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What is the goal if we can deal with death

Since I was little, I have taken a negative view that life is finite, and I have become obsessed with living.

I feel that following the teachings of Buddhism stabilizes this kind of mind.
However, on the other hand, it also makes me think “it's futile to have no choice but to accept death.”

It's a repetition of stabilizing the mind → becoming empty → stabilizing the mind → becoming empty.

I'm full of anxiety that I won't be able to get out of this loop until I die like this.

Ultimately, they told me how to deal with death is the goal.

4 Zen Responses

Infinite Life

Hello, Runa.

Do you know the Buddha called Amida Nyorai?

Namu Amida Buddha. It is a famous Buddha.
I'll leave Namu up to you.
So what is Namu Amida Buddha
I'll leave it up to Amida. It means.

Why leave it to Amida
You can understand this by knowing the origin of the name of the Buddha called Amitabha Buddha.

The word amida is an old Indian word
Amitayus
Amitabah
It was applied to the kanji. Therefore, the kanji for amida itself has no meaning.

If you change amitayus to the kanji for meaning instead of sound
Becoming a hundred unvigintillion
Amitabha becomes an infinite amount of light.

innumerable. It is the opposite of finite. It means immeasurably infinity.
It is the Buddha of infinite life (life) and infinite light.
It means.

Not only Runa, but I, my family, and the entire world population of about 7 billion will die without omission.
Each person receives a finite life, lives and dies. In the face of this fact, there is no distinction between rich and poor, or right and wrong.
It can be said that even our mother Earth has a finite life.

So where did this finite life come from, although each person and every living thing is long and short?

It came from infinite lives.
I received it from a hundred years of life.
It's an infinite division of life.

Seen from the perspective of a small human, it seems finite,
It comes from infinity and comes back to infinity.
I'm going back to the source of infinite life and light called Amitabha Buddha.
Actually, our lives are endless lives.

I don't know when I'll die, but I don't have to worry about anything. You can leave it to Amitabha Buddha, the root of life and the parent of life.

If you're uneasy, you can leave it up to us by calling the name Namu Amida Buddha and leaving it up to you as if you're uneasy, if you're empty.

They are always listening to that voice.

On top of that
“It's fine, it's fine. If you don't worry that much, you can leave it up to me. “Relax, stay quiet, go.”

This is Muryoju, and Amida of MuryangHikaru with a smile.

I have a desire to finish even if I don't have a goal

I don't know if there is a goal in dealing with death. After all, this is because we are “obsessed with living” as long as we live.

If we could say that we have a goal, it would be “living with the desire to 'want to goal'”...

In Buddhism, “life and death (shoji)” is explained by hesitation. The reason we view life and death as separate things is because there is an evil sense of finding the self of “Jōichi (Jōitsu Shusai)” in something called “me.”
In other words, they probably view “my life” as “my death” as a reality because they find themselves “always, in constant (single),” mainly because they find themselves.

The state of surpassing the confusion of “life and death” has many flavors, but in one book (*), Shakutetsu Sect (Jodo Shinshu) expresses “living a story that does not end with death,” and Fujita Issho (Soto sect) expresses “living by enjoying connections.”
(※ “Tell me, monk! (What is “Satori”?” Koide Haruko, Kadokawa Shoten, I recommend it to you.)

I feel that there is a balance between “I don't want to die” and “I can die” in that situation. There is a function in Buddhism that makes me wish to be myself and live in a world illuminated by the wisdom of the Buddha, even though I am covered in obsession as a person living in distress.

If it's over after death, those who fear death are people who haven't been able to sense the kind of connections they have received from their ancestors and relationships around them. If you are aware that you have received the seeds, you will realize that you were also a person who sowed seeds. There are people who will receive the seeds they sow again, and I think there are “stories that don't end with death” and “live enjoying connections” now.

I'm not just living since I was born, and the fact that I'm being kept alive now precisely because I received a connection called a relationship always makes me think, “Is that OK?” It starts working with it.
Calls to “that's fine” and “stay as is” to me, who is still attached to me, bring me a path of desire to “go beyond life and death.”

The call is called “Namu Amida Buddha” in the Jodo Shinshu sect.

There must be a teaching in Buddhism that will save Runa. Please continue to ask Buddhism.

Death is “graduation,” so congratulations.

We celebrate every milestone in our lives with “congratulations.”
Childbirth, enrollment, coming-of-age ceremony, marriage, employment, retirement, etc.
Birthdays and coming-of-age ceremonies always come without effort, and that is also “congratulations.”
You can also say “congratulations” on death.

Runa-sama

“It's futile to have no choice but to accept death”

What is Runa's interpretation of “death” when she says
I think it's included, but what is it
Have you taken a close look at it?
Something like the definition of “death” is something like this
It's not actually there, or rather, it's like this from our standpoint
I don't think I can say it clearly.
So now, in response to the “death” that Runa has
Thoughts, images, and things like life are finite
Something that is by no means confirmed or certain
I think so.
I'm going to carefully review that one more time and ask again
I think this is also one way to get out of the loop
I think so.
You can't see the wind, but that's the case with the movement of the laundry
As you can see, it is said that you can understand indirectly even if not directly
I think there's also a way.
Similarly, when there are various ways of looking at, feeling, and imagining death
I think so. You can also come into contact with various such views and images
I think it would be good.

There is or isn't finite or infinity, birth or death...
It's everyone's idea and idea.
I live my life every day while pasting names and meanings to things in this world,
I'm living fully immersed in a world of thought,
I don't think our lives themselves are something we handle in our thoughts.
There is a function called life, and the function of seeing, hearing, and feeling
The concept of life and death where one function called “recognition” within does not exist
Since it's being created, isn't life something that is incorporated into a concept
I don't think so.
There is life or not, things before life or death,
Things that have nothing to do with life or death, things that “exist” before everything,
Instead of understanding that, noticing and feeling
I think it's one goal.