Why did you become a monk?

Why did you become a monk?

Probably the most common one is “because the house is a temple.”

It seems like that's not the case with kids these days, but in my time, everyone said, “Can't they escape the temple somehow?” It seriously bothered me once or twice.

Teranoko is the kid who says it's a futuristic kid. When I was in middle and high school, let alone college, my number one concern was “how popular are you with girls?” that's right lol at that age, “Let's be a boy!” I think boys who are unhealthy and have no youth are rare, right?

BUT! monk! Even if you don't like it, when you learn it, when you try it, it's surprisingly interesting ♪ You can learn it. It makes me think.

However, the “bozu whole profit” that the general public thinks is a story about only a handful of temples and monks, and if my child goes to a private university, how much is tuition? Is that something that seriously bothers me (?) It's life.

with? in front of the boy? you've been a freelancer since college students during the bubble period lol

Gassho

Mado-san
Nice to meet you. I'm Yuki Shizuku, a monk, female professional wrestler, and counselor.
Of course, the main reason is that my parents were the chief priests of the temple, but that's a bit stupid (laughs)
I don't want to get married to a monk decided by my parents or the adults around me, so I'm asking for permission to marry the boyfriend I was in a relationship with at the time.
Well then, if I became a monk, I didn't have to marry someone decided by my parents or the adults around me, and if I could marry someone I like, I thought I'd become a monk and became a monk.
I believed that if I became a monk, my parents and the adults around me wouldn't complain about anything, or that they wouldn't impose various ways of life on me, so it would be easier.

But it was hell since I became a monk.
Just because I became a monk didn't set me free.
Rather, freedom is taken away more and more, and every day they are persuaded to quit being a female pro wrestler along with the words “like a monk” and “like an heir.”

If you don't do OO, don't be happy.
Even if you're happy, don't be happy if it's bad for the temple.

My heart was finally broken as a result of the adults willing to do what the parents and adults at the temple would be happy and asked for due to the attitude of the adults.
The more I did what I didn't like or felt painful, the more the adults were kind to me.

However, at last, my mind was broken and I went to psychosomatic medicine, got drugged, and became drug-induced Parkinson's disease.
Among them, I was doing counseling in parallel, so I tried studying psychology myself.
And yes, I qualified as a counselor in June because I wanted to make use of my experience so that as many people as possible who are mentally ill and physically upset can be at ease.

As a result, the specialty Japanese food specialty store in Chinatown, called a monk, a female professional wrestler, and counselor, became something like spaghetti (laughs)

Just one.
It's easy to look for a job that makes use of what you like or what you're good at, but why not consider a job that makes use of “your own experience” as one?
And I think work is about doing something useful to people. There are no useless jobs.
Don't let customers come if you don't cook delicious food.

Please do your best in job hunting with a spirit of self-interest and others!!

I got a degree (score) when I was 10 years old. I'm basically a normal elementary school student just because of the shape. At that time, several old women cried and were delighted. I still couldn't understand the meaning of those tears, but it was an intense experience that stuck in my mind.

It was smooth sailing when I was in middle school, but I became slightly ill when I was in high school. I feel like I shouldn't trust people all over the world.

And I started working part-time in the fall of my first year at university. I continued for 3 years, and now I was in a position where I was mentoring my juniors. Then I became involved in my juniors' career paths, and I realized that we cried and rejoiced together. Oh, surprisingly, I liked people... At that time, the face of an old woman who cried and was happy came to mind when she got over it. And this is what I thought. Speaking of which, monks are in a position where they can be deeply and deeply involved in every scene of people's joys, sorrows, and sorrows... isn't that actually a tremendous honor???

As I learned after becoming a monk, there are things you can't do without becoming a monk. At a monk's workshop, someone who did some pretty deep activities due to the Great Earthquake came as a lecturer. That person said on the podium, “Actually, it's something you shouldn't talk about, but since you're a monk, I trust you to talk about it. He said, “No, I couldn't tell anyone, so I want the monk to ask...” and let me listen to what he was holding while crying in tatters.

After all, monks have special powers, don't they? How many positions are there where people can be unconditionally trusted not as reliable acquaintances, but as an unspecified number of people. That is the power of the Buddha and the ancestors who have been handed down for 2,500 years. You can't borrow that power unless you're a monk at a temple. If you live Buddhism within your own limits, even a Buddhist geek might be enough. However, if you live in Buddhism beyond your own boundaries, you can't be a Buddhist nerd.

Incidentally, the most common reason for applying for a direct disciple of the Buddha is the priesthood of another person (acquaintance). And most people don't become disciples of the Buddha due to good motives.
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006997907
What is important is not the initial motivation for applying, but maybe what you learn and how to grow during it. Apart from whether or not you can join the company, in the sense that it's for the fulfillment of your life.

Nice to meet you, I grew up as the eldest son in a normal office worker family. So I wasn't born in a temple. They say it came from home.
I was also really surprised that I had become a monk, and all my old friends were so surprised that they laughed.

People born in temples have been around since they were little, so it seems that there are various restrictions (like people in a temple), but if anything, I've been doing whatever I want. Playing was the main thing rather than studying (laughs)

The turning point for me was getting married, and my marriage partner was the eldest daughter of the temple.
At the beginning of my marriage, I had no intention of becoming a monk, and I intended to continue working as an office worker, but it became necessary to participate in temple events, etc., so I made ends meet after a while.

Then I went to Motoyama in Kyoto to get ahead, and the people I met there were people I hadn't met until now, and in a nutshell, they were all nice people. I was already surprised.
In a competitive society, I was shocked because I was only thinking about how to make money, and even if I used others, there was almost no such thing as trusting or working for people for free.

After that, I began to learn Buddhism little by little, and decided to live as a monk. Right now, I still haven't been able to do basic things, such as being bad at sutras, and not being able to sit properly for a long time, but I think it would be nice if I could protect the temple and contribute to the community as a chief priest in the future.

Before entering a temple as the world would expect, I thought it would be profitable, but I was surprised when I learned that it was only a small part of the temple, but now it doesn't matter, one of the changes in my state of mind is that it doesn't matter.

I don't seem to be able to live until next month if I don't look for a part-time job, so like Mado-san, I have to think about my motivation for applying (laughs)
When I was looking for a job, my motivation for applying was because I thought I could do that job better than others.
Let's do our best in our respective places.

Hello.

You can't write your motivation for applying well, do you?

I was a temple kid, so I was raised as the temple's successor, but like Okuwashi, I've always thought about “how can I escape the temple's spell?” since I was little.

Actually, after I graduated from university, I worked for a computer software company in Tokyo. That's because it was a field I majored in at university, and I loved it. Also, there was an ambition to “make the world more convenient with computers.” I wasn't able to communicate that well during the interview, but I think that was the case for me at the time.

After that, various things happened, and I ended up entering a temple,
I worked in Tokyo, and when I went back to my hometown Shizuoka from time to time, it seemed like my parents were getting older. Somehow it made me feel like “I have to have this by my side.” Also, I was able to see the state of anxiety that I, who is supposed to be a candidate for a successor, wasn't doing anything about the temple.
I think I probably felt like “I have to protect my parents and parishioners myself.”

When I got a job at a company, I had “likes” and “ambitions.” When I entered the temple, I went in for “what I wanted to protect.”

But now, temples have everything “likes,” “wishes,” and “things I want to protect.”

It would be nice if you could say your motivation for applying and get a good job.