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Satisfied with little desire - Letting go of your desires - Part1

―Hiro Sachiya (b. 27 July 1936 - ) is a Japanese religious analyst

In his essay, he advocates, through the Buddha's teaching of "little desire, knowing what’s enough", that there is no need for hope. Be grateful for the present and enjoy it. This Buddhist philosophy could be the starting point of "mindfulness":

The Buddha was ordained at the age of 29. To be ordained means to leave home and become homeless. In other words, a person who has abandoned the world.

The first place the Buddha went to after his ordination was Rajagriha in Magadha (now Rajgir, Bihar), the capital and bustling metropolis of what was then India's greatest power. One day, the king of Magadha saw the Buddha walking gracefully through the streets, in distance. The king was so moved by his nobility that he immediately met with the Buddha and offered him half of Magadha on the extraordinary condition that he would renounce his ordination, and serve as an officer in Magadha. The Buddha refused it outright.

"I did not to be ordained to fulfil my desires. I have left, because I knew that desire is dangerous."These are the words of the Buddha. This means that to be ordained - to renounce the world - is to renounce desire.　

So, what is 'desire'?

The desire to eat well, to wear "beautiful clothes", to live in a comfortable place, to get ahead, to be honoured, to have power... There are many desires. These desires are, in essence, the desire to be happy.

The trouble with these desires is that there is no limit to them. We want to be happy, and we try to get money to do it. But as soon as they get a bit of money, they want more and more. There is no end to human greed. The more they are fulfilled, the more they grow. That is the nature of desire.

Then, even if we want to be happy, we can never be happy.

For example, you want to live in a bigger house just because the one you are living in is too small. As soon as you think this, you will feel miserable and unhappy in your current home. And in order to buy a bigger house, you will have to work hard, gruellingly and irritatingly. Even if you are lucky enough to move into a bigger house, you will probably not be satisfied with it. There are many inconveniences that arise and you want to move to a better place.

This is what the Buddha meant when he said that desire is dangerous.

In Buddhism, the word for "desire" is "trisna". This Sanskrit word means "thirst". Suppose your ship is wrecked and you are in a lifeboat waiting to be rescued. But you have no drinking water. If you drink seawater, will it quench your thirst? No, it won't. The more you drink, the more thirsty you will become.

The more you satisfy a desire, the more it grows. The first thing to do is to recognise that this is what desire is all about. [To be continued]

少欲知足〜「欲望」を捨てる –[その1]

ーひろさちや（1936年7月27日生 - ）は、日本の宗教評論家

氏は、「少欲知足」という釈迦の教えを通して、自己のエッセイの中で「希望なんていりません。今に感謝して楽しむ心を持ちましょう」と提唱する。この仏教哲学はまさに「マインドフルネス」の原点とも言えるだろう：

釈迦は29歳で出家をされました。出家というのは家を出てホームレスになることです。つまり、世間を捨てた人です。

出家した釈迦が最初に行かれた土地は、その当時インド第一の大国の首都で、殷賑を極めた大都会、マガダ国の王舎城（おうしゃじょう：ラージャグリハ、現在のビハール州ラジギール）でした。ある日、マガダ国の王の視界に、ゆったりと街路を歩む釈迦の姿が映ります。

その高貴なる姿に感動した王は、すぐさま釈迦と面談し、マガダ国の半分を譲るという破格の条件で、釈迦に出家をやめて還俗し、マガダ国に士官するように誘導します。釈迦はそれをにべなく断りました。「わたしは欲望をかなえるために出家したのではない。欲望が危険であることを知って出家したのだ。」それが釈迦の言葉です。

つまり、出家ー世間を捨てるーとは欲望を捨てることなのです。

では、「欲望」とは何でしょうか？

おいしい物を食べたい、綺麗な服を」着たい、快適な住居に住みたい、出世をしたい、名誉や権力を得たい…さまざまな欲望があります。これらの欲望は、要するに幸福になりたいといった欲ですね。こうした欲望が困るのは、それに歯止めがないことです。

わたしたちは幸福になりたいと思って、そのためにお金を手に入れようとします。しかし、少しでもお金が手に入ると、ますます欲望がふくらみます。欲望は、それが充足されればされるほど、ますますふくらむものなのです。それが欲望の本質です。

そうすると、わたしたちは幸福になりたいと思っても、絶対に幸福になることはできないのです。

例えば、現在住んでいる家が狭いからといって、もっと広い家に住みたいと思います。そう思ったとたん、現在の住居が惨めに思え、不幸になります。そして広い家を購入するために、あくせく、がつがつ、いらいらしながら働かねばなりません。幸いにも広い住居に移ることができても、たぶんそれで満足できないでしょう。いろいろと不便な点が出てきて、もっといい所に引っ越したくなります。

釈迦が欲望は危険だと言われたのは、このことです。

仏教で「欲望」のことを”トリシュナー”と言います。このサンスクリット語は「渇き」を意味する語です。船が難破してあなたは救命ボートで救助を待っているとします。しかし、飲料水がありません。そこで、海水を飲めばその海水はのどの渇きを潤してくれるでしょうか？反対ですね。海水を飲めば飲むほど、ますます渇きがひどくなります。

欲望は、それを充足すればするほど、ますます膨らむのです。欲望というものはそういうものだと、まずはしっかりと認識してください。[続く]

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