さて昨日は身内の兄弟が集まっての「母の命日」の法事供養。もう39年前のことなのですが、肉親のことはどんなに時間が経っても、いわばルーツのことなので、集まれることは喜ばしい。
　ちょうどわたしの書いた電子書籍「作家と住空間」発刊からはじめての家族の集まりなので、あらためてその話題が。その一節で書いた部分についていつも来ていただいているお坊さんも交えて懇談。事前に郵送していた兄姉たちはありがたいことに本文の局所部分について、お坊さんに紹介するとして話題として振ってくれていました。
　書いた人間からするとその詳細部分について「よく読解してくれている」ことがまっすぐに伝わってきて非常にうれしい。住所が正確でなかったので未送付になっていた兄２人にも無事にプリントアウトした「電子書籍」本を手渡すことが出来ました。
　出版関係人であったわたしからすると、いまは紙の書籍の長期的低落傾向が顕著であり、今後の「単行本」出版は電子形態一択、という常識理解だった。しかしそう考える自分の認識は、兄姉たち、あるいはわたしの同期たちにすら、まだまだムリっぽいこともよく理解できてきました。
　こういう状況は出版関係人には非常に困難な局面だと言うことも身を以て知らされる。・・・
　ということですが、電子書籍「作家と住空間」中の自分自身の体験に触れたソウルフルなシーンについて、いわば専門領域人であるお坊さんとの会話は、非常に面白かった（笑）。具体的にはわたし自身の手術体験とそのとき現実感強く浮かんでいた母のイメージについての告白。
　言ってみれば彼岸への旅路の最終局面がだんだんと近づいてきて、そこにリアリティを徐々に感じつつあると言うことなのですが、しかしこうした領域も量子科学的には、だんだんとニアヒアな領域になってきているのが科学の最前線の現実でもある。人類知の進化が、ついにここまで科学的解明に近づいていることの証であるのかも知れません。
　ちょうど今、元寇史料館での掘り起こしを体験したばかりで、あの時代に元寇を予言したとされた日蓮の事跡、その当時の社会の中での位置、宗教と時代との具体的な関わりを見ていますが、そういうこととも相通じている部分なのかも知れません。

English version⬇

[Formal new book information for my brothers and sisters at my mother’s death anniversary memorial service]
Conversation about the quantum scientific experience part of my book after 39 years of my mother’s death anniversary memorial service. As a writer, I am very happy that such depths are being talked about. …

　Well, yesterday, my immediate siblings gathered for a “mother’s death anniversary” Buddhist memorial service. It was 39 years ago, but no matter how much time has passed, it is always a joy to get together with my immediate family, because it is about our roots, so to speak.
　It is just the first family gathering since the publication of my e-book ‘Writers and Living Space’, so again the topic is about that. We had a discussion about the part I wrote about in the passage with a monk who always comes to our meetings. Thankfully, the brothers and sisters who had mailed the book to the monks in advance were able to talk about the topical part of the text as an introduction to the monks.
　From the point of view of the writer, I was very happy to know straight away that they had “read and understood” the details of the text very well. I was also able to hand over the print-out of the “e-book” to my two brothers, who had not yet received it because their addresses were not correct.
　As a former publisher, it was my common sense that the long-term decline of paper books was now so pronounced that the electronic format would be the only way to publish “single books” in the future. However, I have come to understand that my perception of this is still not good enough for my brothers and sisters, or even my peers.
　I am also learning that this is a very difficult situation for people in publishing. …
But it was very interesting to have a conversation with a monk, a specialist in the field, so to speak, about the soulful scenes in the e-book “Writers and Living Space” that touched on my own experiences (laughs). Specifically, I confessed about my own surgical experience and the image of my mother that was floating in my mind with a strong sense of reality at the time.
　In other words, the final stage of my journey to the other shore is gradually approaching, and I am gradually feeling a sense of reality there, but the reality at the forefront of science is that these areas are also gradually becoming near-hierarchical in quantum scientific terms. It may be a proof that the evolution of human knowledge has finally come this close to scientific clarification.
　I have just experienced the excavation of the Genko Historical Museum, where I am looking at the traces of Nichiren, who was said to have predicted the Genko invasion in that era, his position in the society of that time, and the concrete relationship between religion and the era, which may be a part of the same thing.

Posted on 5月 1st, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
Filed under: 日本社会・文化研究