Monks and Mental Illness

I am volunteering to consult with people thinking about suicide.
It's like a “phone call for life,” but since the phone number of the temple is published on the internet, various people call me, and it's pretty difficult.

There are times when they come over late at night or early in the morning, and it's not just people who consult, so I'm sometimes taunted for about 2 hours when it's bad lol

Well, as expected, there are times when I feel sick, but basically, I try not to forget.
It's like just flushing it off in a flush toilet ^^
I'm originally an insensitive person, so I managed to do something with it (・∀・)

I want to have fun in my life ♪

Hello rairai026.

You're depressed because of a mental illness and don't want to do anything. But I'm doing my best by overdoing it... It's painful.
I'm not a great monk with great ascetic practices like other Hasunoha monks, and I'm a monk who is constantly being swayed by worries, so I'm often & pretty depressed (laughs). So I don't think advice comes from enlightenment; I think I can give advice from experience.

Well, what is my technique for overcoming depression
One is sutras (like a monk). Read the sutras in a loud voice. Then I remember my original intention of believing in Buddhism, and I feel like I'll do my best.
Second, they sing songs like cheering songs they love in the car. Karaoke is fine, so I sing to my heart's content. It feels so good (laughs).
Third, I'm going to take a sauna bath. When you get drenched in sweat, toxins in your body disappear, and you feel better.
Be sure to try Rairai too.

I don't know why I live abroad, but I think living abroad can be difficult due to cultural differences and few friends. If it gets tough, ask a friend you can forgive to listen to it. Please make friends like that too. It's a good idea to make friends out of hobbies. If not, I'm fine too. Now let's talk about it on LINE and SNS. Let's do well! Gassho

There are people who are mentally ill, even monks.

I used to work as a religious clerk at a place like a city hall in the temple world, and most of the staff there are monks. But isn't the ratio higher than general companies?? There were so many people who took a leave of absence or retirement due to mental illness that I felt... it's not a story I was proud of.

I have also worked with such people at the regional office to which I belong, and I feel that those who properly acknowledged that they were sick and were properly examined at medical institutions had a rapid recovery trend.

There were also people who always went to public baths because bad feelings swirl around when they are alone, and when they are in a small place, that tendency becomes even stronger.

It would be nice if there was a good method called this... Speaking of which, here is the one recently introduced by someone who was suffering from a mental illness in the past

“Suddenly, 'How to Cure Depression', which appeared on an internet bulletin board and was posted, is causing a big response.”
http://temita.jp/kaigi/48345

I don't know if it's true or false, but maybe it makes sense after reading it too? I felt that, so I'll introduce it. Please let me know when it works!

It seems that Rairai026 is positively confronting her mental illness because she wants to do something about it. It's not something you can do.
Please don't overdo it, don't try too hard... after all, everyone said, “Today is a day off!” They said that my body would feel lighter on that day.
When it's really tough, take a break from work, and if it gets worse when you're in bed, isn't it okay to go play to refresh yourself? Your mind, not your body, is probably tired, so it's fine to do that!

Try not to think too much, do what you need to do, then rest! It would be nice if you could get into that habit... but it's difficult.

Oh yeah, religion is probably an image of “saving the mind,” but there are also monks who say that Buddhism is not “salvation of the mind” or “spiritual religion.”
Perhaps the salvation of Buddhism is to awaken to the fact of existence that the heart... in other words, life as a whole is saved, even if it is painful with emotions.
Of course, it also has an effect on the mind from there. It's a difficult point.

We look forward to your recovery.

People who have a fixed grip on “illness (illness)” somewhere are sickened by the mentality called sickness, just as wise people drown in wisdom.
If you know this, you will be able to forget your illness even if you are sick.
When you don't want to go, it's an actual feeling that you don't want to go, so it doesn't become a problem.
You have a serious personality and say, “You can't even say this. Don't even think about it.” There is a place where they “blame oneself and blame oneself.”
It's good to know that this is actually a negative psychological “anguish” that makes you catch up or suffer.
For example, I like eating, and recently I've been gaining more and more weight, but I've forgotten Boudé and typed in letters. At that time, even though I was boodie, I forgot about boudee.
Boudey isn't a problem.
You probably forgot your age when you were reading the letters now.
You probably forgot about the company too.
You've probably forgotten about people you don't like.
Humans are lucky bags with their bottoms out like carp streamers.
I receive what I receive without likes or dislikes, I am being given what I am receiving, and I live my life leaving everything I perceive flowing away.
The mind is the only thing that “holds, grabs, acknowledges, grasps, and has the illusion of having it.”
This is called obsession.
Therefore, your perception of “bad” is your obsession that grabs and holds onto your “sick or unenergetic self.”
Hola, I don't have any sense of “Yamai” until a while ago.
If you don't understand, try rereading it a few times.
“Illness is even more bound by being mentally ill.”
Please focus on the truth of seconds, minutes, and hours when you have forgotten your age, personality, and position.
You don't have to hold on to your lawless self forever.
Your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, even if a doctor diagnoses you as “sick,”
Today is today, and now we must be welcoming a brand new truth.
Today is Children's Day.
🎏 Learn about your true nature with the carp streamer.
My corporation is like a carp streamer
Don't let the east, west, north, and south winds blow
swallow everything
Don't refuse what comes
Don't chase those who leave
No matter what you put in, there's no leftovers
The old trend is no longer there
🐟
The present is in line with the current trend. 🌊 Don't chase the waves that have passed

To confess, for the most part, when I answer a lot on hasunoha, it's when I have to write a puja. I finished the preparations early, but... well, if it becomes an obligation or a job, I don't feel motivated. Two years ago, I put off my impressions of only 1200 characters until the full deadline of half a year, and during that time I wrote 1000 character hasunoha answers hundreds of times. That's a funny story (laughs)

The current puja has also finished, so the pace of answers has also slowed down. Preparations for the puja were completed 2 days before the puja. On the morning of 3 days ago, I tweeted “Ah~... I don't want to do it... I wonder if I'll start talking about the law in the afternoon...” and my wife said, “Don't run away!!” I saved up a lot of luck. Even monks are like that. Even now, when I was reading the book, it was 2:30, and I was hungry and felt like answering while eating midnight, but I was struggling for a while because getting out of bed and going out to eat a midnight snack was a hassle.

So how do you do your best with your heart?

> I know that if I don't wake up, my mood will get worse, so I'll go to work somehow.

this is it, this. The monk is with us. I'm going to do it because it's going to be even more painful if I don't just do it.
People in the world say it's worth doing, but that's definitely a lie, isn't it?
As a matter of fact, I also like the Dharma Tales. There's something I want to tell you. There is also the next plan and the next one. It was fun that they also listened intently to the previous puja. But even so, when I'm not motivated, I'm not motivated. that's the kind of thing.

For the most part, major companies in the Japanese-style management era until the burst of the bubble maintained a lifelong employment system using not being able to quit in order to support a family if they had one. That's because of that, my boss took care of matchmaking, and they broke bones so they stuck together in an in-house romance. On the flip side, it wasn't an age of depression like now, and even in the bubbly and cool era, they had no choice but to work by creating situations where they were forced to work.

However, it is extremely misunderstood to regard not being able to work hard in a positive way as weak or bad. The bad guts theory is wrong. It's natural that I don't want to go to work. You have to push that, let alone praise yourself when you go to work while getting along well with your mental illness. Praise yourself. That's a great monster. great. More splendid than Daiji! This is fine!!

I read it. As you said, actually, everyone does.
I'm really bad at mornings. It's really painful when bells and boards ring early in the morning during ascetic practices or while going to the head temple.
The real intention is that it's still painful.
“Oh, morning is here again, no, I don't want to wake up, I want to sleep.” This is my real intention.
I rub my sleepy eyes, change into black clothes, and go to work in the morning.
While I was working, I thought, “Well, it started today too, well, I wonder if I'll do my best in moderation...” It makes me feel like that.
That might be the case at home too. At home, after working, I go around graves and visit graves.
Then, while weeding and picking up trash and putting my hands on the grave, I felt like my back was being pushed somehow, and I thought, “I wonder if the Buddha and everyone's ancestors are watching over me today too, so I wonder if I'll do my best.” It makes me feel like that.
I was mentally ill, so my will is extra weak, so I feel like that.
How about it?
Wouldn't that be very helpful?

Let's try moderately hard today too.
Namu Amida Buddha