小池龍之介 / 「自分」を浄化する坐禅入門 :9784569761787

**「人間を自由にする瞑想を世界に広め」**
小池 龍之介（こいけ りゅうのすけ）は、1978年生まれの日本の元浄土真宗僧侶。ドイツ地域文化研究分科で西洋哲学を専攻し、浄土真宗本願寺派教師課程で教師資格を取得した。父が住職を務める正現寺副住職を務めていたが、2011年破門処分を受けて僧籍削除となり、単立宗教法人化の規則変更の認証を受け正現寺第22代住職に就任した。
彼は対外的には浄土真宗本願寺派寺院の副住職として活動し、檀家から布施を受け取る一方、ヴィパッサナー瞑想などに傾倒していたこと等が宗派から問題視されて僧籍を剥奪され、のちに単立寺院沙光山正現寺住職を名乗った。彼は一般向けの坐禅指導や執筆活動も行っている。
自身でお経を唱えず、葬儀・法要にかかわらない異色の僧侶とコメントしているが、住職を務める正現寺での葬儀・年忌法要では、浄土三部経や般若心経を用いる。
2018年秋頃から「数年後に解脱する」「解脱寸前」と公言する様になり、寺を出て路上生活をしながらの瞑想修行を志すが、2019年3月に挫折、「修行者が陥りがちな魔境の状態になり、もうすぐ解脱出来るという妄想に支配されていた」と懺悔の弁を述べた。今後は還俗し、瞑想指導者としての立場も離れることを表明した。その後、YouTubeの公式チャンネルにて坐禅セッションを再開すると公表。
著書に『坊主失格』がある。彼自身が奇行癖、複数の女性との同時交際、妻や母親への暴力、恋人の自殺未遂を告白している。また、彼は大学在学中に、マハーシ・サヤドウ長老派の瞑想を開始し、2007年から2008年にかけて約1年半、坐禅・瞑想の修行を各地（東京、山口、タイ、京都）にて行った。
**Q&A**
Q：何をされた方ですか？
A：浄土真宗本願寺派僧籍剥奪となり単立宗教法人化の規則変更の認証を受けて正現寺第22代住職となった
Q：有名な作品は何ですか？
A：著書『坊主失格』は、彼自身が奇行癖、複数の女性との同時交際、妻や母親への暴力、恋人の自殺未遂を告白している。
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English Summary
**"Spreading meditation that frees humans to the world"**
Ryunosuke Koike was born in 1978 and is a former Jodo Shinshu monk in Japan. He majored in Western philosophy at the German Regional Culture Studies Department and obtained his teaching qualification through the Jodo Shinshu Honganji School Teacher Course. He served as the deputy chief priest of Shogenji Temple, where his father is the chief priest, but in 2011 he was excommunicated and removed from the priesthood, and after the change in regulations for becoming an independent religious corporation was approved, he became the 22nd chief priest of Shogenji Temple.
Externally, he acted as the deputy chief priest of a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect, and while he received donations from temples, his devotion to Vipassana meditation was viewed as problematic by the sect, and he was stripped of his monk status, and later took the name of chief priest of Sakōzan Shogenji, an independent temple. He also teaches zazen to the general public and writes.
Although he has commented that he is a unique monk who does not recite sutras himself and is not involved in funerals or memorial services, he uses the Jodo Sanbu Sutra and the Heart Sutra at funerals and memorial services at Shogenji Temple, where he is the chief priest.
Around the fall of 2018, he began to publicly declare that he would ``be liberated in a few years'' and that he was ``on the verge of liberation'' and aspired to leave the temple and practice meditation while living on the streets, but in March 2019, he gave up and confessed his confession by saying, ``I had fallen into the same demonic state that practitioners tend to fall into, and had been dominated by the delusion that I would soon be liberated.'' He announced his intention to return to secular life and step back from his position as a meditation instructor. After that, he announced on his official YouTube channel that he would resume zazen sessions.
His books include ``The Disqualification of a Bozu''. He himself has confessed to eccentric behavior, dating multiple women at the same time, assaulting his wife and mother, and his girlfriend's attempted suicide. Also, while attending university, he began practicing meditation of the Mahashi Sayadaw Presbyterian school, and practiced zazen and meditation in various locations (Tokyo, Yamaguchi, Thailand, and Kyoto) for about a year and a half from 2007 to 2008.
**Q&A**
Q: What did you do?
He was stripped of his status as a priest of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect and became the 22nd chief priest of Shogenji Temple after receiving approval for the change in regulations to become an independent religious corporation.
Q: What are your famous works?
In his book ``No Longer a Boy,'' he confesses his eccentric behavior, dating multiple women at the same time, assaulting his wife and mother, and his girlfriend's attempted suicide.
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