求不得苦の解決：Solution of the Suffering of Not Getting What Is Sought

諸苦の解決　５

求不得苦の解決

 

生老病死の四苦は自己に関し、求不得苦、愛別離苦、怨憎会苦は他との関係で起きるものです。生物は生きる為に食料を必要とします。人間は更に衣・住を用いる様になりました。そして衣食住を贅沢にし自己・社会・環境を害しさえします。

文明以前には人類は衣食住を分かち合い戦争もなかったが、戦争の為の一極集中の金字塔文明では階級・域外が出来て搾取・貧困が現れ衣食住に苦しむ者が出てきました。福祉社会では生活保護があるが飢餓・栄養不良は戦争・闘争による所が多い。

文明は物資・便利を求めて個人・社会・環境に分断・搾取・破壊を齎し気候変動・種大量絶滅・独裁・戦争・核・破局など現在地球問題群により世界終末時計では終末85秒前を指し国家主義・利己主義が世界を混乱・不幸に導く兆候が見られます。

金字塔文明を軸転換しようとした宗教・精神・文化革命の一つである覚道は正に180度の転換をしました。業三毒によって金物力を求め争うのではなく法三学によって命心和の分かち合いによって個人・社会・環境が真に平和・幸福になる事です。

ブッダ（覚者）はその道を分かち合う為住居を持たず三衣一鉢で遊行をし信施の乞食で食を得られない時でも引き返して貰うことはせず「喜びを食とする」としました。寒夜屋外落ち葉の上で寝ても「幸せに眠る者の一人」としたのです。

「幸せは満足にあり」と言いますが欲求を満たすのではなく八大人覚の第一「小欲知足」に目覚めて業欲・貪欲を静めれば既に満足でありそこに最高の幸福即ち涅槃があり、それが法の覚醒・世界であり一切生物・生命・環境・世界の真実である。

文明とは都市化であり豊富・便利の追求・闘争だが、それ以前の文化（例えば1万４千年続いた縄文文化）は共存・協働・共栄の平等・平和・自由・自治の社会であり、他の生物も飽くなき欲望の為に戦争・核・破滅に向かう事はありません。

文明はself (sin: separation)と state (status: seeking)を特徴とし苦を伴いますが、その究極的解決はnescience とcravingの二根を根絶する必要があります。それは涅槃（無我）と悟り（法住：無欲）でそれが無いと根から芽が次々と生えて四苦八苦十二苦になります。

覚者は「自己に克つ者は最も偉大な戦勝である」と言い弟子達に「多くの人々の福祉の為に、多くの人々の幸せの為に、世界への慈悲の為に行け」「同じ道を二人して行くなかれ」と出来るだけ多くの人に覚法が行き渡り享受される事を願った。

「分かてば苦は半分、楽は二倍」と言われるが、「皆と分かてば苦は無、楽は無量」になり、「奪い合いば苦は無限、楽は無」である。無量法身・法界を得れば無量寿・光・慈・悲・喜・捨・和・幸・福が得られる。皆共に禅喜法悦成就を！！！

Solution of Sufferings 5

 

Solution of the Suffering of Not Getting What Is Sought

 

The Four Sufferings of birth, aging, illness, and death concern the self, while the suffering of not getting what we seek, the suffering of separation from those we love, and the suffering of encountering those we dislike arise in our relationships with others. Living beings need food in order to survive. Human beings came to require clothing and shelter as well. We then made food, clothing, and shelter increasingly luxurious, even to the point of harming ourselves, society, and the environment.

Before civilization, human beings shared the necessities of life, and there was no warfare as we know it. With the rise of pyramidal civilizations, however, which concentrated power at the top partly for warfare, social classes and outsiders emerged, together with exploitation and poverty, leaving some people to suffer even for basic food, clothing, and shelter. Welfare societies provide public assistance, yet much hunger and malnutrition in the world still results from warfare.

In its pursuit of material abundance and convenience, civilization has brought division, exploitation, and destruction to individuals, societies, and the environment. Today we face interconnected global problems such as climate change, mass extinction of species, dictatorship, war, nuclear weapons, and the possibility of catastrophe. The Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight, while nationalism and selfishness show signs of leading the world toward increasing disorder and suffering.

The Awakened Way, one of the religious, spiritual, and cultural revolutions that sought to turn the axis of pyramidal civilization, made a complete 180-degree turn. Instead of competing for money, matter, and might through the karmic Triple Poisons, it teaches us, through the Dharmic Triple Learning, to share life, heart, and harmony, so that individuals, societies, and the environment may attain genuine peace and happiness.

The Buddha—the Awakened One—owned no permanent dwelling, but traveled in order to share this Way, possessing only three robes and an alms bowl. He lived on food freely offered in faith. Even when he received no food on his alms round, he did not turn back to ask again, but said, “I live on joy.” And even when sleeping outdoors on fallen leaves on a cold night, he described himself as “one of those who sleep happily.”

It is often said that “happiness lies in contentment.” But this does not mean satisfying every desire. Rather, when we awaken to the first of the Eight Awakenings of Great Beings—“few desires and knowing satisfaction” (少欲知足)—and still our karmic desires and greed, we are already content. There is the highest happiness, Nirvāṇa. This is awakening to Dharma and the Dharma-world, the truth of all living beings, all life, the environment, and the whole world.

Civilization (from civitas: city) is urbanization and the pursuit and competition for ever greater abundance and convenience. Before civilization, however, cultures—such as the Jōmon culture, which endured for roughly 14,000 years—could sustain societies characterized to significant degrees by coexistence, cooperation, co-prosperity, equality, peace, freedom, and autonomy. Other living beings, too, do not pursue insatiable desires to the point of creating war, nuclear weapons, and planetary destruction.

Civilization is characterized by self (sin: separation) and state (status: seeking) and is accompanied by suffering. Its ultimate solution, thus, requires the eradication of the two roots: nescience and craving. This is realized in Nirvāṇa (no-self) and awakening (abiding in Dharma: no craving). Unless these two roots are eradicated, new shoots continually spring from them, giving rise to the Four Sufferings, Eight Sufferings, and Twelve Sufferings.

The Awakened One taught that conquer over oneself is the greatest conqueror. He told his disciples:

“Go forth for the welfare of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”

And he instructed them:

“Do not let two of you go by the same way.”

His wish was that the Awakened Dharma should reach and benefit as many people as possible.

It is said, “When suffering is shared, it is halved; when happiness is shared, it is doubled.” But we might go further:

When suffering is shared by all, suffering becomes nothing and happiness immeasurable.
When we struggle to take from one another, suffering becomes endless and happiness disappears.

When we realize the limitless Dharma-body and Dharma-realm, we realize limitless life, light, friendship, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity, harmony, happiness, and blessedness.

May we all together realize the joy of Zen and the delight of Dharma!

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