The fact that deceased people attain Buddhism (it's difficult...)

Hello, LM.

If I were to explain attaining Buddhism doctrinally, it is difficult, and since each sect is different, I think it would be a joke. (lol)

I mean it's easy, so this is my simple interpretation.
I can't see the spirit world, so I don't know if those who go to the spirit world have attained Buddhism or are happier.

But I can only say one thing: if you are living a happy life and are living a fulfilling life, your father in the spirit world will definitely be happy. I think I'm spending my time peacefully. Your suffering and grieving is my greatest concern for a father who is an important daughter. So, my father will feel safe if he lives a full life.
And one day, you and I will go to the spirit world, so when we die, we can meet you in the spirit world. Until then, let's meet our father through Buddhist altars and visiting graves, and wait for him to enjoy going to the spirit world. I'm also looking forward to the day when I can meet my parents, and I'm working hard on training in my current life.

Gassho

Mr. L.M.

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

“Becoming a Buddha” truly means “becoming a Buddha,” and like Buddha, Amida Nyorai, etc., it means attaining enlightenment and becoming a Buddha.

However, in order to attain Buddhism, to put it in a difficult way, it is necessary to eradicate the two barriers of affliction disorder and intellectual disability, and for that reason, it is necessary to accumulate the two resources of wisdom and good fortune through Buddhism.

Well, it means solving the problem of the state of mind, which is an obstacle to attaining Buddhism, by putting the Buddha's teachings into practice (ascetic practice).

Therefore, just because you have passed away does not mean that you will attain Buddhism; it is a place where you want to make a memorial service for those who have passed away, so that you can follow the flow of good and clean Buddha relationships through funerals and memorial services even after death, and aim to reach enlightenment as a state of complete comfort and peace of mind by firmly practicing the Buddha's teachings.

A memorial service is also about nourishing (practicing) (Buddhism) for a servant (together).

I would be grateful if you could work on the practice of Buddhism towards your own enlightenment, towards your father's enlightenment, and towards the enlightenment of all sentient beings, so that we can reach enlightenment together by riding a mutually beneficial and pure Buddhist relationship.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

I read it.
I think it's natural for you to think that way.
Those who have passed away leave their own bodies, are correctly guided by the Buddha, and are reborn under the Buddha after about 49 days of travel.
Under the Buddha, in other words, paradise is a place where there is no suffering at all. It's a place where there is no grudge, hate, or desire. In other words, it's a place where there are no doubts or worries at all. There, I received a story from the Buddha and came to grips with the truth.
Then, when you properly learn the truth, you will be completely satisfied. In other words, it becomes a Buddha, in other words, it becomes a Buddha.
Also, they watch over us forever as we have been given various powers and live as Buddhas.

Your father also successfully attained Buddhism, and he will continue to watch over you and everyone from now on.

Please continue to put your hands together with your father and hold memorial services from now on.

Your father will kindly watch over you and everyone at any time.

Hello. I offer my condolences.

By having a Buddhist funeral, my father received Buddhist precepts and became a disciple of the Buddha.
I think my father is in the Buddha's world with the same personality as my father.
Also, I think of the card as a communication device or telephone with my father.
So, it's okay to go to the Buddhist altar (place sign) and say “hey dad.” I think it's rather a good thing. I'm sure your father would be happy too.
Please take your time and have a leisurely conversation with your father through the placard.

There may be a misnomer, but is there such a good question!? That's such a good question!!
There are many monks, including myself, saying a lot of things, and I hope you can ask Buddhism without deceiving this question from now on.

First, there are two aspects to the attainment of Buddhism by the deceased.

① What happened to the deceased himself after death
② How do we find deceased people living now

That's it.

As for ①, honestly, they say “I don't know, I can't confirm it.” If I were to answer, “I have heard that the death of the deceased will be like this due to this teaching in this sutras.” (Example: He passed away in the Pure Land of Paradise according to the teachings of Amida in the Buddhist theory Muryojukyo).

I think ② is important. This is where my path (Buddhism) of “discovering the deceased as a Buddha and meeting the deceased as a Buddha” is born.

Well, who is a father as a Buddha?? You're probably wondering. Not being able to imagine that may be the same as saying, for example, that there is a teaching that “the deceased becomes a lawyer after death,” but since my father was an office worker during his lifetime, I just can't imagine my father as a lawyer, and I can't believe it... If that's the case, then it's natural that I can't believe it.

First, I think you should throw away the image of the thing called “Buddha.” Buddha is not Superman with a golden warty head.

The Buddha is an entity that has awakened to the truth, and he conveys the truth to me.

The truth is, for example, that once a person is born, they always die. In Buddhism, this is called impermanent behavior.
Or so is the fact that even if people die, it doesn't end there. You still care about your father, don't you? It means that there is a relationship (relationship) between you and your father. This is a teaching called luck (luck).

We worry about the deceased, but in fact, we are worried by the deceased, and the true teaching of Buddhism is conveyed to us, so we respect the deceased as a Buddha, and then meet again.

What bothers me this and that is our job is to live. It is the deceased's job (function) as a Buddha to tell the truth as a silent statement.

I can't help but put my hands together. I would like to express my condolences to your father at the end of his life.

Namu Amida Buddha

Gassho

Becoming a Buddha means being on the side that saves living things.

There is an aspect where you won't be the only father.
For example, in the Pure Land of Paradise, it is said that it brings back memories of all past lives.
What this means is that my father, you, and I have been reborn again and again (reincarnation) over and over again since a long time ago.
However, usually, I only have memories of my current life, and I don't have memories from before I was born as who I am now.
If that brings back memories of all past lives,
For your father, other than you, he probably had countless children and countless parents and siblings in the past.
That doesn't necessarily mean it was a human being either.
Sometimes they were insects, sometimes spiders, and sometimes gods.
Your father, who has recovered the memories of so many family members, will probably be able to become a Bodhisattva who cares for all lives equally without patronizing just you.
You can no longer fit into the small frame of your father during your lifetime, and you can become a space-scale entity.
Please don't feel lonely and rejoice.
You too are one way to go.

I'm looking at Google Maps, and the site from here to here with this blue-roofed building is my house! That's my life.
The roof is blue, black, brown, and red. Or it would be interesting to have a five-pointed star house like Goryokaku. That's identity.

Funeral means losing that kind of identity or self.

What this means is that Google Maps shrinks steadily... then our house becomes 00 town, 00 city, 00 prefecture, Japan, and Earth. As it shrinks further, it becomes the universe itself.

That is attaining Buddhism. I was the universe before I was me. That kind of place.

Therefore, in Esoteric Buddhism, mandalas, or the arrangement of Buddha statues, express connections between the worlds.
In Zen, the connection between the world is expressed with a landscape map like an ink painting.
At Jodomon, connections between the world are expressed through Amida's guidance.
The Buddha didn't create the world. It symbolizes the world itself as a Buddha.

In small terms, the heart and act of valuing that connection is attaining Buddhism,
Broadly speaking, that connection itself is attaining Buddhism.
So living faithfully to your father's side is a form of attaining Buddhism. That's because you and your father were connected during your lifetime and now.

Actually, it makes sense to call them by a commandment name like 00 resident. Atsuhime in the taiga drama was also Atsuhime when she was young, but when she became a priest, she was called Tenshoin and not Atsuhime. That's what it's meant to be.
However, it is common knowledge in the days when it was normal for Saigo Don to change from Oyoshi → Kichinosuke → Zenbe → Kichibe → (abbreviated) and that the kaimyo changed to Nanshuji Temple Dono Takamori Ojiji. (Ryumori was an absuri, or rather, a commandment name, wasn't it?)

Now they have the same name from the time they were babies until they became grandpa and died. This is probably an effect of Westernization, but in the modern sense, “hey dad” is fine. It's not disrespectful. I think there are many other things I would like you to be more particular about than sticking to that.