What is happiness?

If you are told that you are unhappy or that you are a person who can die, etc., your close people say “what are you saying, you're not happy” because they don't want you to die.
In other words, it means “I don't want you to die.”
The people around you don't want to ask and answer questions about what happiness is, they just don't like being made to worry about the danger you are putting in the air.
“You're happy” may also be a rejection reaction of “don't say anything that makes you worry.”
If people close to you look unhappy or unhappy, people around you won't feel like it's clear.

My name is Kameyama Junshi. “What is happiness?” As for the question, I think the important thing in life is not to feel happy or to pursue happiness, but to face myself, which is this irreplaceable “life.”

Happiness doesn't come with a shape, so there are a lot of differences. There are people who find purpose in their work and feel happy when they are working, and there are also people who feel extremely happy after finishing work. So, when it comes to happiness, “What is happiness (for you)?” The question also comes up. However, finding the value of living in “feeling happy” is probably like building one's own life on an unstable foundation. And if being happy is worth living, is a life where you feel unhappy a life not worth living? Unhappiness, like happiness, is very diverse. There are countless things such as working under low wages, losing a family member due to the earthquake, feeling unfortunate in relationships, etc. Also, I think that feeling unhappy is something that everyone has, to a greater or lesser extent.

I believe that “living” means facing oneself, which is this irreplaceable “life” received from the Buddha. The way we deal with ourselves varies from denomination to denomination. There are various ways to do that, such as people who face each other through zazen meditation, or people like me, who face each other through nembutsu, etc., but I think they are consistent when it comes to facing oneself. And the time I can face myself in that way is a moment where I feel happy.

These are my answers. I would be happy if I could help Aoume even a little bit.

There is a story like this.

[What is the happiness of chicken eggs?]
Choose from the following four questions.
① Becoming a fried egg
② Becoming a boiled egg
③ Becoming scrambled eggs
④ Becoming a chick
“Eggs” themselves don't know the answer to this question.
It is the parent bird that knows the answer to this question.
Of course, parent birds choose ④.

We are like eggs, so we don't know what happiness is.
I don't know, so I live my life by defining being able to get pleasure as a happy thing for the time being.
However, no matter how much pleasure you get, you won't be satisfied; rather, you will get bored and seek another sense of pleasure.
In other words, you are told that “getting pleasure = happiness” is not.
No matter how much we think about it, we don't know “what happiness is,” so we have to ask those who know it.

Now let's talk about religion.
Who should I ask in Buddhism is “Buddha.”
The Buddha who came into this world is the Buddha, and the Buddha's sermon is the sutra.
In those sutras, Buddha recommended “become a Buddha” and “walk the path to becoming a Buddha.”
That's why I've been told from sutras that “happiness = becoming a Buddha.”
I believe in Buddhism because I want to be happy.

I don't add my own evaluation, such as “look at it from the other side and ask a bad question.”
In fact, I think “what is happiness” is enough to ask the question. That's why so many people are “answering.”
Why don't you take a look at African children's stories when you're an adult (even if the answers were thought out to the fullest at the time)? For example, if you see an elementary school student making the same statement on TV. “I thought so too.” The next one.
“That may be one way to save African children from hunger. But I wonder if there are any others. Why don't you think about a way to play with an energetic African child?” Why don't you try to think of a method other than “I will leave”?

I tried to think up a selfish story about your history in my own way.
Around age 4, I think it's a time when people have a strong sense of curiosity, wonder no matter what they look at, want to try it no matter what they see, and they absorb the outside world greedily. However, “I've been caring for people.” If you act out of curiosity, bad things will happen, right? Shouldn't we listen to things that would confuse parents? ... I feel like there is a possibility that such a decision has been made.
“Don't worry about self-perfection” feels like a “seal of curiosity.”
Curiosity is one with trial and error. So, “simply lack of experience”... wasn't this also pointed out by someone? I'm falling into...
So, when I was in fourth grade, when I thought hard about “Africa's...” for the first time in a long time, it was completely denied. I think he strengthened his thoughts by saying, “After all, it's better not to say what you've thought for yourself.”
In my opinion, the phrase “you're happy (born in Japan and eaten), so don't you say such a thing” at that time is a word that came from the person who uttered it from the thought “I'm working hard to raise them, so don't say I'm going to die,” but I'm guessing that they came from half the pain of “I have to say something about African children as adults.”
It's common, isn't it? There are stories where small children question adults and make them give up.
So, when thinking about “what is happiness,” I think it's okay to leave that fourth grader's conversation out of specific examples. However, it is a long-standing habit, and they overreact to the word “happy.”
Was there anything that came to mind? More on that in another question.