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English: It is said, however, that Genkyo had no interest in women and whenever a woman made advances, as soon as he finished collecting offerings from believers and eating Otoki (a meal served at a Buddhist memorial service), he said 'Well, have a good day' and started to run at full speed again.
Japanese: ただ、女性には全く興味がなく、言い寄る女性があっても、信徒のお布施とお斎を済ませれば、「はい、さようなら」と一目散にまた走り出したという。
English: Having a weakness for sake, there were some incidents where Genkyo ran into a post when drunk and bumped his nose, and that he was taken to a police box, but it is said that as soon as he was identified as the 'Running Priest,' he was immediately let go.
Japanese: 酒には目がなく、酔っ払って走り、電柱に鼻柱をぶつけたり、交番に連れて行かれたこともあったが、「走り坊主」であることが判明すると、難なく放免されたという。
English: On November 20, 1918, Genkyo died from the influenza that swept throughout Japan.
Japanese: 1918年（大正7年）11月20日、日本中を席捲した流行性感冒によって亡くなった。
English: It is said that Genkyo never stopped drinking even after falling ill with influenza and continued to drink until he died.
Japanese: 感冒によって病に臥した後も、飲酒をやめることなく、飲み通して亡くなったという。
English: In 1993, the life of Genkyo was covered by a TV show "Do Detectives! Scoop at Night" and in 1995, a picture book entitled the "Running Priest in Kyoto" (written by Yoshihisa AZUMA and illustrated by Kofu MUI), an adaptation based on the deeds performed by the real Running Priest, was published by Creo (ISBN 4906371795).
Japanese: 1993年（平成5年）には、『探偵!ナイトスクープ』でも取り上げられ、1995年（平成7年）には、『京の走り坊さん』という、実在の走り坊さんの事績を元にして翻案した絵本（著・東義久、絵・無以虚風）が、クレオから出版されている（ISBN4906371795）。
English: The origin of Torin-in Temple lies in Sanyu-in Temple which was erected in 1531 by Ujitsuna HOSOKAWA to pray to Buddha for the happiness of his deceased father, and was located in present Kamigyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 享禄4年（1531年）、細川氏綱が父の菩提を弔うため現在の京都市上京区に建てた三友院を起源とする。
English: In 1556, Toyokuni YAMANA relocated Sanyu-in Temple to the grounds of Myoshin-ji Temple, changing its name to the current Torin-in Temple.
Japanese: 弘治(日本)2年（1556年）に山名豊国が妙心寺山内に移し、現在の「東林院」と改名した。
English: At this time Torin-in Temple became the ancestral temple of the Yamana clan from the original family temple of the Hosokawa clan.
Japanese: このときに東林院は細川氏菩提寺から山名氏菩提寺に転じて現在に至っている。
English: The present resident priest Genbo NISHIKAWA is well-known as a Buddhist vegetarian food researcher, currently offering a Buddhist vegetarian cooking class (by appointment only) on Tuesdays and, in addition, reservations for a party of 3 or more are accepted for sampling a Buddhist vegetarian meal on the premises.
Japanese: 現住職の西川玄坊は精進料理研究家として著名であり、現在は毎週火曜日に精進料理教室（要予約）を開いているほか、3名以上で予約すれば精進料理を食べることも可能である。
English: Torin-ji Temple is not open to the public as a rule but special admission is permitted on the occasions of the 'rice and azuki bean porridge party' in January and the 'sal tree viewing' event in June every year.
Japanese: 基本的に非公開寺院であるが、毎年1月の「小豆粥の会」6月の「沙羅双樹を愛でる会」の時は特別拝観可能である。
English: Goma is a phonetic translation of a Sanskrit word 'homa' into Japanese.
Japanese: 護摩（ごま）とは、サンスクリットのホーマを音訳して書き写した語である。
English: It is a Brahmanic ritual, described in the holy writings of Vedas, which began around 2000 BC in India and it is considered to have been adopted into Buddhism during the process of Mahayana Buddhism's coming into existence approximately 500 years after the death of Shakyamuni.
Japanese: インドでは紀元前2000年ごろにできたヴェーダ聖典に出ているバラモン教の儀礼で、仏教には釈尊入滅約500年後に発生した大乗仏教の成立の過程でバラモン教から取り入れられた、と考えられている。
English: Goma, therefore, is a practice peculiar to esoteric Buddhism (a school of Mahayana Buddhism) and does not exist in Theravada Buddhism which is supposed to approximate the actual teachings of Shakyamuni in his own words.
Japanese: そのため、護摩は密教（大乗仏教の一派）にのみ存在する修法であり、釈尊の直説に近いとされる上座部仏教には存在しない。
English: This ceremony evolved from a simple ritual to win god's grace by burning firewood cut into sticks in a Goma fire pit while throwing various offerings into the fire for the fire god to carry the offerings, transformed into smoke, to heaven.
Japanese: 護摩の炉に細長く切った薪木を入れて燃やし、炉中に種々の供物を投げ入れ、火の神が煙とともに供物を天上に運び、天の恩寵にあずかろうとする素朴な信仰から生まれたものである。
English: There is an external goma fire ritual where one prays by building a fire in the gomadan (an altar for the fire ceremony) in which offerings and subsequently the gomaki (wood for ritual burning) are thrown, and an internal goma fire ritual where one regards oneself as the gomadan itself which is lit by the fire of the Buddha's prajna (wisdom) in order to burn away bonno (earthly desires) and karma (sins).
Japanese: 護摩壇に火を点じ、火中に供物を投じ、ついで護摩木を投じて祈願する外護摩と、自分自身を壇にみたて、仏の智慧の火で自分の心の中にある煩悩や業に火をつけ焼き払う内護摩とがある。
English: 1. The prayer for safety and good health: to pray to circumvent various calamities including drought, wind storms, floods, earthquakes, and fires; personal sufferings and the overcoming of earthly desires are also included in the prayer.
Japanese: 1.息災法（そくさいほう）…災害のないことを祈るもので、旱魃、強風、洪水、地震、火事をはじめ、個人的な苦難、煩悩も対象。
English: 2.The prayer for happiness: to pray not only to circumvent calamities but also to increase happiness in a proactive manner.
Japanese: 2.増益法（そうやくほう）…単に災害を除くだけではなく、積極的に幸福を倍増させる。
English: With its objective being to suppress evil-deeds, it is performed by an Ajari (a master in esoteric Buddhism; a high priest) who is superior to priests performing the other categories of prayer.
Japanese: 悪行をおさえることが目的であるから、他の修法よりすぐれた阿闍梨がこれを行う。
English: 4. The Keiai-ho prayer: in contrast to Chobuku, this is a prayer to respect and love others and to wish for a peaceful world.
Japanese: 4.敬愛法（けいあいほう）…調伏とは逆に、他を敬い愛する平和円満を祈る法。
English: 5. The Kocho-ho prayer: a prayer to attract Shoson (a generic term for entities to be respected in Buddhism such as Nyorai (Tathagata), Bosatsu (Bodhisattva), Myoo and heaven), Zenjin (good deities) and those one loves.
Japanese: 5.鉤召法（こうちょうほう）…諸尊・善神・自分の愛する者を召し集めるための修法。
English: The goma service performed outdoors is referred to as the Saito goma, with the Shingon sect line Tozan school using the kanji meaning 'firewood light' for 'Saito' as it was impossible to decorate the esoteric tools such as Buddha statues and temples in a formal manner in the mountains where they built the gomadan with firewood or logs, whereas the Tendai sect line Honzan school uses the kanji meaning 'receiving the light' as that school acquires light from the saito of the Shingon sect line Tozan school to perform the goma.
Japanese: 野外において修される護摩法要を、柴燈・採燈（灯）（さいとう）護摩というが、真言系当山派では、山中で正式な密具の荘厳もままならず、柴や薪で檀を築いたので「柴燈」とし、天台系本山派では、真言当山派の柴燈から採火して護摩を修するようになったので「採燈」という。
English: Additionally, the Shinnyo-en Buddhist Order, one of the new religions adopting the teaching of the Shingon sect line Tozan school uses the kanji meaning 'equally bring together to improve' because the goma burns away every suffering from the effects of karma and fate.
Japanese: また、新宗教の一つでありつつも真言系当山派の法流を汲む真如苑では、すべての因縁業苦を焼き、一切を救うことから、「ひとしく、まとめて、ととのえる」という意味を持つ「斉燈」の字を当てている。
English: Gomakasu' means to cover up to avoid something disadvantageous, but one theory suggests the word originates from 'goma.'
Japanese: 「誤魔化（ごまか）す」とは、不利益を被らないように取り繕うという意味だが、「護摩」が語源という説がある。
English: This word began to be used in the Edo Period and it has been suggested that there were numerous incidents where ordinary ashes were sold as ashes from the goma fire ritual performed by Kukai (Kobo Daishi) whereby the term 'magirakasu' (to disguise) evolved to 'gomakasu' (to disguise) consisting of 'goma' and the same conjunction 'kasu' used in 'magirakasu.'
Japanese: この言葉は江戸時代以降から見られる言葉であるが、これはただの灰であるのに、空海（弘法大師）の修法した護摩の灰と称し偽って売り歩いた輩が横行したことから、紛（まぎ）らかすと同じ接続詞である「かす」がついて「誤魔化す」となったという説である。
English: However, there are additional explanations concerning the origin of the word 'gomakasu' where 'gomakasu' derived from the fact that there was no way of knowing what was written on the gomaki wood which was to be burned anyway, that it originated from 'gomakashi' (goma pastry) having a hollow middle with no filling inside and that one could always sprinkle some sesame seeds (goma) on pastries to disguise its unsavory taste.
Japanese: しかし、誤魔化すの語源はこの説以外にも、護摩木は火にくべるため何が書いてあったか分からないから『護摩化す』、とか、「胡麻菓子（ごまかし）」の中が空洞になっていることから、や、胡麻をかければ不味い菓子の味がごまかせるから、という説もある。
English: Zen (the Zen sect) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism which is regarded as having been established in China after being transmitted from India by Daruma (Bodhidharma).
Japanese: 禅（ぜん,Zen.禅宗）は、達磨がインドから中国に伝えて成立したとされる大乗仏教の一派。
English: It does not have a central sutra because of the principle of furyumonji (the thought that the status of enlightenment cannot be expressed in characters or discourses) and emphasizes shishi sosho (transmission of the teachings and the way of Buddhism from a teacher to a disciple) because of the principle of transmission of spiritual awakening without words or characters and in a heart-to-heart way.
Japanese: 不立文字を原則とするため中心的経典を立てず、教外別伝を原則とするため師資相承を重視する。
English: It is characterized by various means such as occasion-suited telepathy (direct communication from mind to mind) for those principles.
Japanese: そのための臨機応変な以心伝心の方便など、種々の特徴をもつ宗派である。
English: Its basic form of ascetic practices is meditation, which has been an important type of virtue for the basic practice of Buddhism since ancient times, and the Buddhist group which practiced mediation began to be called Zen sect from the end of the Tang Dynasty in China.
Japanese: 坐禅を基本的な修行形態とするが、坐禅そのものは古くから仏教の基本的実践の重要な徳目であり、坐禅を中心に行う仏教集団が禅宗と呼称され始めたのは中国の唐代末期からである。
English: Later, when the origin of the Zen sect was actively sought, in accordance with its establishment, Daruma was regarded as the founder.
Japanese: 後に、禅宗発祥に伴ってその起源を求める声が高まり、初祖と考えられたのが達磨である。
English: The Zen which Daruma introduced was that of Mahayana Buddhism of ryogi (teaching the whole truth after clarifying it), different from that in early Buddhist schools.
Japanese: 達磨のもたらした禅は部派仏教における禅とは異なり、了義大乗の禅である。
English: The term Zen generally refers to the Zen sect, but also refers to zenna (a practice to attain enlightenment on the truth with calm emotion and clear mind) depending on a context or a case.
Japanese: 単に禅という場合は一般に禅宗を指すが、文脈や場合によって禅那を指す。
English: Since Gotama Siddhattha (Shakyamuni, Buddha), the founder of Buddhism, gave the missionary work of Buddhism to Mahakasyapa (Judai deshi (The Ten Chief Disciples of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni)) as the Right Dharma of furyumonji and the transmission of spiritual awakening without words or characters, it has been succeeded up until the 28h Bodhidharma (Bodai Daruma).
Japanese: 仏祖ゴータマ・シッダールタ（釈迦、仏陀）が不立文字・教外別伝の正法としてマハーカーシャパ（十大弟子）に仏法伝授の使命を授け、以来受け継がれて28代目のボーディダルマ（菩提達磨）に至った。
English: In China it was succeeded by sixth generations from Daruma to Daikan Zenshi, and was succeeded from Kido Chigu to Daio Kokushi (the most reverend priest) and Daito Kokushi in Japan after the emergence of Goke Shichishu (five sects and seven schools derived from the original Zen Buddhism), which led to the present Zen.
Japanese: 中国では達磨から6代つたわって大鑑禅師に至り、五家七宗の勃興後に虚堂智愚から日本の大応国師、大燈国師へと伝わって今日に至る。
English: It aims to develop a new concept of values based on experience to access the truth of Buddhism directly through continuous ascetic practices called mediation, in order to rediscover the Buddhahood which is fundamentally equipped in all people's minds without exception.
Japanese: 全ての人が例外なく自分自身の内面に本来そなえている仏性を再発見するために、坐禅と呼ぶ禅定の修行を継続するなかで、仏教的真理に直に接する体験を経ることを手段とし、その経験に基づいて新たな価値観を開拓することを目指す。
English: Its purpose is to clear the juni-innen (the 12 nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)) of Shogyo Mujo (All things must pass) with the wisdom (prajna in Sanskrit) evoked by the enlightenment gained through the above process, to reach nirvana after diminishing the nidanas and being liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man, and to lead all living things finally.
Japanese: そうして得た悟りから連想される般若を以て諸行無常の十二因縁を明らかにし、次いで因縁を滅ぼして苦しみの六道を解脱して涅槃に至り、その後に一切の衆生を導くことを目的とする。
English: Therefore, it is regarded as the true way to show the nature directly without using words except for the direct teaching from a master to a practitioner of austerities on a case-by-case basis.
Japanese: そのため師家が修行者に面と向かって臨機応変に指導する以外には、言葉を使わずに直に本性を指し示す道であるとされる。
English: The reason why mediation is adopted as a major form of ascetic practice is that many Buddha were regarded to reach enlightenment through mediation from ancient times, other than the fact that Daruma Daishi introduced mediation.
Japanese: 主な修行形態として坐禅を採用するのは、達磨大師が坐禅の法を伝えたとする以外にも、古来より多くの諸仏が坐禅によって悟りを開いてきたからであるとされる。
English: Recently, some professors of physiology say that the activation and building up of serotonergic neurons and the emergence of unusual particular alpha waves (alpha wave) by practicing mediation leads to inner stability and health of mind and body.
Japanese: 最近は、坐禅によってセロトニン神経が活性化され鍛えられることや、通常とは異なる独特なアルファ波が発生することが、精神的安定や心身の健康の一因であるという生理学教授もいる。
English: However, since a person who reaches the mental state where he or she is fundamentally the same entity as Buddha comes to have the value that all activities include Buddhism, he or she also comes to practice nenbutsu (Buddhist prayer) and sutra chanting as well as mediation.
Japanese: ただし、自分も根本的には仏祖と同一であるという境地に到達した者には、一切の行動にことごとく仏道が含まれているという価値観が生じるため、坐禅に限らず念仏や読経も行うようになる。
English: The Zen sect tends to dislike metaphysical questions such as what the Zen sect is.
Japanese: 禅宗においては、そもそも禅宗とはなにかといったメタな問いかけを嫌う傾向にある。
English: This is because the answer to such a question should be to be aware by oneself individually through the enlightenment gained by mediation, and because what is taught by others goes against the true intention of the Zen sect to return to the inner nature since one's consciousness has already faced outside instead of inside.
Japanese: そのような疑問の答えは、坐禅修行によって得た悟りを通して各々が自覚する事が最上であるとされ、もし人からこういうものだと教わりうる性質のものであるならば、それは既に意識が自身の内奥ではなく外へ向かっているため、内面の本性に立ち返るという禅宗の本意に反するとされるからである。
English: The other reason is that it avoids to fix the idea or discernment as a 'biased view' or 'obsession' based on the selfish interpretation, and that it encourages to discern after reaching the free mental state escaped from the biased view through mediation as a non biased discernment.
Japanese: もう一つの理由として、概念の固定化や分別を、わがままな解釈に基づく「とらわれ」「妄想」であるとして避けるためであり、坐禅修行によってとらわれを離れた自由な境地に達してのちに、そこから改めて分別することをとらわれなき分別として奨励するからである。
English: The reason to recommend mediation with avoiding to teach by characters and words is that not only it believes strongly the historical events of telepathy in Seson nenge, Kasho bisho (when Buddha held up a the flower on his deathbed, only Mahakassapa smiled among his disciples by knowing what he meant), but also it preaches that it prevents the accomplishment of Buddhism to seek Buddha in sutras and others with forgetting the fact that Buddha exists in the inner bottom of oneself.
Japanese: 文字や言葉で教えることを避けて坐禅を勧める理由として、世尊拈華、迦葉微笑における以心伝心の故事を深く信奉しているという以外にも、自分の内奥が仏であることを忘れて経典や他人の中に仏を捜しまわることがかえって仏道成就の妨げになるからであると説く。
English: Even if you explain about water, you can not be wet actually, and even if you explain about fire very well, you can not feel hot actually.'
Japanese: 「水のことを説明しても実際には濡れないし、火をうまく説明しても実際には熱くならない。
English: It is the same as you can not feel clearly unless you touch real water and real fire.'
Japanese: 「本当の水、本物の火に直に触ってみなければはっきりと悟ることができないのと同様。」
English: It insists the importance of an experience to notice the inner Buddha of oneself actually, and that its experience exists in the stage which can not be reached through the understanding of words and characters but reached by heightening the mental state of Dhyana, Meditation (Mental Concentration) through mediation.
Japanese: 実際に自身の内なる仏に覚醒する体験の重要性を説明し、その体験は言葉や文字を理解することでは得られない次元にあると説き、その次元には坐禅によって禅定の境地を高めていくことで到達できるとする。
English: It is a mental state of Bonpu (ordinary person) and Gedo (a believer of heretical doctrine other than Buddhism) to think simply that the empty mind with no discernment is Dhyana-Mediation.
Japanese: 凡夫・外道が、単に心をカラにして分別を生じないのを禅定だと思っている境地。
English: The Daruma Daishi explained that if this mental state with no squirm inside and no request to the outside becomes firm like a wall, a person can enter Buddhism for the first time.
Japanese: 達磨大師は、内心に悶えることなく外に求めることもないこの境地が壁のように動かなくなれば、そこではじめて仏道に入ることができると説く。
English: However, he or she has not reached enlightenment because of the strong desire to seek Buddhism and nirvana.
Japanese: しかし、いまだ仏法・涅槃を求める強い欲心があるがために悟りを開けないでいる。
English: The reason why people can not escape from the transmigration of troubles is that such selfish desires lead to bad karma as a result.
Japanese: 人々がいつまでも苦しみの輪廻を逃れられないのは、このように我が身にとらわれて自分さえよければと欲求することが、結果的に罪業を作る結果となるからである。
English: A Zen master Muso Soseki preached that if a person forgets oneself, throws away all one's desires and becomes altruistic, one can immediately become a living Buddha by an emergence of the Buddhahood.
Japanese: 夢窓疎石禅師は、もし自分を忘れ一切の欲を投げ捨てて利他心を起こせば、すぐさま仏性が発揮されて生き仏になることができると説く。
English: It is a mental status of Mahayana Bosatsu to notice the middle way (in the presence of two contradictory positions, performing practice freely without leaning toward either of them), forget three kinds of karma, and become philosophical about existence in Buddhism as neither existing nor vacuity.
Japanese: 大乗の菩薩が、中道を覚って三業を忘れ、有るでもなし空(仏教)でもなしと達観する境地。
English: It sympathized with the suffering of all living things in life and death and worries himself to give delight by removing suffering in those whose attitude is not different with himself.
Japanese: 生きとし生けるものすべての生滅の苦しみに同情し、苦しみを抜いて楽を与えるべく苦慮しており、その姿勢にはもはや自他の区別がない。
English: In the Zen sect, returning to the original state of mind and original Buddhahood unconsciously by mediation means to jump over the above two Zen and reach directly to this status from the Zen meditation practice done by ordinary persons and a believer of any religion other than Buddhism.
Japanese: 禅宗で、坐禅によって本分の田地、本来の仏性に知らず知らずに立ち返るというのは、前記の二禅を飛び越え、愚夫所行禅から直にこの位に達することを意味する。
English: Some ancient people said that there existed a fifth status above these, that is, Zen practice to lead people without Zen practice to reach the same status as Buddha with the holy wisdom lead by ons own power.
Japanese: これらの上にさらに五つめの段階を設けて、如来清浄禅に安住せずに人々を教え導こうとする祖師禅があるといった古人もいる。
English: In addition, the details of the step-up from the Zen meditation practice done by ordinary persons and a believer of a religion other than Buddhism, to the Zen practice reaching the same status as Buddha with the holy wisdom lead by ones own power, are shown in "Tetsugan-zenji Kana Hogo" (Zen-master Tetsugan's Explanation of the teachings of Buddha in kana).
Japanese: また、愚夫所行禅から如来清浄禅に至るまでの上達の様子については『鉄眼禅師仮字法語』に詳しい。
English: The word 'Hoben' is used in the sense of a possible method to transmit the true intention of Buddha and Zen masters although it is not the true intention itself.
Japanese: 方便とは、仏祖・禅師の本意ではないものの、本意を伝える手段となりうるという意味で方便という。
English: It means to do mediation with discarding consciousness and to identify oneself with mediation itself.
Japanese: 意識を捨てて無意識下において坐禅する、坐禅そのものになりきることを意味する。
English: It means to devote oneself to the action of mediation itself as earnestly as a person forgets even his or her existence by doing mediation.
Japanese: いま坐禅している自分がいる、という自覚すら忘れてしまうほどに、坐禅という行為そのものに没頭する。
English: This method is regarded to make it possible for even a beginner to experience a deeper mental state of Dhyana (Mediation).
Japanese: この手法によって初心者でもより深い禅定の境地を容易に体験可能であるとされる。
English: However, since the Zen sect is occasion-suited and Mahayana Buddhism considers Buddhism as being included in all ways, it does not forbid to do other things except mediation, but it is difficult for a beginner to understand these things.
Japanese: ただ、禅宗は臨機応変であり、大乗仏教はあらゆる道に仏道が含まれていると考えるので、坐禅以外のことはしてはならないということはないが、このようなことは初心者には理解が及ばない。
English: Therefore, as an easy way for a beginner, it is said that Shikantaza and shushoichinyo (practice is not for enlightenment, but they are combined and cannot be divided) are the secrets of the Zen sect.
Japanese: そのために初心者向けの方便として只管打坐・修証一如こそが禅宗の極意であるということが言われる。
English: Katsu (the words uttered when reprove persons are practicing asceticism in Zen Buddhism) which says that there is no difference in social standing in the mental status of mediation and that people in mediation are all Buddha equally, is a kind of metaphysical matter of expediency to promote Shikantaza.
Japanese: 坐禅の境地には上下なく、坐禅すれば等しく仏であるという喝も、只管打坐を奨励する一種の暗喩的方便である。
English: However, since it is considered that even if a person cannot reach enlightenment he or she can reach it in the next life by the kudoku (merit) of mediation, and the nominal interpretation that he or she can be Buddha immediately through mediation is not necessarily false.
Japanese: ただし今世で悟りを開けずとも、坐禅の功徳によって来世では悟りを開く事ができるとされるため、坐禅をすればそのままただちに仏である（坐禅しなければいつまでも仏にはなれない）という意味通りの解釈も間違いではない。
English: As to the speed of the accomplishment of Buddhism, Daruma said that a person whose mind was already filled with Buddhism could reach it early while a person who practiced gradually after having an aim could reach it late, and that there was a long distance of a million kalpa (the longest time unit in the ancient India) between them.
Japanese: 仏道成就の早い遅いについて達磨いわく、心がすでに道である者は早く、志を発して順々に修行を重ねる人は遅く、両者には百千万劫もの時間差があるという。
English: A set of katsu in the sense that a person who does mediation deeply and rightly can reach enlightenment early and a person who does not do it can reach it late, is a way of expression to strengthen the practice of mediation rather than studying.
Japanese: 深く正しく坐禅する者は早く、しなければ遅いという意味の一連の喝は、学習よりも坐禅の実践を強調する表現手法である。
English: The reason why Daruma Daishi traveled from the west is said that he or she worried about the decline of Buddhism abroad and hoped to teach that what was important for enlightenment was the practice of mediation and was not studying sutras.
Japanese: 達磨大師が西から旅をして来た理由は、国外の仏教の衰えを憂えて、悟るために重要なものが坐禅の実践であり、経典の学習ではないことを宣教するためであるとされる。
English: However, even after being taught to stop thinking, discussing and studying, Shikantaza is not an easy way for a practitioner of austerities who tends to start thinking, discussing and studying about the reason for them.
Japanese: しかし、ひとまず思考・議論・学習を止めよと教えても、なぜ止めねばならないかについて思考・議論・学習を始めてしまうような思考癖のある修行者にとって、只管打坐は至難の方法となる。
English: Such a practitioner, even if he or she studies sutra, tends to interpret it with imagination because he or she can not raise sympathy with enlightenment.
Japanese: そのような修行者は、いかなる経典を学ぶとも、悟りというものの共感が得られないために、想像をふくらませて解釈しようとする。
English: Many masters have been worried about such a situation as the obsession caused by unreasonable imagination makes his or her understanding distorted and he or she becomes remote prevented by his own contortions.
Japanese: 無理な想像は妄想となって理解に歪みを生じ、自ら生み出した曲解に妨げられてますます悟りから遠のくという事態は、昔から多くの師家を悩ませてきた。
English: The enlightenment is to confirm one's mind with one's mind and understand one's mind by one's mind.
Japanese: 悟りというものは自分の心で自分の心を確認し、自分の心で自分の心を理解するものである。
English: It is not something to be got by using others except oneself such as clearing something by depending others.
Japanese: 他人に頼って何かを明らかにするとか、自分以外の何かを利用して体得するようなものではない。
English: Therefore, it is important to face oneself at first through the practice of mediation in order to reach enlightenment above all.
Japanese: 従って、悟るためには何よりもまず坐禅の実践によって自分自身と向き合うことが肝要である。
English: Koanzen is a method which was produced by Zen masters in order to make the practitioners who tended to think practice mediation caused by these problems.
Japanese: こうした問題意識から、思考癖のある聡い修行者に坐禅を実践させるために、禅師たちが考え出した方法が公案禅である。
English: Koan is what shows the mental status of enlightenment directly and is an emotion which is integrated into inspiration and difficult to show.
Japanese: 公案は直に悟りの境地を指し示したものであり、ひらめきと一体化した言い表せない感情的なものである。
English: This is given to a practitioner whose attitude is not good and who may go to the wrong direction, from a Zen master, just like a medicine.
Japanese: 心がけがよくなく、このままではまちがった方向に進むおそれのある修行者に対して、師家が薬のような意味合いで修行者に授ける。
English: The words of ancient high priests are sometimes used, while it is made extemporaneously.
Japanese: 内容は、昔の高僧の言葉を使うこともあれば、即興で作られることもある。
English: The practitioner who is given koan is requested to be correctly aware of the intention of the words and answer from the heart in front of his or her master.
Japanese: 公案を与えられた修行者は、その言葉がどのような本意から創造されたかを正しく悟って、師家の前で心を以て回答することを要求される。
English: Many koan consist of an inconsistent style of words and it is difficult to understand the literal meaning logically.
Japanese: 公案の多くが自己矛盾的文体を為しており、そのまま意味を理解しようとしても論理的に破綻する場合が多い。