Wednesday 29 February 2012

Life is not our business
So much that we make it our business
We suffer.
Unless we make it our business
We do not suffer from it at all
When we are wakeful that life is suffering
We never try to make it our business
We never try to activate our blind ego;
We are careful to reflect on ourselves
We find problems on ourselves, not on others
We resolve the problem by ourselves
We observe true nature of all phenomena
We realize the basic truth
We know that everyone is the same
We experience that hurting others is hurting one
We become aware that infatuation is poisoning oneself
We know that when we eat too much, we become obese and heavy
We know that if we drink too much we become groggy and addicted
If we are too much fond of women, we are captivated by them
And we lose trust.
We know that if we are attached too much to money
We become a miser
We realize that if we are too much proud,
We become vain
We understand that if we are too much intelligent,
We become narrow sighted and unwise
We observe that if we become too powerful,
We become arrogant
We see that if we are over protected,
We become selfish
How much we want to know the secrect of nature,
It is impossible for us to fathom the size of space,
It is impossible to know the beginning of life.
We have to know that our consciousness is the last comer in the universe,
We become aware that we are existing without our conscious recognition
We do not breathe with our consciousness;
We do not circulate blood with our voluntary muscles.
We cannot control our digestive system;
Much less control our urinary system.
Even we cannot control our mind and consciousness;
We cannot decide what we think and how we feel;
All these brainwork goes on by themselves.
Only thing under our control is a tiny bit of body and mind, superficial part of our daily preferences and selection.
We are easily and often confused and frustrated feeling that things do not go well.
We have to admit that the portion of our arbitration is very small.
If we ignore this fact, we are totally lost.
Still we become aware that we are alive and breathing.
We have to admit that we are not living, but are enlivened by our breathing.
Breathing existed prior to our consciousness and substantial body.
Breathing is universal activity that truly initiates formation and disintegration.
When we meditate focussing on our breaths
Just breathing in and out, out and in
Any time and place, with any postures and under any conditions
Breaking through all the hindrances and disturbances
Seeing true nature of ourselves as empty as space or energy
When we are merely space and energy,
We realize that nothing is either painful or comfortable
All are the same taste and flavor
All are the same substance and entity
As it is coming and going
We transcend small ego and substantial body to liberate us from the ignorance and limited knowledge, sensual pleasure and cowardly fear
Just air is coming out and going out
We manifest that we are tathagata, thus gone and thus come
When we realize that life is tatha (thus),
We see everything as it is;
We realize that all are buddhas
Buddhas are all
All phenomena in the universe is just coming and going
Appearing and disappearing
No matter how they are favorable or unfavorable
How much are they welcome or unwelcome
All are the same and perfect
As it is thus gone and thus come
Tathagata and Tathagate
When we see that everything does occur and banish at this moment
When we hear that all things appear and disappear at this instant
We are aware of that all lives are simply natural phenomena
We understand that life is the universal truth
Life is not under anybody’s arbitration or command
Not the business of any gods or creators
That we cannot decide anything as we wish
It is simply matter of interaction
Creating and annihilating at this instant
However, they are minor or major; simple or complicated,
The basic rule is the exchange of the constituents
Transition and transformation of the forms and masses
We know that our ego is only the inner entity of a matter
That goes together with the entirety
We know that our knowledge or experiences are a tiny bit of interaction
We admit that our nervous system and brain is the recent production of universal interaction
Thus we have to surrender us to the fact that all are Tathagata
That all are buddhas and perfect
No matter how, when, where under what condition they exist or non-exist
Do not be stupid and ignorant
Do not be confused and painful
Do not doubt or suspect
Just be ready to be annihilated under any circumstances or any occasion.
Realizing and manifesting the ultimate rule of universe
Otherwise we suffer
We suffer
We suffer
There is no consolation
There is neither goal nor conclusion.
Just practice, meditate, and manifest the ultimate wisdom of Tathagata.
Just achieve emptiness
Just gain the liberation

Natsuo Shibuya

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