仏の心に生きる・Living with Buddha‘s heart

◯仏の心に生きる　

子どもを産み育ててみると自分のお母さんの愛情や苦労が分かるでしょう。仏の教えはそのように体験を通して理解することが求められます。お世話になった和尚さまのお話を思い出します。

私の知人で先の戦争の後、朝鮮半島から二人の子どもを連れて引き揚げてこられた女性があった。その方は、二人連れて引き揚げるのは無理だと思い、関東から来ているご夫婦に長男をあずけた。その後、正式にそのご夫婦の養子に出したのだそうだ。長男は食糧難のころも比較的に不自由なく大学まで出してもらって幸せな人生を送ったそうだ。次男はお母さんと一緒の耐乏生活で、朝鮮から引き揚げてきたころは道の草を食べて飢えをしのいだこともあったが、幸い体が丈夫だったので生きてこられたそうだ。二人の息子たちのどちらが心配かと言えば、養子に出した長男の方が心配だといっておれる。どうしてかというと長男は恵まれた環境で育ったので苦労を知らない、次男はあのころの耐乏生活を知っているので何があっても苦難に耐えていけるだろうといっておれた。まったく母の愛情とは偉いものだ。

When you have a child and raise it, you will understand the love and hardships of your mother. The Buddha’s teaching should be understood through such experiences. I remember the story told by my senior monk. 

After the last war, there was a woman I knew who had come back with her two children from Korean Peninsula. She thought it was difficult to bring them back with her, so she left her oldest son to a couple from the Kanto region. I heard that she officially adopted him later. That son had a happy life even during the time of food shortage, and he was able to go to university with relatively little inconvenience. 

The second son lived a life of poverty with his mother. When he came back from Korea, he often ate grass on the road, but fortunately he was strong enough to survive. 

If she was asked which of her sons she was more worry about, she said that was her eldest son whom she had adopted, because he had grown up in a happy environment and did not know hardships. Her second son, on the other hand, would be able to endure any hardship as he had survived the hardships of poverty in those days. 

A mother’s love is great!

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“The lecture of Hannyashin sutra” by Kakushyo Takagami The 6th-1

The sixth lecture  ‘Awaken Karma‘

59) The rice dealer said making a joke with laughing yesterday.

Because listening the Emptiness or Mu in the holy sutra lecture every single day, so, I don’t have to worry if I suffer any losses ever. 

Even if don’t understand the profound meaning of emptiness, or at least, having a broad-minded and loose feelings that you are as much as enough with the birth of the nakedness, are correct as it is.

60） Reflecting on the original meaning of Hannya and doing it without wasting it, I would like to contribute to our life and society with all our heart and comfort so far. 

61) In short, if looking every inch, Buddhist fundamental teaching means Karma after all. The relations of interdependence of give-and-take and the principle that everything have the endless cycle, those truth come from the parent’s body named Karma completely. 

62) To tell the truth, the reason why a human’s son became Buddha was that realized Karma. Moreover, it is Buddhism that Buddha who got enlightenment taught the truth of Karma through his experience namely. Therefore, Buddhism means Buddha’s teaching. For all that because Buddha was realized person, Buddhism is for human being after all. And Buddhism is not the teaching by God, is the teaching by a human, doesn’t stay the heaven, stay the earth. 

63）Alpha and omega in the religions, the first and the last, they are ultimately though for human really.

From those who going astray rise to those who enlightened. From those who sleeping rise to those who awakened. 

There is the religious primary object in there.

All in all, the religion does not command a distant view and is here in our hart. The pure land does not another place. Where do you ask with devoting yourself? Where is the religion without human life at least? 

Therefore, the question of why you need the religion means why you have to live at the same time. 

64) Nothing is my alive rejoice, nothing is my sadness of death. they are all lies. It is right for us to feel the joy of living and to die with sadness. He who get enlightenment as living and death to be one, feels alive joy, feels death with sadness. It is good as it is. The important issue for us is that not being obsessed with it. Don’t be a slave about it.

65) Where is like a religion without human nature?

 A religion needs not for those who live in the world of heaven with getting be pretentious. Those who have muddy job and are worried in the world need it. 

It requires a religion for the human world where cannot be dream as a dream or give up for lost. 

Moreover, you will reach the religious world by deeply cultivating your own human way. You will reach it naturally. By without deeply cultivating your own hart, if searching your neighboring place, there is nothing religious fountain. 

Lotus flower

The lotus flower (or water lily in India) blooms in muddy fields and is not stained by mud. For that reason, it is the symbol of enlightenment. In ancient Indian literature, it is a symbol of love, and in Brahmanism, it is said that Brahma was born from a lotus flower.

If you look at a lotus flower from above, you will see that it already has seeds. In other flowers, seeds are formed after the flower blooms and the stamen is pollinated, but in the lotus, the seeds and the flower are simultaneous.

My followers sometimes ask me, “If I do something bad, will I be punished?”  There is no doubt. It is a good teaching that good results come from good causes and bad results come from bad causes. However, there is a mind of dividing Good and Evil there. In the world of Buddha, there is no dividing Good and Evil. 

For example, there is a cup of rice seeds here. Rice cultivation is said to have been introduced to Japan about 2000 years ago. During that time, there is no telling how much work and breeding has gone into the production of this rice. So, we need to think about an immeasurable value. The cause and effect are in the rice grain at the same time. Let’s eat a meal of rice with gratitude. Gratitude eliminates our worldly desire to divide Good and Evil.

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