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  by Gudo NISHIJIMA

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Friday, October 23, 2009

[16] Examinationof the Fusion of restriction and Emancipation (10 verses)

1. What have been accomplished, are wandering through in regulated situations,

And the regular situations, which do not wander, are this world.

Slow walking and not being eternal are the Real situations,

And actually this world is going on totally.


2. When a personal substance is wandering,

The five kinds of aggregates, that is, matter, perception, recognition, action, and
consideration, are relying upon material element as the place of taking a rest.

Those five kinds of necessary material elements can never become the cause of
wandering through.

How shall we stop such kind of wandering through at all?


3. Avoiding action, which we want to do, but at the same time we would do what we want
to do.

There might be favorite job, which can exist everywhere.

At the same time there are many jobs, which we do not like to do.

What is just the job, which we like to do?


4. The balanced state of the autonomic nervous system does not belong perfection.

How is it possible for such a situation to occur actually?

The balanced state of the autonomic nervous system does never belong to Reality
itself.

How is it possible for Reality to manifest itself newly?


5. Not destroying life, but not to be free,

Appearance, passing through, and Universal morals.

The accomplishment as before is Reality.

Not to destroy, but not to make free.


6. Restrictions seem to be just our perceptions.

But the Real perceptions can never be Restriction.

Just never other than perception does restrict,

And what kind of constancy would be destroyed at that time?


7. When slaughter has been done as far as being desired,

Then just before, an arrest would be done at that time.

And such kind of verbal talks does never exist,

As if the same talk as “going,” “have gone,” and “will go,” in the Chapter 2.


8. As far as Gautama Buddha does not permitted,

The states without arrest have never been permitted.

Aha! So, in the case of Gautama Buddha, the abbreviation might be permitted.

And so the bondage might be in liberation.


9. In the case that I will not live in this World,

Suggests that the balance of the autonomic nervous system might be possible to exist
in me in future.

From such situations the present maintenance like that might be Real,

And the appearance of the real facts are the very Great Facts.


10. The balanced state of the autonomic nervous system, is not the place, where we
should enter,

But the place for wandering is not the place, where we should get out from it.

There something, which is not clear, and here the wandering without any stability.

And in the balanced autonomic nervous system, there is something, which is
not decisive.

Monday, October 19, 2009

[15] Examination of Subjective Existence (11 verses)

MMK (15) Examination of Subjective Existence (11 verses)

1, Total existence does not belong to the subjective existence,

And what is spoken is the Truth, which is supported by Reason.

The Reason and the Truth exists being compound,

And the subjective existence exists what has been produced artificially.


2. The subjective existence is what has been produced artificially as only a common name,

And how is it possible for it to continue existence longer?

Because what are not artificial products are the subjective existence,

And so it might be not so interesting, and it might belong to future.


3. Why in the subjective existence anything does not exist?

And the objective existence will exist in future.

The subjective idea is included in the objective existence.

Because the objective existence transmits the informations.


4. Relying upon both the subjective existence and the objective existence,

To what direction the existence moves again?

Both in the subjective existence and in the objective existence,

Because both the subjective existence and the objective existence are really accomplished ‘auspicious’ facts.


5. Being included in existence suggests that it hasn't been accomplished.

Being out of existence does never suggest accomplishment.

Because belonging to existence produces living in another world,

And so the many numbers of births suggest many numbers of strange contrivances.


6. Both the birth of subjective existence and objective existence,

Suggests the producing existence and the erasing existence in the perfect similarity.

They are looking at the facts superficially, but not actually looking at them at all.

Those were the Real Facts, which Gautama Buddha has punished severely.


7. Katyayana was not so affirmative,

To the two kinds of discussions whether something exists, or not.

The Saint Katyayana was not so affirmative,

Therefore the problem whether it is existent, or not, is not so clear.


8. If Reality is the original substance,

There might not be anything, which does not belong to this world, or not to be
Reality.

And something original might be perfectly impossible to be a different existence,

Because what has been separated from the original Reality, might manifest itself
At all.


9. In the case of relying upon the imitated substance,

How is it possible for the original situations to be manifested really?

In the case of relying upon the true substance,

How is it possible for the imitated situations to be manifested really?


10. It is said that the Eternal Manifestation really exists,

And it is completely wrong that the continuous observation has been cut actually.

Therefore in the middle way between existence and non-existence,

It might be just the passing through all situations of having sharp corners.


11. Relying upon thinking subjective existences, even though there is the concrete
Universe,

The concrete Universe is not something, which really does not exist, or is not
eternal.

In the time before this world hasn't existed,

What is called extinction does not appear yet.

[14] Examination of Fusion (8 verses)

1. To be seen, an action to see, and a man, who sees,

Those three kinds of miscellaneously colorful mixture are produced by combination
between the two and the two.

Never being totally fused together,

But mutually combined one by one actually.


2. Similarly to the cases of action to dye and what is dyed,

Being dyed and Action to dye are similar to each other.

And being maintained as three, that is, what has been left, pain,

And altars, which have been left also.


3. Fusion relies upon different things, and at the same time it belongs to different things.

Fusion is never recognized as different characteristics.

It might be offerings for it to be seen,

And since then Fusion does not go on further.


4. Something excluding others is different from characters of another.

Characters to be seen, and so forth, are not recognized.

Something belonging to it, and something relying upon to it, are over all.

And so, different character does not appear at all.


5. Different, different, clearly different,

What is not different, and what is different, both move as something different.

But something very clear is just that,

And so the different from it does never appear.


6. In that case, difference, difference, and because of the differences,

And just because of those differences, motion can exist.

But the Real Facts are difference, difference, and because of the differences,

So any motion does not exists really, and since then anything does not exist.


7. Because of not relying upon anything,

The different situations are not recognized,

Never being upon non-consciousness, or another consciousness,

Never something, which does not really exist in another world, or in the real world.


8. Fusion does not belong to Reality, or does not rely upon Reality.

Fusion does not belong to another world, or in the real world.

Fusion is just perfectly mixed situations, and perfectly combined situations.

Fusion is never recognized as any kind of mixture at all.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

[13] Examination of Real Action (8 verses)

1. Reality has become uselessly the robbers’ World,

How many topics of merciful gods have been stopped for long time?

In everything there are many robbers' Worlds,

Therefore, because of such situations, human daily lives are totally useless.


2. Reality has become uselessly the robbers' World,

By whom and when, what kind of things there have been robbed?

Such kinds of area are ironically called very happy places,

But the state of perfectly balanced autonomic nervous system is never brilliant.


3. In many existences, poverties are clear,

But in another case the attitudes of looking at, has been omitted.

The unnatural birth does not exist really,

And in the miscellaneous existences, the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system
is going on.


4. Where is the existence of another world other than this exists?

The real existence of myself itself is not recognized at all.

Where is the existence of another world other than this exists?

Then the real existence of myself itself is recognized at that time.


5. Existence in other world does never belong to this world.

At the same time what belongs to the different world, is never attached to this world.

For the same reason, young men do not become old at the present moment,

For the same reason, old men do not become old at the present moment.


6. Mind in this world can exist in another world,

And so condensed milk can exist similarly as if it were yoghurt.

Leaving from condensed milk, something different can exists in a different thing.

Therefore the existence of condensed milk might be possible in future.


7. When a small amount of unbalanced state exists,

Even a small amount of the balanced state can never exist at all.

However, when a bit of unbalanced state does not stay at all,

Where is it possible for the balanced state to exist even in future at all?


8. The perfectly balanced autonomic nervous system, is all the origin of intuitive Truth,

Therefore the contents of those Buddhist Masters’ teachings are all unchangeable
True Pursuit.

Those are just the doctrine, which is based on the perfectly balanced autonomic nervous
system,

And they are all never defeated Proclamation.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

[12] Examination of Pain (10 verses)

1. My own Action, and others’ Action,

And Action, which is done by myself and the others together, are not reasonable.

Only one aim called Pain has been desired,

And the Pain and what has been done actually, are not combined into one.


2. In the case, when my Action exists,

It is clear that what has expanded does not exist clearly.

And what have been accumulated are accumulations.

Because something clearly aggregated, is conspicuously clear in front of us.


3. When this world is different from what is seen now,

The similarity and difference of the world might be bound then by the miscellaneous
things and phenomena.

It might be true that something, which has been produced by others, can be painful,

But even being produced by either by others, or by oneself, they are the same to be
produced by production.


4. When the personality of myself has produced Pain,

Then it might be similar to as if there were no Pain, too.

The personality of myself is also only one among many people,

And so what has produced Pain, is also my Action itself.


5. When the personality of others have produced Pain,

Then the Pain has been illuminated by other's light.

What are created by others, might be the Pain,

And where is it possible for Reality to exist without Pain?


6. When the personality of others have produced Pain,

Then what is just the personality, which is called other's personality?

The situation, which does not have any Pain, might be the states, which have been
produced.

Therefore it is the state, which has been grasped by the facts.


7. Because our products haven't been accomplished yet,

It is impossible for us to say that the Pain has come from others’ efforts.

Because even though other people have also created their Pain actually,

Their work might be done as their own products separately.


8. What I have sacrificed for producing something, is not so painful.

Because without relying upon such efforts the article might not be produced at all.

Because in this case another person must be different from the person himself,

Therefore how is it possible for Pain to come from another's behavior?


9. In the case that a work has been done by the two members,

Then the Pain might be separated into two, one by one.

If Pain has not been produced by either others, or by himself,

Why Pain is so unreasonable actually like that?


10. Some special condition, which is peculiarly individual, does not belong to Pain,

The four kinds of recognition, that is, life, aging, disease, and death, are difficult to
realize.

And even though what are existents out of doors, are also existence,

The four kinds of recognition, that is, life, aging, disease, and death, are difficult to
realize.

Monday, October 12, 2009

(11) Examination of the Termination of Beginning and End (8 verses)

1. Before noticing the end of his life,

The great saint Gautama Buddha has never say anything at all.

Because our usual daily life is never inferior, but excellent,

Even rains, and so forth, can never be placed behind.


2. Belonging to not the highest, or belonging to not to the lowest,

They belong to the middle class without reason.

Therefore without reason miscellaneous things and phenomena manifest themselves.

And so before and after, there are only strong progresses.


3. Before the time when birth has existed,

Aging and death had belonged to future.

There are young ages, death, or birth.
,
There are expectations of birth, and even expectation of eternity.


4. After a birth has existed,

Aging and death, and so forth, exist.

Because it might be impossible for anything illogical to exist really,

What is the real meaning of becoming older, or death?


5. Never completely the same as the cases of aging, or death,

The cases of birth, and so forth, might be exactly governed ,

Therefore perhaps in the case of death, or the birth of babies,

They might be both unreasonable probably together.
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6. In such situations, anything does not appear in this world,

Before being not so far, but common progress.

However at the same time, miscellaneous things and phenomena, have been born,

And so what is the reason, why those aging and death are produced?


7. Something, which has been produced, and the reason, why it was produced, are
commonly the same,

And what has been produced, and the characteristics, which has been accomplished, are
absolutely similar to.

Sense perception and the efforts to transmit it to others, are also constructed perfectly
as the same,

Even though there is some kind of aim, but at the same time it is just something. which
can not be described with words.


8. Before the time hasn't been grasped in its true meaning yet,

Wandering in our daily life is never lonely at all yet.

All things and phenomena seem to be exist really,

Before we do not recognize the existence of time.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

[10] Examination of the Fusion of Fire and Combustion (16 verses)

MMK (10) Examination of the Fusion of Fire and Burning (16 verses)

1. When what is called burning is actually fire,

And what has become into one, is oneness of a person, who ignites, and an
effort to ignite itself.

What is different from burning is fire,

Just leaving from burning, something, which is moving on, is going.


2. The natural burning might be just understandable,

But what is separated from natural co, might be more reasonable.

Therefore it might be useless to begin burning newly again,

And in those situations, there might be just something, which does not have any
meaning.


3. In future, when we have left even having any kind of desire
,
It might be reasonable that there might be no light.

In that situations also again, losing the aim will begin,

And the native brightness will be occupied.


4. Then it might be just the state of being burnt,

And the situation of being burnt exists like that.

And when we think why fuel is always so much burned,

We can say only that the big volume of burning has appeared actually just at that time.


5. As a different problem, something, which cannot be accomplished, can be possible a job,
which can never be accomplished even in future.

Something, which can never be destroyed, might be also impossible to be
destroyed even in future.

Something, which can never become balanced or serene, will be impossible to become
balanced or serene even in future.

And a grammatical gender of each thing, which will maintain its gender, will also
never change its grammatical gender without fail in future.


6. As another example, in a case that fire has left from burning,

Burning has strongly hoped to meet with fire again,

And the female (burning) has arrived at the male (fire) perfectly,

And so in such a situation, the male (fire) is very familiar to the female (burning) at
that time.


7. In another case, fire has left burning absolutely,

And burning has begun to get everything as far as burning likes to get it.

In the case when fire and burning have been fused into one completely,

Aha! It might be possible that fire and burning have enter into the common state,
where it might be possible that both fire and burning do not notice with each other at
all.


8. Just at the time, when burning has been recognized as fire,

What has been accepted as fire must be just as burning.

Before the time, when fire or burning can manifest itself as fire or burning,
What is recognized as fire must be inevitably exists as burning.


9. When burning has been considered as fire,

Everything, which has been accomplished with fire, can be accepted that
the products have been accomplished by fire without fail.

But at the same time, even though there were actually existence of fire,

The usage of fire has been cut off and hasn’t been used actually, even though the
keeping fire were so clear.


10. What has been produced as it was expected, is existence,

And how is it possible that what is actually not accomplished, can be seen as if it were
accomplished?

And when what has been just expected, were realized,

What are the accomplished, and what is the expected?


11. What has been hoped, has been accomplished, is existence,

And how is it possible that something, which has been expected, actually realized?

In such a situation, what has been accomplished, is expected,

And then, even looking at around, does not belong to attachment.


12. To notice burning is not fire,

Or not to notice fire is not burning.

Being innocent to burning does not produce fire,

Or not to be ignorant of fire does not produce burning.


13. What is going on a different way, is different from fire,

And in burning, it is impossible for fire to be found.

There, inside burning, what has been maintained, can be explained,

Relying upon the method of “is going,” ”has gone“ and “will go.”


14. Burning is not fire itself again,

And fire even in another place, has never left from burning.

Fire has not separated from burning or from fire,

And miscellaneous kinds of burnings are never real because of them.


15. An idea that fire and burning are one, is a content of explanation,

And relying upon the oneness between mind and sense perception, the process is
Å@going on.

Å@Everything in the world has never surplus or scarcity,

And to increase more half is concentrated intentionally like a kind of clothes.


16. The spiritual existence and the material substances,

They are miscellaneous existences and at the same time existence of one by one.

However they do not indicate themselves as if they were something,

And so they have completely killed something, which has been much related with some
kind of study.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

[9] Examination of the Moment Just Before the Present (12 verses)

1. Function to see something, function to listen to something, and so forth,

Those miscellaneous sense perceptions just exist at the present moment.

And proceeding such a perception, it is said that something concrete exists really,

Just as some momentary accident, which appears only once.


2. Because there is nothing, which does not exist,

The perceptive function to see, and so forth, will be possible to exist even in future.

Therefore even the moment just before can exist,

And so the existence of the moment just before actually exists in the very stable
conditions.


3. Relying upon seeing, hearing, and so forth,

And furthermore relying upon knowledge, and so forth,

The moment just before, exists in the very harmonized situations,

And then with what kind of method, is it possible for Reality to be found actually?


4. In the case when there were no way to see, and so forth,

The situation here and now might continue to exist in the state of completely
harmonized situation.

And those kinds of stuation, might exist even in future.

And without such situations, the moment just before the present would never be
continuing even in future.


5. Relying upon some kind of method, something goes ahead.

And something might be driven by something perhaps.

In the case of there is nothing, where is it possible for something to exist somewhere?

How is it possible for anything to exist anywhere when there is no existent possibility?


6. Even though relying upon all kinds of sense perceptions, for example vision,

It is completely impossible for us to see anything before the time of present moment.

But because being driven by seeing and so forth,

Because of relying upon the time of different before, there is another time.


7. Relying upon all kinds of function to see, and so forth,

It is impossible for us to recognize the moment just before the present.

Leaving from one by one, how is it possible the moment just before the present to exist?

Relying upon only total oneness of all sense perceptions, the moment just before the
moment can be perceived.


8. A person, who looks at something, is real, and at the same time a person, who listen to,
was also real.

And then such situations become real relying upon information.

Leaving from the method of one by one, it is possible for the moment just before the
moment to exist,

But just at that time this Real World is never be harnessed at all.


9. Not a person, who look at things well, or not a person, who listen to sounds well,

And a person, who is not skillful to tell informations to others.

Therefore perhaps it might be related with listening to something, but at the same time it
is related with looking at, too.

And so because of both much volume and individual personality might exist.


10. Action to look at something, or action to listen to something, and so forth,

Announcing, and so forth, is just at the present moment,

And many kinds of pursuits are totally possible to exist just in front of us.

However, it is perfectly impossible for what has past to exist really at all.


11. Action to look at something, or action to listen to something, and so forth,

Announcing, and so forth, is just at the present moment,

And if such a kind of scenery hasn't been seen yet actually,

It is completely impossible for everyone to look at the excellent effect of Buddhist
monk training in their behavior at all.


12. And such a kind of scenery has existed before it has been influenced by
seeing, and so forth,

So the sceneries exist as the situations, which has been established by the
harmony with the time.

Even though it is impossible for us to know the distinction whether such situations
exist, or not,

The very vague scenery exists there, which might be perhaps a product by human
conjectures probably.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

[8] Examination of the Fusion between Action and Conduct](13 verses)

MMK (8) Examination of the Fusion between Action and Conduct (13 verse)

1. The Real Existence, Conduct, and Action,

The Real Existence does never produce this World.

To produce something, is never to produce something abstract at all.

Action does sacrifice itself sometimes for getting some abstract fame.


2. In the Real Existence, Practical Action does never really exist at all.

And Action itself might be different from a person, who actually does the Action
directly.

In the Real Existence, Practical Action does never really exist at all.

A person, who acts some thing to accomplish his aim, has possibility that he
sometimes does not have any special clear aim at all.


3. When something abstract is produced.

The something abstract, which are products, are Action and Practice.

Something unreasonable can exist as Action,

And a person, who acts, can also exist as someone unreasonable actually.


4. There is no special stimulus, and at the same time there is no recognition to be
successful, there might be no possibility to succeed,
And the factor of success can not be recognized at all.

Non existence of the Real Practice and non existence of a person, who practice it by
himself,

The factor of success can not be recognized at all.


5. The coexistence of the Universe and the non-Universe are never recognized,

And relating with their Real Practice and so forth, their real situations, and so forth,
are not so clear.

Even inside the Universe there is no fact of existence, and even in the outside of the
Universe there is no fact of existence at all.

Therefore what are called Results, and what has been born from Results, are not
recognized as real existences at all.



6. Not being grasped by result does not mean being in freedom.

And the situation called “as if it were living in the Paradise”, does not appear at all.

Morals are all belonged to what have been done actually,

And so all actions, which have been done as morals, are never attached by Praja-pati at
all.

7. Doing something is coexistence of the real and the unreal.

But something real and something unreal do not create anything concrete.

Because something real and something unreal are contrasting against with each other,

The Real and the Unreal do never be identified at any place at all.


8. Relying upon the Reality, the Unreality is never created ,

And relying upon the Unreality, the Reality is never produced.

Everything can be intended for a while,

Because even bad conducts at the place are also the same as concrete facts there.


9. It is not the unreal world, or it is not the real world.

It is just the world, which is fusion of the unreal world and the real
world.

Doing something is Action,

And before talking, we are also relying upon reasons.


10. The unreal world does never produce the Real World,

The Real World and the unreal world are also two.

Doing something is just Action,

And before talking, we are also relying upon reasons.


11. The Real World and the unreal world are working,

Reality and unreality both are never producing anything.

Action itself is also some kind of theory or dogma,

And before discussions, there is some kind of problem, which should be considered
theoretically.


12. The truth is just Doing, that is the Real Truth, which is the Action itself.

That is just the Real Truth and Doing something.

The Action does never pervade into the different area,

And it is looking for the methods to get the Highest Happiness actually.


13. Therefore giving up some kinds of sacrifices,

And leaving from giving up we get some parts jobs by ourselves,

Relying upon the assistances, or the alternates,

The left parts of existent works, might be solved as far as possible.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

[7] Examination of the External World (34 verses)

MMK (7) Examination of the External World (34 Verses)

1. When this world has appeared,

There might be the three kinds of manifestations, that is,
appearance, continuity, and disappearance.

In such situations this world is just appearance,

And how is it possible for this world to have any kind of
symbolic image?


2. The appearance, and so forth, that is the three, appearance, continuity, and
disappearance, are separated into pieces,

Are not so satisfactory even though relying upon many kinds of characteristics.

The total situations of the world might be belonging to the world,

And it might be only at one place, but why does it exist just at one moment?


3. Appearance, maintenance, and destruction,

And in another expression this world is just a kind of characteristics.

When an unstable world really exists as this world,

Then any world, which is different from this world, can never exist actually at all.


4. Appearance, appearance, and appearance,

The idea, which belongs to a fundamental appearance, may be individual and isolated.

Appearance produces appearance, and that is called appearance.

The fundamental might be born also in the similar case after.


5. Appearance, appearance, and appearance.

If those appearances belong to the fundamental,

How is it possible for the fundamental, which doesn't have any birth, to be born?

And so how is it possible for such a conversation to be born even in future?


6. Actually those are born relying upon fundamental,

And at that time the fundamental will be born.

But, however, the fundamental is not born relying upon the individual,

And so how is it possible for a concrete fact to be born actually?


7. Those things and phenomena are manifesting as they are,

And so what is hopeful is to manifest this here.

And they are just this one, which is manifested as miscellaneous things and phenomena,
totally

They haven’t been born, transcending verbal expressions, that is just this world.


8. What is called "light", is including both subjective idea and objective sense perception.

And so it manifests itself following the method of the subjective consideration and the
objective perception.

A fact that something manifests itself is the manifestation of both the subjective meaning
and the objective form,

And relying upon such a combination of the two factors, the combinations of the two
become possible.


9. In the existence of light, darkness does not exist really.

And so in such a situation, it must be necessary for light to exist there alone.

Why does it possible for light to make other things to be seen?

Because the brightness is able to destroy darkness actually.


10. With what kind of process does it be realized actually?

Relying upon brightness, Darkness might be destroyed.

Because it is not true that the darkness is always keeping to be produced,

Therefore it must be true that the brightness might be able to arrive at every moment.


11. The facts, which are not realized, have come from brightness,

At that time, the destroyer is also darkness again.

And so the object, which is always destroyed, is just darkness itself.

Therefore darkness will be always the cause of going down.


12. Brightness is oneness between something subjective and something objective. ,

Therefore it might be some kind of manifestation at the time.

Darkness is also oneness between something subjective and something objective.

Therefore darkness also covers the facts, which are not clear.


13. What has never been produced, but what has appeared, is this World,

Therefore how is it possible for any subjective personality to be born?

And so appearance might be born as birth,

Therefore how is it possible for birth to be born again actually?

14. This world is not the world, which has been produced, or the world,
which hasn’t be accomplished yet.

How is it possible for the world not to be the world, which hasn’t been born at all?

Even though a concrete thing, which has been born, without having any name yet,

They can be called with the name of “is going”, ”have gone”, or “not have gone.”


15. A fact that something is going on,

Suggests that anything hasn't been accomplished yet.

In that situation what has been going on?

Then it might be a very clear enjoyment of productivity.


16. Miscellaneous things and phenomena can exist as they are,

And those things and phenomena manifest the serene situations as they are.

Therefore what they are manifesting themselves really,

Are the balanced and serene situations as they are just in front of us.


17. When even a little bit of thing hasn’t been seen,

What is called “existence” might be recognized as if it were actually exist.

It might be possible for something to appear from something concrete,

But it might be perfectly impossible for "existence" really to exist at all.


18. To be continuing appearance is appearance,

And so we can say that this world is always being produced incessantly.

To expect such a world is appearance,

And so how is it possible for us to expect the appearance once more?


19. If a little different appearance might be the fact,

Then the appearance might be a little unstable.

In such a situation, nothing has become appeared, is the appearance,

And in that case everything has become accomplished in such situations.


20. Relying upon what really exist, accidence can be recognized,

And what do not exist really, can never be regulated by the real existence at all.

No existence and not to exist are the same meaning,

And before the time, what has been manifested itself, has been shown in front of us
already.


21. In the regulated situations what has been realized has been manifested already,

It does never manifest the appearance of itself in the area of existence at all.

And which is never regulated by any kind of regulation at all.

Therefore actually Existence itself does never manifest itself at all actually.


22. What should not stop, has stopped, is called "existence,"

And the “existence,” which has been stopped, does never stop once more.

The states, which are stopping, do never stop,

And where is it possible for what hasn’t been born to stop actually?


23. Standing still is belonging to the state of self-regulation,

And the self-regulation does not manifest itself in a simple condition of existence.

Such a kind of standing still is beyond the self-regulation totally,

The Real Existence does never manifest itself at all.


24. Aging and death are following the rule of the Universe,

And they are belonging to the whole existence at every moment.

How is it possible for everything to stop at all?

Those existences do not have any aging, or any death.

25. Standing still relying upon other things, is also a kind of standing still, and the state is
confirmed much more stable.

However even though relying upon such a method, the situation is never to be bound
so much.

Belonging to the work is just working for the work itself,

And it is not relying upon myself, or it is not relying upon others.


26. What is not restricted would not be restricted,

And what hasn’t been restricted wouldn’t be restricted.

In such situations even the states, which have been restricted yet,

How is it possible for what hasn't been born, to be restricted actually.


27. As long as we are standing still, we can belong to the state of existence.

The attitude of self-regulation does not appear without efforts to do.

Even just not to stand still, belongs to existence,

And the self-regulation manifests itself.


28. Relying upon such a real situation, the balanced situations have become balanced,
Because the real situations themselves are never be regulated by themselves.,

Utilizing a differently balanced situations, are just the true situations,

And it is never the different one, which is really self-regulated.


29. Just at that time, everything is all things and phenomena in the whole Universe,

And what has appeared already, does never appear again,

Just at that moment everything is just all things and phenomena in the Universe,

And the self-regulation can never be seen from outside at all.


30. From what really exist, an adequate volume belong to existence,

What is adequately self-regulated, does not manifest itself at all.

The fact that something is just only one, does not suggests its existence,

And if it is true, the non-existence of number can never be found at all.


31. Even the non-existence of Reality, has begun to be existent,

Even the denial of existent everything can be possible,

The highest one can never be included into the second-class levels at all.

The perfect destruction can be recognized in such a situation.


32. Without the self-mind, the self-regulation does never exist,

And the self-regulation is never also the same as the objective mind.

What kind of appearance does belong to the appearance?

The appearance is never the subjective mind, or the objective mind.


33. Appearance, continuity, and distraction,

This world does never exist as some thing unfinished.

In this world there is anything unfinished actually,

How is it possible for unfinished world will be finished in future?


34. For example the Supernatural Power, for example a dream,

A fantastic city in the sky, called Gandharva, for example.

Similarly in the case of appearance, similarly in the case of stable situations,

And similarly a very big distraction has been spoken as a rumor.

[6] Examination of the Fusion between Exitement and the Exited (10 verses)

MMK (6) Examination of Fusion between Excitement and the Excited

1. Before leaving from Excitement,

The excited have been clearly included in the excitement,

Something concrete clearly exists as the excitement,

And in the excited the excitement might exist in front of us.


2. Because it is perfectly impossible for excitement to exists in the excited again,

How is it possible for everyone to know where the excitement can exist actually?

However, it is not clear whether excitement exists in the excitement itself, or in the
excited,

And so the real facts in front of us are going on naturally and smoothly.


3. Something, which is very enduring, will appear again,

And that does never explain the fusion between the excited and the excitement at all.

Because what is hopeful is the co-existence of the excitement and the excited,

The reason why the excitement and the excited might not be recognized with each other,
comes from the facts that the excitement and the exited are independent mutually.


4. All things and phenomena are not only one,

Therefore they have to exist at one place together.

Because they are being there separately, therefore they can exist there just now,

Where is it possible for them to live in future for ever?


5. Even at one time if the enduring existence can exist,

Then even the enduring world does not need any kind of enduring.

But the enduring existence exists in the separated situations,

The enduring world does not need even any endurance at all.


6. When enduring existence has been separated,

Then what are the two independent between the excitement and the excided?

Accomplished articles are existences, which are separated from each other one by one.

Enduring existences are things that and this, which are independent and concrete.


7. Things, which have been accomplished, are usually, each of them is independent and
separate.

Then in that case the excitement and the excited might belong to the oneness between
the excitement and the excited.

How is it possible for enduring existence to become the aim?

But now you are very diligent to become successful for you to rely upon Reality.


8. Things, which are separated one by one, are not called what has been accomplished.

Therefore, enduring existences are expected so strongly by you.

Enduring existence might be becoming successful in the aim,

And so you are expecting eagerly to become enduring one by one.


9. Being one by one is never be successful,

And so enduring existence does never mean accomplishment.

Being the better one might be the existence between the two,

Therefore actually you are so anxious to endure existence.


10. In this method, relying upon the excited, or being included by the excitement,

The real accomplishment is sometimes following situations, and sometimes it is
not following to the situations.

What is similar to the Excitement , seems to be the whole Universal Situations,

And so the accomplishment of the Universe is not so following to us sometimes, and
not so unsiutable for us sometimes.

Friday, August 21, 2009

[5] Examination of Physical Substance (8 verse)

MMK (5) Examination of Physical Substances (8 verses)

1. The space hasn’t been recognized at first.

And before that time, the space has been seen as it was looked at.

Therefore without knowing the characteristics, the common scenery might have been passing.

Before that time the characteristics of the space might not be seen before its original condition.


2. When there is no phenomenon at all,

A concept of existence can be recognized a little.

When there is nothing in phenomenon, and when there is nothing in existence,

Just to go ahead is the aim of going, and where the aim itself is?


3. Not in the place, where there is no good indication, or belonging to a good
selection,

A behavior only to go ahead without good selection, does not belong to a real omen
itself.

Even in the case of good selection, or bad selection,

It is not completely different from a selection, which you are selecting now.

4. When some characteristics haven't appeared yet,

Then the characteristics have never been recognized.

When the image of characteristic is not yet recognized,

The characteristic itself never exists in this world at all.


5. Therefore it is impossible for us to recognize a characteristic itself,

And it is impossible for us even to know whether any kind of characteristic really
has been given, or not.

About the characteristic itself, it is not clear whether it has any kind of characteristic,
or not,

And it is completely impossible for the characteristic to be known whether it is
really existing, or not.


6. In the situation that it is not clear whether something exists really, or not,

How is it possible for us to decide that it does not exist decisively?

Discussion between existence and non-existence might be opposite to the Universal
Rule.

What is the meaning that existence and non-existence are a kind of favor?


7. Therefore it is not existence, or not non-existence.

It is not a mark, or never characteristics.

Being in the air, or similar to being in the air.

The miscellaneous matters are 5, and they are having nothing beyond, or after.


8. Reality, or those things and phenomena, are just possible to be seen by ourselves.

And people, who do not affirm the real existence of this world, might have a little
unclever mind in their thoughts.

All things, which exist, can never be seen without fail.

But what can be seen are becoming quiet, and including everything.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

[4] Evamination of Aggregates (9 verse)

MMK (4) Examination of Aggregates

1. When all things and phenomena, or material substances, are separated and at random,

Even the form of things and phenomena are not perceived actually.

And even though relying upon all things and phenomena, there is no separation and
freedom.

The oneness of all things and phenomena, or material substances, can be seen as they
are.


2. When all things and phenomena, or material substance, are separated and at random,

Relying upon all things and phenomena, and attached to all things and phenomena,

What is not reasonable, does never exist as aim,

But at the same time something unreasonable might exists somewhere.


3. Relying upon all things and phenomena, it is situations of freedom now,

And then it might be oneness between all things and phenomena, or material existence.

What is in an impossible situation to do, might be what can not be done actually,

And both what can not be done actually, or what might be only material, do not actually
exist.

4. Because of being in all things and phenomena, they belong just to all things and
phenomena.

Material existence does not manifest itself.

Even when all things and phenomena do not exist in all things and phenomena,

Material existence does not manifest itself.


5. The facts that what does not have any cause produces any kinds of things and
phenomena again,

Do never, never, manifest themselves at all.

Therefore all things and phenomena have been produced a little bit already,

And so there is no possibility to be replaced with another contents, or to be desired
to be replaced with others.


6. It is not imitation of material stuff,

But it is just the work, which has been actually created.

It is not purely material substance itself,

But it is just the work, which has been actually created.


7. Mental function to get something is always mutual understandings.

It is always an effort to include everything into one perfectly.
Therefore the all kinds of researches are just belonging to miscellaneous existences,

And just relying upon all things and phenomena, everything is going on ahead.


8. Everything, which is scattered separately at random, is prone to be avoided,

And the creations of the balanced and quiet states, might be talked.

Everything is belonging to the real world, which is not avoided from everything,

And everything is born relying upon the regulated conditions.


9. With miscellaneous explanations in detail, many kinds of defaults have been indicated
and explained,

And the creations of the balanced state in the autonomic nervous system, might
be talked.

Everything, which belongs to reality, does not have any default to be criticized,

Therefore everything has been born similarly being in well-regulated situations actually.

Monday, August 17, 2009

[3] Examination of Eyes and other Sense organs.

MMK (3) Examination of the Eyes and Other Sense Organs

1. Function to see, function to hear, function to smell,

Function to taste, function to touch, and function of central sense perception.

Those six kinds of sense functions are very familiar to us,

And what has been seen, and so forth, are the objects of sense functions.


2. The function of our own mind is also the object to be seen,

Because even the subject to see and the object to be seen are both actually the objects to
be seen.

What can not be seen has been our own mind,

Why such a concrete thing has become to be seen so distant?


3. What we have got relying upon our own enormous efforts,

Are different from a simple fire, which we have got easily,

What has been seen is perfectly opposite to what has been spoken.

What have been spoken are usually very abstract like "Is Going," "Have gone," or
"Haven't gone yet."


4. The situations, which are different from what we are just looking at something, can never
exist actually.

In such a situation, the ability to look at things and phenomena, can never exist at all.

The function to see, has ability to look at like this,

Therefore how is it possible for the facts here can be attached actually?


5. The ability to look at others, can never be seen by others,

And at the same time the ability, which does not have any ability to look at anything
others at all, has no ability to look at too.

The explanations in detail can be done by a person, who looks at everything carefully,

And a person, who can look at everything well, is truly a person, who can be actually
well in approaching the object.


6. A person, who looks at everything well, is not always a person, who does not criticize
anything others at all.

It is sometimes true that an attitude to despise others’ products severely, suggests also
some kinds of sincere attitude to the products.

What has been seen, is just what we have seen actually, and furthermore,

If there were no person, who esteems the product, where can those products actually
exist.


7. Leaving from the wrong idea that What has been seen, and What we have seen, do not
exist really,

The Four, that is, consideration, perception, action at the present
moment, and Reality itself, are this World.

If we insist that it is perfectly impossible for perception, consideration, Action at the
present moment, and Reality, not to exist,

What kind of Real Existence can really exist even in future at all?


8. The explanations of function to hear, function to smell,

Function to taste, function to touch, and function of the central sense perception,

Can be explained relying upon the function to see as a matrix,

Therefore it is possible for us to utilize it for to hear and what is heard, and other kinds
of sense functions too.

Friday, August 14, 2009

[2] Examination of 'Gone' and 'Not Gone' (25 Verse)

[2] Examination of 'Gone' and 'Not Gone' (25 Verses)

1. As a memory of action in the past 'Gone' is absolutely different from a real act to go at the present moment,

Similarly a supposition of action in future 'Not Gone' is also absolutely different from a real act to go at the present moment.

And leaving from a memory in the past 'Gone' and leaving from an
image in future 'Not Gone',

Even a present recognition of 'Is Going' is also absolutely different
from a real Act dimensionally, which is actually going on just at the
present moment.


2. A motion of hands and feet at some place is just going forward at the place,

And in such a situation, the real facts of going on are there in the motion of going on.

Motions of hands and feet are sometimes not to go, and sometimes
not to come.

Going just at the place is also belongs to going on.


3. The Action to go belongs to the state of going,

Therefore how is it necessary for us to utilize the name of going?

The states of going on have to be included into the two kinds, that
is, going as concept, and the other is as a physical motion of going,

And then it is not necessary for both the two images of the
going itself and the physical motion of going, to manifest
themselves at all.


4. A real act to go actually, is included into the state of going on,

And a state of going on and a Real Act to go have adhered with each
other tightly together.

A state to be going on, moves following a motion of going on.

Because the state of going on actually goes forward by itself
exactly.


5. Being included by the Real Act to go, and being in the Real Act to go,

The two factors of the Real Act to go, that is, a state of going on and
the Real Act to go itself,

With what kind of method have they been combined into one
confirmed situation?.

Because in that case relying upon such a method, the Real Act to go
has been realized again.

6. The two factors of a person to go and an Action to go itself, are so combined confirmedly,

And so the two parts of the confirmedly combined into one have
been produced so hard.

Therefore, what might be produced, may become the object of so
hard criticism,

And so there may be no sufficient possibility for such a production
shall be realized actually.


7. When someone has been criticized because of having made mistakes,

The action, which has been done, usually would not become clear.

Furthermore, usually the person, who has committed it, is not clear,

In such situations where does the criminal exist even in future?


8. An Action to go does never go ahead,

And similarly an Action not to go does never go ahead at all.

A different person other than who goes, does never go,

And then what kind of the third person, actually goes?


9. A fact that a motion to go moves even a bit,

Can never occur even in future at all.

If we are relying upon only our Action to do without any
personal decision to work,

Then any kinds of phenomena do not manifest themselves at all for
ever.


10. The opinion that one of the two between the person to go and the
Action to go, goes,

Has too much one-sided attitude in decision of selecting that or
this.

In the action to go, there is no person, who acts.

Therefore it might be hopeful that the person, who acts, likes the
action to do so much.


11. In the real act to go, the two factors of a real act to go and a
physical motion to go are enormously combined with each other.

And in that case a person, who goes, is also emphasized actually.

In such a situation a person, who likes to get the position of the job
enormously,

Will get the job relying upon the adequate method to go on.
12. It is impossible that a real act to go might be born in a memory of
having gone at all,

And it is also impossible that a real act to go might be born in a
supposition in future.

And it is also impossible that a real act to go might actually realize
itself in recognition of going on,

Therefore in any case it is perfectly impossible for us to fix the time
of starting a Real Act to go actually.


13. If the start of real act to go hasn't become going on,

It is impossible for the state of going to appear at all, and it is also
impossible for the act of having gone to stop.

In such a situation it is necessary for the Real Act to go should be
done actually,

And it is completely impossible for the real act not to be done at
all.


14. How is it possible for having gone to be the same as going on
actually?

How is it possible for having gone to be the same as not having
gone, or how is it for having gone to be replaced with others?

The idea that there might be something, which can not be seen,
may exists as the first step,

But the all cases actually belong to the Real Action to go totally.


15. The motion to go is not stagnant,

And in the same situations the motion not to go, is not stagnant.

And all kinds of other Action, which do not belong to either to
go, or not to go, do not belong to Action to go,

Then what kind of third one is stagnant in that case?


16. A fact that a motion to go has tendency to be stagnant even a little,

Does never manifest itself even in future at all.

Without a motion to go, relying upon only the Real Action to go,

The Real Action can never occur at all even at any time.


17. Leaving a state of going on, the stagnation does never exist,

And leaving from having gone, or leaving from not having gone,
the stagnation does never exist also.

When a Real Action to go has manifested itself,

Then in the case of stopping Action, or in the case of going to act,
situations are perfectly balanced.


18. When the Real Act to go motion to go balanced,

The real situation is just the balanced state, but such a kind of
balanced state, is never attached.

In another words the balanced state is just also the motion to go.

And the expression, メrelying upon the motion to goモ, is not so
reliable expression.


19. When a Real Action to go is just the same as a motion to go,

The Real Fact exists really just as the same as the example, which
really exists, then,

The Real Thing, which is going to become into one,

And so the efforts to produce something, and the real Act to
produce something, might be the same actually.


20. In another method it is just coming back to a motion to go.

And in that case consideration might be changed from Action
itself.

In that case the Real Action to go might move to motion to
go,
And the motion to go might move leaving from the Real Action to
go.


21. Relying upon becoming into one totally, or accomplishing the
aim,

Or relying upon miscellaneous methods, or relying upon including
the method above too,

But it is impossible for us to recognize the two targets together at
once,

And so, how is it possible for us to hit the two targets together at
once.


22. Relying upon a concrete motion to go, it is possible for us to
set away the Real Action to go,

The subject of going and the object of going do not go ahead
actually.

Therefore before the motion to go doesn't exist really,

Some kind of receptacle with subjective layers and objective
layers, goes on ahead.


23. Relying upon a concrete motion to go, some expansion actually
goes, is development.

And actually speaking, anything other than that does not go
really.

A concrete going does never appear being divided into two.

Therefore relying upon such a situation, it is possible for us to
keep authority relying upon only going on.


24. The Real Existence, the Real Action to go, and the Real
Motion to go,

Those three kinds of Real Existences are Real, but those each three
does never go on separately.

The not-real existences can never be the Real Act to go,

And the three kinds of Real Existence go on as the Reality.


25. A Real Action to go, the Real World itself, and the Unreal World,

Those three kinds of layers do never go ahead at all.

Therefore the going to go, the persons to have worked,

And the processes, which have been realized, are completely
impossible for everyone to see at all.

Friday, August 7, 2009

An interpretative translation of MMK.

Recently I have begun to write "An interpretative translation of MMK" in my document in Word, and so I would like to show the same document in my Dogen Sangha Blog too.



A Song of The Fundamental Truth on The Middle Way


[1] Examination of The Real Truth (14 Verse)

1. The Real Truth is different from subjective ideas, which have been produced in human brain, or the Real Truth is never sense stimuli, which have been received from the external world.

The Real Truth is not the mixture of the subjective ideas or the
objective sense stimuli, but The Real Truth is never anything
illogical.

Miscellaneous things and phenomena are always manifesting
themselves as they are.

And what is called existence does never exist really anywhere, or
does not exist in anything.


2. The Real Truth as four are Reason, which is pervading through the
Universe,

The external world, which is hanging in front of us, and the present
moment, at which our action is always done,

And the Reality, which seems to be the Ruler of all things and
phenomena.

But the Real Truth, which is No. 5, does never exist anywhere at
all.


3. A Real Act to go belong to the motion of going,

And so how is it necessary for a Real Action to have any kind of
different name at all.

The states of going on have always have the two kinds of going, that
is, the motion of going, and the other is the progress of going. ,

Therefore in that case there is no new appearance at all.


4. The Real Act to go always belongs to the motion of going,

And something related with going on, and something related with the Real Action, have combined into one.

The True Reality can never be an imitation of Real Action,

Because it is clear that something, which might be the same as a
continuous Action, really exists in front of us.


5. In the continuity of going on, and in the Real Action of going on,

What is called the attached situations may be the two kinds of
separated parts,

The one is just the concrete facts of continuous going on,

And the other is just the Real Act here, which is the Real Action to
go here again.


6. The two factors, the one is a person to go and the other is an Action to be done, are combined into one,

The two factors of the Real Action to go, that is, a person to go, and
an Action to be done, are combined into one confirmedly.

Generally speaking, a person, who is criticized by others, is prone
to be the objects of othersユ censure.

Therefore the problem of Action to go itself is prone to disappear
naturally.


7. When a person, who acts, is criticized,

A problem of the Real Action to do, does not appear actually to be
the special object discussed at all.

If there were no chance for everyone to do anything at all,
it might be very happy,

But where is it possible for anyone to have such a happy condition,
even anywhere at all?


8. Just the hanging world is this world,

Therefore the Real Universe has been shown already.

Just in the hanging world, or in the Universe,

Where is it necessary for us to find the hanging world again?


9. In the Universe, which hasnユt been accomplished yet,

The self-regulation does never appear actually at all.

The ceaseless considerations can never be any kind of fetters for
us at all.

The Real Truth in our self-regulation might be just something
ineffable.


10. All existences themselves originally do not have any characteristics,

The facts of existences are never recognized as something
ordered.

And even though there is an idea that this world is existing relying
upon the world itself,

Such situations of the real world can never be seen like that at
all.


11. Never being scattered from each other, or accumulated together,

Because of the Real Truth, a concrete result does exist really.

But how is it possible for the result to be, relying upon the True
Reality.

However in that case the result is never expected because of relying
upon such miscellaneous Real Truths.


12. Actually there, something real, and even something concrete,

Are going on following miscellaneous Real Truth itself.

In the case relying upon the wrong Real Truth, all things and
phenomenon will vanish,

But it is perfectly impossible for result itself to go ahead at all.


13. Actually speaking, results are just enemies against the Real Truth,

And the Real Truths just hurts poor people.

Even though result has tendency to bring up poverty,

How is it possible for result to have the power to destroy the
Real Truth absolutely?


14. Therefore result can never have any power to destroy the Real
Truth at all.

And at the same time result does never have any power to destroy
wrong Real Truth at all.

When we have got from the synthetic point of view that result
does never actually exist at all,

Where can we find the Real World, which is constructed from the
combination of Real Truth and wrong Real Truth together totally?

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

3. The Schientific Research.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

[2] (25) The Real Situations and Recognition.

Real Action to go, the Real World, and the unreal World,

Those Three Kinds of processes do never go ahead,

Therefore following such situations, an action to go, and a person to go, and an accomplished facts,

Can never be recognized at all.

[2] (23) Fusion between a fact to go and a person to go.

Motion to go and a person to go, both go together is going.

Therefore any another expansion does not go further actually,

And then both motion to go, and a person to go, do never appear,

But relying upon only one fact everything totally goes on.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

[2] (21) Real situations of inclusive and individual Things and Phenomena.

Becoming only into One, or Arriving at the only One Aim,

Might be miscellaneous kinds of things, or the both two kinds of things together.

The things, which has been separated into the two parts,

Can never be recognized at all.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

[2] (18) The Action is just the Real Action itself.

What is just the Real Action is the action to go,

And such a kind of Action is just an Action itself, and so it does never attach to anything other than itself.

With another expression again, the Action to go is just belong to Action itself,

And what is called Action can never be attached by anything other than itself at all.

[2] (12) The Real Action is just at the present moment.

Real Action to go does never appear in the memory of "having gone."

Real Action to go does never appear in the supposition of "not having gone yet."

Real Action to go does never appear in the consciousness of "going on,"

In such a situation Result does never go ahead at all.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

[1] (11) Denial of Real Existence in the case of Result.

What are perfectly separated, are never be organized into One System.

Among miscellaneous Real Truths, a concrete Result exists lonely.

How is it possible for such a concrete Result to exist in Real Truth?

Then the Result can never exist as it is in the Real Truth at all.

[1] (10) The Real Substance of the Real Universe.

Belonging to the Concepts of the Existence, might be the losing Characteristics.

In that case the Real Existence might be difficult to be recognized.

Therefore even though the Real World is described as if it were really existing,

It seems to be very difficult to recognize as if it were really existing.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

[1] (8) The External World and the System of the Real Universe.

What does never rely upon anything might be this World.

And the Real Universe might be manifested.

Not being supported by anything at all, might be the situations of the Universe,

And so how is it necessary for us to rely upon anything further at all?

[1] (7) The System of the Universe and the Reason.

What is not stable and what is not unstable, are different from what is Real or what is not Real.

And in such a real situation the System of the Universe will be accomplished.

How is it possible for the Accomplishment of the Universe is reasonable?

Because even being Real might be fixed exactly.

[1] (6) The Independency of the Reliable Facts.

It is never what is not exists, but it is never what exists.

The Real Truth is always regulated by its Aim.

How is it possible for the Real Truth does not exist?

But how is it possible for what really exists will serve for another purpose?

[1] (5) The Identity between Things and Phenomena, and the Real Fact.

The clearly manifested those things and phenomena,

Are clearly manifesting themselves as those things and phenomena just in front of us.

And those things and phenomena do not manifest themselves similarly,

How is it possible for anything, which does not really exists, to manifest itself actually.

Monday, July 6, 2009

[1] (4) Identity between Real Action and Real Fact.

The Real Action is just the Real Truth itself.

The Real Action itself is just the Action.

The Real Truth can never be different from the Action itself.

Exactly speaking a Conspicuous Desire to Act exists actually.