hasunoha

A monk who became a monk is married.

I love Buddhism and I'm studying it.
I have a simple question, so please let me know.

I'm learning that Buddhism is the teaching of becoming a Buddha by becoming a monk and practicing.
It's a long way off for me in my normal life.
However, modern monks get married, drink alcohol, and live at home, right?
I don't think I can practice any training with that, but what is the basis for getting married?
Are you basing your arguments on some sutras?
Or does it mean that you've already given up on practicing Buddhism?
If it's OK to get married, why do they only become a monk (practice ascetic) temporarily?

Please tell me the views of each denomination.

4 Zen Responses

The Jodo Shinshu sect does not become a monk.

Jodo Shinshu monks are lay monks who don't become monks.
We don't need to be a monk (ascetic).

This is because all of the Pure Land Regeneration Buddha according to Amida Nyorai's otherpower petition are all there, so there is absolutely no need to do anything on this side.
Since it is 100% Amida's work, the monks and followers simply listen to Amitabha's story and send a nenbutsu of thanksgiving.
In other words, the nembutsu that comes out of my mouth is the result of Amida's upbringing, and I was raised to say nembutsu.

The purpose of the Jodo Shinshu sect is to regenerate the Buddha once again in the Pure Land of Paradise, and since all of that is left to Amida's original wish, there is no problem with me at all.

You can practice ascetic practices even if you're married.

As you said, I think there are many monks in Japan who break the precepts and get married eating and drinking alcohol.

But what are the commandments for?
This makes it easier to practice,
I think it's to make it easier to reach Buddha's enlightenment.

Having a family certainly makes training harder than when you're single.
But that doesn't mean you can't practice ascetic practices.

It is possible to promote ascetic practices in any environment.

Conversely, I don't think that just because you keep all the commandments does not mean you can understand.
I think it's important to practice ascetic practices.

I think entering a Buddhist temple is really just going through the gate.
I think the daily training from then on is very important.
Ascetics is not in another special world
Your partner is always your heart.

I don't think monks just do memorial services and funerals.

Additional note: I am a Shingon sect, but when do I practice ascetic practices to become a monk
A hundred days away from family and secular life at all, of course, meat eating, alcohol, and entertainment are prohibited at all
I don't have any cell phones, TV, newspapers, radios, etc.
in a situation where there is no notification even if someone in the family dies
I did some pretty hard training, both physically and mentally.
However, I am aware that it was the foundation for continuing the ascetic practice for the rest of my life every day after that training was over.
Even when it comes to daily training, it's not that the little thing called myself works hard.
Far beyond the “I” of a small being called me
By entrusting everything to something big and precious (we call it Buddha)
By treating your small self as a mirror, the big Buddha is reflected...
I can't write any more, but I want to continue my training like that.

Additional note: In the book “Immortal Buddhism,” Kobo Daishi Kukai, the founder of the Shingon sect, “Blessings express the great sorrow of Buddha and the devotion of sentient beings.” There is a description that says, “The Shadow of the Buddha and the Sun, which appears in the heart water of sentient beings, is named as having a sense of the Buddha and the Sun often.”
In other words, when the figure of the Buddha is reflected on the surface of a person's heart, it means “holding” when the mind of the “add” practitioner senses the appearance of the Buddha, and a world of enlightenment appears in contrast between the Buddha and the person (practitioner).
... I expressed it from my daily experience of practicing the Dharma (about 2 hours), saying “Everything is to the Buddha... omitted... the Buddha is reflected”. I'm sorry if the expression was bad.
Postscript 2: If you find a master, you can practice ascetic practices.

Kuzei Kannon

The Sha Family
Nice to meet you, my name is Tetsuya Urakami from Nagomi-an.
That's an interesting handle name!

Now, as you said, there is no doubt that “Buddhism is the teaching of becoming a Buddha by becoming a monk and practicing.” I think that was Buddhism in the first place.
In response to the question, “What is the basis for getting married? Are you basing your arguments on some sutras?” There was that, so I'll answer that point.

Like Shakushinsei-san, I am a member of the Jodo Shinshu sect, and it seems that the founder, Shinran Shonin, stayed at Rokkakudo in Kyoto when he was young and had a dream where Kuze Kannon appeared. Incidentally, at the time, dreams were thought to be important announcements from Shinto and Buddha.

The words I heard in my dream...
Gyoja-juku reports a female offender, I became a female offender
Isshinoma, Nou, Genrin, the Final Chapter: Dosei Gokuraku

The translation is “even if you have a wife due to a causal relationship, I (Kusei Kannon) will be your wife, spend the rest of your life together, and when you end your life, I'll take you to the Pure Land.”

Also, Honen Shonin, who is the mentor of Shinran Shonin, was himself a holy monk with a strong sense of discipline, but people said, “If you marry your wife and work nembutsu, you can get married; if you don't have a wife, stay single. Above all else, nenbutsu is important,” he explained.

For me, the above is the basis.
Also, as an additional question for Shakushin-sei, I think the difference between Jodo Shinshu monks and followers is “whether or not they have encountered Buddhism and are they moved” and “whether or not they are trying to convey inspiring teachings to people.”

If so, when it comes to whether all people who have come across Buddhism and are trying to pass it on to people are monks, the question is whether they have obtained monk status as a real issue.
However, I think that people who are moved by Buddhism and want to pass it on to others are far more Buddhist than monks who aren't.

appending
Well, I think Shinran Shonin is also a very unique person.
So, it's a simple statement, but it's not wrong. However, it's not the nuance of “it's OK if you do nembutsu!”, and I think it's important to recognize the self that can't get rid of worries no matter how much practice you do.

In order not to run away to a “special presence”

Shaka, Dharma, Christ, and you were probably all born of women. I've seen thank you for your answers, and this is probably enough for a wise person.
First of all, when people deny marriage or the existence of women by saying that because they are monks, they probably went through the old days, but in modern times, no matter how much Buddhism or what it is, I think it's out of human sensibility.
That's why Zenji Eizan of the Soto sect strongly appealed for women's salvation.
What are men and women for without regard to the preciousness of women?
Are there any monks who weren't born to their mother?
Are there any monks who grew up without their mother drinking women's milk?
There is no monk or anything without respecting relationships.
It's Buddhism, it's a sect, so I don't care about Buddhist nonsense.
There are probably men and women before religion or Buddhism.
Japanese Buddhism, which further surpassed the discriminatory ideas of ancient India and took the big step of approving marriage, is the best culture to be proud of in the world.
If you are told that the idea is different, why don't you become a monk, leave your wife alone, leave your mother alone, leave the woman alone, and stand on a high, saying, “This is a monk,” and pray the Buddha?
Do you even think that such a cheap, outdated, and discriminatory idea is correct?
That's why I'm married.
Who and what can be saved from family suffering without getting married?
What do unmarried monks realistically understand about the actual suffering of couples and parent-child issues?
Even the Buddha got married and led his children and nanny to the position of becoming a monk, right?
Being a monk is something that ❝ comes from such human notions, tendencies, thoughts, thoughts, etc., and it's not a good idea to roll your head around ❞.
If you're a Buddhist, it's not OK to do it, is probably your imposition of ideals against Buddhism.
To practice is to leave that kind of thinking and logic, live in a factual world, and live clearly with your heart without being swayed by your own thoughts.
If you have any questions, please don't ask as a thank you and ask a new question as the number of responses is limited.
“Even if you have things, what you try to own them is owned by things.
Income without income is not owned or controlled by it, even though it has it.”
That is the attitude of a monk's wife and marriage.
Being unbound is a monk, unearned ownership, and ascetic practice.