No human habitation within a few kilometers
- 2022/07/06
- 10:16
正法眼蔵 辨道話( 174)
ぽつんと一軒家 数キロ圏内に人家なし
isolated house
No human habitation within a few kilometers
昼間も寂しそうだし
まして夜ともなれば、なおさらです
They look lonely in the daytime.
And even more so at night.

その夜の深さは、怖いくらいかも
The depths of that night could be frightening.
この夜の清浄深淵へ、正気を保って分け入る
Into the clean abyss of the night, we enter with our sanity intact.
夏の肝試しアトラクション 譬えは軽薄ですが
test of courage in summer The analogy is frivolous. But
坐禅をなされてた人の内心には
清浄荘厳さだけじゃなく、
そのような底知れない怖さとの遭遇があったはずです
In the inner heart of a zazen practitioner
Not only the purity and solemnity of it.
but also an encounter with such an unfathomable fear.
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