Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

The person who will become my husband wants to attend my maternal grandmother's memorial service.

A long time ago, I asked you a question about marriage. Now I'm engaged to that boyfriend, the betrothal has been completed, and I'm just waiting for the date of the ceremony. The official naturalization and wedding are yet to be completed, but before that, the 17th anniversary of my maternal...

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Is it wrong to hope for death?

Even though my body just failed to commit suicide, I'm already thinking about the next one. Am I weird? The monk told me about my mother, who told me to stop dying, that “I am a treasure for my mother,” but it's just a battle. My disability and my mother's old age. It's doubly...

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I couldn't go to work

The diagnosis of ASD and adjustment disorder has been made, and they are people who started working for a company that employs people with disabilities a month ago. I was told bad things, and I couldn't go to work. The person who mentors me is a veteran with 9 years of service, but I feel that I...

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What am I?

I don't understand anything. I don't know what to do. What am I? Do you want to die? Do you want to live?

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Things haven't been going well since I quit my job!

After I quit my job in early August... when I decided on a job and said it would start... A woman at an affiliated store from her previous job was doing double work at her newly decided workplace. That person told me gossip about me to the store manager, and I quit my job at the right time. I...

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How to spend time after a friend dies

I'm a 24 year old woman. A friend from my school days passed away the other day. It was suicide. They're my classmates, so they're 24 years old, just like me. I also knew that she had been suffering from a mental illness for the past few years, so I was surprised, but I thought, finally. We...

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About adulterous relationships

I've fallen in love with having a wife. Until a while ago, I had a dream that I wanted to get married to him, but when I learned about reality, I gave up and we had a break-up talk. He's preparing for a divorce in order to live with me in a few years, and it's hard to break up because they say...

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The center of the ring

If I'm not in the center of the circle I have a personality that makes me feel frustrated. How can I fix it?

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Christianity or Buddhism?

Thank you for always taking the time to consult with us. I'm sorry for being straightforward, but I'm not sure whether to believe in Christianity or Buddhism. I went to a Christian church about 10 years ago. I confessed my faith and went so far as to just get baptized... but the husband...

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What is a monk's wedding

There are various types of weddings, but Shinto ceremonies, chapels, public ceremonies, etc... What is a monk's wedding like?

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The death of beloved cats

My beloved cat passed away yesterday due to illness. It was a good-eyed kitten that was less than 1 year old. Actually, I had a cat before this kid, and that cat also died from the same disease before turning 1 year old. It was a disease that cannot be cured by modern veterinary medicine, and...

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High school graduation exhibition

My school is a design high school and I have a graduation exhibition in February. When I presented the work I'm currently creating to the teacher at the mid-term presentation, I wasn't able to hear very good impressions, and it ended up being afraid to listen to the teacher's impressions, and...

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There is a haze in the marital relationship

Nice to meet you and thank you for your support. My husband lied to me, and I can't trust him anymore. With a woman my husband met through a dating chat this year after 2 years of marriage It turned out that the two of them were meeting alone. He said, “It was a brainchild. There was...

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I want revenge. And what would a Buddha do?

　I'm always indebted to you. In a question a few days ago, I said “I was kicked in my cart by an old woman with dementia” I'm a bad person. The police responded kindly at the time, but I myself Stomach bugs won't fit. By the way, why did I know it was dementia was my own nursing...

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What you thought was good may have been a crime

About 6 years ago, I made multiple commemorative DVDs for people because I thought it would be good. I wasn't familiar with copyright, and I didn't know if it would be a crime, and recently I understood that there might be a conflict... It was a light and humble act, and I really regret it. I...

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Parents' graves

I went to get married as an only daughter, and after splitting up, there will be no one to inherit the tomb my father built. In such cases, do graves always have to be destroyed? Can't we just leave it as it is and let things happen? Are your parents unfaithful?

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security

The monks are part of the security bill proposed by Prime Minister Abe What do you think about it? I'd like to hear your honest opinions.

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About Jakucho Setouchi

I'm indebted to you I became interested in being a monk I did a few searches I'm talking about Jakucho Setouchi I didn't know the details A pretty muddy romance (affair?) etc. I knew it had been done, and honestly, I fell for it I don't like it anymore I saw a post saying...

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It's so painful that I die from regrets about my divorce

It's been a few years since I got divorced with my children, and I'm about to be crushed by intense regrets. Until now, I was desperate to balance work and child-rearing, and I couldn't think of anything else, but when I learned that my ex-husband had a partner to live with, I suddenly looked...

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I want to die a series of hardships

I'm always indebted to you. Hard times have overlapped over the past six months, and I'm exhausted. It overlaps with past consultations, but please listen to the progress. Neighbors who are against the company harassed him and became hypersensitive to chemical substances due to...

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