苦滅は三毒滅
個人業による輪廻四苦、他者・他物に対する苦を合わせ八苦、更に社会集団業による独裁・戦争・核・破局の四苦を合わせて十二苦の滅には1) 我見の痴の滅、2) 他者・物に対する貪瞋の滅、3) 集団業による国家神話の貪瞋痴の滅が必要である。
普遍法である因・縁による現象の因縁生起（縁起）は一切が相依・相対であるから孤立・主宰者としての自我は世俗の通念・便宜であり、究極の真理ではない。だから「我・我所（有）」の痴により生死・輪廻があり、痴の滅により苦の滅がある。
生老病死四苦に加えて他者・他物に対しての好悪から愛別離苦・怨憎会苦・求不得苦が生じるが、これら苦は「要約すれば五蘊盛苦」即ち身体・感覚・観念・行動・意識の業（行為・習慣・遺伝）の貪瞋痴三毒の風が暴れる為に起きる苦である。
都市国家の戦争他の指揮者による一極支配の金字塔文明（都市化）が出来て現在の国家・企業・メデイア・宗教・教育の代表的仮構体にも金字塔構造があり、現在の地球問題群を袋小路に追いやる独裁・戦争・核・破局の集団業四苦となっている。
金字塔文明の歴史は約５千年だが、それ以前に宇宙・生命・人類の百億・十億・百万年の歴史があり１万年以上縄文文化等があり、それを逆転する約２千５百年前の命帝網文化への軸時代があり、その流れは社会改革運動として現代に続いている。
物質文明の三Mの奪い合いは五禍を生むが精神文化の三学は五福を生む。文化価値の真善美聖の発達普及、特に科学技術等の発展は大衆の覚醒活動を促し民主・平和・生命・共生への運動は世界の大潮流となっており逆転阻止が皆の課題である。
軸時代の宗教・精神・文化革命は普遍法が勝利することを信じ、既に人々、集団に実現されつつある事を伝えたが、覚道は誰でも何時でも覚醒・平和（涅槃）が達成出来、個人（法身）・集団（僧伽・法界）が出来ることを示し四方僧伽も出来た。
誰でも出来る静坐・坐禅は業を静め涅槃に安住し法に目覚め安住出来る。縁起・業世界では共同・共苦であるが、縁滅・法世界では不動・不畏・不死・無我・無苦・無量寿・光・愛・（理）解（放）もあり共生・共楽・極楽・浄土も可能である。
普遍法の宇宙・生命の潮流は多種多勢であり水の惑星地球は緑豊穣花多種が佳く命芳醇顔笑咲が善い。「分かち合えば苦半分楽二倍」は８０億余人なら苦０楽♾️に接近し、「奪い合えば苦♾️楽０どころか地球生命系諸共に世界終末へ必定」となる。
個人の生死の苦は自我を孤立主宰とする痴により、他に対する貪瞋による苦であり、集団業苦は自国を絶対主権とする金字塔文明貪瞋痴の苦である。法による多車線で速度違反、他車線侵入、逆走は業三毒が普遍法違反の致命傷致死を例示する。
貪瞋痴三毒から戒定慧三学への転換は縁起無我の理解体得をし怒りを静め慈悲を育み分かち合い布施をし我見執着敵対から覚醒総合節制へと自他共に友として修養し、氏族部族種族国家の分離から人類生類環境の全体健全へ移行する事である。
四十億年の生命を受け継ぐ掛け替えの無い命を「葦の髄から天井覗く」罪（分離病患）・三（金・我・今）だけの小見から「宇宙船から地球を俯瞰する」聖（全体健全）・三（命・界・末）皆の大局見でコペルニクス的転換を共に友として達成を！
The Cessation of Suffering Is the Cessation of the Three Poisons
The Four Sufferings of birth, aging, illness, and death arise through individual karma and the cycle of birth and death (saṃsāra). Together with sufferings arising in relation to other people and things, they constitute the Eight Sufferings. Adding the Four Sufferings arising from collective social karma—dictatorship, war, nuclear catastrophe, and civilizational collapse—we have the Twelve Sufferings. Their cessation requires: (1) the cessation of delusion regarding the self (self-view); (2) the cessation of greed and hatred toward other people and things; and (3) the cessation of the Three Poisons—greed, hatred, and delusion—embodied in the myth of the state and perpetuated through collective karma.
Dependent Origination, the universal law of the arising of phenomena through causes and conditions, reveals that all things are interrelated and relative. Therefore, the ego conceived as an isolated, independent ruler is merely a conventional notion or practical designation, not an ultimate truth. Delusion concerning “I and mine” (self and self-possession) gives rise to birth, death, and saṃsāra, while the cessation of delusion brings about the cessation of suffering.
In addition to the Four Sufferings of birth, aging, illness, and death, attachment and aversion toward other people and things give rise to the suffering of separation from loved ones, encountering those we dislike, and not obtaining what we desire. These sufferings are summarized as the suffering of the rampant Five Aggregates. That is, suffering arises when the karmic winds of the Three Poisons—greed, hatred, and delusion—rage through the Five Aggregates of body, feelings, ideas, formations, and consciousness, conditioned by karma (actions, habits, and heredity).
With the development of city-states, Pyramidal Civilization (: urbanization, from civets: city) emerged, characterized by centralized rule under commanders of warfare and other leaders, together with increasing urbanization. Pyramidal structures remain in major players, fictitious bodies, such as states, corporations, media, religions, and educational institutions. Their collective karma produces the Four Sufferings of dictatorship, war, nuclear catastrophe, and civilizational collapse, driving today’s interconnected global crises toward a dead end.
The history of Pyramidal Civilization extends back approximately five thousand years. Before it, however, lie more than ten billion years of cosmic history, billions of years of life’s history, and millions of years of human history, including cultures such as Japan’s Jōmon culture, which lasted more than ten thousand years. Approximately twenty-five hundred years ago, the Axial Age initiated a movement to reverse the direction of Pyramidal Civilization and move toward a Culture of Life Indra-net. This current continues into the present through movements for social reform.
The struggle for the Three Ms—Money, Matter, and Might—in material civilization produces the Five Calamities: Delusion, Bondage, Discrimination, Exploitation, and Destruction. In contrast, the Three Learnings—Morality, Synthesis, and Prognosis (śīla, samādhi, prajñā)—of spiritual culture produce the Five Blessings: Awakening, Freedom, Equality, Friendship, and Peace. The development and dissemination of the cultural values of Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness, particularly advances in science and technology, have encouraged the awakening and action of the people. Movements for democracy, peace, life, and coexistence have become a great worldwide current, and preventing its reversal is a responsibility shared by all.
The religious, spiritual, and cultural revolutions of the Axial Age expressed confidence in the ultimate triumph of universal law and taught that its realization was already taking place among individuals and communities. In particular, the Awakened Way (Buddhism) demonstrated that anyone, at any time, can attain awakening and peace (nirvāṇa), and that this realization is possible both individually—as the Dharma-body (dharmakāya)—and collectively—as the Saṅgha and Dharma Realm (dharmadhātu). Thus, the Four-Directional Saṅgha, a community extending beyond local boundaries, was established.
Still sitting (zazen), practice accessible to everyone, calm the winds of karma, enable us to abide in nirvāṇa, and allow us to awaken to and abide in the Dharma. In the world of Dependent Origination and karma, we live and act together and share suffering. Yet in the world of the cessation of conditions and the Dharma, there are unshakability, fearlessness, deathlessness, selflessness, freedom from suffering, limitless life, light, love, lucidity, and liberation. Thus, coexistence, shared joy, the World of Supreme Bliss, and the Pure Land become possible.
The currents of the cosmos and life, governed by universal law, are characterized by a great diversity of forms and flourishing forces. On our water planet, Earth, abundant greenery and diverse flowers are beautiful; rich and flourishing life, with faces blossoming into smiles, is good.
The saying “Sharing suffering halves it, and sharing joy doubles it” suggests that, when more than eight billion people share with one another, suffering can approach zero (0) and joy can approach infinity (∞). Conversely, when people struggle to take from one another, suffering approaches infinity and joy approaches zero. Worse still, such struggles inevitably lead toward the end of the world, threatening the entire planetary system of life.
Individual suffering associated with birth and death arises from the delusion that the ego is an isolated, independent ruler, while suffering in relation to others arises from greed and hatred. Similarly, collective karmic suffering arises from the greed, hatred, and delusion of Pyramidal Civilization, which regards one’s own state as absolutely sovereign. On a multilane road governed by traffic laws, speeding, invading other lanes, and driving against traffic illustrate how actions driven by the Three Poisons violate universal law and can cause fatal injuries and death.
The transformation from the Three Poisons—greed, hatred, and delusion—to the Three Learnings—morality, synthesis, and prognosis— means understanding and realizing Dependent Origination and no-self; calming anger and cultivating compassion; sharing and practicing generosity; and transforming self-view, attachment, and hostility into awakening, synthesis, and restraint. It means cultivating ourselves and others together as friends, moving beyond the divisions of clans, tribes, ethnic groups, and states toward the wholly wholesome integration of humanity, all living beings, and the environment.
To protect our irreplaceable lives, inherited through four billion years of life’s history, we must accomplish a Copernican transformation together as friends: from the narrow vision of “peering at the ceiling through the hollow of a reed,” characterized by sin (separated sickness) and the Three Onlys—Money Only, Self Only, and Now Only—to the comprehensive vision of “looking down upon the Earth from a spacecraft,” characterized by holiness (wholly wholesomeness) and the Three Alls—All Lives, the Whole World, and All Future Generations.
Let us accomplish this Copernican transformation together, as friends of all life!
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