"Fudo-chi" indicates unstuck mind. Fudo is not to freeze and "unmove," in other words, stay down at a place (itsuku in Japanese). But, Fudo means to be "unmoved" by anything. We human beings unintentionally tend to be distracted and moved by something. We tend to keep particularly something wrong in mind, like shilly-shallying. On the other hands, we often remain deep in such temptations as pleasures and luxuries, and can not escape from them. We sometimes become aware that we are constantly stuck in something, and our mind are restlessly swinging here and there. That is the mind of human being as an ordinary unenlightened existence. Takuan explained that the fierce and furious appearance of Fudo-Myoo, which fights off everything, is a symbol of keeping out all of things that catch, drag about, and confuse our mind. If attaining to the state of Fudo-chi is the aim of Buddhism, it is to have the mind which is never stuck in anything like Fudo-Myoo. The appearance of fierce warrior having a sward embodies the flexible mind which is unmoved by anything and free from everything.
August 15, 2018
After Reading Takuan: Part 3 不動智神妙録を読んで３
「不動智」とは，とらわれない心のことを指す。不動とは，固まって＜動かない＞こと，つまり，居着いてしまうことではない。そうではなく不動とは，何かに＜動かされない＞ことを意味する。我々人間はつい知らぬ間に，何かに気を取られ，心が動かされてしまう。ああでもないこうでもないと，悪いことばかりが頭を巡る。と思えば，快楽や贅沢などの誘惑にどっぷりと浸かって抜け出せない。気がつけば絶えず何かに心がとらわれ，忙しなく揺れ動いている。それが凡夫たる人間の心である。不動明王の一切を寄せつけない猛々しい憤怒の様は，そうやって心をとらえ，引っ張り回し，迷わせるもの一切を寄せつけないことの象徴なのだと沢庵は説く。不動智に至ることが仏道の目指すところであるとすれば，それは不動明王のように何にもとわれない心を持つことである。剣を持つ猛々しい武人の姿は，何かに動かされることなく，あらゆるものから解放された自由自在な心を具象化している。
"Fudo-chi" indicates unstuck mind. Fudo is not to freeze and "unmove," in other words, stay down at a place (itsuku in Japanese). But, Fudo means to be "unmoved" by anything. We human beings unintentionally tend to be distracted and moved by something. We tend to keep particularly something wrong in mind, like shilly-shallying. On the other hands, we often remain deep in such temptations as pleasures and luxuries, and can not escape from them. We sometimes become aware that we are constantly stuck in something, and our mind are restlessly swinging here and there. That is the mind of human being as an ordinary unenlightened existence. Takuan explained that the fierce and furious appearance of Fudo-Myoo, which fights off everything, is a symbol of keeping out all of things that catch, drag about, and confuse our mind. If attaining to the state of Fudo-chi is the aim of Buddhism, it is to have the mind which is never stuck in anything like Fudo-Myoo. The appearance of fierce warrior having a sward embodies the flexible mind which is unmoved by anything and free from everything.
"Fudo-chi" indicates unstuck mind. Fudo is not to freeze and "unmove," in other words, stay down at a place (itsuku in Japanese). But, Fudo means to be "unmoved" by anything. We human beings unintentionally tend to be distracted and moved by something. We tend to keep particularly something wrong in mind, like shilly-shallying. On the other hands, we often remain deep in such temptations as pleasures and luxuries, and can not escape from them. We sometimes become aware that we are constantly stuck in something, and our mind are restlessly swinging here and there. That is the mind of human being as an ordinary unenlightened existence. Takuan explained that the fierce and furious appearance of Fudo-Myoo, which fights off everything, is a symbol of keeping out all of things that catch, drag about, and confuse our mind. If attaining to the state of Fudo-chi is the aim of Buddhism, it is to have the mind which is never stuck in anything like Fudo-Myoo. The appearance of fierce warrior having a sward embodies the flexible mind which is unmoved by anything and free from everything.
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