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What kind of work should people in occupations that reveal people's secrets do?

What kind of work do people in occupations such as photographers for women's weekly magazines or paparazzi who uncover people's secrets and turn them into money?
That's not a good thing or a bad thing; it's a necessary occupation that only exists because we read weekly magazines, so I'm not blaming them separately.

However, because of them, they are left in the entertainment industry, and they lose their jobs due to loss of social trust, and there are times when one article ruins people's lives.
Of course, people who originally hid and did bad things are the worst, and they may have just revealed their secrets to the world.
But that doesn't mean it's okay to do anything, I don't think.

Even in Japan's long history, I think there were many people who received money by informing and telling stories.
In the world of Buddhism, what kind of position are they in?
Watching the recent overheated wide shows makes me think a lot.

8 Zen Responses

There is no value in the job

Good evening

I think you're right. There are times when I think it's Yarisugi. Also, there are people whose lives have been messed up because of that, I'm sorry, and I think they do terrible things.

Now, for example, I can't make rice. I'm going to ask the farmers to make it. Similarly, I don't know entertainer gossip. So you can ask someone who is familiar with it to look it up and get to know it. (I'm not interested in gossip either, but well I can find out even if I don't want to know)

In light of their actions and the precepts of Buddhism, there are certainly acts of breaking the commandments (dishonesty (dishonesty = don't be tempted to say other people's mistakes), dishonesty and defamation (fujisan takai = don't speak ill of others), and in some cases, there are also indecent words (fumougokai = don't tell lies or lies)), but we watched what they investigated on the broadcast to raise audience ratings and buy magazines By increasing the number of copies sold, you're also suggesting (or is) them breaking the rules. Also, we are the ones who incite it and attack the target person, aren't we?
In order to prevent them from breaking the rules, I think we should not be interested in celebrity gossip, try not to watch such broadcasts or magazines, and not overreact. If you do that, you won't need the job itself. They don't have to act like that. (If you use the rice example above, I'm not criticizing farmers; it means you shouldn't eat rice.)

Finally, there is no value in the job. We should not think of it as “the work of karma” or “carrying karma on our shoulders.”

How do you live your life, that is Buddhism

There is a saying like this from Buddha in the sutra called Nikaya (Agan Sutra).
“Those who have a son worry about him
People who have cows worry about cows
People worry about what they are obsessed with
Actually, people who aren't attached don't have to worry.”

What are your obsessions?
A person who uses human misfortune as a source of food?

Incidentally, it seems that since the Buddha became a monk, he simply begged, lived by eating offerings, and did no productive work at all.

I'm not interested in celebrity gossip, and I don't read weekly magazines, but it certainly may not have been praised.
But you're not involved in that, are you?

Just as you have thoughts within you, reporters have the thoughts of reporters, those being interviewed also have thoughts, and readers have their own thoughts.
Not everyone's thoughts are the same as yours.

That's because everyone has a different way of looking at things.

You can't change others; at least you should study hard and improve yourself by doing good deeds.

Anguish is the cause of worry and suffering

If any job is carried out due to afflictions such as greed, anger, or pride, etc., you will accumulate acts (crime, evil karma) that increase worry and suffering.
Therefore, there is a possibility that worries and suffering will increase in the near future, or in the distant future or after the next life.
If you weaken your worries, your worries, suffering, and stress will decrease.

In the case of monks, there are commandments (lifestyle training) that you must not talk about other people's sins and that if the other person apologizes, you must forgive them.
Not limited to monks, living with an awareness of this kind of ascetic practice is useful for reducing one's own worries and suffering, and it may be possible to contribute somewhat to reducing the worries and suffering of others and society.
However, since anger is the cause of trouble and suffering, getting angry at paparazzi etc. is also an affliction.
Paparazzi are bad people, and pride that you are superior to those people is also distressing, so it can also be said that it is an emotion that increases one's own worries and suffering.

The dignity and dignity we “learn” from gossip are questioned.

There is probably a mentality where adults want to watch adult anime just like children watch children's cartoons.
Even if adults “grow only physically into adults,” they remain adult children who rejoice in people's misfortunes if their “mind is always a child.” People who rejoice at acts that don't respect individual dignity, such as disclosing gossip or people's private lives, are probably children pretending to be adults.
Furthermore, I think the question is whether we adults are “really adults” about how we receive it and deal with it.
Gossip is not something you are welcome to raise your hands with.
However, there is an aspect to things that are a hundred steps away.
The image captured by the camera shows the situation as it is.
Smart people make those images, topics, and news work smartly themselves.
Therefore, even if it seems like gossip at first glance, it is something people can learn from.
People who make gossip function themselves as gossip only have gossip articles literally, practically turned into gossip. We should be ashamed of living that kind of life as a gossip life.
Everyone has that kind of gossip side.
People who use gossip as material bring out the gossip side of such people and incite greed.
I think there are plenty of catchphrases like that in train advertisements.
I think it's really necessary to let the paparazzi in your own heart track that, bring it to light, be ashamed of your own low humanity, and be able to live your own life with all your heart, rather than a life where you only chase people's information.
That kind of thing is another aspect that gossip articles lined up in convenience stores and bookstores preach about.

Everyone is an ordinary man full of worries

In the words of our later years, Shinran Shonin, the founder of the Jodo Shinshu sect

An “ordinary man” is full of the most fundamental source of anguish and confusion of not being able to understand the way we are, there is a lot of desire, and only anger, anger, anger, anger, anger, and jealousy occur incessantly, and it never stops or disappears until exactly when our lives are about to end (Ichinen Taken, modern translation)

There is such a thing. It is a word that already looked deeply at human nature 800 years ago.

An “ordinary man” is willing to sacrifice others if it is for his own benefit. It is a daily life where all kinds of desires intersect, and it continues until the moment life ends. Somehow, it's frighteningly sad, but recent weekly wide show magazines exist precisely because of this desire. And our true nature too...

The person who hid and did something bad (unethical), the weekly magazine that uncovered it, the readers of that weekly magazine, and Panda Michiyuki is angry at the weekly magazine cameraman paparazzi in the midst of a question. Like everyone else, he is an “ordinary man” with a constant sense of anger, anger, anger, and jealousy.

Our eyes and ears are directed outward, so we understand people very well. However, I don't see at all that I have desires and worries.
2,500 years ago, Buddha (Buddha) saw through this, and it was revealed that there is a Buddha who can save him.
800 years ago, Shinran Shonin showed that he was an “ordinary man” who was a non-monk, vulgar, and afflicted by his own carnivorous wife, and his sense of thankfulness, which was wrapped in Buddha's mercy, was revealed throughout his life.

Panda Michiyuki's claims are correct in terms of general ethics. But looking back, I think it was the first time when I realized that I was actually an “ordinary man” full of worries, that I was able to feel a life being kept alive rather than having connections (relationships) with various people while being angry and complaining in various ways.

Please feel the casual happiness (harmony) of everyday life before turning your anger on others.
I can drink tap water. I can sleep on a futon. And now I'm alive. Actually, they're all rare.

to save all sentient beings...

Pandamichi Yuki-sama

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

Sentient beings in the greedy world, including humans, are in a world where they unknowingly pile up misdeeds regardless of whether they are excessive in any case due to agony and ignorance (fundamental ignorance)...

Then, they are reincarnated according to the karma they have piled up again...

The Buddha explained the law for escaping that negative loop.

Of course, if possible, the goal is enlightenment so that you can save all sentient beings who have done bad work, but in order to do that, you need to attain enlightenment yourself above all else.

In this world where bad deeds are piled up... is it really possible for you to prevent everything from accumulating bad karma now... it's really impossible for you to do bad work now. This is because, after all, they have the same ordinary status that isn't much different from everyone else...

Anyway, in order to be able to save others, it is necessary first and foremost to adjust from one's own heart to enlightenment one by one.

I would be very grateful if you could use this as an opportunity to advance the path of Buddhism little by little in order to save all sentient beings.

Let's work hard together.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

Don't talk about people's short stories, don't preach your own strengths

You also write “work (work)” and read it as “naiwai = occupation.”

Humans are creatures that cannot live without taking on karma.
Whether they are hunting, farming, animal husbandry, or whether they are vegetarians, they live their lives using other lives as food for their own lives.
The problem is myself (or my descendants?) due to the work I owe How much suffering does it have to endure.
I think there is no doubt that “telling people's short stories is not a good thing” is one of the wisdom of our ancestors.
Why is it “not good”?
Is it because the person who was told is criticized and suffers?
Rather than that, I think it's “wisdom for preventing people from suffering because people themselves lack their own tolerance, and they feel stressed just by being close to the person they said, and their tolerance atrophies, creating people and environments that feel even more stressed.”

However, even if it is a prevention method for one's own health, I think it is necessary to have a sense of mercy that “the person being told seems cute” as energy to continue putting it into practice.

First of all, people who are aware that “it's not good to be short about people,” but even so, people who take it as a karma should be able to lighten the suffering caused by karma (not well compared, sorry) when receiving food.

People who become readers of weekly magazines may be the same. I pray that both the person who was told and the person who said it will not have to suffer because of that work.
If you can satisfy some kind of desire by reading that article, wouldn't it be better to say “thank you” after being aware that it's “not good.”

There is no way to know how much others are suffering from their work.
It's just my own delusion that they seem to smoke only sweet honey even though they are people who do “bad things.”
Such people are bound to suffer.
Wouldn't it be healthy for one person to pray, “Please don't let that person suffer any more?”

The business is complicated.

The business is complicated.
First, let's understand that the mind creates karma, and the mind feels karma.
Even through the body, the mind uses the body to create work, and the mind feels karma from the body.
That mind is a dizzying thing that changes moment by moment and repeatedly lives and dies.
If that momentary heart is tainted by greed or anger, it creates bad karma, and if it is pure with mercy or joy, it creates good karma.
If greed or anger creates new greed or anger, bad karma will increase. When mercy and suiki create new benevolence and joy, good deeds increase.
Moreover, both bad hearts and good hearts are born while receiving previous good and bad deeds.
When bad deeds appear, they darken the mind and tend to create new greed and anger.
When good deeds appear, they brighten their hearts and tend to create new mercy and joy.
It is important to avoid being affected by previous bad karma as much as possible, take advantage of previous good karma to purify your mind more and more, and turn your heart from evil to good, and turn your karma from bad karma to good karma.
Even if he works as a paparazzi, he may be a good father and a filial child when he gets home. Bad and good deeds increase moment by moment.
Also, our minds, which think paparazzi are unscrupulous, continue to create good or bad karma moment by moment. You have to be careful.
I'm not angry at such occupations, but “there are tough jobs. If you make an insight with wisdom, such as “We, who rejoice in the misfortunes of others, make up such occupations,” and observe with compassion so that the suffering of all lives that suffer will go away, it is a good cause.