どうもイキモノのいのちの様子を見ていると
どんどんと引き込まれていくような感覚を持ってしまいますね。
きのうも朝、散歩していて帰り際の最後の通過ポイント「発寒川」橋脚で
なにげに川原の様子を見ていたら、写真のようなサクラマスの死体。
いきなり死体写真だけも不穏なので、サクラマス種の参考写真と
合体合成してみました。
あ、サクラマスはサケの魚種のひとつでかなり上流まで
産卵のために河川を遡上すると言われる。
この個体が、無事に産卵できたのかは不明ですが、挑んだことはわかる。
神々しいその姿に、おもわず合掌しておりました。
きのうも書いたようにこの橋には多くの地元民が参集していて、
情報を教えていただける方もいらっしゃいました。
釣り好きなその方のお話では、たぶん上流まで行って産卵した後、
このあたりまで流れ落ちてきたのではないか、とのこと。
ただ、そう努力したけれど力尽きていのちを繋ぎ得たかどうか不明とも。
・・・わが家周辺の川原は、人口密集地域であり
河川工事が徹底していて、川原と見える石の下側にはコンクリート平面が打たれ
到底、サクラマスたちが産卵できるような河底土壌はない、とのこと。
サケたちも人類が作る見た目の川原環境に惑わされて
産卵のためにコンクリート平面の上っ面だけの河底を掘る動作を見せるけれど
やがてここでは子孫の棲息はむずかしいとDNA的に悟って
さらに上流の河底を目指して移動していくのだとされていました。
イキモノの知恵の深さを知るとともに人類の身勝手さも思い知る。
しかし、人間は自分たちの快適生存を求めるのも自然であり、
そのように自然改造を繰り返してきたことが「歴史」でもある。
であれば、やはりサケたちの姿に手を合わせるしかない。
かれらの必死な姿を見て、人類としての業の深さを胸に刻みつつ、
しかし人類は人類として必死に生存を戦っていくしかない。
きびしい自然の掟というものは厳としてあり、
類的存在として一瞬たりとも立ち止まることは「類死」をも意味する。
人間はたくさんの動物種を絶滅させて生き延びてきたことは疑いない事実。
そういう原罪は背負って生きていくしかない。


そんな散歩道、たくさんの動物種たちと出会う。
名前もよくわからなかったり、一見毒々しくて毛嫌いしそうなのもいる。
かれらもまた、生存のために必死で他のいのちを奪いながらの
輪廻転生を生き続けている。
仏教ではこういう思惟の末に「精進料理」という考えに至るのでしょう。
殺生を遠ざけるということであり、
田畑からの植物性生産物中心の考え方になるけれど、それもまた、
あるがままの自然を自己都合で激しく改変して得られるもの。業の世界は深い。

English version⬇

Animals Desperately Living in Reincarnation: Observations on Animals, Vol. 3
The dead bodies of salmon and pink salmon, which I have been observing since the other day, were found on the riverbank. I was so happy to see them. The dignity of life that transcends good and evil in the way we live and die in reincarnation. I am so happy to be able to see the life and death of a salmon and a salmon trout.

Apparently, when I look at the life of an ikimono
I feel as if I am being drawn in more and more.
Yesterday morning, I was taking a walk and on my way back home, I was at the last stop on my way to the Hassamu River.
I was casually looking at the riverbank when I saw a dead cherry salmon like the one in the photo.
I was so disturbed to see only a photo of a dead body, I decided to combine it with a reference photo of a cherry salmon species.
I combined them with a reference photo of a species of cherry salmon.
The cherry salmon is one of the species of salmon, and it goes upstream to spawn.
They are said to migrate upstream to spawn.
It is unknown whether this individual was able to spawn safely, but I know that it tried.
I was deeply moved by the divine appearance of the fish.
As I wrote yesterday, many local people are gathering at this bridge.
Some of them gave us some information about the bridge.
According to the person who likes fishing, the fish probably went upstream to lay eggs and then drifted down to this area.
The fisherman told us that the fish had probably gone upstream to spawn and then drifted down to this area.
However, it is not clear whether the local people made such an effort but ran out of energy to save their lives or not.
The riverbank around our house is a densely populated area.
The riverbank around our house is a densely populated area, and the construction of the river is so thorough that the underside of the stones that appear to be the riverbed has been paved with concrete.
The river bottom soil is not suitable for cherry salmon to spawn.
Salmon, too, have been misled by the apparent riverbed environment created by mankind
They dig the river bottom only on the top surface of the concrete plane to spawn.
Eventually, they realize that it is difficult for their offspring to live here.
They eventually realize that it is not possible for their offspring to live here, and they move to the riverbed further upstream.
We are now aware of the depth of the wisdom of the creatures and the selfishness of humankind.
However, it is also natural for humans to seek their own comfortable survival.
And it is our “history” that we have repeatedly modified nature in this way.
If this is the case, we have no choice but to join hands with the salmon.
Seeing their desperate appearance, we can only remember the depth of our human karma.
But we, as human beings, have no choice but to fight desperately for our survival.
The harsh laws of nature are strictly in place, and we must not stand still for even a moment as similar beings.
To stand still even for a moment as a hominid being would mean “death of species.
There is no doubt that humans have survived by exterminating many animal species.
We have no choice but to live with such original sins.

On these walks, I encounter many animal species.
Some of them we do not even know their names, and some of them seem to be so poisonous that we dislike them.
They, too, continue to live through the cycle of reincarnation, desperately taking other lives for their own survival.
They are also living through reincarnation, taking other lives in a desperate attempt to survive.
In Buddhism, this kind of thought must have led to the idea of “vegetarianism.
It means to keep away from killing, and
It is a way of thinking centered on vegetable products from the fields, but it is also a way of thinking
nature as it is, but it is also obtained by violently altering it for one’s own convenience. The world of karma is deep.

Posted on 9月 29th, 2022 by 三木 奎吾
Filed under: こちら発行人です, 日本社会・文化研究