About the existence of “monks” in modern times

According to the Buddha's teachings
“Don't look at what others didn't do.
Look at what you did or didn't do.”
There is such a thing. (Dharmapada, Dharmapada)

You just need to be careful about what you do.
Look at someone else's face and look back on yourself.

I don't want them to be lumped together.
However, I myself am ashamed that in the past, I looked at “today's high school girls...”, “today's young mothers...” and “today's politicians...” all at once.

So while exaggerating, I don't want you to use the “monk statue” you've seen and heard about in the mass media as a “representative of modern monks.”
Hopefully, you'll meet a good person.

　Thank you Black Salena for your amazing question. We monks go out to eat yakiniku in our daily lives, just like the general public, but at that time, if it were beef, it made me feel grateful that I was able to keep alive thanks to beef. Next, going to an online dating site or cabaret club is different depending on each denomination, but it's an indecent act of the Buddha's Five Commandments. In other words, you'll be doing indecent things with ambiguous women. However, there is a bozu cafe, but they don't serve alcohol here, and you can listen to your concerns in the same way as this hasunoha, so it's not indecent.
Being arrested for rape or assault at the end is a different way of saying punishment depending on the temple and each denomination, but it is definitely excommunication, and the monk's registration is taken away. Black Salena, I think it would be nice if you visited the temple. Gassho

I don't think being close to you is bad, but maybe it's not good to go too far.
Either way, that's not everyone, and the actions of some people are probably too conspicuous.
There is no doubt that a monk is also a person who preaches the law, but I don't think they are special beings.

I want you to discover the appeal of a person without creating too many images before meeting them.

Let's think the other way around. Certainly, media handling has gotten very bad over the past few decades. However, it has rapidly improved over the past ten years.
I wonder why? What is interesting is that the period when such changes began is linked to the period when the top of a certain nation's largest cult group stopped appearing on the front stage, and health deterioration theories and death theories began to be whispered. It's strange.

There is also a story like this. “Experts like the director of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) say television news is a form of entertainment. Similar to this opinion, research on why people watch news has concluded that most viewers are looking for fun and distraction, and that getting information is just a secondary motivation for watching news.” (E. Aronson “The Social Animal” Science Co., Ltd.)

Damn it, the reason why Buddhism has been spoken ill of in recent decades is that everyone would be happy if they spoke ill of monks. This isn't limited to monks. There was a trend of hitting people in authority with a spinal reflex. Like the All Fighting Generations. People before that don't speak ill of the monk irresponsibly! That was the trend, too.

In fact, it is said that the majority of monks make money from the monks even though their annual income is less than 3 million. Since ancient times, there have been various events such as Buddha's birthday celebrations, various lectures, zazen sessions, and puja sessions, but in the Great Hanshin Earthquake, it was not reported at all that even though it was a monk who mobilized the most personnel after the Self-Defense Forces. Monks are always volunteering in every disaster, and even though they are always volunteering overseas, they aren't reported even for a second. To put it bluntly, it's morbid. Journalism is that kind of thing. If you go right and left to the vector sent from there, you have to quit casually.

If there were 350,000 monks, it would be natural for them to have idiots, scum, and scum. He was even a direct disciple of the Buddha. The bad guys won't go away. Grudge and hate are painful. Monks, politicians, public servants, black companies, corporate animals, NEET, old age, young people are bad bad bad... this doesn't save anyone. The way you look at things just makes you unhappy. If it's that kind of thing, it's not a place for training unless you get hungry.
Nausea only grows when you worry about bad words from people you don't know their faces or names. It's just about myself and the person in front of me. I'm just preaching Buddhism like drinkers drink alcohol.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to have a meal with a parishioner, and they recommended beer, but they answered that they don't drink alcohol when wearing monk clothes.
Then, “What are you looking like?” I was told it with such a nuance.
Well, people in the world aren't particular about the behavior of the monks, and I wonder if they are tolerant to some extent.

Touching the law, such as murder or rape, is bad for a human being, not a monk, but...
I personally think that if you don't do embarrassing acts as a person, such as meat, encounters, or older sisters, as mentioned in the example, you should go if you go, even if you don't hide your status.

However, I wonder what it would be like to be able to do a monk in a funny way on TV or something.

Black Salena

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

I think of it as scolding and encouragement as the opposite of expectations.

I think hasunoha is also becoming one of the places where you can feel close to monks in a sense.

Therefore, as an entity you can rely on, we know that we would like to work in cooperation with our legal friends every day so that we can meet their expectations.

I would like to continue to reflect on scolding and criticism as “stones from other mountains” and “foot care.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho