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I open my heart and send forth my energy of love and understanding to everyone who has made me suffer, to those who have destroyed much of my life and the lives of those I love. 

I know now that these people have themselves undergone a lot of suffering and that their hearts are overloaded with pain, anger, and hatred. I pray that they can be transformed to experience the joy of living, so that they will not continue to make themselves and others suffer. I see their suffering and do not want to hold any feelings of hatred or anger in myself toward them. I do not want them to suffer. I channel my energy of love and understanding to them and ask all my ancestors to help them.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

All phenomena of samsara and nirvana are your own mind.

The Quest for Buddhism (99)

Buddhist cosmology

Course of rebirth and liberation

The Buddhist cosmology is not a literal description of the shape of the universe, rather, it is  the universe as seen through the divyacaksus (Abhijna: higher knowledge Ref), the “divine eye” by which a Buddha or an arhat can perceive all beings arising (being born) and passing away (dying) within various worlds, and can tell from what state they have been reborn, and into which state they will be reborn.

Beings can be reborn as devas (gods), humans, animals, asuras (demigod or　titans), pretas (“hungry ghosts”), and as inhabitants of the hell realms.

The process by which sentient beings migrate from one state of existence to another is dependent on causes and conditions. The three causes are giving or charity, moral conduct, meditative development, and their opposites. Rebirth in the Kama-loka (desire realm) depends on a person’s moral conduct and practice of giving. Rebirth in the Rupa-loka (form realm) and Arupa-loka (formless realm) also requires meditation development (=dhyana) (Ref2). Liberation from all rebirth requires wisdom in addition to moral conduct and meditation (Ref3).

仏教の探求 (99)

仏教の宇宙論

生まれ変わりと解脱の経路

仏教の宇宙論は、宇宙の形を文字どおりに記述したものではなく、ブッダや阿羅漢が、様々な世界の中で生起 (生まれ)、消滅 (死) していくすべての存在を感知し、どのような状態に生まれ変わったか、どのような状態に生まれ変わるかを見分けることができる「神の目」であるディビャカクシュ(六神通、梵：アビジュニャー参照)を通して見る宇宙のことを指す。

生物は、デーヴァ（神）、人間、動物、アスラ（半神または巨人）、プレタ（餓鬼）、そして地獄の住人として生まれ変わる。

We live in a world that is not perfectible, a world that always presents you with a sense of something undone, something missing, something hurting, something irritating. From that minor sense of discomfort to torture and poverty and murder, we live in that kind of universe. The wound that does not heal—this human predicament is a predicament that does not perfect itself. But there is the consolation of no exit, the consolation that this is what you’re stuck with. Rather than the consolation of healing the wound, of finding the right kind of medical attention or the right kind of religion, there is a certain wisdom of no exit: this is our human predicament and the only consolation is embracing it. It is our situation, and the only consolation is the full embrace of that reality.

“He who knows that both the manifest (sakara) and the unmanifest (nirakara) are really one, overcomes death through the manifest and obtains immortality through the unmanifest.”

“Together we are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the end. None is deprived of pain here and we have all suffered in our own ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let us help each other survive.”

It is so easy to reach me.

With just your true heart it is easy to reach me.

It requires only the qualities of faith and devotion and you sincerely accept me into your heart and mind.

With a heart full of loving-kindness and compassion towards others and a mind that is pure and free from wants, rewards and recognition.

Don’t look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.