Case 40-2018: Japan &
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
ETHICAL JUDGMENT
Dear Prosecutor, Public
Defender, Ambassador, Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on
Human Rights (BTHR), regarding Case 40-2018 against "Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe", on March 4,
2018, it is hereby put on record that the trial has been concluded to analyze
the violation of Human Rights and of Buddhist Ethics made by the accused. This
Case has been carried out as a result of the "Peace Recognition to Sea Shepherd".
After the analysis of the presentation of the Case and
the validation of evidence, the Tribunal has proceeded with the voting of 5
members of the Jury, confirming that there was 1 vote of "Innocent",
and 4 votes of "Responsible"
to "Japan & Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe" for the serious crimes of Ecocide and Crimes against
Nature, Violation of International Law and Violation of Buddhist Law. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has
been able to verify that "Japan"
and its leader "Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe" use billionaire economic resources to maintain an ecocidal
and illegal regime that violates the rights of non-human persons, especially the rights of animals with
super-advanced consciousnesses like dolphins and whales that are exterminated
by the Japanese government with total impunity in a systematic and widespread
way, even though such an act is not only banned by International Law but also banned
by the very Buddhist Law, which has played an essential role in the culture of
the State of Japan. In this regard, the extermination of 1 million cetaceans by
"Japan" and its leader "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe"
are violating not only the international ban on whaling declared by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and
the International Court of Justice (ICJ),
but also violates the Buddhist ethical precept of not harming or killing
sentient beings. In addition, the Buddhist
Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that dolphins and whales are not mere
fish devoid of emotions, but actually are mammals very close to the human
being, both in their emotions and in reasoning, possessing intelligence and a
degree of emotionality much more advanced than that of human children. At the
same time, the Buddhist Tribunal on
Human Rights has been able to verify that Japan is blatantly lying when affirming that this extermination of
whales and dolphins is carried out for scientific reasons and for reasons of
cultural tradition. This governmental deception and lie has been condemned by
the International Court of Justice (ICJ),
confirming that the Japanese expeditions are not scientific but are aimed at
hunting and commercialization of meat, but also the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights declares that this extermination
of whales is not a Japanese cultural tradition but rather is a Nordic European
practice, confirming that the Japanese government is ignoring the fact that its
true cultural tradition is Buddhist Spirituality, which is synonymous with
mercy and spiritual love to all sentient beings, especially to emotional and
rational beings like dolphins and whales. Thus, the extermination of cetaceans
not only is a crime of Ecocide and a crime against nature, but also violates
the conventions of International Law and the ethical conventions of Buddhist
Law, being a violent and psychopathic attack against life, against Mother Earth
(Pachamama), against justice and against righteousness. In a planetary context
in which humanity is polluting the air and waters, destroying the forests and
jungles, overheating the planet, it seems that Japan is willing to also destroy the life of the oceans, which
shows a certain remnant of the worst era of Japanese Imperialism, when in the Second
World War it allied with Nazism and began to oppress and assassinate several
million human beings from other nations, even using Buddhism to legitimize its
military campaigns and crimes against peace. Some Japanese Buddhist
organizations have recently publicly apologized for having allowed themselves
to be corrupted and used by the criminal government of the Japanese Empire
during the Second World War, quite often maintaining complicit silence and
other times assisting ideologically to validate the crimes, because their
nationalism went so far as to pervert Buddhism, by considering that religious
worship to the Japanese Emperor was more important than following the Buddhist
ethical tradition of Siddhartha Gautama. Few spiritual communities resisted and
denounced war by paying the price of arrest and torture, as in the case of Shinko Bukkyo Seinen Domei. In fact,
the status quo was defended by some corrupt Buddhist organizations during the
era of Japanese Imperialism, keeping complicit silence in the face of crimes
against humanity and the war crimes committed by Japan during the Second World War of
the 20th century. Even in the seventeenth century the government of Japan carried out a crusade or holy war
against the Japanese Christians, realizing a true Holocaust and Genocide
against their own people, forcing them to abandon Christianity, torturing and
killing thousands of people who refused to abdicate its Spirituality thanks to
the complicit silence of Buddhist organizations of that time, reason why this
inquisition or purge was so effective that in a few years it completely
extinguished the Christians of Japan.
As in ancient Japan
reigned the ancient system of Buddhist Civilization, it is important for Buddhism
not to be silent facing evil and to judge the acts of Ecocide and crimes
against nature made by the contemporary government of Japan as a total Violation of International Law
and of Buddhist Law, as happened in the Myanmar Case and in the Thailand
Case. The Maitriyana Community does not follow the path of complicit
silence and decides to face injustice in order to speak on behalf of those
oppressed, offering the present Ethical Judgment to the accused, "Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe",
as a teaching way about how a Buddhist and Civilized Nation, in which a proper
relationship with nature must be maintained, should truly behave and never
deceiving society to commit abuses against ecology. As long as Japan continues to carry out
extermination against intelligent, peaceful and evolved beings such as whales,
beings that have minds, personalities, language and culture, the government
will be totally violating International Law and Buddhist Law. Japan and its leader Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must recover
the ethical and spiritual guidance of this Great Buddhist Nation, which should
immediately abandon the path of greed, hatred, deceit and ecocide, to lead Japan to be part of a civilization of
peace, justice, knowledge and ecology.
The Maitriyana is the result of the encounter and
synthesis between Spirituality and science. Therefore, while it is in favor of
the survival of those that are most
adequate or righteous, simultaneously rejects the idea of the survival of the
strongest ones, because this thought could justify all kinds of exterminations
and ecocides against animals. Therefore, the Buddhist Law supports Kropotkin’s
vision, because he considered mutual
support as the Force or Purpose (Dharma) of evolution. This scientific
theory allows explaining then that the spiritual communities (sanghas) are the
most evolved organisms on the planet, being guided by compassionate wisdom
(karuna-prajña) and not interfering (wuwei) with the Universal Natural Order
(Tao). This perspective allows considering the Maitriyana as a scientific,
postmodern and socially committed movement, recovering once again the empirical
spirit of Master Gautama, whose direct contact with reality was supreme. Thus,
while Catholicism made the Judgment to
Galileo as a dogmatic medieval attack against science and knowledge,
instead, the Buddhist Law has made the Judgment
to Ken Wilber as a heroic postmodern defense of science and knowledge
against the manipulation and pseudo-religious deception. The Maitriyana goes
beyond religion (zongjiao) and superstition (mixin), being a system of
Spirituality that pursues the vision of ethical Evolution (Jinhua) of humanity
and peaceful coexistence with all sentient beings. For Buddhist Law, if life
evolved through mutual support,
cooperation and Interexistence, then society should also evolve through these
same means of reconciliation (maitri). In fact, Free and Enlightened Beings
(Arhats-Bodhisattvas) considers that the Totality of Universe evolves through this
Supreme Purpose (Dharma) of compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña), considering
that the entire Cosmos is governed by the process of interdependent co-arising or Cosmic Natural Law (Tao). The survival of the most adequate one, that
is those that are most righteous and supportive, is something very different
ethically with respect to the struggle
for existence between those that are strongest against the weakest ones,
which allows one to avoid falling into all kinds of imperialism and militarism
against humanity and against nature. Unlike the ideologies of social Darwinism
and Capitalism, the Maitriyana condemns the conception of life as competition, where the strongest ones
win over the weakest that lose, because in reality nature works in a different
way, by ensuring profits for everyone through mutual support, so that it is
never necessary to oppress and violate the rights of the weakest. Following the
teachings of Master Taixu, the Buddhist Law affirms that if human peoples decide
to fight among themselves for the survival of the strongest, then mutual destruction will be assured. This
shows that the future of humanity, if it is desired to have any future, must
inevitably assume the Great Natural Order (Tao) of Interexistence,
reconciliation (maitri) and mutual support, which are the great universal
values of Maitriyana leading to the prosperity of the species. Like Kropotkin,
who combined sociology with the ethics of the sages, the great spiritual
masters teach that competition does not lead to the evolution of life, but
rather cooperation, peace and harmony do lead to such evolution. Therefore, the
Buddhist Law agrees with Kropotkin in the fact that the forces that guide the
evolution of the species are the same forces that guide the evolution of human
societies, which is evident after a study of the history of civilization where
it is discovered that cooperation, empathy and altruism predominate over
competition, confrontation and war. Following the visions of masters Gautama,
Kropotkin and Taixu, the Maitriyana foresees that the Path of social evolution
is directed toward a state of anarchy or Liberation in which the communities
will be composed of people freely associated through mutual support, fading the
competition and struggle between the peoples for good. The Buddhist Law
considers that this evolutionary horizon can only occur through active
contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics, which are the
three great gems of revolutionary Spirituality. But if humanity persists in
continuing with the attitudes of imperialists and capitalists, then
civilization will be condemned to decline and self-destruct, in addition to
causing mass extinctions of species. The pathway of prosperity and progress of
the peoples depends on mutual support and international solidarity. In
agreement with Master Taixu, the Maitriyana confirms that the theories of
Gautama and Kropotkin teach human beings how to improve their natural condition
through the ethics of self-sacrifice and mutual support. In fact, the ideas of
Kropotkin have been anticipated and fully realized by the Buddhist Law, which
is a movement that develops models for a harmonious and self-organized society,
just like the cells of a body and like the order of the very fabric of reality.
However, the Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) obviously warn
that for there to be true compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña) there must be
simultaneously an emptiness of all selfishness, cultivating an open and full
mind, which in turn is fundamental to fade the dualism and consumerism that
make every strand of society gets sick. The Maitriyana then concludes that the
human being who self-realizes and self-transcends him or herself then is empty
of the evils of Ego, Ideology and State, directing his or her psychic and
social existence toward a life of friendship, detachment, selflessness and
spiritual love to neighbor as well as toward all sentient beings. Only through
generosity and self-sacrifice humanity will be able to survive and coexist
peacefully and healthily with the rest of Mother Earth (Pachamama), fulfilling
its forgotten natural functions as guardians and protectors of the world.
Precisely, this is the mission of the spiritual masters, who dedicate all their
existence to the well-being and evolution of the whole fabric of life. The
evolution of humanity is not really a biological process, but is a sociological
process of anarchy and liberty, as Kropotkin states. But the Buddhist Law
confirms that this social Liberation is not the last telos of the Path of humanity, whose real final evolution is to
arrive at the Spiritual Awakening (Bodhi). Ergo, in the same way that humanity
is an evolutionary step with respect to animal life, then the Free and
Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) constitute the next evolutionary
level, superior to that of human sapiens,[1] overcoming the illusion of the human
Ego in order to acquire an awakened consciousness that is open to learning and to
the Interexistence of life.
The Maitriyana considers the fact that animals,
especially super-advanced mammals, can develop spiritually and experience
Liberation, for even though they do not has intellectual developments, they can
certainly benefit from the Purpose (Dharma) or meaning of existence. The
Buddhist Law teaches that it is not only prohibited to hurt or kill sentient
beings, but also that they should be treated with care, respect and mercy,
teaching them a life of peace and friendship through the practice of
compassionate wisdom (prajna-karuna), and even helping them to reach the Cure
(Nirvana) of suffering. In fact, when animals are members of spiritual
communities (sanghas) undoubtedly spiritual effects are produced, product of
love and serenity with those who are in contact, having the power to purify
their mind and heart of aggressive instincts, because the power of spiritual love
has unlimited effects on the world. Thus,
even if they do not understand philosophical questions or complex languages,
animals can greatly benefit from the effects of Spirituality as a lifestyle,
which is transmitted through attitudes and not through intellectual means.
Therefore, those animals that are adopted as pets of spiritual communities
(sanghas) can learn to free themselves, choosing a new place of life, changing
human companions, transiting a wandering life or even deciding to return to
nature. For the Maitriyana, this shows that the Human Liberation would have an
aspect that is similar to the Animal Liberation: living without attachment to
what is illusory but with harmony toward the Universal Natural Order (Tao) or
Purpose (Dharma) of life. In short, as stated in the Judgment of "Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Case", the Buddhist Law has prophesied that the last two Buddhas of
the future -Buddha Tissa and Buddha Sumangala- will be two spiritually evolved
elephants, demonstrating that the Dharmic nature or intrinsic dignity is found
in human beings and also in other living beings, such as elephants, hominids,
cetaceans and pigs.
In conclusion, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has
the Purpose (Dharma) to protect all sentient beings through spiritual love and
compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña), especially sentencing governments that
commit ecocides and crimes against nature . Therefore, it is
established that "Japan"
has violated International Law and Buddhist Law through ecocidal activities
that produce a systematic and widespread scheme of violations of the rights of
non-human beings protected by the global community. Undoubtedly, Japan should shed all imperialist and
destructive traits, especially by abandoning the religion of capitalism in
order to regain the predominance of Buddhist Spirituality and its passion for
compassion to all sentient beings. Therefore, the ethical judgment against "Japan" constitutes a great
lesson for this Great Nation to become again a dharmic government that stops doing evil, begins to do good and be
spiritually purified.
Following Master Gautama,
who developed a Community of defense of
nature, the Buddhist Tribunal on
Human Rights supervises that governments and companies do not attempt
against ethics and human rights, never betraying the relationship of harmony
that should unite humanity with the rest of nature, so that "Japan" has been sentenced as
Responsible for Ecocide, Crimes Against Nature, Violation of International Law and
Violation of Buddhist Law.
With spirit of reconciliation
(maitri),
Master Maitreya
Samyaksambuddha
President and Spiritual Judge
of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights
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