Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

Know that I am sufficient

Please let me know if you don't mind. I always have a sense of lack that something is missing. For example, as soon as I get the clothes I want, I want the next one. They are jealous of only those who have things they don't have, and feel relieved by searching for people who don't have them....

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I wrestled sumo wrestled with my old students and was puzzled by the unexpected results

This is the person who asked the following question before. https://hasunoha.jp/questions/66841 As you answered, I won sumo wrestling with my students (this is a regular ring inside a sports facility). I'm a 47 year old, 170 cm, 102 kg giant. He is 20 years old, 168 cm, and 53 kg slender. The...

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Is the chief priest's wife the temple's bride?

This is my first time consulting with you. I married the chief priest of a Zen temple, and within a few years, I have been studying the temple family Anming Ceremony and temple family training. However, due to my personality (unsuitability), I inevitably feel cramped to spend my days and work...

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I don't know if I want to go out with you or if I like you

Hello. I'm a female in my first year of college. I'd like to talk to you about a boy I was good friends with when I was in high school. I am aware that they got along quite well together, such as going back home together and watching games alone during sports competitions. We both finished...

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divination

I can't help but feel uneasy if I don't look at my fortune and act. I check multiple fortune telling sites every day. If something even a little bad is written, it will be scary and unbearable to act for a day, and you will act with a blue feeling. I know that it is natural that bad things...

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I'm angry at my parents about raising children

I'm angry about my parents in their late 70s who live just a stone's throw away. My child is in the upper grades of elementary school. The kids are very fond of my parents (grandparents for children). The reason is that they spoil children a lot. I've been playing too many Switch...

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For world peace

Sorry for the abstract title. I'm always indebted to you. Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to someone who is a journalist on the battlefield. That person went to various conflict and civil war regions, took pictures of families and children living there, and showed them to us. I...

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Will you feel better when you die?

I was alienated by those around me from elementary to high school, and lived a difficult student life Now that I'm an adult, my hobby is drowning in pachinko, I borrowed money from my relatives and younger brother, and while thinking I shouldn't use it, I went today too, and as a result, I...

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A way to sort out your feelings for someone you bullied.

When I was in high school, I was bullied by several classmates in the same class and members of the same club activities. Specifically, I was ignored and made to talk about my bad points to the boys around me. In particular, the bullying from D-ko, a member of the club activity, was terrible....

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Is it bad to have a cremation ceremony without chanting sutras?

One of my relatives was the vice president of an internationally renowned company. He was so rich that he was super rich, had both his home and villa in a super high-class residential area, and had a very wide circle of friendships. He passed away the other day due to a chronic illness. They...

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I worry about what I'm told & I hate myself

The other day, I was talking with friends from the university I attended until I was in second grade, and one of them made a fool of me about the occupation I would work for next year. Specifically ・Will I get that job even though I'm inexperienced and not good at that field? ・Hiring an...

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What is one of the six haramitsu, “humiliation”?

　I'm always indebted to you. What kind of act is an act of humiliation? According to dictionaries and Buddhist scriptures, There is a saying “to endure even when things are hard.” Even if this is dangerous, for example, so-called irregularity An act that could lead to a situation, sudden...

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The need to go to college, the pain of studying for entrance exams.

I'm in my second year of high school. Since I was little, my parents' fights and bad talk, hospitalization and rehabilitation due to an accident, and tinnitus due to depression and the sequelae of deafness have overlapped, and I have a feeling that “I have lived without time to rest my mind.” It...

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Play fishing or clam digging.

It is natural for people who do clam digging or fishing for a living to kill, but there is a sense of guilt about what they do for fun. Taking other lives in order to maintain one's life is a matter of the world. However, even though people involved in the primary industry are killing people...

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About a passage from “Shoho Genzo Zuibunki”

I was very moved by my meditation at Eiheiji Temple, and I was also given an opportunity to aim in a good direction, albeit slightly, when it came to stumbling every day. I wanted to know more about Buddhism and the Soto sect, so after returning home, I started zazen in my hometown and also...

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To my father who passed away before I was born

My father passed away from cancer 3 months before I was born. She was a very hard worker, and although she married her mother in her late 30s, she passed away at age 40. Since I was born, I grew up receiving a lot of love from my mother, grandparents, and relatives, so there was no way I...

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I don't have any friends

I want a friend I can talk to without hesitation. There are many people around me who seem like friends that I usually talk to and eat with, but I really don't have anyone around me that I enjoy spending time with. I don't have a good taste with most people, so I can't keep up with the...

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About debts from acquaintances

I'm worried about my parents' debts. My parents ran the company, I got stuck a few years ago, and my parents got into debt from various financial institutions, relatives, and acquaintances. Eventually the company went bankrupt. My father also passed away. It seems that the mother left...

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I'm dying to meet my husband

I've posted the same content several times I celebrated my husband's 3rd anniversary last year The feeling that I want to meet my husband is increasing more and there is nothing I can do I spend my time crying every day Why did you leave me alone in front of the portrait? Why didn't you...

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How to do memorial services for ancestors

Hello. I have a question about how to do memorial services for my ancestors. My paternal ancestors made money in dirty ways that people around them were envied Maternal ancestors were also pretty sloppy of the opposite sex (not at the level of being slightly sloppy, but at a level where...

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