Oneness of life and its environment
Nichiren Buddhism teaches that we are born with Karma or our life circumstances. Some of us are born rich, poor, strong, weak or straight hair or coarse hair. We shape our enviroment and our enviroment shape us. This is called Esho-Funi or oneness of life and its environment. Naturally if our environment favors straight hair versus coarse hair our proclivity or inclination would lean us to favor straight hair over coarse hair depending upon our Karma and "Life Condition." However if our Karma or Life condition is different on the inside we change on the outside.
After the assisination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 riots ensused over America with racial tension. Soul singer James Brown who at the time was called the most important Black man in America stopped riots in Washington D.C. and in 1969 he recorded a song called "Say it loud I am Black and Proud". James Brown discarded his iconic processes (conked) hair and a movement or revolution took place in America as African/Americans displayed their cultural pride by wearing their natural hair. This is Esho-Funi or Oneness of life and its environment.
The active ingredient in relaxer that straightens Black hair is a substance called sodium hydroxide. This chemical is so strong it can burn a woman's hair off or melt a can. The street term for this process is "Creamy Crack" because even young girls as young a three years old are demanding that relaxers are put into their hair. Chris Rock is encouraging parents not to use this dangerous chemical on their child's head.
Also, non-duality of life and its environment. The principle that life and its environment, though two seemingly distinct phenomena, are essentially non-dual; they are two integral phases of a single reality. In the Japanese term esho-funi, esho is a compound of shoho, meaning life or a living being, and eho, its environment. Funi, meaning "not two," indicates one-ness or non-duality. It is short for nini-funi, which means "two (in phenomena) but not two (in essence)." Ho of shoho and eho means reward or effect. It indicates that "life" constitutes a subjective self that experiences the effects of its past actions, and "its environment" is an objective realm in which individuals' karmic rewards find expression. Each living being has its own unique environment.
The effects of karma appear in oneself and in one's objective environment, because self and environment are two integral aspects of an individual. The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom by Nagarjuna (c. 150-250) introduces the concept of the three realms of existence, which views life from three different standpoints and explains the manifestation of individual lives in the real world. These three are the realm of the five components of life, the realm of living beings, each as a temporary combination of these components, and the realm of the environment. T'ient'ai (538-597) included this concept in his doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life.
According to Miao-lo's Annotations on "The Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra," two of these three realms-the realm of the five components and the realm of living beings-represent "life," and, naturally, the realm of the environment represents "environment" in terms of the principle of oneness of life and its environment.
These three realms exist in a single moment of life and are inseparable from one another. Therefore, a living being and its environment are non-dual in their ultimate reality. Nichiren (1222-1282) writes in his letter On Omens: "The ten directions are the 'environment,' and living beings are 'life.' To illustrate, environ-ment is like the shadow, and life, the body. Without the body, no shadow can exist, and without life, no environment. In the same way, life is shaped by its environment" (644). He also writes in On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime: "If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds" (4).
Oneness of life and its environment
This terms explains that we are a product of our karma and our enviroment. We change our enviroment by changing ourselves. Below is an indept explanation of the Buddhist term Esho-Funi we use this term to help explain the phenomena of "Good Hair" in the 9 Billion dollar "Black Hair Care Industry."
