Religious love maybe different from worldly passion .

  Tibetan Dalai-Lama persuades people into taking equal minded love to others .

  Recently Dalai-Lama retired from the King who holds both the govermental title and the religious head master of Tibet.  The young person was elected as the President of Tibetan refugees in Dalam-sala.

  Dalai-Lama loves divided people of Tibet.

  But his talk is agreed by broad world,  because his talk maybe free from ethnic ultra-nationalism.

  I feel that he has universal sense of Buddhism,  and he is philanthropism (博愛主義）,

  On the other,  I don't know life of overseas outside of Japan.  My knowledge of Buddhism binds to ethnic heritage of Japanese Buddhism .

  In ancient piriod , Japanese people had received Buddhism ( 6c. A.D) ,  from then ,  we have succeeded to benefit of ideas.

  In my youth ,  I met a few splendid masters of Buddhism who got the answer of Buddhism ,  perhaps.  They attained the goal of Buddhism by practice ( Samadi ), and by study.

  I introduce one of them.

  He was " Gen-san " in his nickname, he was sometimes laughing well in his loud cheerful voice.  Also Dalai-Lama's laughter was happily, too.

  I think that Gen-san was a modern Prasangika ( 帰謬論証派）.

  I explain Prasangika.

  By a dictionary,  Prasangika's  way  of  discussion  was  to  find  errors  of  enemies  in  arguments  without  own  opinion.  They,  whoever  wants  to  talk  about  existence  one  by  one,  will fail  into  drawback  or  errors  by  contradiction( 矛盾）.

・・・having  a  sigh・・・

  After  all,  words  cannot  prove  an  individual  reality,  maybe.

  Gen-san  was  a  splendid  intelligence  in Japan,  and  he  was  a modern  Prasangika,  so  he  hitted  against  opponents.

  he  killed the identity  of  the opponents  in the  debating  place.  But  he didn't  win,  only he indicated  the errors  of  opponents.

   I continue to write about my essay.

" What is the Buddha?"

 This is the question of questions  that all Buddhists ask.

 Is the Buddha the  absolute one ?

 Is the Buddha almighty?

 The Buddha has all knowledges and and all abilities, hasnt the one ?

 Maybe not, Buddhists don't think so.

 Each life of everybody is due to the Buddha?  We don't  think so.

 The happy or the unlucky is caused by the Buddha's will ?  We don't think so.

  The one thing that we can do is " believing "  ?   We don't think so.

  Buddhism doesn't advise a person to believe the One simply ,   but  Buddhism request a person to practice of Buddhism.  Practice isn't a rehearsal ,  it means the course of metamorphosis (変身）　into a Buddha.

  But to tell the truth ,  I think that this theme---namely ,  " what is the Buddha ?"  --doesn't need among Buddhism .

  During the history of Buddhism ,  Buddhists hasn't held a debate on the absolute one ,  so we don't  worship the idol of Buddha as an icon .  

Buddha is the goal of our practice .

 Am I an atheist ?  Maybe so .

 But I am an Buddhist .

 The word " atheism " means that a god doesn't exist .

  Still more ,  it is complicated on Kanji ( 漢字）　character ,  神（かみ　、god )  is used various religious scenes .

  The absolute god like Christianity or Islam ,  that usages are well known .   And many gods and godess ,  they are talked in myths .  

  Buddhism has many gods and godess by those usages . 

  Japanere Shinto-ism has many gods and godess .

  But ,  in the Buddhists'  texts ,  that Kanji " 神”　was used about " mind "  ,  " heart " .   Namely it is " 精神”　　（せいしん　,  mind )  from ancient philosophical texts of Buddhism .

   When a Buddhist says ,

" There isn't a god ".

  She [ or He ]  stands on the inner Samadhi of  practical way with Prajna ( wisdom ) ,  so there isn't neither ego nor a god .  Her[or His ]  viewpoint is begun from no-ego （無我）.

 Because ordinary speaking about atheism ,  a person is exist but a god isn't exist.

  Well,  I will talk about a mind.

  Supposing there is a mind prior to experiences of us ontologicaly,  but Nagarjna objected against that a mind was an anything of solid substance.

  We usually feel happy or unlucky,  we get pleasure or pain.

  Are those various feelings catched by body or mind?

  Sometimes we say,

  " I feel in the mind."

  And we say,

  " I think in the brain."

  Where is a mind exist?  In a brain of the head?

  When we want to tell a mind ( 心、kokoro) , we use " heart " ( ハート、Katakana of Japanese ).

  A heart means a mind, although it is one of physical organs of the body.  We indicate leftside of the breast by finger. We never indicate the head as the mind.

  We don't think that the funcion of the mind works only from the brain. We know that the mind will be energetic active with both the body and the mind.

  Nagarjna didn't think that the mind preceded the body.