The purpose of life

I think Dazai Osamu's words are certainly a state of enlightenment, or rather an aspect of enlightenment.

There is a saying, “Go around proudly, and focus on your own thoughts...” and I think this is exactly what reincarnation means. It's also called “rebirth,” isn't it?
If you can't get out of the “frame” of your own thoughts, it's going around in style, right? There is no answer. Even if it comes out, it's something I came up with, and I don't know if it's true or not. It's nothing but a made-up answer.

Humans are given a “name” as soon as they are born, and that's where the first “frame” is created, isn't it? You could call it a label, though. Then, they live by increasing their gender, personality, alma mater, occupation, family, etc... but this is like “making my own.” The work of solidifying what “I” is. I think “this is what I am”...

Isn't this called “ignorance” in Buddhism? It's not clear. I don't understand.
There is selflessness in Buddhism. I'm not there. I'm not a fixed person. Even I am passing away.

From the framework of this assumption that I am, I think living mentally as a “person who is nothing” means enlightenment or liberation.

After all, happiness and misfortune are dualistic worlds. They want to separate because I'm here. I want to understand.

Break the fixed assumption of “me” once and live “me” again. I think it's very spacious and clean.

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In my opinion, I don't think there's any meaning of being born or living. Are they nothing but creatures that are just born, complete their lives, and die?
But I don't think that's unfortunate either. Buddha and Dogen Zenji probably had doubts about such things. That's why the first thing I did was get to know myself.

You were relieved to know that the answer to what you are and what it means to live is right now, here, right in front of you. You are saved even if you don't do anything. There is salvation in not treating them in a humane way.

When you realize that you have been saved, there's probably no such thing as being empty. There's no such thing as myself. I am simply living in a world of contentment, changing day by day. That's where peace of mind lies.

Kumao-sama

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

“Right now, I have no happiness or unhappiness. However, a moment will pass.”

It is certainly true that the content shows impermanence, but when asked if it is simply a “state of enlightenment,” I think there is a slight problem.

What you have to be careful about is that easy fuji and recklessness will simply fall into nihilism, pessimism, and cynicism, and may not benefit you in any way.

It would be unrealistic to say “I am you, you are me,” no matter what you do to your partner.

If I were to explain it in terms of Buddhism, “neither happiness nor unhappiness are possible as entities. It's empty. However, it depends on other causes, conditions, etc., in other words, it is made up of luck.” It will be.

Therefore, it means that neither happiness nor unhappiness “exist” as entities, but that does not mean “there are none.”

The subject of reincarnation is a very fine continuum of consciousness (mind), mental inheritance. For that reason, with our rough bodies and rough consciousness, there are things that are quite difficult to know due to ignorance called ignorance, but by practicing Buddhism thoroughly, we strive for causality (causes and conditions) to move towards a better destination, and we want to continue our mental inheritance as something better.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

“Just the way it is” is not an ideal, but a reality. It is a fact that it actually “exists.” Whether I accept it or not, it seems like it already “exists.”
I don't “become” who I am, but “notice” and “wake up” to what I am. However, since I can only see myself through filters called my “thoughts” and “ideals,” I have to be told that from somewhere other than me. That is probably what law (teaching) is.

I don't know what kind of image it is to “let go of worries and live with neutral thoughts,” but I think it's an impression of being careless and selfless. But desire also makes life fun.

I want to eat delicious food. I want to travel abroad. I want to live with the people I love.

The desire to “do...” adds color to life. However, what we misunderstand is that we capture it with my “thoughts” that “it should be like this” and “it should be like this.”

So before the reality that this isn't going to happen, “why?” It sinks into the difference between “it should be like this,” “why only me,” “thoughts,” and “facts.”

Then what you should do is not lose your mind, but rather know the facts. The reality that exists now is not my strength, but the fact that it can be made up of various relationships. So, my thought that “this should happen” if there is, is nothing but a thought, and as a fact, “anything can happen” and “whatever.”
There is a word called “unexpected,” but it means there was nothing that could be anticipated in the first place. I am delighted that my “I want to do” will be realized under such circumstances. And I'm not sad about not being realized, it's just that before the fact that “anything can happen.”

It's not “this is supposed to happen... why is this happening,” but “Well, it could happen like this too. I feel like, “Rather, did you get by with this much?”

Our lives aren't meant to be this way. I can sense the meaning of this. It is a fact that I “happen to” be like this now based on countless factors (direct causes) and relationships (indirect causes = conditions, environments, objects, etc.) of the universe being born, the Earth was formed, life was born, and humans were born... Not because it has meaning, but because of various causes and relationships, I am a person made up of this kind of person.
From there, I think freely about meaning, yet I walk firmly on the earth of facts. Isn't that life?