Questions about the Buddhist way of thinking

If you take calcium, your bones will be strong. If it is deficient, it becomes osteoporosis.

1. Are the terms calcium or Ca important? Calcium is not a word. Calcium is contained when you eat milk or small fish. Words are just tools.
What if someone says, “I don't believe in calcium! There's no such thing!” I doubted it, and whether you believe it or not, if you eat small fish boliboli, it's in there. What humans think has no causal relationship with what the facts are. Whether you think it's right or wrong that the Sun rises in the east, the Moon that rises in the east will rise in the east, right?
Impermanent deeds, all suffering, are words.

Incidentally, since your own actions are impermanent, your perception is also impermanent. Thinking with our heads isn't as big a deal as we think... is one of the impermanent messages.

2. Understanding with the brain is not enlightenment. No matter what your brain thinks, your heart is silently pulsing is a sign of enlightenment. The sign of enlightenment is that the carbon dioxide you exhale is turned into oxygen by an unknown tree anywhere. I understand that if you are alive, they will influence each other as you are alive, and if you are dead, they will influence each other and continue forever. That connection is enlightenment. There's no way it will go away.

It's going to go on forever, so I want to live a way of life where I'm not ashamed. If you live honestly, no matter how you die, even if death is scary, you will surely be able to pass away with all your heart set on that life.

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Isn't dementia an adaptation for forgetting the fear of death in the first place? There's also a story called. If that is the case, then it is a form of life, a result of evolution, and may be a manifestation of enlightenment.
At the end of the day, I'm worried about the behavior of the label that my brain gave birth to saying “dementia is pathetic” and “a healthy body is perfect and happy.” Being afraid isn't a bad thing either. It's just that the brain that hates fear is causing suffering.

It is written in the Nandian Nirvana Sutra that even Buddha gradually climbed through stage 1 of his heart in severe pain at this time, went back to the beginning once, and took his last breath when he climbed to the fourth. My apprentice Ananda said, “Too loud!” and scolding them.

Buddhism is a teaching that weakens and erases the cause of worry and suffering (affliction) to weaken or eliminate worry and suffering.
The “right” that Buddhism aims for is probably directed in the direction of eliminating worries and suffering.
Worries weaken and disappear when you notice pain, impermanence, and selflessness.
So, I think suffering, impermanence, and selflessness are the “right” truths.

What happens when an enlightened person has dementia (brain disease)?
I'm interested too.
Let's search for “Staircase of Enlightenment” and find out about the four stages of enlightenment.

It seems that if you reach the first stage of enlightenment, you will always reach the highest level of enlightenment, “Ara Kanko,” during which time you are reborn (reincarnation) seven more times.
In other words, if a person who has come to light is reborn and becomes a human again in the next life, of course, it is time to start over with a baby.
If you have dementia, you probably haven't completely lost your knowledge as an adult yet,
Starting over with a baby is even tougher than dementia.
Even so, I reached the first stage of enlightenment in my previous life, and the state where 3 afflictions have already disappeared out of 10 types continues.
Even if I'm born again and go back to being a baby, won't the worries that have disappeared once come back?
Or are you in a state where it's easy to understand again as soon as you go back to being a baby?
If that's the case, even if you get dementia, I don't think the worries that have disappeared will return.
Or, I think they have kept their potential to be quickly realized in the next life.
Once your worries go away, you'll feel more at ease.
Once the worries have completely disappeared, peace (silence) is complete.
It seems that Arakan, whose worries have completely disappeared, will never be born again.

Since enlightened people don't have an attachment to “themselves,” wouldn't they lose their attachment to memory or health?
A boy like me who preaches in a bossy manner but isn't aware may be upset if he develops dementia.
That's because I hadn't realized it yet, and I don't think the person who realized it went back before they realized it due to dementia.
If you get dementia, your worries will not return,
Don't people who hide their worries by pretending to be enlightened will peel off their monster skin due to dementia?

　Currently, there are people who are Buddhist scholars who spread opinions that they don't understand illogically. Whether you are constructing your own thoughts or reading what is written in Buddhist books, etc., please use one standard as to whether both are logical. That is the standard for whether it is correct or not.

Impermanence is right, but suffering at all is wrong. If everything hurts, does Nirvana suffer too?
When I looked it up, I was right that everything went wrong. Everything that comes into being (action) is painful. It means that things that aren't born, such as nirvana or the providence of impermanent acts, are not suffering.

Each line is the same as an impermanent line. All actions are impermanent, but nirvana that isn't born is not impermanent. then permanent residence? I didn't say that either. They say that all things are selfless and have no essence, no action or action.

“What you thought was right” is not necessarily “truth” as it is, so the questions in the latter half of 1 do not hold up as questions.

Elder Sumanasara has each published a book on impermanence, suffering, and selflessness. You can buy it on Amazon. When I read it, far from finding any mistakes, I felt that the providence was so clean and easy to understand.

I think my book “The 4 Stages of Enlightenment” (you can buy it on Amazon) is detailed about enlightenment. Each stage of enlightenment is not a halfway through but a result, so once you reach that stage, there is no going back. There isn't much written in the sutras, if you can't blur after the wisdom of enlightenment is born, but it can be inferred that you won't be able to do it.

I read your question.
The root of our suffering is because “I” exist.
If death from old age illness is someone else's thing, it's not really painful.
It's painful precisely because it visits none other than “me.”
Well then, it becomes a story about whether the only way to make it easier is to take a life, but that's not the case.
My life in the world has made me too strong “I exist.” “This is mine.” “Me, me!” Buddhism says that by reducing my consciousness, I can get rid of suffering without losing my life.
And, roughly speaking, this state of being less conscious of “I” is enlightenment.
It can also be said that it is a way of thinking about the world.

Various mentors have described the Stairway to Enlightenment, but there is a person named Master U Jyotika from Myanmar who is said to have reached the “revelation fruit,” which can be said to be the first stage of enlightenment.
Since Master Jyotika came to an end, it is presumed that Master was equal or better, but he suffered from dementia in his later years.
However, it seems that they were always calm, even though they forgot a lot of things.
When it comes to why I can stay calm, it's probably because I was getting smaller.
After many years of devotion, I think it's unlikely that people who have become smaller will completely change their way of looking at the world due to dementia or memory loss.

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

I think this is a very incisive point of view.

Due to the character limit, it is only for 2, but the relationship between people with dementia, those with memory loss, or those with babies or intellectual handicaps, and enlightenment...

I actually wondered about it a long time ago, and I thought about a lot of things.

Actually, at the end of the day, this is a matter of the state of mind, but as long as there is an “obsession with truth” (obsession with truth, an ignorant mind that sees oneself or appearance as a reality) that has existed since birth, worries will occur, and in sentient beings that are in reincarnation, everyone, including those mentioned above, will not change that much.

According to Buddhism, unless “ignorance” (fundamental ignorance) and “bad work” from past lives are treated, it will not be easy to get out of this reincarnation of hesitation and suffering.

Well, if you ask if you don't understand, that's not the case. The potential for enlightenment is that if it is a sentient being (emotional) with a “heart,” there is a possibility of enlightenment, including those with dementia, those who have amnesia, or those with babies or intellectual handicaps. (Here, I don't want to use the word “Buddha nature,” which is easily misunderstood... it is what is called “Buddhism.”)

In the Mujo Yoga Tantra of Esoteric Buddhism, they say “light,” or “Kyusei no dairaku chi,” but in short, it is “a basic element for understanding,” and just because it exists, it does not mean that you can be enlightened without doing anything. Of course, causation (cause and condition) is necessary for enlightenment.

Broadly speaking, it is “wisdom” and “good fortune” (merit) based on the “Bodhi Heart,” and by accumulating these two resources through Buddhism and eradicating “affliction disorder” and “intellectual disability,” it is possible to reach enlightenment.

Also, in Buddhism, there is a way to arrange for those who are unavoidably in this world (not) to walk Buddhism so that they can walk Buddhism in the next life and beyond. Simply put, it is a memorial service and devotion, but for the sake of everyone's enlightenment, if there is room to practice Buddhism, then it is something you want to make a steady effort. Let's work hard together.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

1. Please use your own experience to determine whether it is true or incorrect. That's because the monk said it, so it's not necessarily correct.
Also, I think truth is reason that goes beyond what is right or wrong.
2. If you seem obsessed with not losing your memory, it cannot be said that you are in a state of enlightenment. That's because I'm not attached to the state of enlightenment.
Enlightenment means getting rid of attachment, losing sense, and becoming one with oneself and others, and even oneself and nature. (I'm not aware, so I'm guessing)
A person who has reached a state of enlightenment is called a Buddha.
The Buddha is a Buddha, even if it becomes a disease such as dementia, or if it perishes and becomes a bone.