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  by Gudo NISHIJIMA

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[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?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

[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?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

[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.

Friday, November 6, 2009

[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.