How to become a monk who lives for others

You have no choice but to decide your own path for Galileo.
Therefore, you should make a decision after knowing as many paths (experiences) as narutake.

I wasn't born and raised in a temple,
The experience of being an office worker is useful now.

That's my advice,
Please be sure to get a job somewhere after college.
Things you can't get in class
You should be able to learn it through practice and practice.
If you do that,
What do I want to do
What should I do
What can be done,
I think you'll be able to see it.

I saw the profile. If it's financially possible, why not consider transferring to a religious university? Buddhism isn't everything, but (even if it goes in the opposite direction), the ideological foundation is still created at university. Recently in particular, we have entered an age of change, starting with history textbooks, and Buddhist studies are no exception. There will be a difference between heaven and earth in 20 or 30 years between “I learned by myself” and “I watched it in real time at university.”

Saving others... that is only through life experience. It's fine in the monk's world, and it's fine in the outside world. Personally, I would like people to come into contact with various values in the outside world, but either is fine. Please get involved with various people.

What is lacking and what is being sought in today's temples. It's a lack of communication.
The most popular volunteer group that rushed in during the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake was a monk. While there are many organizations that considered “a step away” from the Great East Japan Earthquake and rounded up their activities, it is monks who continue even now. But the monk is supposed to stay in the temple and do only funerals...

Of the 330,000 temples nationwide, close to half have financial difficulties, and even though the majority are in the so-called middle class, they are supposed to be making rags... Buddhist funerals are held all over the world, and even though they face old age, illness, and death, they are making money only in Japan... there are still not enough of them to list, but monks haven't explained them all. This is because they didn't tell me the most important thing, “destroy my way of looking at things.” That's why Japanese people keep complaining that politics is bad, education, health care, boys, old people, young people, foreigners, and Japanese people are bad... this doesn't save anyone... it's not popular, it doesn't conform to the world, and you can't move forward unless you preach Buddhism as an original outlaw...

But at the end of the day, it's about finding out for yourself what to do. There's someone right in front of you, you're there, you get involved... that's where you decide what to do. This is where living Buddhism, which is not information, comes to fruition. Please do your best.

If you want to save people, you must pursue a path where you can be saved.
It's about seeking a master teacher who wants to learn about this person.

Act as soon as you think of it rather than prepare it. It's about finding a mentor you can trust now.

It's something I don't do for people.
It would be nice if you just act genuinely and end up benefiting people.
Ramen shops don't make ramen for people.
There was a person who told me that if I made my own really tasty ramen, it would be delicious as a result. There was a line. It means that something that could satisfy that person was offered there.
What is ramen here?
Try to get a feel for it as you learn.

Dear Galileo

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

I appreciate your wonderful ambition, I appreciate it.

However, I think it doesn't matter if you don't feel too bothered by saying “for people, for people.”

When I was young, there was a time when I was excited about welfare activities, community development activities, and volunteer/service activities for the world and people by somehow utilizing Buddhism.

See section “Main Activities So Far” in my humble profile
http://www.hide.vc/profile.html

I was working hard on various initiatives in parallel quite a bit.

However... at one point, I suddenly hit a wall, and once, all external activities were suspended...

Simply put, the reason for this is not “for the world, for people,” but rather that I first realized the need for self-cultivation among these ordinary immature people in order to “for all affectionate and sentient beings that have lost their way into reincarnation.”

As you learn and advance in Buddhism from now on, you will also learn about the two truths in Buddhism: the two truths of secularism and abandonment of victory and reason.

In these two teachings, there are also things called “secular bodhi heart” and “Katsuyoshi bodhi heart” as bodhicitta (determination to aim for enlightenment). I feel like I'm being pressured by the need to awaken the latter's Bodhi Heart.

Anyway, first of all, if you don't work on treating your own hesitation, suffering, ignorance, and worry, it will be difficult to treat other people's hesitation, suffering, ignorance, and worry. Otherwise, it would be like irresponsibly testing another drug that you don't know if it works or not. I think it is important to first establish yourself so that you can definitely gain confidence that the medicine will work. I believe that if we do that, we will naturally be able to benefit others. (self-interest and altruism)

We look forward to your participation in hasunoha.

Hatsubodaishin

By wishing to save all sentient beings
To Buddha, Buddhism, and Sangha
Until the essence of enlightenment
I will be devoting myself to it

Work hard with wisdom and mercy
To benefit all sentient people
I am before the Buddha
It will give birth to a complete Bodhi heart

As long as this void exists
As long as sentiments exist
I will continue to exist
May the suffering of compassion be destroyed

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

Galileo's ambition to “become a monk who lives for people” is very precious. Please continue to have that feeling even if you become a monk.

I myself am an immature person who has been ordained the chief priest for 2 years, but every day I live my life worrying about how to “benefit people,” just like Galileo. However, in everyday life, I'm thinking about what I can do for each person in front of me right now, asking “What can I do for this person?”
If you are actually involved with many people as monks, you can see how many people are really worried or suffering. There are unreasonable things that I can't do anything about, and there are many times when I am keenly aware of my own incompetence. I'm probably going to live my life with worries in the future.

No one monk can save everyone. Also, it is the “law” that saves people. If there is someone who is having a hard time, wouldn't it be a good idea to snuggle up to that person even a little bit and tell them about the “law”?

What is “law” is the Buddha's teaching. If possible, why not transfer to a religious university of the Gojibou sect? I think it would be nice if they learned well there. After graduating from my current university
You can also transfer it. There are many differences in how to become a monk depending on the denomination, but I think incorporating is one way.
Even after becoming a monk, every day is a place of learning. You can study as hard at university as you like, and it might be a good idea to lay a solid foundation for becoming a monk.

Let's work hard together to become monks who walk close to people's pain and suffering. Gassho