Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

Should I go to Taisho University or...

When I go to college, I study Buddhism, and I want to become a monk in the future, but how should I choose a university? My family is in the Jodo sect, and I want to become a Jodo sect monk. In order to learn this, I think Taisho University, which is within easy reach from home, is good, but my...

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I want to make sure I don't want to die

We have been indebted to you many times here. The love I had cherished for so many years also came to an abrupt loss, and it's a tremendous sense of loss. Thanks to that, I was unable to endure power harassment at work, and finally I was diagnosed with depression, and I quit my job last...

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Is there a bell using materials from the battleship Mutsu?

I'm aware that the content is out of place to listen to here, but let me ask you a question. My hobby is searching for memorial monuments and remains for warships, and as part of that, I walk around visiting the battleship Mutsu, which sank in the Seto Inland Sea, and the relics that were...

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I want to disappear

I want to disappear from this world. I cannot allow myself to exist. I'm thinking about quitting my job, and I don't have the energy to get a job again. I don't know what to do, and I just want to disappear. I can't get that out of my mind while I'm at work or commuting. Since I was a...

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I can't envision my future.

I'm a 25-year-old graduate student looking for a job. What is important when getting a job is to make plans and goals for 5 or 10 years from now People say that over and over again I don't have anything I want to do in the first place, so my future plans and goals It's difficult to stand up,...

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I can't find a place to calm myself

I can't find a place to calm myself. I am in a blessed environment where I can make my dreams come true, both at work and in private. However, my passion for what I've been seriously working on faded one day, and my feelings didn't stick to it, and I began to feel limited. “It's a reality, but...

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I'm afraid I'm about to commit suicide.

I'm in my 3rd year of college. Recently, when the train I was planning to ride arrived at the platform, I began to think, “If I jump in now, I can die; I wonder if everyone will worry if I die.” Until then, even if I've been listening to music, playing smartphone apps, games, Twitter, and...

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Do you really believe it?

Even in Buddhism, there are different denominations There are people who are regarded as founders, Do monks believe them? If you chant sutras and have faith Do you really believe that will be true?

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About “suffering” that we have no choice but to accept

The pain of watching a parent grow old, unable to move, develop dementia, and die. Also, the pain of not being able to do anything even though I know I'm getting old in the same way. So I'm so afraid that time will pass. I know it's “one day for a lifetime,” but it's been 46 years...

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Is it right to go back to my parents' house to declare a state of emergency

I don't think it's forgivable, but with the issuance of a state of emergency this time, I'm going to send my son back home who went to Tokyo on Saturday. I moved to my parents' house from Tokyo at the end of March to attend graduate school. I left for the university dormitory in Tokyo again for...

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I'm a bad person.

No matter how much I try to change my way of thinking, it won't change... I don't know how to do it. Everyone but me doesn't seem happy. I know that's not the case, and I'm just impatient that I have to change. I feel depressed and can't be kind to everyone around me. People around you...

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Where do you go after you die?

Where do people arrive after death is it? Is it heaven or hell after all?

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There's something I want to ask!

If you spend time at a temple, I think there will be some kind of strange event. For example, a Buddha appeared in a dream, or a noise was heard even though no one was there... Please let me know if there are any strange events (*''*) lol

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The story before death

This is now confirmed and will not change. I will die by suicide in 1 year. I'll write it here as a memorial, but the reason I committed suicide was that I didn't like my face and personality, and I became very scared when I thought about the death of my family I came up with the idea that it...

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About the death penalty

It's a chaotic topic due to repeated disputes, but I wonder how it looks like a monk. To be clear, I'm more of a person on the opposite side. It also seems that people are arrogant, probably because they intended to become gods that judge people in the first place. But in a world where...

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there's no point in being alive...

I recently turned 20 and will soon be in my third year of college. I started using matching apps for the same sex because I wanted to be honest about my own sexuality, and I became close friends with foreign tourists who had come to Japan. It was the first time for me that I was able to...

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I'm tired. please help me.

A parent's child-rearing is a failure, right? From my parents when I was a kid “You can't do anything anyway, so stop, give up” “Why can't we do this?” Even though they've never praised me by saying things like After becoming independent “Once you've done everything you can, you'll have a...

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A way to face your own feelings about people you don't like.

It is an organization where people of all ages gather, and I am an executive this term. One of the management officers is someone I'm really bad at. That person put something on “Why would you choose such words?” “Why don't you think about how the other person feels when you take that...

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Does giving birth kill a person?

I didn't understand the category, so sorry if it was a different category. I think the basis of Buddhism is that people always die of old age, but then, does giving birth to a child mean killing a child? I think people will be burdened with death from the moment they are born. Is making them...

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About killing animals

A few times a year, I watch news where animals such as bears and wild boars appear in villages and towns. There are many cases where they are dangerous when encountered, and there are many cases where they attack humans, cause serious injury, or in the worst case, die. Also, I see very sad news...

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