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The relying upon the Balance of the Autonomic Nervous System

We, Huma Beings, have the two kinds of Nervous System. The one is the Brain-Spinal Nervous System, and the other is the Autonomic Nervous System.
The Brain-Spinal Nervous System can be recognized by Human Brain, but in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System can never be recognized by the Human Brain.
However the function of the Human Autonomic Nervous System is even though it is impossble for Human Beings to recognize its existence, the function of the Human Autonomic Nervous System is much more powerful in its function comparing with the Brain-Spinal Nervous System. Therefore in the case of the Human Autonomic Nervous System might be almost impossible for Human Beings to recognize its real function exactly, and so it is almost impossible for Human Beings to recognize the real function of the Autonomic Nervous System really.

The Truth and the Buddhism

When Buddhism is the Truth, there is no problem, but if Buddhism were not the Truth, there might be a problem. Therefore I think whether Buddism might be the Truth, or not, is very important problem.
And when we think whether Buddhism is the Truth, or not, what Gautama Buddha taught us is the Truth, or not, is the very important problem. And thinking what Gautama Buddha has been insisting, I think that He, Gautama Buddha, has found that this world is existing as this world really. Because when he has arrived at the Truth, it is said that "He, Gautama Buddha, himself says that "Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees have become perfectly Buddhas." And the facts suggest that at that time Gautama Buddha recognizes that the Whole World are just the Truth.
Therefore we can think that at that time Gautama Buddha recognized clearly that this World is just "the Real World, which are Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees, themselves."
In other words, "this World is just Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees, and so forth, and those are just things and phenomena."
In the other words there is possibility that this world is just what we are looking at them as they are, might be Reality itself. In other words we have some kind of possibility, that we, Human Beings, have possibility that we are just living in Reality itself actually.

The Autonomic Nervous System

The Autonomic Nervous System has been found for example by Sigmund Freud in the middle of the 19th Century, and then we, Human Beings, have become familiar to it.
But at the same tme the idea of the Autonomic Nervous System is also rather very difficult to understand, and so it is very important for us to understand the theory of the Autonomic Nervous System exactly.
The Autonomic Nervous System is just the real situations of the Autonomic Nervous System, but at the same time the Autonomic Nervous System is not the object of our sense perception, and so it is very difficult for us to knowtice the real situation of the Autonomic Nervous System, but it is necessary for us to grasp the real situations of it inevitably.
The Autonomic Nervous System is absolutely different from the Brain-Spinal Nervous System. In the case of the Brain-Spinal Nervous System, all kind of the Brain-Spinal Nervous System are recognizable, but in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System, they are not recognizable. Is it necessary for us to have a kind of nervous system, which is not recognizable? Usually we feel that it might be absolutely useless for us to have a kind of the Nervous System, which is absolutely unrecognizable at all. But in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System it is perfectly unrecognizable. Why is it useful for the Autonomic Nervous System only can be useful, even though it is usually unrecognizable? I think that in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System the miscellaneous things and phenomena can be known relying upon the function of the Autonomic Nervous System itseif. Even the function of the Autonomic Nervous System is not so clear, relying upon the function of the Autonomic Nervous System, fortunately we can find so many valuable functions of the Autonomic Nervous System actually, and so we can expect that we, Human Being, will be able to find so miscellaneous and so gaugeous facts in the Universe in future relying upon the Autonomic Nervous System.

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Dear Mr. James Cohen,

You do not belong Dogen Sangha at all. Therefore you should not say anything about Dogen Sangha completely.

Gudo Wafu Nishijima

Comments

Dear Ven. Harry San,

I think that only Buddhist monks, whom can be venerated, must be revered.


Dear Ven. David Fernandez San,

Thank you very much for your kind Greetings!

Ven. silentbell San's question 10/05/05

Even though I have received a following questions from Ven. silentbell San, but I have failed to answer to him, and so I would like to send my answer by this comments.

His questions

During zazen what is it exactly that I am supposed to be concentrating on? Do I try to "feel" my body sitting straight, and bring my awareness back to my posture again and again? Or do I focus on any stillness that might appear between my thoughts? Or do I just sit not focusing on any thing, just letting everything come and go? Thank you again so very much for the teaching you offer.


Gudo's Answer : First of all we should make our efforts to keep the lower spine straight vertically, and then we should keep the backbone straight upwards as far as possible. Pull the chin downward and backward to make the back of neck as far as possibly straight. Master Kodo Sawaki taught us that we should stretch our spine as if it were possible for our spine to pierce the ceiling actually. By stretching the back of neck our sight might be directed about 45 degrees downward.

During Zazen it is the most important matter to keep the posture straight vertically. It is never only feeling, but it is just the real Action. It is never the feelng, but Action itself. Therefore it is not awearness, but Action itself.

Therefore it is the most important matter for us actually to sit in the Actual Posture, not the mental consciousness or sense perception. Zazen is just Action, and so it is just the traditional posture.

The two commens by Ven. silentbell San

I have received two comments from Ven. silentbell San on my Dogen Sangha Blog of 10/04/28 and 10/04/29, but I have lost a chance to express my answer to those questions on my Blog.

Therefore if it were permissible for me to express my opinion, it might be as follows.

Ven. silentbell San's comments

Dear Roshi, (silentbell) 10/04/30

What if a person practices shikantaza, and practices shikantaza, and then keeps practicing shikantaza, and NEVER arrives at a balanced states? Is this possible? Do we judge the balanced state by the stillness of our minds during zazen?
Thank you very much.


Gudo's Answer : When we practice Zazen everyday, it is perfectly impossible for us not to enter into the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system. The state in Zazen, can never be consideration or perception, but it is just Action. This interpretation can never be found in the Euro-American Civilizations, but in Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Action has completely independent entity from consideration or perception. This fundamental characteristic of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is enormously clear, and so we can insist that the fundamental philosophical system of Indian Buddhism does not have any separation between body and mind.


Ven. silentbell San's comment 10/04/29

What if a person practices shkantaza, and keeps practicing shikantazo still, and never reaches a balanced state? Does the balanced state depend upon the stillness of our minds?


Gudo's Answer : When we practice Zazen everyday, we can enter into the state of the balanced autonomic nervous system, and it is impossible for us to leave our balanced autonomic nervous system at all. Of course, if we contine our consideration or perception even in Zazen, it is impossible for us to leave from the consideration or perception, and so if we want to leave from consideration or perception in Zazen, it is necessary for us to stop consideration or perception actually, and if we want to stop consideration or perception in Zazn, we should do it exactly. Of course it is very common for us to consider or perceive even in Zazen, but such kinds of consideration or perception, can never be Zazen. Therefore if we want to practice the True Zazen exactly, we should do it directly. Zazen can never be consideration or perception, but Zazen is just Action itself. Therefore when we want to practice Zazen, it is necessary for us to practice Zazen itself. In other words, when we are practicing Zazen, we should stop consideration and perception, and we should be so careful for us to be exact in following the authentic posture following 'Fukan-Zazen-Gi' by Master Dogen.

Dear Ven. Harry San and Dear Ven. Wooci San.

Dear Ven. Harry San and Dear Ven. Woochi San,

Because of my poor ability for computer, I have lost your each comment from my computer, but fortunately I have left the copies of your comments, and so I would like to send my each answer to you again.

Ven. Harry San's question,

"Dear Sensei,

Thank-you for the message about zazen.

At the zazen group I attend, someone asked the question 'Why do you zazen?'

The most honest answer to this question I could think of is simply because I have trained myself to do zazen like a habit. I had no other more impressive or complicated aswer to the question. I find this answer a bit strange, and I think other people do also, but I can't really think of a more direct and true answer at the moment.

How would you answer the questin 'Why do you do zazen?

Thanks and Regards,

Harry."


Gudo's answer : When I was asked from someone 'Why do you do zazen?", I usually answer that I always practice Zazen everyday, because of keeping my autonomic nervous system should be balanced everyday.


Ven. Woochi San's question,

" Master Nishijima,

I was very moved about how you said, "It is not to necessary for us to get the so-called enlightenment. Because the so-called enlightenment is just a Romantic story, which many children love."

The goal of the practice of zazen and Buddhism to just simply be, right?

Also, it troubles me that there are sects of Buddhism that believe in a 'god', that they will become god once enlightened, and other mystical beliefs. What attitude should I take towards this?


Guudo's Answer : The true enlightenment can never be any kind of sudden change, which many ignorant people might admire, but it is very quiet and balanced situations of the autonomic nervous system.

When we continue our practice of Zazen everyday, we can naturally enter into the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system, and if we continue our daily practice of Zazen everyday, it is impossible for us to leave from the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system at all.

In other words, if we can keep our autonomic nervous system balanced everyday, it is impossible for us to lose the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system at all.

Therefore if we practice Zazen everday, it might be impossible for everyone to leave the state of enlghtenment at all.

Dear Ven. Al San,

Thank you very much for your kind encouragement.

Gudo Wafu Nishijima

How to practice Zazen.

First of all, it is necessary for you to meet a person, who knows the method of how to practice Zazen, first.

If it is difficalt for you to meet such a person, please read my book " Wow to practice Zazen" through Amazon. Of course, in my Dogen Samgha Blog there are also so many precise teachings
having written already, and so you can read them totally free.

Therefore it is possible for you to read my "Dogen Samgha Blog," freely, you can get so many knowledge about Buddhism and Zazen .

When we practice Zazen, it is necessary for us to practice Zazen everyday without fail. If we practice Zazen, not everyday, but only several times as we like, such kind of flimsy practice might be useless almost at all. In other words it is perfectly important for us to practice Zazen everyday as if we have to eat meals everyday.

Zazen is a kind of habit, and it is necessary for us to establish the daily habit without fail. It is not necessary for us to get the so-called enlightenment. Because the so-called enlightenment is just a Romantic story, which many children love. But Buddhism is never a Romantic story, but it is just Action. It is just sitting. It is just Practice. It is just Reality.

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My computer has been repaired by Prof. Shin Kirik's efforts since a few days ago.

Announcement: Nishijima Sensei's Computer is Broken

Nishijima Sensei asked me to let people know that his computer is broken and he's unable to respond to emails at the moment. He's going to get a new computer, but it may take him a while to set it up for email and his blog.

He'll post a note here when his new computer is up and running.

Regards,

Peter

[27] Examination of Doctorines (30 verses)

MMK (27) Examination of Doctrines (30 verses)

1. Sect Future, Sect Past, Sect Secular,

And Sect Reality, are the doctrines.

They are Belief in Eternity, Belief in the Creator,

Belief in Prophets, and Believers in some kinds of doctrines.


2. I think that miscellaneous kinds of Doctrines will not be maintained.

How is it impossible for another Doctrine will not come as the decisive criteria at all?

The reason, why I say so, comes from the fact that the age of disappearance has begun
too fast already,

And it is absolutely decisive for us to live in the Western End of the World exactly.


3. Sect Future, Sect Past, and Sect Secular,

Are not manifesting themselves actually in front of us already.

Sect Future, Sect Past, and Sect Secular, should be manifesting themselves already in
front of us.

But actually speaking, such kinds of examples, which should appear exactly, have never
appear itself yet at all.


4. If it is actually true that the so-called Soul really exists in this world,

It might be much more possible for our sense perception to find the so-called Soul
exactly.

In Sect Future, they are relying upon Soul, which can have ability to flee from our sense
limitation.

But it is perfectly unclear for such a kind of Soul to exist actually, or not.


5. Perception does never escape.

But what is called the Individual Soul creates the harvest.

Perhaps Perception might be the same as the Individual Soul.

And so what is called the Individual Soul does never exist at all.


6. Perception is perfectly different from the Individual Soul.

Something, which can cover other things, can also have ability to make others wet.

Because everything can get its name and characteristics,

Everything can get its characteristics in future.


7. In another case leaving from the sense perception again,

The Individual Soul does never manifest itself.

Because, being to be understandable, is perfectly different from acceptable,

And so just at the different case, there is a possibility that something can never be
acceptable at all.


8. Following this way, even the different method does not leave perception.

It is not always perception is just Reality.

The Individual Soul does never really exist different from perception.

There is nothing other than This Reality at this place, which is the Absolute Reliability
in The Universe.


9. The Party, which hasn’t been born, the Party in the Past, and the Party for the Secular
Society,

Those concrete parties haven’t appeared actually yet.

Because they have relied upon birth, and so they have been born just in front of us
already.

The different example does never exist as a concrete one at all.


10. Because the World has always possibility to be different,

There is possibility for the World even to receive serious refusal actually.

The world always has its possibility to become the objects of such kinds of refusal.

And in such a situation being possible to get the Birth, is just the possibility to come
back to Death.


11. Relying upon Action, to cut something is not always a benevolence at all.

Even though what is done is perfectly different from what has been planned,

Their attitude for them to do the same work again, can be recognized as if it were
different work.

Similarly the first fruits are usually attached so much.


12. God Visnu is never vigor of Dynamic Beauty.

Because at that place some kinds of Vice attach to the place.

What has been done also, has existed as the Individual Soul.

The co-existence of such miscellaneous things and phenomena, are not always
recognizable at all.


13. Relying upon those methods, people, who look at the process, are,

Sometimes people, who believe in Visnu, who they are, and sometimes people, who do
not believe in Visnu, who they are.
.

It is said that a person, who believe in Visnu, and a person, who does not believe in
Visnu, are the same.

The fact, which exists here, as it is, does never come only for passing.


14. Relying upon traveling, what is it impossible for us to arrive at?

What will exist clearly, might exist already for us to look at Dharma.

Not have I arrived at yet, is the Real Existence of Ourselves at these Real Situations in
the Concrete Facts at this place.

What have gone, or what has gone a little ahead, are all the same in their situations.


15. When Reality is God, and Reality are Human Beings,

Similarly Eternity exists like this.

What hasn’t been born, might be God.

Because the Eternity is never be born at all.


16. When what are different from God, might be Human Beings,

What is not Eternal One, can exist as Idea.

When what is different from God, might belong to human beings,

The Relation between Cause and Effect, does never appear at all.


17. When the Paradise perhaps were only one place,

It might be one Part of the Total, and it might belong to Human Beings.

There were both the Two Possibilities, that the One is just that the Paradise is not
Eternal, and the Other one is the Paradise is just Eternal.

And those two Ideas can never attached to any Fact at all.


18. Both Something Not Eternal, and Something Eternal,

When miscellaneous occurrences manifest themselves in the two kinds together,

What have been accomplished are not as eternal joy,

But they are never what are eternal at all.


19. From where have I come for whom, or for what?

Where shall I go for whom, or for what?

From what kind of purpose shall I work from the endlessly past age until now?

The so-called Aimless Wandering might be as if it were nothing to exist as Reality.


20. The existence of the Eternity does not exist really at all.

Where can we find the Existence of Having Limitations anywhere at all?

The Eternity and the Non-Eternity are only the Model of Duality.

What Have Been Concealed might be manifestation of the sufficiently
concealed Expressions.


21. When we have the limitation of Time, the Area of Freedom might become open.

Even though it is impossible for us to know the reason, it might be possible for us to
expect the Perfectly Different Area of the World exactly.

Just in That Situations, the Fact to have the limited term, are the very Happy Situations.

Therefore it is impossible for us to know the reason, why there is any kind of
possibility to experience the Very Happy World actually.


22. The Stream of Miscellaneous Things and Phenomena, are the Simple Facts of this
World in front of us,

Therefore it is very similar to the one stream of light, which is researched as if it were
a line of the stream.

Therefore it seems to be very different, but at the same time it seems to be very similar
to each other.

And so the things and phenomena, which are not so similar, are also actually to be
Loved without distinction.


23. Before being to be revered,

It is impossible for me to be revered and go ahead at all.

Miscellaneous Things and Phenomena are producing the Miscellaneous Things and
Phenomena as This World without fail.

There the Intermediate Space can exist making a kind of limited Space like the End.


24. Before the time, when the circumstances have not been prepared lovely yet,

I do never like to prepare the preparation well ahead.

When the five kinds of aggregates are just manifesting themselves clearly as the
World,

The Space of the Universe will have possibility to exist as the Boundless Space in
Reality.


25. When the similarity of the End is just the one point, which belongs to one point of the
whole line.

Such a kind of one place in the line, might be similar to the point, which exists
everywhere through the line.

Perhaps what seems to be similar to the Truth, might be different from the Truth
Actually,

And the Concrete Fact ourselves at the Real Point, might be never complicated at all.


26. Why is it possible for them to get a so lot of money with such a kind of job?

The two arms might work as well as more than two arms.

Even in future we should never approach to the works of two arms.

Usually The Real Situations of The World, is just This Fact in front of
ourselves, which is not bound by anything at all.


27. When our Perceptional Function is just identified into One,

How is it necessary for us to approach Names?

We should never necessary to approach only One Spot.

It is absolutely impossible for only one concrete fact manifests itself alone.


28. To have the End is just the same as to produce the End positively.

In that case, the accomplishment of preparations, includes the two kinds of factors,
Those are the preparation and accomplishment.

In the situations of accomplishment, having an End, is never pleasurable condition.

The situation, which does not having any Eternity might be the Most Hopeful
Situation.


29. There also the Whole Situations of All Existences are the problems again.

Leaving from the balanced state of the Autonomic Nervous System, and leaving from
the Eternity, there is a only fact just Going on.

Where, belonging to what, to whom among many, or from whom,

Persons, who are seen, might be many.


30. All People, who are related with the reverence, might be belong to the people, who have
Belief in Morals,

The True Righteousness might have been moved to the wrong place for it.

The pitiful situations for people, have been accepted to them as they are.

But I offer the Whole-Hearted Admire for Gautama Buddha, who accepted those
Many kinds of Doctrines as pitiable.




[After ending the translation]

After ending the translation, I think that Gautama Buddha has found the ultimate Truth in the human history about in the fifth or fourth Century AD.

And his ultimate conclusion is just Buddhist Realism.

But his Buddhist Realism has been too much difficult, and so it has been necessary for Human Being to understand it for about 25 Centuries.

I think that Buddhism can never be Religion, but it is just the ultimate philosophy of Human Beings. Because Buddhism does not include anything, which we should believe in as belief, but Buddhism is perfectly clear in its philosophical system.

And so I think that we, Human Beings, have arrived at the Truth itself just at the beginning of the 21st Century for the first time.

The End.

[26] Examination of the Twelve-fold Chain of Cause and Effect (12 verses)

MMK (26) Examination of The Twelve –fold of Chain of Cause and Effect (12 verses)

1. Relying upon new births, many numbers of accomplishments have been produced.

The three factors of original ignorance, the natural energy, and the mental function,

Relying upon those three kinds of processes,

The practice of Action is done concretely relying upon the practice of Action itself.


2. Relying upon the development of scientific knowledge,

The clarification of the Real Truth has begun.

Relying upon the state that both a mother and a baby have become stable,

The Oneness of Name and Substance, which is the combination between name and
substance, have been educated gradually.


3. When whatever has been supplied sufficiently to what is called the Oneness of
Name and Substance,

In which name and substance are they combined into one,

Then the six kinds of sense organs, will work together cooperatively.

And the mutual contacts begin with each other.


4. When the Eyes can look at forms,

All kinds of phenomena are also can be seen similarly.

The Name and the Substance are completely the same as one.

The intellectual ability is the very inclusive production.


5. What is called the accumulations of the three factors are indicating,

Matter, recognition, and the Eyes..

Therefore the real perception has transcended the perception as concept already,

And so the Real Contact has finished in the first step already.


6. Proclaiming what is different from the Real Truth, is called Desire.

Because the seriously painful efforts are usually esteemed by ordinary people to be so
especially exaggerated.

The strong Desire is usually seemed to be common efforts for their own profits.

Because of the result, they have got the four kinds of so-called human virtues.


7. Living for our own Action is just our existence.

Actions of ourselves are going on ahead.

In that case the receptacle might not be working for its own purpose.

And so Giving Up should never be permissible to exist, might be the existence itself.


8. When the five kinds of Aggregates really exist,

Leaving from the existence, the Births are going on to be continued endlessly.

Birth, death, many kinds of pains, and so forth,

Are, miscellaneous accumulation of grief, which are mixture of complains.


9. Discouraged situations usually approach by themselves,

Relying upon Birth, the Real Situations of this place are going on.

The isolated situations are like those.

And Pain, which belongs to miscellaneous things and phenomena, are the Total
Existence


10. Some kinds of Basis, that is the Basic Wandering, create combinations.

And there the artificially produced ignorance is constructed.

Therefore even any kind of ignorance is not created anymore.

So the clever people will leave the Truth looking at it by Eyes.


11. Following ignorance might be the same as following suppression.

Belonging to the aimless wandering might be the refusal of living together.

Following ignorance might be the same as confinement.

Belonging to the whole knowledge, and following it, is just the leaving from existence.


12. Relying upon self-regulation of each thing,

Each concrete thing does never go ahead by itself.

An aggregate called Pain is isolated from this World,

Similarly the Totality is regulated by itself.

[25] Examination of Nirvana, the free and serene state (24 verses)

MMK (25) Examination of Nirvana, the free and serene state. (24 verses)

1. When the Serene State of the Balanced Autonomic Nervous System is this world totally,

There might be no appearance actually, and there is no disappearance at all.

If we are free from escape and free in self-regulation,

What kinds of balanced situations of the Autonomic Nervous System can manifest itself even in future?


2. When the Troubled State of the unbalanced Autonomic Nervous System is the
Universe itself,

There might be no appearance actually, and there is no disappearance at all.

If we are free from escape and free in self-regulation,

What kinds of balanced situations of the Autonomic Nervous System can manifest
themselves even in future?


3. What is not isolated, what has not arrived at the end still,

What hasn’t been stopped on the way, what is not having no end,

What is impossible to regulate, what is not accomplished,

That is called the Quiet and Serene State, Nirvana.


4. The existence, which is great, can never be Nirvana.

And the expressions of "aging" or "death" can never be so direct expressions.

The expressions of "aging" and "death" exist as the adequate expressions.

And so it might be impossible for us to deny the adequacy of using the
words of aging and death.


5. When the existences are just Nirvana,

The State of Quiet and Serene can exist as the Created World as it is.

And it is impossible for what is not the Created World to be recognized,

And so what is really existing is something, which are rear the word "Nirvana," which
is something to exist somewhere, and which is something itself.


6. When the existence is just “Nirvana” to exist,

The concrete thing, which has not been received “Nirvana”, is what?

The word "Nirvana," which suggests the serenity of the Balanced Autonomic
Nervous System, does not include the meaning to get something actually.

Because it is perfectly impossible for us to find a concrete fact "to be" at any place at
all.


7. When the existence is not “Nirvana”,

How is it possible for something, which does not exist now, to exist in future?

When “Nirvana” does not exists anywhere,

Then it will become clear that non-existence is not recognized anywhere at all.


8. If it is true that something, which does not exist, is Nirvana,

What is the concrete fact, which has not been accepted, is what?

Because the “Nirvana" does not exist as non-existence,

And so such a something, which has been accepted, does never be recognized at all.


9. When a speed of appearance is a little slower,

The appearance itself is also clear too.

And so the Real Appearances are accepted as a little vague,

But the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system, Nirvana, will appear.


10. Our action to give up something, or a taboo to speak to others,

Exists really, and exists everywhere really.

Therefore, existence does not exist, and non-existence does not exist.

What is called the balanced state of the Autonomic Nervous System, Nirvana, is similar
to shackles.


11. When non-existence and existence both might exist in the co-existence form,

Then the balance of the autonomic nervous system, Nirvana, might exists in the
doubled bindings.

When non-existence and existence both might exist in the co-existence form,

Concrete fact of emancipation can never be bound at all.


12. Non-existence, and existence, both can exist actually,

But in the case of Nirvana, both to exist or not to exist, can exist at the same
moment.

The one-sided appearance of Nirvana can never exist,

Because the appearance is doubled is the concrete fact of Nirvana.


13. It might be possible that non-existence, or existence, either can exist.

How is it possible for the Nirvana to appear as both non-existence and existence
of the one moment.?

Because in the case of Nirvana, the word, which hasn't been translated into Sanskrit,
might be also Nirvana,

And so the word "to exist" and the word "not to exists," might be both Sanskrit words
in facts.


14. Both Non-Existence and Existence can exist together.

What is the situation that the Nirvana is the existence of doubled?

Therefore the non-existence of dual, suggests the existence of only one,

And so what can be seen with eyes, and the darkness of the Hell, are completely the
Same.

15. It is never non-existent, and it is never existent,

What are called Nirvanas might be similar to a kind of cosmetics,

Even though they are not existent, or really existent,

They are belonging to the situations of accomplishments, and they have been just
accomplished.


16. Never Non-existence, or never existence,

When Nirvanas are completely recognized,

Never Non-existence, or never existence,

Such situations are recognized a little as a concrete fact.


17. When the Result has been leaving from the self-regulation, there might be Happiness
Actually.

What is called Existence, is never be born at all.
In the case that co-existences do not exist actually,

The denial of co-existence might never be born as the fact at all.


18. Even though our own self-conceit of having established our own stable
basis,

The idea of a simple fact that we are just existing in the world, does not bear anything
at all.

If the co-existence would not exist at all really,

No existence of the co-existence actually is never be born at all,


19. Without leaving the process of wandering, it will become leaving Nirvana.

It does never suggest that we have been given up by Nirvana,

Not belonging to Nirvana, is leaving from the wandering.

It does never suggest that we have been given up by Nirvana,


20. What is included by Nirvana is just Time,

And the Time is also belonging to the wandering life of ups and downs.

The two kinds of substances, that is, Time and the wandering life of ups and downs,
Seems to be as if they were nothing.

Then something excellently delicate is recognized very clearly..


21. Result is, leaving from the self-regulation, the first step of ultimate phase.

It is just the Eternity and so forth, and the Real Life, which can be experienced directly.

The Nirvana might be just our ultimate scene of human life,

And so it might be the supposition of the former line, and it might be taking a rest in
the perfect darkness.


22. What is the totally relying upon the balanced autonomic nervous system, and what
is the totally relying upon Nirvana?

What is the Eternity, and what is the having the End?

What is the Eternity, and what is the Destroyable?

What is not the Eternity, and what is not having the End?


23. What is the Same, and what is not the Same?

What is Eternal, and what is not Eternal?

Being not Eternal, and being Eternal are what altogether both?

In this case also there is no co-existences of the two cases of existence and non-
existence together at all.


24. All kinds of our sense perceptions and the mental serenities,

Are prone to expand and to make the mind happier.

Without having any kinds of distinction between the places, kinds, or the contents of
teachings,

The Principles of the Universe, which Gautama Buddha has taught us, are the contents
of his guidance.

[24} Examination of The Supreme Truth (verses 40)

MMK (24) Examination of The Supreme Truth (40 verses)

1. When the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system pervades through the whole Universe,

The appearance of this world does never exist, and disappearance of this world does never exist.

The Four Philosophies, those are, Idealism, Materialism, Philosophy of Action, and Reality itself, are The Supreme Truth.

Because the insistence that such a Truth does never exist in this world, are the wrong human attitudes, which are attaching to their wrong idea without Reason.

2. Knowledge, abandonment,

Action, and results,

Those factors are the Four Sacred Truths,

Leaving from no existence, everything exists really.


3. No existence of the Four Sacred Truths are never recognized,

And no existence of the Four Kinds of Sacred Results does never exist at all.

When Result does not exist at all, the Facts of Result does not also exist.

Therefore it is difficult for the Arrival of Reality to be recognized actually. .


4. When the Buddhist Sangha does not exist, this world does not exist.

And then, they, the eight kinds of people and personalities, are also too.

And the four kinds of Sacred Truths transcend the existence,

Even the Real Universe itself is never recognized at all.


5. If there were nothing in the Universe, and there were nothing in the Buddhist
Organization,

How is it possible for a Person, who has realized the Truth, to exist even in future?

Similarly the three kinds of Buddhist Values, Buddha, Dharma, and Samgha, are just
jewels.

But your insistences are attacking and making Buddhism retreat.


6. The balanced states of the autonomic nervous system are the results in the real world,

And both the Subjective Universe and the real Universe are the results in the real world.

All jobs are secular jobs,

And all occurrences in our daily lives are attacked and evaded by Non-Buddhists.


7. In that situation, what are talked are relying upon the balanced autonomic nervous
system,

But you do not know clearly the ultimate conclusion.

Even though it is true that the serene state of the balanced autonomic nervous system is
just the aim of the balanced autonomic nervous system,

But actually you are totally making your efforts to break down everything without any
exception.


8. In the two kinds of Truths, there is one, which is enjoyed as similar to running.

Which are belonging to Buddha, and the teachings in the Rule of the Universe.

The true guidance in the Universe, that is the Truth,

And it is just the Truth without exception, at the same time it is just the Highest Truth.


9. Those do not belong to the two of the expiration or inhalation,

But the divisions are separated following the Truth and the division,

Those situations of Real Facts are never separated into the two.

However, Gautama Buddha has admonished us to have the hope of an endlessly deep
navel, voice, or personality.


10. What to do something usually have some kind of unreliable characters.

It is rather difficult for us to indicate the perfect Truth.

It is impossible for us to arrive at the highest Truth to arrive at it.

The perfectly arrive at the state of balanced autonomic nervous system is rather
actually impossible for us.


11. When we have to receive a wrong judicial decision,

The state of being in the balanced autonomic nervous system, might be seen as if we
had become perfectly stupid.

There, an animal, which is creeping on the ground like a snake, exists as a bad prize.

And sometimes the wickedness of the snake might be too much bad capture.


12. Just because of such a clear reason, there is a case that a snake's knowledge is too
much excellent as it is.

Therefore it is clear that the existence of such situations belongs to the Saint.

The Rule of the Universe belongs to ourselves, and to the Rule of the Universe.

And so something, which is a soft motion, and not so clear to be found, is difficult to
be found, or recognized clearly.


13. Relying upon the balanced autonomic nervous system, to make the mind more inactive,

The balanced states are much more accomplished into miscellaneous existences.

Worrying about such criticism does never belong to our problems,

And so such problems do never appear into the balanced state of the autonomic
nervous system at all.


14. If everything is bound by the concrete facts totally,

Even the state of the balanced autonomic nervous system must be also bound by the
real facts.

And if everything is not bound by the concrete facts,

Even the state of the balanced autonomic nervous system must not be also bound
at all.


15. Actually you are a man, who is prone to commit many errors, subjectively
or objectively, at this place.

Therefore you must have a tendency to guard yourself in every case.

But even though you were actually riding a horse,

You are just riding as if you were sitting on a dog.


16. When you have left from the subjective ideas, you are belonging to existences,

Then you will notice Real Existences.

Unreasonable Real Truths are existences,

And you will look at the Real Existence in future.


17. What is really accomplished, and what is the cause of the accomplishment, are
originally the same.

What to produce something, is just the Real Efforts of production, a production
is just production, the Real Action itself.

Production is also a kind of suppressive control too,

And the Result is just your torture called production.


18. That is just the very clear Total Occurrence.

The totally balanced autonomic nervous systems, are indicating the situations of
the Present Moment itself.

Those Realities just might be what have been grasped as information.

And so our rather anti-historical tendency might be called the Middle Way.


19. When some kinds of accidental facts are not so understandable,

The Rule of the Universe can never be recognized at all.

Because according to that facts, or according to this facts, everything is lacking the
balanced state of the autonomic nervous system,

The system of the Universe hasn't been recognized at all.


20. When the unbalanced situations of the autonomic nervous system hasn't become
pervaded through the world,

The appearance of an accident does not exist, and the ending of changes does not
exist.

The Four Sacred Truths,

The non-existence of Them are attached by the too much strong prejudice.


21. When the synthetic universal phenomena are not clear,

It is not clear where a serious pain will exist in future?

And unreliable talks really produce very severe pain,

Because even a concrete fact, which does not exist in the subjective image, is
not recognized.


22. The subjective ideas, which we are considering in our brain now,

How they are possible to be considered in our brain again?

Therefore it is impossible for the past and the present will be combined together.

And then the two states of the balanced autonomic nervous system might fight
with each other.


23. The States of Self-Regulation are not related with the subjective existence.

Therefore, the Real State of the Painful Situations can be recognized only by the
pain itself .

Subjective situations are prone to be contradictory.

However the Self-Regulation is always painful against you.


24. Relying upon our own will actually belong to the True Way.

And what kind of reason does such a result occur, is not clear.

Fortunately the symbol of the True Way exists actually,

And so no existence of selfishness can be recognized from the facts.


25. At every time, when Pains are accumulated,

Self-regulation is never recognized at all.

The True Way seems to be the negation of Pain.

And how is it possible for something to be found in future?


26. Relying upon subjective existence is never relying upon perfect knowledge.

At that time, what is included into the concrete facts is what again?

How is it possible for the problem to be included into Reality actually?

Therefore, the subjective existences are perfectly maintained stable.


27. Considerations are just Intuitions.

What are manifested themselves in front of us are just the same as what we are
looking at them.

What are similar to knowledge are never fixed like a harness.

The Four Sacred Truths are like that, and the Four Kinds of Results are also similar
to.


28. What are not grasped relying upon our subjectivity,

That is just the Result, but what is just it is?

What will be well realized, might be what has been realized already.

But in such situations, there might be perhaps subjective existence, has been
realized abundantly already.


29. Without the existence of Result, there is no establishment of the Result.

And there might be no arrival of the Realizing the Truth.

The Buddhist Organizations do not exist, and their real entities do not
exist really.

There it is impossible for the eight kinds of officers, and other personal members
of the Buddhist Organizations do not exists actually.


30. Without leaving the non-existence of the Sacred Truths,

Even the Real Universe can never be recognized.

If He were not existing both in the Universe, or in the Buddhist Organization,

Where shall it be possible for Buddha to exist even in future?


31. Even though the Truth is not confirmed so well yet,

Your Gautama Buddha is compassionate toward you.

Even though you have not arrived at Gautama Buddha's personality well,

You have attached to your own Buddhist Truth preferably.


32. Even a person, who hasn't become to the same state as Gautama
Buddha relying upon his own personality yet,

Such kinds of Enlightenment can be got relying upon what is occupied.

Relying upon keeping the same state of balanced autonomic nervous system as
Gautama Buddha actually,

Such kinds of people will arrive at the Real Truth actually in future..


33. Even the Rule of the Universe, or even Not the Rule of the Universe,

Both those are never produced by Human Beings even in future.

How is it possible for what does not belong to the balanced autonomic nervous
system to be what should be done?

Because it is completely impossible for any subjective idea to be able to produce
any kinds of Something Real at all.


34. Both the Universe and the neglecting the Universe, do not exist.

Because the affirmation of Result is impossible for you to confirm the existence of
Result.

Both the affirmation and the negation of the Universe are just a kind of marks,

Therefore it might be impossible for you to recognize the Result.


35. Both the affirmation and the negation of the Universe are just a kind of marks,

Then they also recognize the Result too.

Just the Universe and the not the Universe are both the miscellaneous phenomena,

And how is it possible for those, which are not the balanced state of the autonomic
nervous system, to be Result.


36. Everything is done as the works actually, which are done in cooperation.

However you are making your efforts to stop all kinds of such secular jobs.

Such kind of very conspicuous synthetic phenomena,

The state of the balanced autonomic nervous system, you are going to stop it.


37. Anything, which has been accomplished, does not exist at all.

There are the states, which have begun to be produced already,

And at that time what we should do carefully to begin with, might not be to produce
a concrete thing directly,

But it might be sure that we should guard our balanced autonomic nervous system
stable.


38. The state, which has not been born, has been kept by our own will,

The possibility for me to stand at the highest lank, can also be realized in future.

Being decorated with miscellaneous colors, and being kept with stabilities,

It might be the common vulgar habits in the secular societies to left the world as the
object for giving up.


39. The problem might belong to the stage of accomplishment, or the stage of
unsuccessful situations.

Pain, a boundary line, and Action itself.

All are pains, or giving up, and then,

Inadequate state of the autonomic nervous system isn’t recognized.


40. A person, who clearly look at the conspicuous and synthetic existing world as the
Real World,

Might be a person, who can look at the things and phenomena as the Real World
really.

To such a kind of person, pain and the synthetic Real World are perfectly as they
are,

And the Self-Regulations and Morals are also perfectly the same as they are.

[23] Examination of Delusion (25 verses)

MMK (23) Examination of Delusion (25 verses)

1. What has been born from desire is violent emotion,

Hatred and charm, are actually talked.

Because both good omens and bad omens are manifesting themselves together,

It seems clear that both are going to occur clearly.


2. A good omen and a bad omen are producing miscellaneous delusions.

But miscellaneous things and phenomena are manifesting themselves clearly together.

And so they do not manifest their subjective existence,

Therefore miscellaneous pains are never Real Facts.


3. Souls do not belong to the problems, whether they really exist, or not.

Therefore how is it possible for Souls to be the perfectly realized as Things, or
Phenomena.

The Souls are never included in the problem, whether they really exist, or not.

And so how is it possible for miscellaneous pains actually to be concrete things, or
substance at all?


4. Something, which can be acceptable as some kind of receptacle, is this world,

But pain can never be accepted as some kind of real entity.

Something, aha, it might be as if it is nothing.

Therefore even something, which is so severely painful, can never be anything at all.


5, Pain is similar to look at our own physical body actually.

The five kinds of Matter, ground, water, fire, air, and the space, do not belong to
painful situation.

Torture is similar to look at our own physical body,

Therefore torture does not exist as severe pain at all.


6. The real fact of the subjective existence, is not recognized.

Facts of the favorable and facts of the unfavorable are not being.

The severest pain is usually the strongest one between the two,

And the tendencies between the favorable and the unfavorable are changing
reciprocally with each other.


7. Color, sound, taste, feeling,

Smell, and the Rule of the Universe, all are the six kinds of sense perceptions.

Matter is much related with desire, and much related with darkness.

What are related with confusion, are actually prone to change their places with
other places


8. Color, sound, taste, feeling,

Smell, and the Rule of the Universe, each is individually independent from
matter or phenomena..

And they are very similar to a fantastic city called Gandharva, which is not necessary
in having jail.

Those are corpuscles of light, a mirage, or a sleep, and the similarities.


9. Even in a bad case of omen, or even in a good case of omen,

How is it possible for what kind of place to exist for the first time?

How is it possible for a human being, who has super power over than human beings, to have actually?

And even the images of the Sun or the Moon on the surface of water, are just the same as the Sun or the Moon themselves.


10. Without directing our care to the object, there is no good omen.

Because in such situations, even a bad omen cann’t be recognized intuitively.

Such a kind of fact is just clear as a good omen,

And so if it were in the case of good omen, nothing cann’t be recognized at all.


11. A bad omen, which is not cared by people, does never exist at all.

Because in the case of good omen, people are usually expecting so much to notice it
with intuition.

Such a kind of situations are also clear even in the case of bad omen too.

Therefore the actual situations of bad omens do not have even a scarce chance to be
recognised at all.


12. Without noticing the actual Reality, and in the case of only recognizing the good
omens,

Where does it possible for life to exist even in future?

When a bad omen hasn't been noticed,

Where is it possible for deep malice to be maintained even in future?


13. A fact, that a moment is just the eternity, exists in such a manner.

What we are always keeping, has also the character to change its direction reversely
at once.

What is perfectly eternal, can be seen in the state of balanced autonomic nervous
system.

Where can we find any existence of the situation, which are having the tendency to
separate to the two opposite directions in separation?


14. The insistence that what is innate is never lasting, might be connected with concrete
fact.

And at that time the grasp might be the contradiction.

If the idea that there is nothing, which is eternal, has been maintained completely,

How is it possible for the balanced state of autonomic nervous system not to
unbalanced state at all?,


15. With what kind of method shall we rely upon to do something, is just something to
do it actually.

Having something accomplished is just the grasping itself.

Being perfectly peaceful is just the Real Existence of everything,

Therefore the situations of perfectly having been grasped, is difficult to recognize.


16. When everything is not so clear yet, or when everything is just clear,

In the either cases of being opposite or being the same, they are not so different
from facts.

Something, which is contradictory with each other, can exist,

And something, which is going to the same direction with each other, can exist.


17. It does not exist in the perfectly opposite situations,

But there are cases, in which so many delusions have gathered together actually.

It does not exist in the perfectly same situations,

But there are cases, in which so many delusions have gathered together actually.


18. Even though those delusions are not included into the high-leveled lank,

Many delusions are collecting themselves together.

Even though it is not so clear for your reflection to be targeted to what kind of your
Reflection,

Many delusions are collecting themselves together.


19. How is it adequate for us to put a name to what hasn't been accomplished yet?

There might be many Delusions, which will occur in future.

Even before any kind of Delusion hasn't been born yet,

Where is it possible for the arrival of Delusions to come at all?


20. The fact, that the subjectivity is never be born, is the existence.

And then the objectivity does never be born too.

If the subjectivity and the objectivity are not like that,

Where is it possible for the arrival of Delusions to exist actually?


21. Ourselves, the innate brilliance of ourselves,

Or our comfortable situations, can be recognized actually, and then,

Ourselves, the innate brilliance of ourselves,

Or our comfortable situations, can never be Delusion at all.


22. Having no self-consciousness, and having our innate purity of ourselves,

Our comfort or our state like happiness, can be recognized ceaselessly.

What are not belonging to us, are not pure, and they are not innate.

The very severe pain can never become any kind of recognizable object at all.


23. Following like this, what is not recognized, is excluded.

And so Delusion has been emancipated from the attitude of denying Delusion.

Relying upon ignorance might be the same as relying upon suppression.

And utilizing demonstrative vanity, and so forth, they want to suppress everything.


24. When real accidents are relying upon subjective ideas,

Miscellaneous strong pains exist in something obscure, and the receptacle exists at the
same place.

How is it possible for only a title to make the serious problems?

What kinds of thing will produce such kinds of miscellaneous subjective ideas?


25. When subjective accidents are relying upon subjective ideas,

Miscellaneous strong pains exist in something obscure, and the receptacle exists in
it.

How is it possible for only a title to make the serious problems?

What kinds of thing will produce such kinds of miscellaneous abstract beings?

[22] Examination of Realization (16 verses

MMK (22) Examination of Realization (16 verses)

1. The five kinds of substances, that is, matter, perception, consideration, action, and consciousness, are not always the same as the five kinds of substances,

Not always relying upon this world, the five kinds of substances do not belong to this world actually.

The real arrival of Reality does not have left the five kinds of substances,

And in that situation, what is just the real arrival of Reality there?


2. When a person, who is going to get the Truth,

Just at the time, there is no subjective existence of real fact.

And when there is no subjective existence really,

How is it possible for any kind of objective existence to exist really anywhere at all?


3. And such situations produce objective existence clearly.

Then, what is called Spirit or Mind, will appear actually.

And what is like that, which does not have Spirit or Vigor, is?

Therefore it is possible for something, which is called the Arrival of Reality, will exist
in future.


4. When the subjective existence does never exist at all,

How is it possible for objective existence to exist actually?

When something moves relying upon the oneness between the subjective and
objective existences,

The Something Real is just the Arrival of Reality itself.


5. When the five kinds of substances are impossible to be accepted,

Then some kinds of possibility in the Arrival of Reality might exist.

Such a kind of facts at the present moment, can be possible,

And so the situation of expansion can be going bigger more and more.


6. When even the smallest volume of the five kinds of substances do never appear at all,

Even the smallest volume of Reality Arrival does never exist at all.

And even the slightest Reality Arrival does not exist even as a non-appearance,

How is it possible for the Reality Arrival to be realized to occur even in future?


7. If there were no behavior not to receive anything,

Even a study itself, is also actually something, which is called just a study itself.

The situation that, in which everything has been emancipated from desire or
attachments, does not exist actually.

In such situations what kind of Reality Arrival has not arrived at yet?


8. The situations, which rely upon Reality and Non-Reality, do not exist relying upon the mutual relations between Reality and Non-Reality,

The thoughts, which have been persuaded, and the five kinds of Matter, the Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and the Space,

Something, which relies upon Reality,

Can be realized as the Arrival of Reality.


9. A person, who especially has ability to realize the concrete thing at this place,

Does not like to recognize miscellaneous subjective thoughts at all.

Because the subjective existence does never anywhere really exist actually.

Therefore where will it be possible for the concrete facts to exist only as the
physical problems?


10. Relying upon such a method, the balanced states of the autonomic nervous system,
can be recognized.

What we have actually perceived, are just everything.

Just relying upon intuition, or just relying upon the balance of the autonomic
nervous system.

How is it possible for the balanced autonomic nervous system itself to be the
Arrival of Reality itself?.


12. What is called Eternity, or what is called Non-eternity, and so forth, exist here in front
us.

Where are the Four, Reason, the external world, Action at the present moment, and
Reality?

The End and No-end, and so forth, are just manifesting themselves in front of us.

Where exist there the One Group of four, the Reason, the External World, Action at
the present moment, and Reality?


13. Now full of Murder, Restraint, and Confinement,

Nowadays, relying upon those facts, it is called the Arrival of Reality.

Actually speaking, it is said that the real situation does never change at all.

And furthermore the situation of stopping might continue for the length of Kalpa.


14. When the state, which is based on subjective existence, is in the balanced state of the
autonomic nervous system,

Following upon the situations, a worry does never appear at all.

When a long distance exists from the self-regulation,

It is also said that a Person, who has realized the Truth, does not exist too.


15. The person, who promotes his or her own Personality, has realized the Truth.

The people, who have promoted the Past, are eternal.

They, people, who expand destructions to everything,

Do never look at the Arrival of Reality.


16. The Arrival of Reality is some kind of subjective Existence.

And such a kind of subjective Existence is just the motion of this world.

The Arrival of Reality is never a lacking of subjective existence,

But the negation of subjective existence is just the motion of this world.

[22] Examination of Realization (16 verses)

MMK (22) Examination of Realization (16 verses)

1. The five kinds of substances, that is, matter, perception, consideration, action, and consciousness, are not always the same as the five kinds of substances,

Not always relying upon this world, the five kinds of substances do not belong to this world actually.

The real arrival of Reality does not have left the five kinds of substances,

And in that situation, what is just the real arrival of Reality there?


2. When a person, who is going to get the Truth,

Just at the time, there is no subjective existence of real fact.

And when there is no subjective existence really,

How is it possible for any kind of objective existence to exist really anywhere at all?


3. And such situations produce objective existence clearly.

Then, what is called Spirit or Mind, will appear actually.

And what is like that, which does not have Spirit or Vigor, is?

Therefore it is possible for something, which is called the Arrival of Reality, will exist
in future.


4. When the subjective existence does never exist at all,

How is it possible for objective existence to exist actually?

When something moves relying upon the oneness between the subjective and
objective existences,

The Something Real is just the Arrival of Reality itself.


5. When the five kinds of substances are impossible to be accepted,

Then some kinds of possibility in the Arrival of Reality might exist.

Such a kind of facts at the present moment, can be possible,

And so the situation of expansion can be going bigger more and more.


6. When even the smallest volume of the five kinds of substances do never appear at all,

Even the smallest volume of Reality Arrival does never exist at all.

And even the slightest Reality Arrival does not exist even as a non-appearance,

How is it possible for the Reality Arrival to be realized to occur even in future?


7. If there were no behavior not to receive anything,

Even a study itself, is also actually something, which is called just a study itself.

The situation that, in which everything has been emancipated from desire or
attachments, does not exist actually.

In such situations what kind of Reality Arrival has not arrived at yet?


8. The situations, which rely upon Reality and Non-Reality, do not exist relying upon the mutual relations between Reality and Non-Reality,

The thoughts, which have been persuaded, and the five kinds of Matter, the Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and the Space,

Something, which relies upon Reality,

Can be realized as the Arrival of Reality.


9. A person, who especially has ability to realize the concrete thing at this place,

Does not like to recognize miscellaneous subjective thoughts at all.

Because the subjective existence does never anywhere really exist actually.

Therefore where will it be possible for the concrete facts to exist only as the
physical problems?


10. Relying upon such a method, the balanced states of the autonomic nervous system,
can be recognized.

What we have actually perceived, are just everything.

Just relying upon intuition, or just relying upon the balance of the autonomic
nervous system.

How is it possible for the balanced autonomic nervous system itself to be the
Arrival of Reality itself?.


12. What is called Eternity, or what is called Non-eternity, and so forth, exist here in front
us.

Where are the Four, Reason, the external world, Action at the present moment, and
Reality?

The End and No-end, and so forth, are just manifesting themselves in front of us.

Where exist there the One Group of four, the Reason, the External World, Action at
the present moment, and Reality?


13. Now full of Murder, Restraint, and Confinement,

Nowadays, relying upon those facts, it is called the Arrival of Reality.

Actually speaking, it is said that the real situation does never change at all.

And furthermore the situation of stopping might continue for the length of Kalpa.


14. When the state, which is based on subjective existence, is in the balanced state of the
autonomic nervous system,

Following upon the situations, a worry does never appear at all.

When a long distance exists from the self-regulation,

It is also said that a Person, who has realized the Truth, does not exist too.


15. The person, who promotes his or her own Personality, has realized the Truth.

The people, who have promoted the Past, are eternal.

They, people, who expand destructions to everything,

Do never look at the Arrival of Reality.


16. The Arrival of Reality is some kind of subjective Existence.

And such a kind of subjective Existence is just the motion of this world.

The Arrival of Reality is never a lacking of subjective existence,

But the negation of subjective existence is just the motion of this world.

[21] Examination of Coexistence and Universal Existence (21 verses)

MMK (21) Examination of Coexistence and Universal Existence (21 verses)

1. Without existence and without being together, the both Coexistence and Universal Existence do not really exist.

Universal Existence exists always relying upon Coexistence.

Either being single or being together, the both do not really exist.

Coexistence inevitably relies upon Universal Existence.


2. How is it possible for a name to exist always in future?

Universal Existence can manifest itself even without Coexistence.

If there were no existence of both birth and death,

Universal Existence does never exist without birth.


3. Even though Universal Existence is just relying upon Coexistence,

How is it possible for both Coexistence and Universal Existence to exist together like
this even in future?

Even though birth and death do not appear like this,

Because of that the modern situations of Human Society is recognized like that.


4. How is it actually possible for name to exist without fail in future?

When it is belonging to Coexistence, the Universal Existence does not exist at all.

But if it is only for the name of Coexistence, it might be to exist even in future.

And so it is very difficult for us to know when they have actually happened exactly.


5. Coexistence is just relying upon Universal Existence actually.

Therefore how is it possible for Coexistence and Universal Existence to exist at the
same time even in future?

The birth and the death do never appear at the same time actually.

Even though it is possible for birth and death to be recognized as if they were at once.


6. Even though they are the same articles or the different articles, both are able to be
things accomplished.

And even in the case where there is no different article, the situations are the same as the
former case.

But in a case, that one thing and another thing are existing separately, it seems to be only
for the two cases as they exist.

How is it possible for them to be recognized as accomplished articles actually?


7. Coexistence does not exist at the any concrete residences at all.

And Coexistence does not exist at the any non-concrete residences at all.

Universal Existence does not exist in concrete existence.

But the Universal Existence does not belong to non-residence at all.


8. Both Coexistence and Universal Existence are,

Without their Existences they are never recognized at all.

Both the Coexistence and the Universal Existence are similarly,

If they do not have their existences, they are not recognized.


9. Both in the case of Coexistence and Universal Existence similarly,

If the balance of the autonomic nervous system does not manifest itself,

In the case of both Coexistence and Universal Existence similarly,

The unbalanced autonomic nervous system does not manifest itself.


10. When Coexistence and Universal Existence are perfectly the same,

What is called “not one,” does appear.

And when Coexistence and Universal Existence are perfectly the same,

What is called “can never be different” does not appear.


11. When Coexistence is seen there as it is clearly,

Universal Existence might exist clearly there as it is.

When Coexistence is also seen there as it is clearly,

It is very troublesome for Universal Existence to exist also there.


12. Being left from existence, existence does never be born.

Without being from non-existence, existence does never be born at all.

Without leaving non-existence, non-existence will be born.

Non-existence can not be born, leaving from existence.


13. Anything subjective, does never be born as existence,

And anything objective, does never be born as existence at all.

Neither anything subjective, nor anything objective, similarly,

Relying upon what kind of reason, is it possible for anyone to be born again and

again?


14. Even though the existences are approaching to get a teacher,

Whether it is eternal or extinctive can be seen with eyes.

Because the Real Existence can be seen as what has been born,

Even what hasn’t been looked at yet, can be seen also existing there as it is.


15. Even though the existences are approaching to get a teacher,

The situations have never been broken, nor been eternal forever.

Appearance, disappearance, and continuity,

Because relying upon result and relation of cause and effect, the existence is real.


16. Appearance, disappearance, and continuity,

Relying upon result and reason, the existence really exists there.

By passing through, relying upon the birth, which does never occur once more again,

Then the cutting the reason might be done presumably.


17. Belonging to the real existence, and relying upon subjective existence,

There is no concrete situation for the non-concrete existence to be bound by abstract
conditions at all.

In the time when we are staying in the serene state of the balanced autonomic nervous
system.

Relying upon the tranquility, even the existence itself will continue its no stopping
state further.


18. The ultimate ends are not always stopped,

And Existences are usually restraint by the most former top.

Even at the latest End, there is no situation, where any kind of hindrance does not
exist,

And Existences are usually restraint by the most former top.


19. When everything has been stopped, or at the latest end,

Then the earliest one at that time is born.

All kinds of stopping must be supposed to exist only one,

And so the simple fact of going on at the present moment can exist.


20. If the situation there, is not stopped actually,

The real situation of flying might be stopped.

And if the whole situations are stopped then,

Relying upon them, or relying upon miscellaneous things and phenomena, Birth will
be realized.


21. Following like this, relying upon the three kinds of time, past, present, and future, or
relying upon the time itself,

The talks about continuity of being born and the continuity of cause and effect, has
ended in talks.

Even in the three kinds of times, they do not really exist,

And so how is it possible for such a kind of stopping continuity of birth and continuity
of cause and effect?

[20] Examination of the Inclusive Grasp (24 verses)

1. Belonging to Reason or belonging to many Real Truths,

The Inclusive Grasp is born at that time.

Result exists also relying upon the Inclusive Grasp,

Therefore how is it possible for the Inclusive Grasp to be born newly?


2. Belonging to Reason or belonging to many RealTruths,

T he Inclusive Grasp is born at that time.

What is called result does never exist really receiving the influence of the Inclusive
Grasp,

And so how is it possible for the Inclusive Grasp to be born newly?


3. Belonging to Reason or belonging to many Real Truths,

There might be possibility for the Inclusive Grasp to be born in such a situation.

The Result exists really relying upon the Inclusive Grasp,

But how is it possible for the Inclusive Grasp to be born newly?


4. Belonging to Reason or belonging to many Real Truths,

Being helped by the Inclusive Grasp, there might be possibility for result not to exist
at all.

Many Reasons and many Truths are actually thrown away,

And what are not reasonable and what are not true might be full there.


5. Reason is usually given as result,

And so Reason is usually suppressed actually.

What is presented, can be what is neglected,

Because, relying upon Reason, the two kinds of factors of spirits might manifest
them.


6. When any result hasn't been given as the reason actually,

Then the reason should be erased at that time.

Relying upon the Reason, a birth is actually suppressed sometimes.

Then a result can be maintained without any kind of reason.


7. Result is also similar to the Inclusive Grasp.

And at that time also something spiritual manifests itself.

And the facts that both result and the Inclusive Grasp will appear together actually,

Suggests that such a kind of facts have been born really without fail.


8. Just before relying upon the Inclusive Grasp,

Result has possibility to manifest itself at that time.

When Reason and the Truth have been emancipated themselves,

There might be possible for result to be identified with something unreasonable.


9. When Result has been vanished,

The combination between relying upon Reason and following upon Reason, has existed,

Before being birth, actually from Reason,

The next birth must be cling to hesitation..


10. There is possibility that Result has been born having become bigger,

But how is it possible for suppressing birth to become weaker actually?

How is it possible for the establishment of Reason to be the cause of reducing the
Birth?

Relying upon result, the part, which has been concealed, has been kept by sheet.


11. Now, relying upon cause, the situations, which have been concealed, are like that.

Who among many people, does bear result?

Because it is not always true for a blind person not to look at anything absolutely,,

Therefore there is possibility for Reason to produce result.


12. Because being not included into the past, and because not relying upon the past,

Being included by result suggests to be relying upon cause.

In the case not without birth, or not with birth,

The real contact must be recognized without fail.


13. Because being not included to be born, or relying upon not be born,

Being included by result suggests to be relying upon cause.

Not relying upon the past, nor relying upon being born,

The real contact must be recognized without fail.


14. Because, not belonging to be born and relying upon to be born, are different,

Being included by result suggests to be relying upon cause.

Not relying upon not being born, and not relying upon disappearance,

The Inclusive Grasp is being recognized at every moment.

15. Because of the no-existence of the mutual contact, was the reason,

How is it possible for the result to be born?

The fact, or the clear meeting, is the reason, therefore,

How is it possible for the result will be born in future?


16. When Reason is in the balanced autonomic nervous system relying upon the result,

How is it necessary for us to dig up any kind of cause for such a state intentionally?

When even in the case that Reason has lost the balance of the autonomic nervous
system,

How is it necessary for us to dig up any kind of cause for such a state intentionally?


17. Result will never manifest itself as the unbalanced autonomic nervous system.

And the unbalanced autonomic nervous system will never be suppressed at all,

The state of no suppression also does not appear,

And the concrete fact of the unbalanced autonomic nervous system will continue
existing.


18. How is it possible for the balanced autonomic nervous system will appear in future?

And how is it possible that the balanced autonomic nervous system will disappear too?

The balanced state of the autonomic nervous system will never be obstructed.

And what hasn’t been accomplished yet is belonging to the secular society too much.


19. Belonging to Reason, and being included by Result, do not belong to the same group,

Because they do not appear together at the same time.

Belonging to Reason, and being included by Result, do not belong to the same group.

Because both Reason and Result have also possibility to be manifesting their images
together.


20. Result and Reason perhaps might have the common characteristics together.

It is just the combination between the power to bear, and the state to be born.

It might be in the oneness between result and reason,

Therefore Reason and without relying upon Reason might be similarly the same.


21. If Result is the subjective existence and the Real World.

How will it be possible that Reason will bear something in future.

If Result is the subjective existence, but not the Real World,

How will it be possible that Reason will bear something in future.


22. Never belonging to an agitators' intention,

But the reasonable attitude manifests itself actually.

When the reasonability hasn't manifested itself yet at all,

Where will it be possible for some result to exist at any place at all?


23. The Real Truth does never be included into miscellaneous Reasons.

This World utilizes the Soul well utilizing the Soul.

The Inclusive Grasp really grasps the Reality.

And so how is it possible for result to be born actually?


24. What has been created by the Inclusive Grasp, is not result?

What has not been created by the Inclusive Grasp is not result?

The Real Truth, which is just the Inclusive Grasp, exists actually.

Where is it possible for result not to exist really at all?

[19] Examination of Time (6 verses)

MMK (19) Examination of Time (6 verses)

1. The existence just at the present moment is the state that everything has never arrived at yet.

And at that time past is just the object of consideration mentally,

The existence just at the present moment is the state that everything has never arrived
at.

Therefore the past in time will exist in future actually.


2. The existence just at the present moment is the state that everything has never arrived
at yet,

The situations there might never exist once more again at all.

The existence just at the present moment is the state that everything has never arrived
at yet,

Perhaps, aha, what kind of consideration, does it belong?


3. An accomplishment is not so esteemed.

Past is not so recognized also.

Existing at the present moment hasn’t arrived at yet actually,

Therefore Time is not recognized yet.


4. Utilizing just this place what have been left are two,

The one is relying upon going on ahead, and the other one is relying upon
accomplishment.

Among the highest, the lowest, and the middle,

Selecting only one might be desirable actually.


5. Time can be grasped relying upon the fact that it does never stop.

Time, which has stopped, can never be found anywhere at all.

If Time is something, which has been caught, but at the same time hasn't been caught,

How is it possible for Time to be recognized at all?


6. Even though it is clear for Time to exist really,

In the case that Time really exists, where does it move actually?

If there were no existence of Time at all,

Where is it possible for time to exist really even in future at all?

[18] Examination of the Soul (12 verses)

1. If the Soul really exists as a part of the five kinds of aggregates,

The real facts of appearance, disappearance, and maintenance of the Soul,
must exist theoretically.

And if there were any kind of different aggregate, which is different from the five kinds
of aggregates,

It might be natural for the characteristic of something, which is different from the five
kinds of aggregates, to exist.


2. It is said that a person himself or herself exists with their Souls together,

But where is it possible to exist such fact even in future?

Not being egoistic suggests that they are perfectly free from the state of egoism.

Therefore the Soul, or co-existence of Souls, is similar to be as if they were fetters.


3. Being not egoistic and being free from egoism,

Are both real together, but such kinds of situations are never always recognized well.

Not being egoistic is similar to being free from egoism.

Such situations can be seen sometimes, but can’t be seen sometimes.


4. A title “my” or a title “I” has become very weak,

And avoiding God, the Soul is also in the same situation.

The self-regulation is just the action, which is useful for us,

Leaving from such area, and making our efforts to realize our whole mental functions, are our task.


5. To live in both Action and Delusion are just emancipations,

And it is true for Action and Delusion to manifest them reciprocally.

Both Action and Delusion are prone to develop themselves overcoming themselves,

And nowadays in the balance of the autonomic nervous system, some kinds of
disturbance have begun.


6. The problem, which is related with the Soul, is just a kind of disclosing secrets,

And the teaching that the Soul does not exist is just the true teachings.

Relying upon many Buddhas' opinions, the Soul does not exists, but spirit is not
deniable.

The insistence that "move it ahead!" might be just their teachings.


7. The abstract world is the world, which has been described with words.

Therefore the abstract world is very similar to a pasture, where thoughts can be
wandering like cows at random.

Because what hasn't been produced can never be governed by any thing,

The balanced autonomic nervous system is just the substance of the Universe.


8. All kinds of Real Entity can be thought as if it were not Real Entity too.

Real Entity and non-Real Entity can be thought as if they were the same.

They were never non-Reality, but they were never Reality.

This World is just Gautama Buddha's teachings themselves.


9. Nothing can overcome, and nothing can follow up. The Truth is just the balanced state
of the autonomic nervous system.

Relying upon miscellaneous kinds of expansion, there is some possibility for any
expansion not to exist.

The state without any doubt is different from having another aim,

And this World is just characteristics, which belongs to the concrete fact.


10. Each thing clearly exists one by one,

Because similarity between one thing and another is not so similar to each other,

The gap between one thing and another, is never so wide.

It is not cut with each other, but it is never eternal.


11. Not only for one aim, but neither having any aim,

Not being instantaneous, but neither being eternal,

The spot here is just the name of Gautama Buddha.

Belonging to many Buddhas, it is just the Universal Law, or Truth itself.


12. Even though ideas of the Soul do not have any influence to people called Buddhas,

People called Sravakas, who are diligent to study Buddhism theoretically, are not so
positive to the ideas of the Soul.

Among people called Pratyeka-buddhas, who revere natural circumstances, the
knowledge of the Soul might be increasing their learning,

But people, who do not enter to the organization, only begin the practice.

[17] Examination of the Fusion between Action and Resulf (33 verses)

MMK (17) Examination of the Fusion between Action and Result (33 verses)

1. The negative attitudes to the existence of Soul is an excellent decision,

The attitude to keep a distance from the Soul is that.

The friendship to others is just the real fact, and the Rule of the Universe is just the fact.

And the seeds as results are just the next world of this world.


2. They are both perception and the contents, which have been perceived,

And they are talked on Action, and they are very necessary to endure them.

In them there are so many articles, and they are divided into so many divisions,

And they are belonging to matter, which are so related with the states of Actions, and
some official proclamations.


3. In such situations, that kind of visibility is talked,

And a concrete fact, Action, is the mental teachings.

The individual soul is just what has been spoken there,

And concrete facts there, which are included by physical Action and verbal expressions.


4. Endless talks like dram without stop are the situations,

And those situations are just reporting the news without any information.

Those situations of lacking information might be very irregular states,

And memories might be stopped Actually.


5. Continuity of pursuing pleasures might be comfortable,

But unfortunately something impure usually exists only in such a kind of materialistic
place
.
What are clearly seen in such situations are the universal rules of the seven factors of
wisdom, that is, consciousness, investigation of the law, exertion, rapture, repose, the
balanced states, and serenity.

And so all things and phenomena are proclaiming that they are not ideas of existence.


6. Aha, my childhood, when I have established myself at that time,

My Action itself has become as big as my age,

And the self-regulations are sufficient as my self-regulations.

And so something real will be born as results in future.


7. And those young buds have separated from seeds,

And because of continuity in succession, the streams follow behind them.

Then as such continuity, fruits have begun to move separating from seeds.

Such a kind of work can never be expansion of any kind of work.


8. Just because of leaving seeds, the succession without break can continue.

And after breaking from the succession of continuity, then the harvest of fruits follows.

Before the seeds, there are fruits before them,

And there is no extinction, further more no eternity.


9. Therefore the task is continuity of consciousness,

And the mental power is always going on.

The developing power of result moves leaving mind,

And the real situations have arrived at the limitation of the expansion.


10. Leaving from the mind, then there is the continuous succession,

And then leaving from the continuous succession, there is some kind of effects, which
has come from the succession.

Action is before, and then result.

There is never any kind of extinction, and there is never any kind of eternity.
11. The direct and straight approach belongs to the Rules of the Universe,

And they are the Ten Kinds of True Buddhist Precepts.

The fruits are a kind of measure of perfect enjoyment,

And in the Universal Rule it is just as if it were death in this world.


12. By increasing favor and greatness,

When vices have made fabrications,

Those kinds of desirable Acts might be carried out perfectly by acting the behavior
concretely,

And relying upon such behaviors the desirable facts can be realized in front of us.



13. Now I would like to proclaim again that,

There have been said some kinds of fabrication set up as oath,

By many Buddhas, Pratyeka-Buddhas,

And by also Sravakas for explanations in detail.


14. Following the endless motion of the wings, the efforts have been continued until the
expected effects.

Relying upon such a process, the flying is just Action itself.

The four kinds of fundamental Matter, that is, the ground, water, fire, and air, are Real,

But the explanations of fundamental Matter are not sufficient yet in their explanations.


15. An absolutely stopping job is perfectly different from being sent only as a
messenger, for example.

The cause of existence is never only denial of estrangement.

Therefore during as far as possible for seeds to be maintained,

The births are continued relying upon Action.


16. The Action to stop might be occurred by being sent to a far distant place,

And so miscellaneous Actions are relying upon just to act itself.

Therefore miscellaneous vices are always relying upon whether we commit
them actually, or not.

Therefore in such situations the Action itself is just the destroyer of heartlessness.


17. All researches are related with lotus,

And are related with the whole Universe and Actions.

They are related upon similarities, which belong to Real Matter.

Something Only One manifests itself, which is totally Reality.


18. Actions and Actions can be seen.

The Universe manifests itself totally as Reality.

In the form of belonging to the two Fundamental Substances, that is, the Universe
or Something Real itself.

Something has been established as the Universe just perfectly matured in Real
Stability.


19. Results have also habits of passing through, and it is also Reality.

And the refusal from death is also stopped perfectly.

Our efforts of neglecting pains are also very severe pain,

And it is desirable for us to recognize the real allotments of shares actually.


20. The balance of the autonomic nervous system is never the cutting of the two.

And the wandering of up and down in our daily life does never continue forever.

Both being connected with Action and continuity of successful conditions,

Are the Rules of the Universe, which were taught to us by Gautama Buddha.


21. Action does never appear from anywhere at all.

The scarcity of wealth exists everywhere,

Therefore the wealth is not easy to be accomplished,

At the same time it is rather rare for wealth to be exhausted actually.


22. If Action is the fact of subjective existence,

It might be perhaps what is eternal without fail.

But at the same time it might be difficult for everyone even only to take a rest.

Because it might be perfectly impossible for eternity to be created at all.


23. Because the Action hasn't been done, there is sometimes possibility of warning not to
be done.

In that situation it might be possible for the Action not to be done.

There might be some possibility of not to maintain the vow actually,

And there the vices might be attached without fail.


24. To do some kinds of job are to receive an enveloping attack,

Therefore all situations of businesses similarly lose the time even to take a rest.

And so both people, neither who produce rightness, nor who produce wrongness, do not exist,

Therefore only dismemberment has been attached solely.


25. And even though a cook has been well cooked, and furthermore it has been well
cooked,

It might be cooked further just better again.

It is possible for Action to be placed into the systematic Order actually,

Therefore it might be possible for the situations to be identified with their own original
states actually.


26. The place, where Action has naturally included severe pain, is just this world.

However the severe pain is not only the real situation of facts there.

In the actual situations there, the severe pain is not all at that place.

Action might produce something, which is Real Fact itself,


27. Action and the severe pain are just belonging to physical bodies.

And many Truths are the contents, which are spoken with words.

When both Action and the severe pain are existing in the balanced autonomic nervous
system,

What kind and from what place those kinds of many bodies come from?


28. If it is true for human beings are ignorant and do not have ability to regulate
themselves,

The facts that desire should be regulated, are just Reality.

Real people, who are only enjoying their pleasure, are absolutely different from people,
who are actually working.

Another factors are not different from Reality, which is the just the same as Reality.


29. The Truth has never been produced.

At the same time what is not the Truth has never appeared at once.

Therefore this world really exists as Action.

Because of that, just the distinction does never exist since that time.


30. And if Action does not have any distinction actually,

Where it might be always possible for what has been born is result.

Then does it possible for a person, who is living for only such kind of enjoyment, to
arrive at the situation?

Where will it be possible for such a situation to be experienced even in future at all?


31. In such situations, what has been established, has got the position of a Ruler
already,

And the facts, that the urgent ruler has been established already, are grasping the power
to hold the urgent political situations confirmly.

In such a situation, the fact that the building has been established already, is completely
different from the situation, that the measurement has been finished already.

And so actually speaking the facts that the construction has been accomplished already,

Might have the absolute meaning that the building has been accomplished already..


32. In such situations what has been established is just a figure, which can be seen from
outside,

And the establisher is that person, and this is just what has been created.

The concrete thing, which exists there, is different from what has been constructed,

And what has been established and what has been measured, are existing there.


33. Miscellaneous kinds of Pain, miscellaneous kinds of Action, miscellaneous kinds of
bodies and,

Miscellaneous kinds of workers and, miscellaneous results and,

Gandharva City without prison,

The Sun Beam, sleep, and so on.