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Melvin McLeod: What was your first encounter with Buddhism?
Richard Gere: I have two flashes. One, when I actually encountered the written dharma, and two, when I met a teacher. But before that, I was engaged in philosophical pursuit in school. So I came to it through Western philosophers, basically Bishop Berkeley. やはり、仏教にのめり込む素地は若いときからあったというわけですね。
ジョージ・バークリー司教の唯心論。
Melvin McLeod: “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it really happen?” Richard Gere: Yes. Subjective idealism was his thesis—reality is a function of mind. It was basically the “mind only” school that he was preaching. Quite radical, especially for a priest. I was quite taken with him. The existentialists were also interesting to me. I remember carrying around a copy of Being and Nothingness, without knowing quite why I was doing it. Later I realized that “nothingness” was not the appropriate word. “Emptiness” was really what they were searching for—not a nihilistic view but a positive one. さらには、サルトルの「存在と無」ですか。
フランス実存主義ですね。
実存主義者の「無」は実は、仏教の「空」を目指していたのではないか、というのがギアの見解ですね。
仏教の空は虚無的なものではなく、反対に肯定的な考え方なのだというのですね。 My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early twenties. I think like most young men I was not particularly happy. I don’t know if I was suicidal, but I was pretty unhappy, and I had questions like, “Why anything?” Realizing I was probably pushing the edges of my own sanity, I was exploring late-night bookshops reading everything I could, in many different directions. Evans-Wentz’s books on Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. I just devoured them. |
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