Ratnasambhava Buddha

Ratnasambhava Buddha

in Japanese: Hohsho nyorai
Meaning: Treasure is born
Symbol letter: trah
Mantra: om Ratnasambhava trah
Colour: yellow
Direction: south
Vehicle: a horce


character:

He is the one of the Four Great Buddhas.
He is the symbol of charity.
He can give everything to everyone.
Water is also the symbol of charity.
Water moistens thirsty throat.
Water moistens dry land.
Water enriches dry land.
Charity enriches dry heart.
In ancient India a new King is poured water on his head when he enthrones.
Head is the symbol of the Ratnasambhava Buddha.

He is also the symbol of the wisdom of equality.
Deep consciousness changes to this wisdom.
We used to recognize deep consciousness as absolute ego.
But it is not true.
Buddhists think that deep consciousness is the root of the worldly desires.
We can find deeper consciousness.
When we notice equality, our deep consciousness changes to the wisdom of equality.


message :

Aren’t you thirsty?
Is your heart thirsty?

In Buddhism first ascetic training is charity.
Charity enriches not only other’s hearts but also your heart.
Give something to anyone.
water,
food,
money,
article,
smile,
warm words,
help,
discourse
and so on.

The action also gives you something.

Akashagarbha, Gaganaganja Bodhisattava

Akashagarbha, Gaganaganja Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Kokuzoh bosatsu
Meaning: Space which includes everything
Symbol letter: trah
Mantra: namakashagarbhaya om arika mari muri svaha
Colour: yellow
Direction: south
Vehicle: a horse
Symbol: a bead which produces treasure


character:

He is the symbol of the space.
It has everything.
Especially he has both wisdom and virtue.

Everything has each character.
But everything has same element.
In ancient India and Greek they thought there are four elements.
　Ground, Water, Fire, Wind.
Esoteric Buddhist thought there are five(six) elements.
　Ground, Water, Fire, Wind and Space (wisdom)
Modern scientists think that there are
　electron, proton, neutron, photon and other elementary particles.
Anyway everything has same element.
He is the symbol of the equality.
He is also the symbol of the wisdom of equality.


message:

There is light, there is shadow there.
If the light is stronger, the shadow is darker.
If you want more and more, you are took away by anyone.
Give to anyone.
Give to anyone who perplex.
The person who gives to anyone gets the light from all directions.
So there is not shadow at all.
If you want anything, give more to anyone.


Impartiality is not uniformity.
Everything has each character.
Allowing each character is impartiality and real equality.
There is treasure there.

Don’t thrust your thought.
Your thought is yours.
It is not other’s.
Every person has each thought.

If there are 100 persons, there are 100 thoughts there.
If there are 100 persons, there are 100 religions there..
If some people have strange religions, they sometimes have similar faiths.
We are equal in front of Something Great.

Vajrapasha Bodhisattava

Vajrapasha Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Kongousaku bosatsu
Meaning: To drag into
Symbol letter: hum
Mantra: om vajrapasha hum
colour: white yellow
Direction: south
Symbol: rope


character:

He is the one of the Four Gathering Bodhisattavas.
He has rope to drag into the truth..
He is the symbol of the dragging into the truth.
The rope is the symbol of the charity.


message:

A lot of people don’t enter into their gates.
They know that they have to enter into.
But they hesitate.

Don’t fear to enter into.
There is much charity there.
Enter into the truth with courage.

You are in the truth when you wish to enter into your gate.
Do you know that?

You have already entered into your gate when you wish to enter into.
Do you know that?

Something Great drags you into the truth when you wish to enter into.
Do you know that?

Wish to enter into your gate with courage.
Then you get rope of Something Great..

Virudhaka (Deva)

Virudhaka (Deva)

in Japanese: Zohjohten
Meaning: increase
Symbol letter: vi
Mantra: om birudhakayakshadhipataye svaha
Colour: red
Direction: south
Symbol: Sword, a pike


character:

He is the one of the Four Great Guardian Deva and he guards southern direction.
He lives in the Lapis Lazuli Mountain..
His wish is to increase majesty and virtue.
And he is the symbol of the birth and increase.


message:

If you suppress your violent emotion, it swings yourself.
Don’t suppress.
First you had better to look at it.
Violent emotion has strong energy.
It bursts and creates well.
Violent emotion is not justice or bad.
It has pure strong energy.

If you notice it, you can control the energy.
You can burst your worldly desires with violent emotion.
You can create new peace with it.

Once you make good habits, it's not hard at all.
Good customs have strong energy.
It controls your violent emotion.

Skanda, Karittikeya (Deva)

Skanda, Karittikeya (Deva)

in Japaanese: Idaten
Meaning : Things gather
Mantra: om vidhati mahadhota svaha
Colour: red
Direction : south
Vehicle : a peacock
Symbol : a spear


character:

He is like Hermes.
He can run very fast.
So he is the symbol of intelligences.

He is a son of Siva(Maheshvara).
He is a prince.
And he has six nursing mothers.
So he has six faces.
He can see every directions because of his six faces.
So he notice every happening soon.


message:

Don’t you leave information as it is?
Look for information that you got before.
It is not intelligence if you use the information.
Look for and look at it.

You have to be cautious.
But above and beyond that, you must act quickly.

If you want to succeed, act quickly.
He(She) who hesitates is lost.

You shoul use information quickly.
and the information will be intelligence soon.

Hariti (Devi)

Hariti (Devi)

in Japanese: Kishimojin, Kariteimo
Meaning: Guardian of children
Symbol Letter: du, ha, hr
Mantra: on dundumalikahite svaha
Colour:gold, blue, green
direction: south
Symbol: a pomegranate


character:

She was the monster and she has five hundred children.
She liked to eat children of human.
One day a lot of people wanted Buddha to help their children.
Buddha concealed her youngest child.
So she was indignant.
Buddha said
"Do you love your children?
You have five hundred children.
And you loved all of them very much.
Every parent also loves one’s children."
Her youngest child came back to her.
From then she became a guardian of children.
She has never eaten children of human being.
Pomegranates have done duty for them.


message:

Do you love anyone?
Is the love pure?
Every parent loves one’s child.
And almost parents lose one's means of livelihood for their love.
Not only you but also everyone loves someone.
You have to know it.

Do you know love of your mother?
She had had you in her for ten months.
She gave birth to you.
She thought that you are one of the parts of her body.
She always loves you.
The love is deeper than sea.

Do you know love of something great?
Something great have had you in him(her) since your birth.
Something great gave birth to you.
Something great thinks that you are one of the parts of him(her).
Something great always loves you.
The love is larger than sky and deeper than sea.

You love someone.
You should notice that not only you but also everyone loves someone
So your love will be larger than sky and deeper than sea.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattava

Samantabhadra Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Fugen bosatsu
Meaning: will, virtue,
Symbol letter: hum, ah, am
Mantra: om samayas tvam
Vehicle: a white elephant which has four tusks.
Colour: gold, moon-colour
Direction: East, Southern east


character:

He is the one of the Lord Chamberlains.
His will is very wide.
He decides that he will keep assist and help various being
until the space will fall down,
all beings will vanish,
the karma of every being will vanish
and worldly desires of all beings will ga away.


message:

Don’t you freeze on anything?
Don’t you make a hog of yourself?

You cannot act at will if you leave from your f.
You cannot get your fruits.

Give anyone anything.
So you can get your wishes.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattava is the symbol of the enlightened mind.It is like a seed.
There is a seed.
So there are roots.
There is a trunk.
There are branches.
There are leaves.There are blossoms or flowers.There are fruits.
And there are next seed.

You wish to get enlightenment.
Then you have get enlightenment.
The great will is the first of the enlightened mind

And he is also the symbol of the mind of the great-cast-Away.
If you have something in your hands, you cannot catch another one.
You have to cast away something which you have.
You don’t have to throw away it.
First put it in front of you.
You have to make in your hands empty.
So you can get another one.

Prajnyaparamita Bodhisattava

Prajnyaparamita Bodhisattva

in Japanese: Hannya bosatsu
Meaning: wisdom
Symbol letter: dhi, dhih,
Mantra: om dhi shrishrutavijaye svsha
Direction: Southern east, East
Colour: white, gold
Symbol: The box of the scripture, The scripture of the wisdom


character:

In ancient India they believed that Shmel mountain is the king of the mountains and it is at the center of the world.
It won't move an inch.
The wisdom is like Shmel mountain.

And the sea receives every thing which is both pure and dirty.
The wisdom is like the sea.
So she also called the mother of Buddhas or the mother of enlightenment.

Her great heart mantra is very famous in Buddhism.

‘gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha’


message:

Don’t you turn your eyes away from the truth?
Don’t you struggle in the dark?
An uneasy feeling grows upon you in the dark.
You make the monsters which name is sickness, sadness and agony.
But there are not them in the bright world.

First switch off the light in your room.
Next light a candle in your dark room.
When you are in the dark, it is the good chance to notice the meaning of your life.

You cannot see everything in the dark.
You can see various thing there if you have a light.
The light is like wisdom.
You can see the truth in your life with wisdom.

Vajradhupa (Puja Bodhisattava)

Vajradhupa ( Puja Bodhisattava)

in Japanese: KongohKoh Bosatsu
Meaning: perfume. quick
Symbol letter: ah
Mantra: om vajradhupe ah
Direction: Southern east
Colour: black
Symbol: a senser


character:

Aromatic smell removes stink.
Vajradhupa removes stink of worldly desires.
She is the symbol of the aromatic smell.

Aromatic smoke spreads very quickly.
Vajradhupa is the symbol of the quickness.

She is the one of the Eight Puja Bodhisattavas,
She honours, worship, respect and reverence with aromatic smell.


message:

Don’t you stink?
The stinks are from abuses.
You have to keep your commandment.
It removes your abuses.

Aromatic smell clings to your body if you are always in aromatic smell
Good customs always keep you if you always keep your commandment.

Light aromatic.
Your room and yourself get good smell and good feelings.
Aromatic smoke and smell spread very quickly.
Your good custom removes your stinks.
The custom of aromatic is also the continuation of your good customs.
The continuation is strength.

Do action quickly.
Keep your commandment.
Keep your good customs.

Acalanata (Guardian Buddha)

Acalanata (Guardian Buddha)

in Japanese: Fudoh Myohoh
Meaning: resolution, unmoved
Symbol letter: ham
Mantra: Namah samantavajradam candamaharosana sphotaya hum trat ham mam
Direction: center
Vehicle: rock
Symbol: a sword


character:

He is the leader of the Five Guardian Buddhas.
He is the most popular Buddha in Japan.

He has a terrible face.
He angers against worldly desires.

He has seven curly hairs.They have seven meanings.
1: To dump imitations and to select originals
2: To devote oneself
3: To be glad to practice the wisdom
4: To make one’s mind and body nimble
5: To dump one’s adherence
6: To keep one’s concentration
7: To keep peace of mind

He lets his hair down on his left shoulder.
It means that heaven gives us mercy.

His right eye is open
He looks out over with it.
His left eye is half closed.
He looks at minutely with it.
His eyes separate sacred place from worldly place.
His upward right fang is to devote oneself toward enlightenment.
His downward left fang is to give mercy to every being.

He has fire around his body..
It burns seeds of worldly desires.

He sits down on the rock.
It means no movement and resolution.
He has a sword in his right hand.
It is a sword of wisdom.
He slashes worldly desires and demons with it.

He has a rope in his left hand.
He gathers beings who run away from truth with it.
It is the symbol of mercy.

His figure is like a boy.
Boys are very pure.He has very pure mind, too.

And his figure is like a slave.
He always wants to help every beings.
His slavish figure means that he always wishes to serve for every being. .


messageDo you bear a lot of sins?
Have you made a lot of sins?

Make confessions.

They remove your sins.
Confessions anticipate the next your wishes.
The meaning of Acalanata is unmoved.
But he is the most active Guardian Buddha.
He has a central axis.
The person who has it can act as one pleases.
So he calls Acalanata ‘Unmoved Guardian Buddha’.

Have a central axis.

Agni (Deva)

Agni (Deva)

in Japanese: Katen
Meaning: Fire
Symbol letter: ra
Mantra: om ,agnaye svaha
Direction: Southen east
Colour:red
Vehicle: a blue goat
Symbol: Fire

character:

He is the one of the twelve Devas.
He is the guardian of southern east.
He is the symbol of the fire.
Ancient Indian thought that he is the agency of Deva and human.
Fire makes smoke.
Smoke rises to the Heaven.
And smoke reach there soon.
So ancient Indians thought that Agni brings our wishes to Heaven.

The wisdom burns our worldly desires.
Fire is the symbol of the wisdom.
Agni is the symbol of the wisdom, too.


message:

Don’t you wish various personal wish?
First you have to burn your worldly desires.
The fire is your wisdom.
The fire gives you and your circumferences warmth.
The fire gives you and your circumferences ray of hope.
But you have to use your fire carefully.
Fire can burn everything.

Human being have developed our civilizations and cultures
Because we can use fire.
Fire lights up around it.
Fire makes plants and meats our food.
Fire is the energy.
Fire has given human being the wisdom.
So fire is the symbol of the wisdom.

Keep your fire in your heart.
We all have a candle in our heart.
A lot of people forget the candle.
So their candles don’t have fire.
If you keep your fire, you can give them your fire someday.
One fire will be million fires.

Look at fire.
Then look for and look at your fire.

Fulushou (Deva)

Fulushou

in Japanese: Fukurokuju
Meaning: happiness, wealth and longevity
Mantra: Namaha fulushou
Direction: southern east
Symbol: a crane, a deer and a peach


character:

He is the one of the seven happiness gods.
Fu(Fuku) is happiness.
Lu(Roku) is wealth.
Shou(Ju) is longevity.

He is very small.
His head is very long.
He has a lot of mustaches.
And he has stick which has a sutra.

He is also the symbol of Canopus.


message:

Do you want to be happy?
Do you wish to be wealthy?
Do you hope to be long-lived?

At first you have to appreciate if you want them.

Only to wish is that you deny yourself.

You have enough happiness in this world
You have enough wealth.
You have enough long-life.
Do you know them?

Appreciate!
Appreciate!
Appreciate present and future yourself
The appreciation attracts various happiness, wealth and longevity.

Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha Buddha

Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha Buddha

in Japanese: Yakushinyorai
Meaning: Master of medicine
Symbol Letters: bhai
Mantra: om huru huru candali matangi svaha
Colour: Blue, Sapphire, Lapis lazuli
Direction: east
Symbol: a medicine bowl


character:

He is the master in the Lapis lazuli land.
There is various virtue there.
There is not sickness at all.

He is the symbol of the medicine and hospital.
Because Shakamuni Buddha had cured sick various emotional disorders.
So Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha is the symbol of the cure of Buddha.

Suryaprabha(Sunbeam) and Candraprabha(Moon beam) are chamberlains of him.

In Japan there are a lot of statues of him.
Ancient Japanese people wish to cure sickness and to dodge from sickness.
So Emperor Shomu made a lot of them and he placed them in regions.
And many people made a lot of statues of Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha.

message:

Don’t you use medicine too much?
Don’t you eat too much?
Don’t you have an unbalanced diet?
Don’t you breath too much or too light?

There's such a thing as too much of a good thing, you know.
You can use too much of a good thing, you know.

It's all right to drink in moderation, but don't overdo it.
It’ also all right to breath, to eat and drink and to use medicines.

Do you know three kinds of medicines.

One of them is medical medicine.
You use it when you get acute ill.
But there are some side effects.
So you mustn’t use it too much.
Doctor will help you to use it.

One of them is diet.
Good supper is as good as great medicine.
Almost supper don’t have side effect.
And we eat them every day.
Supper makes us healthy or unhealthy.
You had better to consider about supper.
In Asia they believe that medicine and supper are the same source.

Another one is breath.
We breathe every time.
Good breathe is often better medicine than medical medicine.
First breathe out slowly.
And breathe in naturally.
This way of breath help you when you get into panic.
Good breathe often cure chronic diseases

You are healthy if you know and use this three medicine.

Candraprabha Bodhisattava

Candraprabha Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Gakkoh Bosatsu
Meaning: Moon Beam
Symbol Letters: ca
Mantra: om candraprabhaya svsha
Colour: yellow
direction: east
symbol:moon


character:

He lives in the Pure Lapis Lazuli Ray Land with Suryaprabha , too.
He is the follower of the Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha Buddha.
He is the symbol of the moon beam.

The moon beam gives us refreshing feeling.
The moon is shinning in the night sky.
Wisdom shins against worldly desires.
So the moon is the symbol of the wisdom.


message:

The moon tells you something.
The moon is always telling you various things.
Do you know it?

There are unluckiness and luckiness in this world.
It is like the moon.
The moon becomes full and wanes.
The wave is the pulse of the life.

The moon is always full.
We cannot often see the all figure.
It just goes in the shade of the earth.

Your life is like the moon.
You cannot often see all of you.
Your heart just goes in the worldly desires.

But the wave is the pulse of the life
The worldly desires connect with clemency.

Don’t weep when you suffer from the worldly desires.

Vajralasi (Puja Bodhisattva)

Vajralasi (Puja Bodhisattava)

in Japanese: Kongoki Bosatsu
Meaning: Great delight
Symbol Letters: hoh
Mantra: om vajralasye hoh
Colour: black
direction: Southern east

character:

She is the one of the eight Puja Bodhisattavas.
She honours, worship, respect and reverence with great delight.
She is always delightful, joyful, grateful and glad.
She is the symbol of delightful when she sees that people begins to want to go to enlightenment.


message:

Everything is expression of the will of Mahavairocana.
You are alive in him.
You can be like him.
You will know his will someday.
So you have to appreciate and thank him.
The appreciation is not worldly happiness.
It connects with deep delight.

Worldly happiness is transient.
But great delight is eternal.

You can get great delight when you make good use of your life.

Appreciate and be highly pleased.
There is great delightful there.

Trailokyavijatya, Vajrahumkara

Trailokyavijaya　　Vajrahumkara

in Japanese: Gohzanzemyohoh
Meaning: Winning every being
Symbol Letters: hum
Mantra: om sumbja nisumbha hum vajra hum phat
Colour: front; blue, right; yellow, left; deep green, back; dark blue　　
direction: east
symbol: Vajra


character;

He is the one of the Five Ggreat Guardians Buddhas.
Aksobhya transforms himself to Trailkyavijaya.

There are various three worlds.

Worldly desires world.
Range world.
Stupid world.

Past world.
Present world.
Future world.

Desires world.
Element of the form world.
Non ekement of the form world.

Body.
Word.
Heart.

Maheshvara and Uma are the symbol of them.
And the pair is aloso the symbol of the poisons of them.

So Trailokyavijaya stamps and kills them.
And then he gives new lives to them.
The pair becomes the guardian deva of the Buddhism.


message:

You have gotten great power.
No movement wills destroys worldly desires.
And they gives you new power.

Trailokyavijaya has great power.
He can break every enemy with it,
But he does not only kills but also regenerate.

Worldly desires are not only ill but also strong power.
You can achieve enlightenment with the strong power.

Look for every poison in you.
Poison is not only very dangerous but also medicine.
If you use suitable poison in you, you can get a lot of happiness.

Indra (Deva)

Indra

in Japanese: Taishakuten, Indra
Meaning: The monarch of the heaven
Symbol Letters: sha
Mantra: om indraya svaha
Colour: gold
direction: east
vehicle: an elephant
symbol: a thunderbolt


character:

He is the monarch of the heaven and landlord of the shmel mountain.
He is the symbol of the thunderbolt.
The thunderbolt is very powerful.
So he has been consecrated by Buddists.
He annihilate the demons and devils with the thunderbolt in his hand.
He lives in the castle which has various treasures.
The castle is the symbol of the watching people.


message:

You have to keep devoting yourself.

The thunderbolt is the symbol of the destroying the worldly desires and demons.
Use your thunderbolt.
Shoot into your heart.
You have the ability which you don’t notice.
The thunderbolt will remove the scales from your eyes.

Budai Luohan

Budai Luohan

in Japanese: Hotei
Meaning: Laughing
Mantra: Namah Budai Luohan
symbol: a fabric sack


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budai


character:

He is the one of the Seven Gods of Fortune in Japan.
He was a legendary monk who lived during 907 - 923 AD in China.
His name is Qieci.
He didn’t settle in any temples.
Some people dispensed him.

He was not bounded at all.
Even commandment did’t bind him.
He was always laughing and he always had a fabric sack.
And he was a patbelly.

With his no bounded life he was respected be many people.
And he is likened to Maiteya Bodhisattava.
In China he is Maitreya Bodhisattava.
So Budai's statue is often traditionally placed in the front part of the entrance hall in China now..


message

Venerate to smile, to talk with gentle and tender words and calm heart.
Don't be fooled by appearances.

Budai wears a plain cloth.
And he bares his chest and bay window.
He looks never beautiful.
Despite his appearance he is very popular.
Because he was never bound by any one.

Laugh.
Laugh and laugh anytime.
Don’t bind by any one.
So you can get various things.

Laugh and laugh for anything.

If you meet tough happenings, it is not also bad.
Because the pains clean up your sins of the past.
The pains are nuts of the past.
If you get the nuts, your tree has not kept new hard flower of the past.
So laugh and laugh when you meet tough happenings.

If you laugh, next time you will be able to get fruits of the pleasure and laughing.

Laugh and laugh anytime.
Don’t bind by any one.

Suruyaprabha Bodhisattava

Suryaprabha Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Nikkoh bosatsu
Meaning: Sun beam
Symbol Letter: am
Mantra: om vajrateja am
Colour: pale yellow, dark red
direction: East
symbol: the sun


character:

He lives in the Pure Lapis Lazuli Ray Land.
He is the follower of the Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabha Buddha.
He is the symbol of the sun beam.

The sun beam breaks darkness.
The wisdom breaks ignorance.
Ignorance bears various pains.
The sun beam is likened to the wisdom.

And the sun is shinning on every being on the earth.
There is no discrimination there.
So the sun beam is also likened to benevolence.


message:

Say to the rising sun, ’Good morning.’ and ‘I appreciate.’
You can get attraction if you pray sun.

The sun brings up a lot of beings.
There are no beings on the surface of the earth if there is not the earth.
The sun gives sun beam to every being.
The sun beam has benevolence.
Especially in the winter, the sun beam is very kindhearted.
You had gotten the sunbeam for a long time.
You had gotten benevolence from the sun.
Feel benevolence from the sun.

And you have to be like the sun.
Give a lot of benevolence around you.
Shine on yourself and around you.

So you and around you can walk in the shinning future.

Vajranksha Bodhisattva

Vajranksha Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Kongohkoh bosatsu
Meaning: To gather something
Symbol Letter: jah
Mantra: om vajranksha jah
Colour: black
direction: East
symbol: a hook


character:

He is the symbol of the hook to gather people.
And he takes them to enlightenment.
He has great benevolence.
The benevolence is just hook.
People wish loves.
His great benevolence gives you great comfort.
The benevolence gathers people.


message:

Keep your firm will.
The will gathers your fellows.
Look for your fellows to walk with you.

Describe your will and thought.
Many people will turn toward you if you express.
Describe with your ardour.
The ardour will gathers your fellows.

Words with affection.
Offering.
Action to give the other benefit.
Action with the other.
The four give you fellows.

Aren’t you alone?
Open your key in your heart if you feel alone.
Open your gate.
Take the other into your gate.
Gather your fellows with your attraction.

Dhritarastra (Deva)

Dhritarastra (Deva)

in Japanese: Jikokuten
Meaning: To guard lands
Symbol Letter: dhri
Mantra: om dhritarastra ralapravadhana svaha
Colour: red
direction: East
symbol: a sord


character:

He is the one of the four direction area guardians.
He guards eastern direction.

Gandharva who is his man is the good doctor.
Gandharva controls soma which is drink of medicine.
So Dhritarastra is also the guardian of medicine.

And he guards not only lands but also the road of the sun.


message

You must control and guard your family, your area, your region, your country, your nation and yourself.

Keep yourself well.
Eating health food and breath are your good guardians.
Keeping commandment and devoting yourself are your guardians, too.

Bringing up, giving and chastity are also your guardians.
Speaking kindhearted, gentle, well and straightforward are your guardians, too.
Of course, abstinence, smile and right estimate are your guardians.

Guarding lands is to keep yourself.
Keeping yourself is to guard lands.

Ganesha , Ganapati, vinayaka(Deva)

Ganesha, Ganapati,　vinayaka(Deva)

in Japanese: Shoden, Kangiten
Meaning: great joy, the chief of regions
Symbol Letter: gah
Mantra: om hrih gah um svaha
Colour: white, gold
direction: East
symbol: a radish
vehicle: a mouse


character:

He is san of Maheshvara(Siva) and Uma(Parvati).
He is the leader of chief of his father.
And he is the chief of the leader of various obstacles and impediments.
He has big power.
He gives us various treasures and wishes.
So he is the most popular deva in India.
But his believers fear him because he has a lot of powers.

He is enshrined on the gate.
And he is the spirit of scholarship, treasures and wishes,.


message:

You can get big power from Ganesha.
He removes various obstacles and impediments.
Because he is just the leader of them.
You had better to please.
Please.
Delight.
Rejoice.
Gratify.
Congratulate.
You can get your wishes.
So you have to appreciate.
You can get more from something great if you appreciate more.

However you have to take care.
The power is very strong.
So you tend to become reckless.
The power of the wishes sometimes worries you.

You are the leader of your wishes.
You have to lead your wishes.

Look at your heart.
The surface of your heart is very rough.
But the recesses of your heart is very delicate.
The delicate feeling is very tender, powerful, peaceful, calm.

Gain your attraction.
It attract your wishes.
Your attraction is just the power of Ganesha.

Nilarupa Vajra(Deva)

Nilarupa Vajra (Deva)
in Japanese: Shomen Kongo
Meaning: Blue Face
Symbol Letters:ha
Mantra: om devayaksabandabanda ha ha ha ha svaha
Colour: Blue
direction: East
symbol: a monkey


character;
He gets rid of beasts, diseases, catastrophes and so on.
His roots are both the vassal of the sovereign in Heaven and Vajranila Bodhisattava in Buddhism.
In ancient Japan there was a festival of this guardian.
Our body has three surveys.
On one day per sixty days, they go to account of our crime to the vassal of the sovereign in Heaven
So ancient people don’t sleep all night.
The day is called ‘Koshin’.
And his statues are on the crossroads in the country.
He always act with a spirit heart and mind.
The spirit name is ‘Sarutahiko’.
Saru is a monkey.
He is the symbol of the crossroads.
He takes you to the better road.


message

Clean your body, words and heart on the Koshin day.
And look back this 60 days.
Confess to the something great.
The confessions clean your sins.
And the crossroad appeared in front of you.
Then you can get the great guidances.
If you accept them, you can get the attractions.
So you can get the success, the happiness and so on.

Confess to the great spirit.

Maitreya (Bodhisattava)

Maitreya Bodhisattava

in Japanese: Miroku Bosatsu
Meaning: To cherish, To love, Benevolent
Symbol Letters:yu
Mantra: om maitrya svaha
Colour: gold
direction: Northern East
symbol: a jug, a tower


character:

After 5,670,000,000 years he will be born on this world.
And he will be spiritually awakened and he is called ‘Maitreya Buddha’ or ‘The Future Buddha’.
Now he is preaching for the inhabitants in the heaven which is called ‘Tusita Dhatu’.

Maitreya’s meaning is the benevolent and friendly.
So he sometimes looks the Messiah
But there are no saviours in Buddhism because we think every person can be spiritually awakened.
Or we can say that everyone will be able to be a saviour.
Maitreya is the teacher and the leader.


message:

Look at the cute baby.
Maybe you will smile softly.
The heart is benevolent and friendly.
The benevolent hearts, words or looks make us more comfortable.
You can give the benevolent actions fro everyone.

If you want to be the great person, you have to give benevolence to even enemies.
Everyone can bask in the sun.
The person who is both good and bad can bask.
The benevolence is like the sun.
Great benevolence gives comfort to everyone.
Something great always gives us benevolence.

Do you love someone?
Do you love something?
Do you wish to be loved by someone?

Do you know that there are two kinds of loves?

One of them is to restrain.
Another one is to foster.
Which one do you want?

There are a lot of love stories in this world.
And many people like to read the books and watching them on TV or cinema.
The loves smell sweet.
But almost of them are to restrain other people.
Almost of them connect with to bind, to hurt, to torture, to take away and so on.
There are many rewards there.
If you cannot get rewards at all, you must angry even your lover.

On the other hand, you can only love, even if the person does not love you.
The love is pure.
Many great persons have pure love.
They loved everyone.
But they did not want to be loved.
They only loved.
There are not rewards there.
Love is only to give.
If you want to be loved, it is not pure love.

Love.
Only love.
To Love is not to rob the other persons but to give.

Ekadashamukha (Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattava)

Ekadashamukha (Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattava)

in Japanese: Juichimen Kannon Bosatsu
Meaning: The Great Being of mercy who has eleven faces
Symbol Letters: ka
Mantra: om mahakarunikaya svaha
Colour: skin colour direction: north
symbol: a jug


character:

He is the one of the six Avalokiteshvaras who are holy beings of mercy.
When he finds the person who is rough and painful, he changes his figure and shape.
And he appears right there before the person.
Sometimes he is a human being
Sometimes he is an animal.
Sometimes he is a plant.
Sometimes he is an occurrence.

Front three of eleven feces are affection and mercy.
They give you pleasure.

Left three of eleven faces are rage and fury against worldly desires.They remove pain and suffering.

Right three of eleven faces are admiration.
They praise the person who performs noble and clean acts.

The back face is laughter and scolding.
They are pulpits.

The top face is virtue.

He has ten excellent victories.
Being far apart disease,
Being protected by Great Being,
Going away starvation,
Not being harmed by enemies,
Being visited by the persons whom you look up to,
Not receiving pains of vermin or cold-hot,Not being harmed with weapons,
Not drowning,
Not being burnt,
Not being an early death.

He has a jug.
There is nectar which cool someone's ardor.


message:

Look for the time, the place and the occasion.
You can success if they become complete.

Don’t rely toomuch.don’t doubt too much.
There are good persons and bad persons in this world.
Almost good persons make mistakes once in a while
Almost persons give mercy to their friends.

Look at everybody and everything as it is.

Don’t you press against one’s will?
Don’t you accept against your will?

Both you and the others have each personality.
Don’t press against one’s will?
Don’t accept against your will?

Ekadashamukha changes his figure and appears right there before you.
In the same way, give the person chances.
Refuse against your will.

You can get the power of methods if you look at everybody and everything as it is.

Vajrgandha ()Puja Bodhisattava)

Vajragandha (Puja Bodhisattva)

in Japanese: Kongozu Bosatsu
Meaning: Aromatic perfume(powder), fresh feeling
Symbol Letters: gah
Mantra: om vajiragande gah
Colour: blue
direction: northern east
symbol: receptable of aromatic perfume


character:

She is the one of the eight puja bodhisattavas.
Aromatic perfume is the powder which you apply on your body.
It has good smell.
It makes you good scent.
The good scent makes your feeling fresh.

The worldly desires are likened to burning.
You can make them cool down by aromatic perfume.

Commandment is likened to aromatic perfume.
Because you can keep both of them on your body.
Commandment makes your life more comfortable.
Aromatic perfume makes your body more comfortable.


message

Exploit aromatic perfume and smell good scent.
Good scent makes your feeling more comfortable.

Keep commandment.
It makes good customs.
Good customs make your feeling more comfortable.

Learn and mind your manner.
Good manner comfort all people.

Too strict commandment hurts your body and hearts.
Too strong smell displeases the other people.
Too easy life corrupts you.
Bad smell discomforts the other people.
Moderation in all things.

Good perfume clings your body.
Good customs also cling your body.
Good customs connect with mastership.
Mastership bears from good customs.

Aromatic perfume is the symbol of the refreshment, commandment, good customs, comfortable heart, mastership and so on.

Ragaraja, Maharaga

Ragaraja,　　Maharaga

in Japanese: Aizen myohoh
Meaning: Great Love
Symbol Letters: ru
Mantra: om maharaga vajrosnisa vajrasattva jah hum vam hoh
Colour: red
direction: east
vehicle: a lion
symbol: a bow


character:

Raga is ‘Love’.
Raja is ‘King’
Ragaraja is the Lovek ing.
He loves spiritual enlightenment.
He loves every being.
So he wants to destroy impediments which every people has.

Amatory desires are worldly lusts.
Because almost people are blinded with them.
There are many urges which make a lot of people to dominate over others.
If there are not the urges, are amatory desires dirty?
He has no dirty urges.
His love is very pure.
So he is the king of love.
He is called Ragaraja.

He has three eyes.
One of them is the truth.
One of them is the wisdom.
Another one is nirvana.

He has a crown.
The shape is like a lion.
Lion shape crown has the meaning which is no fear, no adherence and the winning.

His color is red.
Red is Love and chirm.


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Why does every people have love-desire?
We want to connect with others.
Maybe we all remember that we connected with something great.
We know great comfortable feeling.
We always wish to connect with something great.
We lost something great.
So we want to connect with the other one.

The wish is never dirty.
The pure wish is pure.
The pure wish is one of the way to the enlightenment.
Pure amatory desires are the way to the enlightenment.
However the desires must be not dirty urges but pure.
By nature, pure amatory desires are strong, divine and attractive.

Look at the substance of amatory desires.

Amatory desires are strong.
They often will be wrong.
They often will be justice.

You will not be able to go out the sea of desires if you are drowned in the sea of amatory desires.
Amtory desires are dangerous.

But if you manage them well, they will take you to enlightenment.

You should notice that amatory desires are not only sexual lusts but also wishes to connect with something great.
Manage and control amatory desires.

Mahesvara, Siva

Mahesvara, Isana,　Rudra ,Siva

in Japanese: Daijizaiten, shiva
Meaning: Great freedom, Great destruction
Symbol Letters: ru
Mantra: om ehehi mahesnvaraya svaha, om isanaya svaha
Colour: skyblue
direction: northern east
vehicle: a yellow ox
symbol: a trident pike


Character

He is the symbol of the destruction and construction.
He is called ‘Siva’in India.
Siva is the most popular deva(god) in India.

His root is the great storm.
The great storm demolishes everything.
So he is the symbol of the destruction.

In the one of the Buddhist Scripture,
they says that he and his wife are the symbol of desire.
So they were killed by Power Buddha.
And they also were revived by him.
They became the guardians of Buddhism.


message,

Dance.
Dance and dance at will.
Nothing can bind you.
Dance and dance.

Mahesvara is the leader of the Summit of Heaven.
So he can act at will.
Now, you can act at will, too.
The action may be the destruction.
The destruction may connect with the construction.

So you had better dance more and more.
Do dance.Old you will demolished by the dancing.
And new you will appear.

Don’t dwell on old you.
You cannot find the new your way if you dwell on old you.

Demolish old you.
Dance and dance.
Don’t think about old you.
So you can find the new way.
You can become new, too.

Uma, Parvathi (Devi)

Uma, Parvathi

in Japanese: Uma hiMeaning: flax, quiet, night, splendour, light,
Symbol Letters: u
Mantra: om umadevi svaha
Colour: white
direction: northern east
vehicle: a black sheep


Character

She lives with her husband in the Summit of Heaven.
His name is Siva who is the symbol of creation and destroy.
She is the daughter of the Himalaya mountain range.
Another her name is Parvati.
She is moderate and the most beautiful.
And she is the symbol of the source of the power.
In India a lot of people love her.
She is called ‘The most beautiful and elegant Himalaya’ by them.

They says that she and his husband is the symbol of desire in the one of the Buddhist Scripture
So they were killed by Power Buddha.And they also were revived by him.
They became the guardians of Buddhism.


message

Look for the natural beauty.
Good actions, good voices, good hearts are beatiflul.
Good processes and good effects are beautiful.
We can see a lot of beaties.

Himalaya mountain range is very beautiful.
It is glorious, awe-inspiring and sublime.
It is not short-lived but eternal.
So Uma is the symbol of the beauty.

Female is the symbol of the energy of lives.
The energy surpasses the intellectual thought.
Beauty is not only intellectual but also emotional.
Stop the surface thoughts if you want to connect the energetic world.
Listen to the voice of your emotion.

Shakamuni Buddha

Shakamuni Buddha

in Japanese: Shaka Nyorai
Meaning: The Great Person of Shaka nation. Awaken Person
Symbol Letters: bhah
Mantra: Namah samantabuddhanam bhah
Colour: skin colour
direction: north
vehicle: a lion
Symbol: a bowl


Character
He is the patriarch of Buddhism.
His family name is Shaka.
His childhood name was Shiddhartha.
Shiddhi is completion.
Artha is significance.

He was born at Nothern India in about B.C. 5.
His father was a castellan
His mother died as soon as his birth.
He was well off and on easy street.
But he was tired of his life.
He renounced the world.
At the end of his ascetic training he achieved enlightenment.
He had just been Buddha.
Brahma asked him to preach enlightenment to all peple.
Shakamuni Buddha accepted it.
He had tripped and preached around there.
A lot of people had became apprentices and disciples
He died calm when he was 80 years old.

Esoteric Buddhism tells us that
Historical Buddha is one of the part of Great Spiritual Being.
The being is called ‘Shakamuni Buddha’, too.

Shakamuni Buddha is the symbol of the preaching of Mahavairocana.
And he is also the symbol of the commandment.
The commandment is the one of the way to the enlightenment.


Message

You have to have some commandments.
Not too easy. Not too strict.
The scared commandment is the comfortable custom.
Good custom is the way to the great comfortable life.

If you have some honorable mentors,
please get the initiation of the commandment from the person.

Keeping the commandment is the good way of your life.
You have to be not too easy and not too strict.

Too strict lives destroy your body and heart.
Too easy lives lead you astray.

You have to get the good custom from the commandment.


Maybe you have some bad customs.
Do you know them?
Don’t worry if you have a lot of bad customs.
Don’t fight against them.
Your bad customs also make your personality.
Change your bad custom to the good customs.

Small avarice makes bad customs.
But large avarice makes good ones.
For example, world peace, extermination of poverty and so on.

The anger becomes energy of your life.
Anger against worldly desires brings up your justice.

Rejoice if you think you are foolish.
You can study more and more.
You have a lot of chance to learn anything else.

You have just caught some chances to get the good customs to the good way life

Cundi, Saptakotibuddhamat (Avalokitesvara Bodhisattava)

Cundi 　Saptakotibuddhamat

in Japanese :Jundei Kannon Bodhisattava
Meaning: Mother of Sevety million Buddhas
Symbol Letters: bu
mantra: om cale cule cundi svaha
color: yellow-white
direction: north


character:

One of six Avalolitesvaras.
She is the mother of seven million Buddha.
Infinity virtues impersonate.
She sympathizes the persons who will have little virtue.
So she gives them the way to the perfect wisdom.
She is the first symbol statue of the ceremony of entrance to the Buddhist priesthood.
She doesn’t matter whether you are a priest or not a priest, a good person or bad person, clean or unclean and so on.
You can get infinity virtues if you keep reciting her mantra.


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You had better wash away your bygones.
Your future is wide and wide.
Now get the jump on someone.
Cundi is first symbol statue of the ceremony of entrance to the future.
You can change your life if you pray her.
She has infinity virtues.
So she gives you them and you can get them all.
Don’t worry.
Get the jump on someone.

Don’t worry about bygones.
You can wash up them now.
She helps you.
She helps everyone.
Both a good person and bad one.
You have to live in the not past but present and future.
Then she can help you and you can get infinity merits.

Vajranrita (Puja Bodhisattava)

Vajranrita

in Japanese: Kongobu bodhisattava
Meaning:Diamond Dace
Symbol Letters: krit
mantra: om vajranrite krit
color: blue
direction:northeast

character:
This bodhisattava is female.
Female is great energy in Indian thought.
She honours, worships, respects and reverends every being with dancing.
Dancing is the great activity.
The activity connects with valour, vigour and great energy.

And dancing is symbol of the supernatural powers.

So Vajranrita is the symbol of the great energy and activity of Mahavairocana.


Message
Do dancing with pleasant.
Do something like dancing.
Great activity is beautiful like dancing.
Beautiful activity doesn’t have any obstacle.
Beautiful activity connects with great energy.
Act with beauty like dancing.

At first you had better learn conventionally on dancing, art, act, technique and so on.
Great ancestors made the patterns with ingenuity.
So you had better use them.
Every great activity has various schools of thought.
We often see that the person who mastered the pattern won some actions.
The patterns make you stronger.
But do not adherence keeping them.
You will not be great if you don’t get rid of the patterns.
Japanese proverb says that
at first to keep,
next to break,
at last to creat.
The patterns live in you if you get rid of themAnd they create new models.
Then you will get your original patterns.
You must keep striving until you get new pattern.
You had better use your ingenuity.
The new pattern will be beautiful, strong and elastic like great dancing.

Vajrayaksa (Vidyaraja)

Vajrayaksa (Vidyaraja)

in Japanese :Kongoyasha Myohoh
Meaning:Diamond fand
Symbol Letters: hum
mantra: om vajrayaksa hum
color: blue black
direction:north

character
He is one of the Five Vidyaraja.
Vidyaraja is the Anger-Buddha.
Another his name is the Crunching all demons.
He is keeping northern direction.

He can crunch not only all demons but evil, vice, crime, wrong, ill and sin.
If one being disturbs ascetic trainings, Vajrayaksa make the one to surrender.


message

You had better clean up around you.
The cleaning crunches the demons in your heart.
The cleaning makes not only your environment but also yourself purified.
The cleaning is the training which takes you spiritual enlightenment.

Don’t angry with rebukes.
The anger will make new sins,Rebukes and reprimand are also the training which takes you spiritual enlightenment.
You have to know that receiving rebukes crunches your sins which you had made.Rebukes and reprimand are the grace-presents for you.
One or plural your sins fade out after receiving rebukes.
Your heart becomes pure and pure.
And you can get more presents from Heaven.

Brahma (Deva)

Brahma(Brahma Deva)
in Japanese: Bon Ten
Meaning:Universe
Symbol Letter:bra
mantra: om brahmane svaha
vehicle:a goose or a gander
color: white skindirection:above

character:
He is the one of the twelve Deva.He is the creater of this world in India.
The ultimate principles.
The symbol of the universe.

Shakamuni Buddha is the patriarch of the Buddhism.
He gained an insight into the all world under the linden tree.
He got the great feeling.
He kept meditating.
He wanted to stay there until his body would decay.
Brahma wished him to mission.
So Brahma waked up him from the meditation.
And Shakamuni Buddha began to mission.

Brahma is the creator.
So he is the king of all living things.
He has no carnal desire.
He is rational.

There are tree great Deva in India.
Siva is the symbol of the destruction.
Visnu is the symbol of the maintenance.
Brahma is the symbol of the creation.
So he is the one part of Maha Vairocana.


Message

There is the great universe.
We have a small universe in us.
The person who knows the both of them are same is the happiest.

Scientists discovered that astrophysics and quantum mechanics are homogeneous.
Not only physics.
You can notice the great universe and the individual are homogeneous.

But don't you stick your body and small you?
Don't you think you are the body?
You aren't small so.
You must cast away the stereotyped thinking.
You can liberate yourself in the great universe.
Do you know so that?

Sarasvati Devi(Godness) ；Great arts, Learning, wealthings come from nature

Sarasvati Devi ;
in Japanese: Benzaiten, Benten
Meaning: a rapid flow of speech
Symbol Letter:sa
mantra: om sarasvatyai svaha
color: white skin

character
The ancient Indian people apotheosized Sarasvati River in the Indian myths.
She is related with water, rivers, dragons or snakes.
A river makes sounds.
She is the goodness(=Devi) of music.
So she is the Devi of the all great arts.
And pretty sounds of rivers are like rapids flow of speech.
So she is also Devi of learning.
She is Devi of the wealth.
Because rapids flow of speech make wealth.
She is the wife of Brahma who create this world.
She is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune in Japan.

message

Look at nature.
Listen to the sounds of nature.
There are arts and learning there.

Almost arts are made from nature.
The shape and colour, sounds, smell, taste and touch of nature light a fire in the heart of the person.
Then arts is born.
So we often feel that nature laps us over when we encounter great arts.

The original of arts is nature.
You had better to look at, to listen, to smell and to touch them.
You can get great feelings as well as when you meet great arts.

Nature has a lot of master keys of the secret in this world.
Now you should get the keys.
Go to the country.
Look at nature.
Listen to the sounds of it.
Smell and touch it directly.
And you have to look for the master key of the secret in this world.

Other time you had better go to the museum.
Look at the great arts.
Listen to the great music.
Smell the good perfume.
Eat the great cuisines.
Touch the great things.
And you have to focus in the each sense.
Then you can get the real healing.

Aksobhya Tathagata ;No-move, No-anger

Aksobhya　tathagata

in Japanese: Ashuku Nyorai
meaning: no-moving, no-anger, no- faintsymbol letter: 'hum' ; 'u' islong vowel

mantra: om aksobhya hum
vehicle: Elephant whichi skin color is white and has four tusksskin
color: blue-black
direction: East

character:
He is the symbol of no-moving, no-faint, no-anger, great determination, iron will, great resolution, great volition.

'A' is 'no'.
'ksobhya' is 'move'.
He is ambassador of East Universe.

Message 1
Take a good look in the mirror.
You cannot see the truth.
Everything is opposite.
We can see the truth with the mirror of Aksobhya.
It is the wisdom which take us the truth.
We often cloud up our heart with the worldly desires.
You need not fear or scare excessively if you see everything as it really is.
You can get courage if you throw away apprehension.
You can get the good stream in your life if you reject your fear.
Great determination will make it.
Take a step forward with courage.

Message 2
Don't you forget higher yourself ?
Don't you indignant with anything?
The fire leaves everythig in ruins.
One little fire makes big fire.
Anger at other people burn unrelated people.A
t last it leaves yourself in ruins.Don't angry.
If you cannot forget anger, you have to change it a social problem.
You can angry at social problems.
If you cannot fgorget anger, you have to look at the cause of it.
In similitude one person whom you trust would betray you.
Maybe you will angry.But he(she) never betray you.
Everyone cannot betray.He(She) is untrustful person primarily.
Only you cannot know about it.
Even now you may have anger at him(her).
Then you should change it your energy.
The energy will change the world and yourself.

Venerable Existences in the Esoteric Buddhism

In Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Shingon Mikkyo) Mahavairocana is like God of Juwry, Christianity and Muslim.
Maha is the widest, biggest, greatest, highest, deepest, absolute, complete, indispensable, strict, positive, most excellent, best, most distinguished, most exquisite, most superior and so on.
Vairocana is the Sunbeam.

Sunbeam makes shadow.
But Mahavairocana does not make shadow.

Sunbeam is shining on the earth.
Mahavairocana is shining on every thing, matter and happenings.

Mahavairocana is the truth of the universe.

Mahavairocana is eternity and immortality.

Mahavairocana is synthesis of all of things, matters and happenings.


Mahavairocana is absolute and infinity.
We all are limited.
So we cannot know Mahavairocana well.
Therefore we divide Mahavairocana into a lot of virtue in the esoteric Buddhism .
Impersonations of them are Tathagata'Nyorai', Bodhisattava'Bosatsu', Deva'Ten' and so on.

Every venerable existence is the one of parts of Mahavairocana.


For example,

Manjsri Bodhisattva is the impersonation of wisdom and delight of Mahavairocana.
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is the impersonation of compassion of Mahavairocana.
Maitreya Bodhisattava is the impersonation of mercy of Mahavairocana.


I will write several venerable existences in the Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
You can understand some sides of the secret in the universe.

I will write my thoughts. Their fundamentals are on the Japanese esoteric Buddhism.

I am a chief priest of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Temple.



The temple name is Kokeji which mean is noble soul temple.

And we almost have noble soul.

So I named this Blog 'Noble soul.'



Japanese Esoteric Buddhism has a lot of wisdoms and mercies.



One of them can give us calm.

One gives us spirits, energy and vigour.

One tells us how to live in this world.



Almost of them are written in Japanese.

Many people in the world don't know them.



So I've made up my mind.

My decision is not open to argument.

I will write about my thoughts.



I’m not good at English.

But I will put my thought and feelings into words in not Japanese but English.

Please write me e-mail if you cannot get past my words.