Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

What is the meaning of living as the value of living things declines?

Is there any point in living being 30 years old and living beings declining in value? Honestly, that's enough. Humans should have lived based on instincts, but modernization has led to an age of reason, and original desires have been suppressed, and Natsume Soseki said that the end of...

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This is a serious story.

Tonight, I've been coming to Kansai to work part-time since the 1st. I came early and went to Nara and Kyoto to see the five-story pagoda. Then I suddenly think, even though there was a period until the Edo period, which was supported by the Yamato spirit that continued from the Jomon period...

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I haven't been able to grow anything I want to commit suicide

My teens and twenties haven't put much effort into anything. Even if I live like this, I can't see any hope, and it seems that Buddha attained enlightenment in 34th place, but in my case, it doesn't seem like it will last that long. I'm now an empty, empty old man. I've heard over and over...

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About previous lives

There are people I know who can see past lives as spirits, and that person has proper power. My spiritual power awakened after I became involved with that person. However, it's a story about my previous life, and I was often sold in a house that was sold to protect myself due to circumstances......

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About tomb obtainers

Recently, I've been hearing a lot of opinions about grave obstruction. The opinion that smudging a grave is a punishment, the opinion that what is important is not the grave, but your heart, and that seeping the grave is not a bad thing. My house is not my home, and my parents are the only ones...

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Respect for one's own feelings and my husband's instability

They are having trouble due to the frequency of sex in a marital relationship. I'm not that much of a sex seeker. Of course, that's not because I don't have much love for my husband. My husband says he wants to have sex every day, at least 3 times a week. I've tried my best to respond...

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How to see only the facts

I'm indebted to you. I have a habit of thinking that makes me think too much about relationships and relationships with friends, and I'm worried. I wonder if that's what it means, or maybe it's actually like this. I read too much and tried to read the back words too much, so I wrestled solo,...

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I don't know if I like my husband

My husband and I have been married for about a year. We've known each other for many years, and we got married less than a year after we started dating. Since we got married, my husband, who likes freedom, and I have been fighting all the time, and I, who we both want to share, have been lonely...

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A senior at work who looks like a moral boyfriend

Good evening. It's been quite a while, but let me talk about a female senior at my current workplace. I changed jobs in spring, and nearly 5 months have passed. I've gotten used to work since the beginning, and there are times when I think work itself is fun, and I think it's worth...

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I want to stop inheriting temples.

I've been told since I was little that I would take over a temple and a side job. I chose where to go to high school and college just because I didn't want to be a monk. While I was in college, I wanted to return the favor to my father and mother, so I obtained the qualification of a monk...

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I was saved by ChatGPT's answers.

Nice to meet you. I think the content will be rude this time around, but I'd like to ask for your honest opinions, so I'm posting it. I've been reading the questions and answers on this site before, and I was impressed by the monk's sincere attitude. However, I wasn't entirely convinced by...

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A relationship that crosses the line with a man who has a girlfriend

I'd like to hear honest opinions from a third party about having an affair with a man who had a girlfriend by kissing and fellating. I'm 20 and he's 19 and a junior in the circle. I knew my partner had a girlfriend for a long time. I've never had a boyfriend, I was a virgin back then, and I'm...

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Just like you think

Hello. I'm currently 18 years old and a first-year college student. It's a bit difficult to express, but recently I feel like I've been wondering a lot about what life is. I had an idea of what caused this, and I came across a lot of things that didn't go the way I wanted. I often hear the phrase...

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About fear during meditation

Hello. When I'm meditating, my fear comes out strongly. There's nothing wrong with just sitting, The moment my breathing changes deeply and my senses change slightly (when meditation deepens), a very scary feeling springs up and I quit. Does the fact that you usually do it alone also have an...

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What should you do when they say you can't go out with them right now

Around December of last year, I met someone through my sister's introduction, and that person is a 27-year-old contract employee, about 3 years younger than me. After we met a few times, I fell in love with him, but to be honest, I felt that the other person wasn't really interested in...

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Words to chant when praying

I believe in the Nichiren sect in my house, and since I was a kid, I was taught to chant the “Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō” on Buddhist altars, so I prayed somewhere and did that when visiting graves other than family temples, As I went to temples and saw Buddha statues more often for work, I began to...

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The word relationship

I recently learned about this site, registered, and am posting for the first time. I have been attracted to Japanese (oriental) landscapes since I was in my 20s, and became interested in temple buildings, gardens, sculptures, etc., and became interested in Buddhism while visiting temples as a...

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Is playing with a character that imitates God a punishment?

Good evening. I'm sending you a message asking you to listen to my story. [Overview] In a game where characters with traditional Shinto and Buddha motifs appear, they have a serious psychological conflict with the act of attacking them and getting points. [Specific situation] I've...

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How to move in fear

I'm currently studying CG to get into games at a vocational school. I can't beat my fear right now. I'm afraid of job hunting. Aiming for this type of job is simply a narrow gate, and it seems that it is an employment ice age due to recent improvements in technology and the...

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How to distract yourself from suffering in living hell

Nice to meet you. I'm a single woman in my 30s. I don't have any friends. Workplace relationships aren't going well either. I have repeated over and over in my life that even if I get a good impression on someone I'm involved with for a moment, they always end up being disliked at the...

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