From this month’s second Zen maxim in Japanese site of Rinzai-Obaku Zen.
When we were suffering through the oppressive heat of summer, we longed for the autumn wind from the west. Yet when autumn finally arrived, that very wind scattered the falling leaves and took us by surprise.
These days, there is hardly a day without talk of AI. In a sense, AI may be the very form of the future computer that we have long hoped for. Yet now that it has finally arrived, many of us find ourselves bewildered rather than prepared. AI is only one example. In life, it is worth remembering not to be caught off guard by the very things we have been waiting for.
幾時苦熱念西風 九月西風驚落葉 (いくときかねつとくるしみてせいふうをおもう、くがつせいふうらくようをおどろかす）
臨黄ネットの今月のふたつ目の禅語から。
暑苦しい夏に西からの秋風を待ち望んでいたのに、いざ秋になると、その秋風は落ち葉を散らし、人を驚かせる。
最近は、AI の話題を聞かない日がないほどですが、AI とは実は私たちが長年待ち望んできた未来のコンピューターの姿そのものではないでしょうか。ところが、ようやく実現したその未来を前にして、人々は期待よりも戸惑いを感じているようにも見えます。AI はひとつの例にすぎません。人生においても、自分が待ち望んでいたものに、いざそれが現れたとき慌てないよう心がけたいものです。
Ka ohorere i te hau ngahuru i wawatahia i te raumati
Hei tā te kōrero tuarua o te marama i te wāhanga Hapani o te Rinzai-Obaku Zen.
I te wā e pāngia ana tātou e te werawera taumaha o te raumati, i wawata tātou ki te hau mātao o te uru. Heoi, nō te taenga mai o te ngahuru, ko taua hau tonu i whakamarara i ngā rau e taka ana, ā, ka ohorere te tangata.
I ēnei rā, kāore e tino puta he rā kāore e kōrerotia ai te AI. Tērā pea ko AI tonu te āhua o te rorohiko ā mua i wawata nuitia e tātou mō ngā tau roa. Heoi anō, nō tōna taenga mai, he tokomaha kē e rongo ana i te rangirua, kāore i te tino rite mō taua hurihanga. He tauira noa iho te AI. I roto i te ao, he mea pai kia kaua tātou e pōkaikaha i te wā ka puta mai ngā mea i tino wawatahia e tātou.