英語難民と英語貴族
2019.9.18
仏教用語、持戒を英語で説明する！マジか？
昨日の内容を英語にします！
Six commandments that a famous entrepreneur brought from the universe
Mr. Inamori, during the workshop for business leaders in Japan, spoke about the ultimate objective of our lives. In his speech, he mentioned the six virtues that Buddhism monks should conduct. As one of those six virtues, Mr. Inamori spent some time for JIKAI: keeping commandments. He also explained more about the six commandments to be maintained. Those commandments, from my point of view, seem to be closely linked with the mental block removal and therefore, I would like to spend some time to demonstrate how our daily lives is associated with the antient Buddhism wisdom handed over many years.
Q: What are those six commandments under Buddhism philosophy?
A: below six are the objectives to be intentionally controlled in our daily lives.
- Avarice: always seeking what you feel missing in your life.
- Fury: excessive and strong anger towards others
- Envy: looking at others without noticing what you already possess
- Arrogance: showing off what you have and reinforcing affirmation towards you
- Doubts: observing your environment with biased eyes and growing your doubts
- Suspicious views: analyzing your environment and events with suspicions
Q: How do you analyze Avarice from mental block counseling view point?
A: this is better to be explained through the natural rules: you got robbed as you had robbed him/her first. If you take something from others, you would get taken something from you. There are many people suffering from difficulties occurred in their lives and most of them got trapped in minus spiral where a lot of minus energy has been exchanged. Minus energy is released in minus action, which is intended to rob something from others. Even though you don’t intend, your counterpart feel robbed, your action ends up as the minus action release. If your counterpart feels you robbed his energy, money, labor, honesty, trust, the minus spiral begins and you may have to feel the same sense: I am the one who was robbed!
Q: What about the fury?
A: Generally, under fury, there must be the second emotion and fury is the camouflage. Thus, to manage your anger, it’s worth exploring your emotion, the anger. In my session, I usually ask my client why you get so upset? What irritated you most. What do you think the way how he/she treated you? As the secondary emotion, some feel loneliness, sadness, guilty, insulted… Thus, looking at the emotion is quite important.
Q: Envy, how do people have to manage this to keep mental health?
A: Envy comes first from your feeling of “missing”. If you feel you lack something, you would always be obsessed with the idea of how to fill yourself. Thus, you unintentionally try to take something from others. In my session, I identify clients’ desire: what do you think you are missing now. Is it actually necessary? Why?
Q: How would you analyze the arrogance?
A: I would like to show you an example of Japanese famous entrepreneur. He has demonstrated unique propaganda, campaigns and advertisements. For instance, setting up an internet market, giving 10,000USD internet bonus for 100 customers, dating with a famous fashion model, watching football game with his private jet, provoking twitter arguments, etc. Although he made a lot of fortune, he has not been liked by Japanese businessmen. Presumably, people are getting tired of his showing off campaigns. Most of audiences realize that the entrepreneur has never got fulfilled and he just keeps asking affirmation to the society. I feel the arrogance has sometimes been seen as such actions of seeking affirmation toward him.
Q: So what about doubts? Don’t we have to have doubts?
A: Doubt is another transformation of your mental blocks. For instance, a president of a company used to tell me “ I don’t quite remember what he actually said but he obviously complained me about his salary…” I think that president did not intentionally listen to that employee and heard what he said through the filter that president developed in his mind. Thus, eventually what you hear is the reflection of your own mind blocks.
Q: Finally, suspicious views, even for those who have open mind, would you think they have to be careful to maintain such views?
A: Basically yes. Under recent brain science, what we perceive is simply the reflection of our mind, the perception of objects that captured through your mind. Mind has been influenced by your mind block thus your perception is a sort of reflection of your mind blocks. I can’t get along with people, the word is full of vicious intentions, my father/ mother never be happy with my performance… all of them a sort of realization of the event. Those realized images are developed through your biased view.
