How many monks are there in ordinary households

congratulations. The course for spring was decided quite early, wasn't it?
I think there is a big difference between Buddhism as an academic discipline learned at university and practice. Most likely, it can be any job. If you find a master or monk, please learn plenty of scholarship and practice.

> Are there any restrictions on daily lifestyle habits?
Are you not allowed to eat meat, or what time do you have to wake up in the morning, or shave your head? If so, various things are necessary in order to obtain a monk qualification called a monk class. However, after undergoing ascetic practices, etc., and receiving a priest's rank, there are no such restrictions in most denominations.

However, if you have made a promise not to do ○○ to the Buddha even once, or to strive for ××, I think efforts should be made to keep it.
It's not because it's a rule; it's just that as a Buddha disciple, you respect “Buddha,” yearn for “enlightenment,” and discipline yourself.

I think the monk's daily life is different for each person. There are practitioners who wake up every morning in the dark to pray for world peace, and there are also monks who seem to be immersed in the secular world. It's not that I don't know anything else, and if I aim for the monk statue that Skyline currently envisions, that's fine.

It's a film about going to ascetic practices in order to inherit a family and become a Zen monk.
Motoki Masahiro plays the lead role and is very close to real life,
It's a great film to learn about the monk's life.

Nice to meet you, my name is Wada from Hiroshima.

I only know the circumstances of the Jodo Shinshu sect, but since I graduated from a general university rather than a religious university (Otani University), I studied for 1 year at Otani Senshu Gakuin, which has a boarding system, and received a monk status. You will be able to recite sutras and speak Dharma in public until graduation, but there will be a big disparity in ability as a monk depending on the person's consciousness thereafter. There are many things you can do as people who work hard at rituals, those who work hard at preaching, those who focus on social activities, and as monks.

If you compare it to a driver's license, you can serve as the chief priest of a temple as long as you have an ordinary driver's license. However, if you obtain a heavy equipment license or A grade license, your scope of activity as a monk will expand accordingly.

If Skyline were to enter the temple, would she either enter Kuji Temple as an adopted child? If that's the case, I don't think it's too late to get only a monk's status while attending school, and after graduation, gain some experience as a working person as a salaryman or teacher before entering the temple. That's because that social experience should come to a great extent as a monk.

To Skyline-sama

First off, congratulations.
I am sincerely happy that I was able to have a Buddhist relationship.

As Mr. Masuda is talking
Most denominations don't seem to have such restrictions.

After becoming a monk
How do you think, behave, and act
Isn't that important?

Also, as for the question that was in the title
It seems that the number of people who are interested in Buddhism is increasing recently
I've heard that there are people who start their own lives from ordinary households as well. Gassho

I'm from home, too.

Skyline, please become a monk.
Human resources like you have the power to change the Buddhist world.

This is because when a resident becomes a monk, there is always an active reason for that. Conversely, those born and raised in a temple are almost always motivated to become monks because they will take over. It cannot be said that it is a positive motivation for becoming a monk.
On the other hand, when people who live in the house become monks, they often come in with questions. Buddhism is a teaching that answers life's questions. An increase in the number of monks who have properly asked that question should help the Buddhist community.

Below are the negative circumstances.

I only know the circumstances of the Jodo Shinshu sect, but it is necessary to be prepared for those who live there to become monks.

First of all, temples are relatives and temples with old ties, helping each other. (If they don't have a successor, they will adopt a child from a relative.) In order for outsiders to break into it, they must be trusted quite a bit. Worst of all, you need to be prepared to live as a law clerk (employed monk) for the rest of your life. The salaries of legal clerks are very low.
Other than living as a legal practitioner, there is an option to adopt a child. In that case, it's hard to fall in love freely in terms of mood. (Because once you have a girlfriend that you want to live with for the rest of your life, it will be difficult to adopt her.)

Also, if Skyline learned Buddhism very deeply and became a serious monk, there is a possibility that he will be alienated by the monks around him. I think it's the same in every world, but people who work seriously are like smoke when viewed from people who work casually. In the world of monks, whether you do it seriously or not, your income never changes, so it's all the more so. It would be great if I met a great mentor.

Also, I think it's difficult to change jobs. I don't think companies will hire former monks mid-career.

I've listed the negative things above, but now that you become a monk, be prepared to give up your whole life in order to convey the Buddha's true intentions. In other words, becoming a monk means abandoning one's life. Then, you will definitely be a great monk.

Please be a great monk.

Ask your doctor about your body
Talk to a lawyer about the law
Ask Bowes about your heart.

These were words that opened my eyes.
A monk is somewhat like an image of only doing memorial services and funerals, right?
Originally, that wasn't the case, was it?
As the philosopher Nietzsche also said, “Shakyamuni is a great mental health practitioner,” monks are the only ones responsible for turning toxins in the human mind into good bacteria.
It's starting to feel like if you don't have that, you should just read the sutras.
If you only need to read sutras, you can do it on CD, SD, or cassette tape.
What cassette tapes and CDs cannot do is care, proselytism, guidance, support, help, and vengeance... by a living, bloody human being.
Denomination rituals vary depending on the denomination, but I think what monks should have in common is something like ↑.

To that end, reading the sutras is to actually save yourself by worrying a lot, crying, laughing, and seeking salvation.
You can fall back and feel pain on your own, be saved on your own, and if you heal it, you will be able to heal many people.
I value the phrase “Buddha has never read sutras.”
Don't forget that the sutras that Buddha read are living words that save living people, and they weren't in the modern form of poking sutras, so don't forget (gently).