They “think” that the way to be happy is to die; that's just what they think. The facts are different. You can't be happy when you die.
The Buddha saved himself from suffering while living. Since many ancestors, including the Buddha, were aware of that path, the path of salvation continues to be conveyed even now, over 2,500 years later. It's such a sure path.
If you're going to be saved anyway, you want to be saved while living.
What is necessary for that is to “know yourself.” Yourself is not about this body. Use that body to know the truth.
This is not a way to understand with your head. It's a path of becoming aware by living the facts.
There is nothing but now in life. Speaking of places, this is the only place. As knowledge, I'm learning that there are foreign countries or outer space, but now that I have this body, this place is the only fact. Also, there is no past or future, and they live in unity with that environment.
I just drank tea. The tea pillar was sleeping. Negative people cause thoughts that lead to unhappiness one by one at such times, and fall into even more unhappiness by grasping them as if they were true.
There are times when the tea pillar stands, sometimes it's sleeping, and there are times when it's not. It just adds meaning to that and it makes you suffer.
Learn the facts with the six roots (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body). And then it goes away without even holding it. It's something that doesn't seem to exist. Everything is like that. Whether it's a word or a feeling, it was just that moment.
Thoughts and Thoughts are Maboroshi, Memories, Maboroshi, and Frustration are activities carried out by taking up things from the past. Even though it was a second ago, it's nowhere.
That's why we're being saved.
The Buddha woke up due to zazen meditation. I realized it by not touching it. Please learn Zen and be saved.
Dogen Zenji says that if you do zazen, people will always get better. Try to do it under the right mentor.