Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

Don't people pray for salvation in Buddhism

Good evening. I've recently started studying Buddhism, and I'm reading my first Buddhist book. Please let me know if you like in your spare time. As I learned from the story of the monk Hasunoha, I somehow came to understand that Buddhism emphasizes practice, but even so, I was vaguely...

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Please tell me about sifting through choices that will make you happy.

I am the daughter of the temple. I live at my parents' temple with my grandfather, who has severe dementia, my older sister who has an intellectual disability, and parents in their 70s. Once, there was someone who said that my son-in-law would take over the temple, and we got engaged. However,...

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I quit right away even though I became a full-time employee at 30 years old NEET

At age 30, I felt impatient with NEET for 7 years and started thinking about it, but I quit the company I joined as a full-time employee in a week. Once I left this job, I couldn't go home for about 2 months. If I think about it until now, I feel like my life has just been frustrated High...

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Please give me some advice about the world after death.

I am an HSP (highly sensitive) person, and although I can't see spirits, I can easily feel the detailed emotions of humans and the feelings of animals, and I also feel the aura of plants and the atmosphere. I'm interested in things I can't see, and I often think about the world after death, but...

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I went back to the world of the night until this age, but...

I'm always indebted to you. I've been doing double work since this month. After 10 years of working at night, I went back to the water business. The number one reason for this was to rebuild my current life with Usagi Kaku. Among them, since they are older, there are risks... I became an...

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When I talk, the air in the place gets bad for some reason

It's been a while since I had a consultation. While going to a facility for people with disabilities, the new users were probably out of the rules, so I told them, “This is how we do it here.” After that, I started small talk with the staff, like I remembered something I had just been careful...

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Who is the memorial service for?

Nice to meet you. My father passed away this summer. There is a Buddhist altar at my parents' house, but I want to make a memorial service for my father at my own house, so I put photos, candles, incense sticks, flowers, and oranges and worship them every day. However, this was complacency...

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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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