a top of a building, a top of a mountain. A certain man said that very few persons who commit a crime at the place where can be seen Buddha’s image. That is marvelous.
The words what Buddha has a very large body is mentioned into “The Diamond Sutra” which is taught in Mahayana. It means that Buddha’s wisdom fill in the world. Sri Lankan Buddhism belongs to Theravada and does not teach it. However, I understood the reason why Buddha has a large body when I saw the Buddha‘s statue in the Sri Lankan street at the first time.
Friend of mine who came from Japan with me referred to his impression about Sri Lanka.
‘Sri Lankan people’s goodwill, good faith, Sri Lankan rich nature, influenced from Buddhism.’
＊スリランカ仏教の印象について
2016年の6月、友人招待ではじめてスリランカを訪れました。当初はドイツ人僧の友人と二人で訪れる予定でしたが、彼が病気で倒れましたので私一人で訪れました。その後、今回で4回目です。
コロンボ空港に到着しますと、ロビーに大きな仏像があります。ブッダを祀っている空港は世界中でコロンボ空港だけでしょう。そして、スリランカの街角、ビルの上、山の上のいたるところに大きな仏像があります。ある人にききましたら「ブッダが見えるところは犯罪が少ない」のだそうです。素晴らしいことです。
大乗仏教の『金剛般若経』に「ブッダの体は長大である」という言葉が何回も出てきます。「この世の中にブッダの知恵は満ちている」という意味です。スリランカは上座部仏教でこれを説きませんが、私は初めてスリランカの町中の大仏を見たとき「ブッダの体は長大である」という意味が分かりました。
いっしょに日本から来ました友人はスリランカの印象についてこのように言っています。
「スリランカの人たちの親切心や誠実なところ、豊かな自然などはブッダの教えの影響だ」と。
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At the beginning of June 2016, by a friend of mine invited, I made a visit to a temple located Balangoda city in Sri Lankan south state. This temple is built on the hill with a fine view in which can be seen the sights of the city. The main hall and the ceremony hall, the pagoda, the building of office stood side by side at there. Two women went up the stairs before the lunch time. They carried the meals on the tray covered with a white cloth. It was a lunch for monk. I heard that followers take turns cooking the meals for a monk.
Of course monks have to do religious mendicancy. Sri Lankan monks never cook and never plow a field themselves basically. Their life depending on the donation by their followers. They eat once meal in a day merely. They can be possible to drink a tea or a juice anytime in a day.
I asked to a woman whose husband invited me to the temple.
‘How do you do when a monk be ill and a bedridden?’
She responded like it.
’If a monk be a patient, those who doctors or nurses of his follower will take care him. Do not worry that he has nothing family. We done like it when the former monk got a disease and died.’
It is marvelous. It need not the medical insurance and the system of the nursing insurance like Japanese organization. It is free to ride a bus or a train for a monk in Sri Lanka. I did not ask her when a monk consult a doctor immediately. If he who medical relations take care a monk, it is equitability to free of charge. What a marvelous mater is!
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Chula means ultimate. He who Buddha’s disciple was slow to learn. Buddha taught him to chant the verse of sweeping.
We can sweep our delusion with a broom.
We can avoid to forget with sweeping.
He had chanted for six years devotedly. He got enlightenment at last. Thus, he thought and said that a broom means sweeping, sweeping means removal, namely a broom is meant as Noble Eightfold Path. Our excrement means our dirt of three poisons. That means what sweeping our dirt of three poisons by the broom of Noble Eightfold Path. It might just say what is called meaning of a broom. If we think about the reason thoroughly, namely our heart can comprehend the truth. It is done the path of an arhat.
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Zen Buddhism lecture -1”Kanjijai-Bosatsu is all beings” In the Tang era, a translator translated from India wor......
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『徒然草』第243段（現代語訳・英訳）
私が八歳になった年に、父にこのように尋ねた。
「仏とはどのようなものですか」と。
父は「仏は人がなるのだ」といった。
また尋ねた。「人はどのようにして仏になるのでしょうか」と。
父はまた「仏の教えによってなるのだ」と答えた。
また尋ねた「(その)教えた仏を、誰が教えたのですか」と。
（父は）また答えた。それもまた先の仏の教えによって（仏に）なったのだ」と。
また尋ねた。「その教えをはじめた第一の仏は、どのような仏でしたか」と言った
そのとき父は、「空よりふったのだ、土よりわいたのだ」と言って笑った。
「（私は）問い詰められて、まったく答えられなくなった」と人々に語って面白がっていた。
“Essays in Idleness” the 243th paragraph by Kenko Yoshida
When I was eight years old, I asked father like this.
‘What is a Buddha?’
Father answered me.
‘A human turn into a Buddha.’
I asked again.
‘How does turn a human into a Buddha?’
Father responded again.
‘A human turn into a Buddha by Buddha‘s teaching.’
I asked again.
‘Who did teach Buddha?’
Father responded again.
‘Also he turned into Buddha by the previous Buddha.’
I asked again.
‘What sort of the first Buddha who began to teach him?’
At that time, father responded with laughing.
‘It fell from the sky and was gushing from the earth.’
Thereafter, my father told to neighbors with joy.
‘I could not answered at all, driven into a corner by my son questioning.’
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Bodhidharma was born as the third prince of an Indian country. He had studied Zen under Prajñãtãra and got enlightenment. He went across the sea way to China Liáng and conveyed Zen.
He taught Zen what to be affectionate behavior to others and to be all might in every situation with voluntarily. Zazen is not only Zen but also all jobs. While nine years Zazen, he conveyed it to his disciple whose name was Eka.
Bodhidharma’s Zen is by practicing actually and is not an armchair theory learning. At that period, the central idea in China Buddhism was in much arguments. So they did not received Zen. Therefore he was persecuted by others.
They say that he returned to India remaining his one side shoe in his tomb or went back to India riding on the reed leaf passing the sea way. It tend to say the legendary story for a historical great man.
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（1）The social matter in India
Mahayana Buddhism originated in the center of India when the 1st century and was conveyed to Tibet, China, Korean peninsula and Japan.
It was established by Nãgãrjuna (B. C. 250? or B.C.150?) who was bone in south India and the greatest scholar. He learned all of the Indian philosophical methods and all sect of Buddhism. ‘Vibhãsã precepts method’ is explanatory book which learned in Theravada Buddhism.
When five hundred years later from Buddha past away to nirvana, Buddhism was decreased to pressed by Hinduism. Therefore Buddhist sects had collected sutras adopting Hinduism gods for example Avalokitesurara and etc. At the editorial meeting, they had done in cooperation with ordinary followers and adopted Indian folk stories. So that Mahayana Buddhism was able to acquire huge followers.
And another reason is that there were huge women followers gathering at the period. As you know, it was restricted marriage or getting job by the caste system. Besides that, it had too low an opinion to women. At that period women could not choice their own religion. If I say without your critical opinion, they say that women cannot get enlightenment at that period.
There is ‘Invocation of Amida’ in Mahayana. One of the amida’s 48 vows is ‘A female can be relief’. It taught that everyone can be relief by invocation of amida. By that teaching Mahayana had done success conveyed any countries.
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“Ājñãta Kãņņdinya was the first Buddha’s disciple.”
‘Siddhãrtha was born’
Buddha’s real name was Gautama Siddhãrtha.
In BC463, he was born in Shakya people’s land named Kapilavastu where was near the border between India and Nepal as a legitimate child between King Suddhodana and Queen Mãyã. Kapilavastu was a little more large area than Hukuoka prefecture and was extremely fertile land in addition to fresh greenery. King Suddhodana asked eight persons of fortune-teller to divine his child’s fortune. One of them was Kãņņdinya. At that time he was sixteen years old.
King asked him.
‘Can he grow up?’
Kãņņdinya said.
‘Your baby will grow up well and be to attain enlightenment.’
At that time, Kapilavastu was well known to the land where called a birthplace of Kapila legendary wizard, and Brahmanism had been national religion. At that period, they had been believed that the man who attain enlightenment will come out into this world and will rescue people. Kãņņdinya’s words was based on up to religious expectation at that period.
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Buddha's personality ・1
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It is becoming decrease Buddhist followers in Japan. Of course Buddhist monks also became decrease too. This matter is huge worry problem for Japanese Buddhist.
However, one of my German friend said that I hope to participate Zen Sessin in Bairinji Sodo；Zen monastery in Kurume City.
One of Sri Lankan friend monk said I wish to learn Japanese Zen. This is the histrical transformation. Because it is the reazon why they have another religion or another Buddhist sect. One of Bangladeshi monk said that I hope to learn Buddhist missionary working and giving lecture to followers. I have to take off my hat to their effort.
The taxi company running in Paris City named Zen. The reason means what running with calm. One of the restaurant in New York City named Zen. It probably means the same reason.
Zen is the teaching that have followed since primitive Buddhism. We have to have responsibility to convey it to others.
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Zen lecture 'Mercy'
'Mercy'
‘Mercy’ is consistent Buddha’s teaching since the period of the primitive Buddhism. It referred to warmhearted friendship in the Buddha period. Why was it taken into Buddhism? Friends see things in a common way as standing on equally without the relation of the upper and the lower. When you feel joy I will feel joy too. When you are sorrowful I am so too. Your joy is my joy. Mercy is based on like these relations. Impartiality was the Buddha’s fundamental attitude. Mercy is the situation as impartiality. I show you the Mercy verses in Sutta-Nipata, the primitive Buddhism conveyed in Sri Lanka.
“Those who know ultimate ideal and have attained the stage of peace should do as follows: Be talented, honest, right-minded, soft, and talk gently –never be arrogant.” Section The 143rd
“Just like a mother protecting her baby while sacrificing her life, we should have infinite mercy for all living things.” Section The 149th
“We should have infinite mercy for the world as well. To the upper, lower as well as sideways, we should do without any barrier, grudge and hostility.” Section The 150th
Awakening to mercy is the beginning stand point of Buddhism and the final goal as well. We can say that it is the theme of which human beings have to solve. I heard from my friend that Sri Lankan people chant the Mercy verses in Sutta-Nipata at the wedding ceremony. It is marvelous culture for young generations to learn Buddha’s teaching at the beginning of new life. Please keep in mind such Sri Lankan customs.
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Buddha was not a God. Buddha was a historical person. However, Buddha is our inside theme simultaneously. We have Buddha’s hart. And Buddha’s teaching is not only the religion but also is in all sphere, our jobs, daily life. Also it is useful for us. I introduce Buddha’s personality.
⋆ He was tall and a dignified physique seemed to be a pleasant person. He fascinated all people by his long arms, the way of imposing walking, big eyes like a cow, the shining beauty and his large chest.
He who met Buddha came to standstill. He who was at a standstill walked with him involuntarily. He who walked slowly started running. He who took a seat stood up.
His voice was fascination and had deep sound like a drum and had ability of mighty persuasion.
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Zen lecture : The Indus civilization
Nowadays, it is well known that Mohenjo-Daro in the Southern Pakistan and Harappa in the Northeast Pakistan was two of the great four advanced civilizations in the world. The founder of historic sites were Dravidian. They were the ancestor of people living in Sri Lanka and India. These historic civilizations were annihilated by a drought.
The prime feature of this civilization is that the war-related facilities, temples, even a palace haven’t found in the remain. This civilizations is regarded to have been established around in 1500 B.C before the Aryan migration. There was no war at the period. The reason there was no temple there is supposed to have worshiped the mountain or wind as gods. Therefore they are supposed to have believed the polytheism.We can understand the reason there is no palace is that the republican government supposed to have reigned the country at that time.
The city-states had an advanced civilization as follows; burnt ceramic tile, constructed a wall and a road by tiles as well as an irrigation canal from far place, even had a flush toilet. They had the civilization like that. After that the Aryan migrated here. As the years passed, it is said that the Aryan were maybe affected by this civilization.
The Buddha’s birth-country was one of the Aryan sixteen countries in the northern India. He was born in rich natural environment and grew up in polytheism. Then he studied in the republican government and became a person who looked for peace. After that he become a monk asking the way of humanity, then finally got enlightenment. Buddha didn’t get enlightenment suddenly. As I said previously Indian culture guided him to the enlightenment. Buddha said there were seven Buddhas before me.
After that period, Buddhism could not remain as an independent religion in India. However we could say that the reason that Dharma lighting has kept long for 2500 years in Sri Lanka is through the effort of the descendant who brought the Indus civilization. The Sri Lankan tradition as loving nature and impartiality, giving mercy for each people, are common to the culture of Japan, a faraway island country in Oriental.
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