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Where should I recommend from now on

I have lived for 25 years without a purpose. Recently, in the world, it is natural to have dreams and hopes, and it is considered a wonderful thing that is right and wonderful, and I am very embarrassed that I am living without a purpose.
They also find purpose and motivation in their work, and they take time off from work all the time, causing trouble to people around them. But that doesn't mean I have a job I want to do. I'm just eating, sleeping, and spending time.
Since they are such lethargic and uninteresting people, they don't even have a lover. I want to die soon, but that's scary too.
But not only am I just lethargic, I've been seriously thinking about the work I wanted to do for the past 10 years, but it didn't take shape after all. I thought about walking the Buddha's path two months ago, but when I think about it carefully, I've realized somewhere in my heart that I can't save people with such a lot of hesitation, and I can't truly believe in the Buddha.

I have no purpose, and I have no passion for anything, so where should I recommend them?

5 Zen Responses

Buddhism is a way for oneself to be saved

I think there are definitely not a few people who are worthless.
It's a peaceful, prosperous, and even if you ask for something else, it's an age where you can do something.
However, I think this is probably the age where sadness is born.
Buddhism is not a way to save others.
The way I can be saved is Buddhism.
I am happy to have come across Buddha's teachings.

Every time I go to pray, I say, “It's good to be a monk!” I'm inviting you.
It's been about 6 years and no one is a monk yet... lol
I'm really glad I have my own faith.
If you're interested, it might be a good idea to jump in.
You might be given a completely different point of view.

I think it would be nice to be able to follow the path of Buddhism

I think Buddhism is something that people who are lost can learn and be saved. It's my own training. I just practice for myself without interfering with others.
I think at some point, when you realize that mentality, you think about something like doing it for others.

Anger at myself for trying to immerse myself in a negative state

Anger becomes power depending on how you use it.
There is an aspect that every human being has cheated on until now, even if they say “I really don't want to do it... (``),” but after all, since they have a career where they have been doing it all the time, they have made their own choices.
I want to do it. True to that, myself.
Even if you are in a dark state of negative worry, it should also be called a state of euphoria.
Just by adding a reason, I simply don't want to change, it's troublesome, bad, I'm in a state where I'm choosing inertia.
Let's get out as quickly as possible by feeling the laziness of our true demands rather than before it was built.
It's about taking a very serious look at yourself. There was a time like that a long time ago, too.
To do that, as a good method, I'm really mad at myself and drag them out of the quagmire with anger.
Rebel against yourself with your sharp energy, and stay firm! Bachin! All you have to do is pull it off, correct the trajectory, and change direction! That's it.
Pampering doesn't change, so it's about telling yourself harshly.
not worth it? ➡ I don't want to find value in myself.
No purpose, no passion? ➡ Don't run away for a good reason!! You're not euphoric! I mean, don't immerse yourself in negative hell! It's about sticking a bad deal on yourself right now.
Let's feel embarrassed that you're trying to choose the euphoria of not really, really, really changing because “I have no purpose... (-ω-`),” and feel embarrassed that a fire comes out from the bottom of your body, saying, “I have no purpose... I don't have any passion...”
Actually, the problem is that there is no purpose and that it is worthless.
You really only need to be ashamed. Shame 1 time. Shame energy, immediate transcendence.
They hit that energy with their true heart, corrected their trajectory, and never used that energy as an excuse again.
Where should we go? I have no choice but to act to destroy my own inertia and contradictions.
If you really feel like changing, you can change the name worthless right away and stop being negative euphoric. While I'm labeling myself like that, I still don't feel like changing.
If you really want to change, the first step is to change your name. Please try again.

the road will come later...

Who has a purpose?
Who finds it worthwhile?
Where does energy come from?
Who decided it wasn't fun?
Who believes in Buddha?

None of them are given to me by anyone around me.

Dreams and hopes don't exist from the beginning; they spring up in the middle of something.

Just thinking about it doesn't change anything.

If there are people who are causing trouble, the first step is to create yourself without causing trouble, and that is probably one of the small purposes.
I think this process will give you something rewarding, energize you, create fun, and understand what it means to believe in people and Buddha.

Let's do what's in front of us before we think about it.

It doesn't matter where you go.

When I looked back after walking, there was a path there.

That's all.

“Exodus,” “Bodhi Heart,” “Mercy Heart,” and “Three Treasures of Return”

A worthless person

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

Certainly, it is natural to have dreams and hopes in the world, and it is considered correct and wonderful, but the problem is the content.

Well, I think there are many dreams and hopes in the world in general that usually satisfy desires and complacency. Simply put, it involves making money, gaining status, honor, fame, power, etc.

However, if I were to be able to get them, I wonder if I could really be happy... well, I don't think the suffering of hesitation will change that much.

Certainly, civilization has progressed, life has become convenient and comfortable, and at first glance, it has become a rich world/society, and there is a huge difference between when Shakyamuni explained his teachings and now, but after all, I think it can be said that the hesitation and suffering of people's hearts hasn't changed much from when Shakyamuni was alive.

Anyway, assuming that true happiness cannot be found in the eight laws of the world (gain, loss, praise, blame, honor, slander, ease, suffering), and that true happiness, in other words, leading to enlightenment and nirvana in Buddhism is necessary to become truly happy, Shakyamuni explained the path for that.

Of course, there is no complete denial of what the world says about dreams, hopes, and happiness, but in any case, they are nothing but things like morning dew, fragile and ephemeral, and Buddhism preaches that we should not get too caught up in such things.

This time, worthless people were able to have a “sense of separation,” which is really difficult to obtain, and they wanted to practice Buddhism; this is a truly precious “Bodhi Heart.” Also, it is precisely because we lose and suffer that we can understand other things that are lost and suffered as if they were our own, and this leads to “compassion.”

Then, if it comes down to “Three Treasures,” then you can become a person who truly walks Buddhism with all four signatures.

If a worthless person thinks they can't practice Buddhism unless they become a monk, that's different. Those who learn and practice Buddhism by aligning the above four time signatures are those who walk the path of Buddhism. I hope you can continue to learn and practice Buddhism little by little, no matter what kind of job or position you are in, even if you are at home and get married or give birth. I'm sure you'll be able to see the purpose beyond that.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho