戦争苦の解決
この所SNSではロシアによるウクライナ戦争、イスラエルによるガザ戦争、米国によるイラン戦争の話題が絶えないが、映画「ヒンド・ラジャブの声」「ネルソンさんあなたは人を殺しましたか」も多くの人の涙と同情を呼び話題となっている。
映画は、2024年1月29日に、ガザ市から避難しようとしていたヒンド・ラジャブを含む7人家族と、一人車に残されたヒンドの救助を求める必死の訴える電話と救助に向かった2名の救急隊員がイスラエル軍に殺害された事件が基となっている。
アレン・ネルソンは1991年1月25日、全米生放送された湾岸戦争反対ティーチインで1960年代にベトナムで海兵隊員として人を殺したことを話し、1995年に沖縄で起きた海兵隊員による少女暴行事件で沖縄へ戻り日本で講演活動を始めた。
彼は平和憲法「九条を抱きしめて」13年間延べ1200回全国講演を行い「人を殺すということは 自分自身の精神や魂の最も大切な部分をなくすことです 私にはもうこの大切な部分はありません 人を殺さなければどんなに良かったでしょう」と言ってPTSD苦を語った。
「平和憲法は私たちが進むべき未来を示しています。これは全人類にとって大切なものです・・いかなる核兵器よりも強力でありいかなる国のいかなる軍隊よりも強力なのです・・世界平和は ここから この部屋から 私たち一人ひとりから始まるのです。」と述べた。
「あなたは人に殺されたいですか」と誰でも問うべきであり、誰も全宇宙の因縁によって生まれた命を奪う権利はない。五戒・地球倫理は誰もが守るべき倫理・責務である。吾我・吾国を絶対化する者は宇宙・縁起・帝網に安心・安住できず死亡・破滅する運命にある。
戦争苦は戦場の戦死者・殺害者の苦だけではなく、戦争当事国やその時空を超えて身心、生命、飢餓・疾病、衣住、難民、政治、経済、社会、文化、環境等の破壊、将来世代の心身傷害し怨恨は継続して連鎖拡大して世界破局・終末にまで至る。
その根本原因は個人業の貪瞋痴にあるが集団業として組織統合され（神話・仮構）国家の最重要事・最悪業として自他一切を巻き込み個人心身・社会組織（政治・経済・社会・文化）世界（環境・生物・生態）一切に害悪・苦悩・破滅を齎す。
普遍法縁起からは孤立・主宰の吾我も吾国も妄想・世俗・仮構・神話であるが慣習・教育・宗教・情報等により特に権力者は金物力の欲望・分派・愛国・敵視・恐怖を煽り軍拡・競争が事故・誤算・策謀等から法・戒・倫理無視し戦争をする。
経済平和協会（IEP)によれの世界の暴力による経済的影響を20兆ドルとすると2022年17.5兆ドル、2025年21.8兆ドル）その10％以下で世界の飢餓対策（約0.2%）、教育（約0.5%）、必須医療（約4.2%）、基礎的社会保障（約2.8%）が出来る。
人類には資源がないのではなく資源を何に向けるかが問題である。それは一に金物力の奪い合いで苦無限、楽無、命心和の分かち合いで楽無限、苦無にするか、金字塔文明の五禍を選ぶか命帝網文化の五福を選ぶかの人間の選択に掛かっている。
それは吾我・吾国の貪瞋痴から普遍法により戒定慧（倫理・総合・知恵）三学を守り修養推進する宗教・精神・文化革命の歴史の流れを受け継ぐか、それ以前の三毒の業の奴隷のままであるかの選択に掛かっており、一人一人の覚悟覚行に依る！
Solution to the Suffering of War
Recently, social media has been filled with discussion of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Israel’s war in Gaza, and the U.S. war with Iran. At the same time, the films The Voice of Hind Rajab and Nelson-san, Did You Kill People? have attracted much attention, moving many people to tears and sympathy.
The Voice of Hind Rajab is based on the tragedy of January 29, 2024. A family of seven, including Hind Rajab, was attempting to evacuate Gaza City. After the others were killed, Hind was left alone in the car, desperately calling for rescue. Two paramedics who went to save her were also killed by Israeli forces.
Allen Nelson, a former U.S. Marine, spoke at a nationally televised teach-in against the Gulf War on January 25, 1991, about having killed people while serving as a Marine in Vietnam in the 1960s. Following the 1995 rape of a girl in Okinawa by U.S. servicemen, Nelson returned to Okinawa and began giving talks throughout Japan.
For thirteen years, ”Embracing Japan’s peace Constitution and Article 9,” he gave some 1,200 talks throughout the country. Speaking of his suffering from PTSD, he said:
“To kill another human being is to lose the most precious part of your own mind and soul. I no longer have that precious part. How I wish I had never killed another person！”
He also said:
“The Peace Constitution shows us the future toward which we should advance. It is important for all humanity…. It is more powerful than any nuclear weapon, more powerful than any army of any nation…. World peace begins here—in this room, with each one of us.”
Everyone should ask oneself: “Do you want to be killed by another person?” No one has the right to take a life that has arisen through all the causes and conditions of the entire universe. The Five Precepts and the Global Ethic are ethics and responsibilities that everyone should observe. Those who absolutize “I and mine” or “my state and ours” cannot find true peace or abiding security within the universe, Dependent Co-origination, and Indra’s Net, but instead head toward death and destruction.
The suffering of war is not limited to those killed or those who kill on the battlefield. It extends far beyond the belligerent countries and beyond the immediate time and place of the conflict. War destroys body and mind, life and health; causes hunger and disease; destroys clothing, shelter, politics, economies, societies, cultures, and environments; creates refugees; and inflicts physical and psychological wounds upon future generations. Hatred and resentment continue, spreading through chains of cause and effect, and may ultimately lead toward global catastrophe and even the end of civilization.
The fundamental causes lie in the Triple Poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion operating as individual karma. But when these poisons are organized and integrated as collective karma through the artificially construced myths and institutions of the state, war becomes both the state’s supreme undertaking and its worst karma. It draws self and others alike into its consequences, bringing harm, suffering, and destruction to individual bodies and minds; to political, economic, social, and cultural institutions; and to the whole world of environments, living beings, and ecosystems.
From the standpoint of the universal Dharma of Dependent Co-origination, neither an isolated, sovereign “self” nor an isolated, sovereign “state” possesses absolute reality. They are conventional constructions, social fabrications, and myths. Yet through custom, education, religion, information, and other conditioning, people—especially those in power—stimulate desires for Money, Matter, and Might, intensify factionalism and nationalism, create enemies and fear, and drive military expansion and competition. Accidents, miscalculations, and deliberate schemes can then lead nations to disregard Dharma, precepts, and ethics and enter into war.
According to the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), the global economic impact of violence was approximately $17.5 trillion in 2022 and $21.8 trillion in 2025—on the order of $20 trillion a year. Using that figure simply as a scale of comparison, less than ten percent of such an enormous amount would correspond to estimated annual financing needs on the order of 0.2% for combating hunger, 0.5% for education, 4.2% for essential healthcare, and 2.8% for basic social protection.
Humanity does not lack resources. The question is where we direct them.
The choice is ours:
Compete for Money, Matter, and Might—and create infinite suffering with no true bliss;
or share Holy Life, Heart, and Harmony—and create boundless bliss without suffering.
It is a choice between the Five Calamities of pyramidal civilization—Delusion, Bondage, Discrimination, Exploitation, and Destruction—and the Five Blessings of the culture of Indra’s Net—Awakening, Freedom, Equality, Friendship, and Peace.
Ultimately, the choice is whether we continue the historical religious, spiritual, and cultural revolution that seeks to transform the Triple Poisons of “my self” and “my state” through the universal Dharma and cultivate the Triple Learning of Sīla, Samādhi, and Prajñā—Ethics, Synthesis, and Wisdom—or remain slaves of the karma of greed, hatred, and delusion that preceded that transformation.
It depends upon the awakening, determination, and action of each and every one of us!
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