Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

About the state of health.

Please ask your questions. Since 3 years ago, I have been suffering from jitters and tightness in my jaw for unknown reasons every day. There is no pain. It's an indescribable feeling. I went to various specialized departments, but Dr. told me that I didn't know the cause of all of...

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　Supportive music

　 I can't sleep and go out to the garden in the middle of the night to cool off, and I don't have a favorite artist in particular, but Mr. Moonlight by The Beatles is playing in my head... Recently, I've avoided being involved in facing people due to Hasunoha addiction, and I've been pinching my...

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It makes me think I want to die

This is my first time asking a question. Thank you for your support. I had breast cancer surgery in April of this year. In the early stages, the size was small and there were no metastases, but pathological results showed that the cancer had poor facial appearance and was likely to recur. I am...

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It's painful because of the guilt of past mistakes

I feel distressed and crushed by a sense of guilt for the mistakes I've made in the past. Right now, I am deeply reflecting and living my life so as not to repeat the same thing again. But every time I get involved with my parents and friends, I feel guilty and painful, saying, “I can't...

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Is gambling addiction incurable?

Until now, almost 30 years have continued to destroy parent-child relationships, friends, and relationships with lovers due to debt etc. due to pachinko and pachislot. I've heard that gambling addiction won't heal for the rest of your life, and even if you want to stop it, you grab cash,...

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Please tell me how to deal with a husband who doesn't earn money

Hello. Please let me discuss your marital problems. I got married a year and a half ago to my husband, who runs a restaurant alone, and now they have a 9-month-old baby. I now leave my child at a nursery school and work part-time, but the profit at my husband's store is less than my...

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I made a mistake in my life choices when choosing a job

I think I made a mistake in my life choices. I am a graduate student who will be employed starting in April. I chose someone I was interested in after getting lost between jobs that were slightly off my expectations and jobs where I wasn't interested but could work at my desired work location...

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I don't like my roots.

I grew up in a family full of violence and abuse since I was a child. My mother yelled hysterically, threw things up to her emotions, and hit me when she was grabbed by the chest. I'm unhappy because of you! I used to say that a lot when I was in a bad mood. My father gently hugged me and wiped...

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What is masturbation?

It is said that if you masturbate, you will go to hell, but what is masturbation? Will I go to hell if I masturbate? Is there a hell in the first place?

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Where will they go when they die

This is my second post Last time, I talked to my parents about things I couldn't be kind to. Every time I get too hard on my parents, I look at pictures of my younger brother. Is it because they feel ashamed of me? But my brother's face doesn't look angry. Rather, I feel calm and even...

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Is suffering damage from the earthquake also causal retaliation?

According to the Buddhist idea, it is said that being abused is also due to actions in a previous life. So does it mean that people who were damaged by the earthquake or were unable to live their daily lives due to COVID-19 were hit by bees because they lived their lives thinking only about...

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How to deal with delusions

I can't stop my bad delusions. For example, I think that just reading letters makes you crazy, and that when you take in information, substances that are not good for brain function are produced and accumulated until death Should all delusions be denied until there is no scientific basis? It...

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I can't help it because I'm afraid of hell

Also, sorry for your question. As advised before, they offered incense sticks to their grandparents' Buddhist altars and apologized “sorry” while holding hands for their mistakes and mistakes when they were children. However, once again, I only remembered things I didn't like about myself,...

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I don't have confidence in myself

Recently, even though I've been getting so much help from my friends and lovers who are kind to me, it seems like I'm only bothering them, such as feeling bad or being disadvantaged. Is it worth living even for me like this? Sorry for the backward question. I really appreciate that you just...

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What should I do to think I'm fine just the way I am?

Please let me discuss it with you. I want to change who I am now. I want to do something about it. When I read a book or search the internet to do my best, it always says “the cause is my relationship with my mother when I was young.” It certainly is. The environment I grew up in was tough...

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Realising synchronicity of outcome and cause thinking

I understood the title and embodied it. Is everything destiny or are there differences, differences, and individuality from person to person? When it comes to learning about life, I think the differences and differences between popular people who try to learn are factors of parents and...

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Please tell me how to get better at reciting sutras like a monk!

I would like to ask you a question. My name is Harusora. I've been chanting sutras when visiting temples for over 3 years. Sutras begin with the Kaikyo Sutra, and include penitents, the Three Gods, the Heart Sutra, and the principal mantra. However, I can't recite sutras well like a...

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I'm afraid of prophecies

Hello. I watched humanity perish in January and March 20 of this year, and since then I haven't had a good mentality. The reason for its collapse is that a star called Betelgeuse explodes as a supernova, and what is called a gamma-ray burst that comes out at that time hits directly, and the...

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On satisfaction, greed, ambition, and self-defense

Good evening. We look forward to working with you again. I don't often continue to feel satisfied regardless of work or private life. For example, work went well, and I had a great time with friends, etc., and I feel very satisfied. However, when I got home and calmed down, I came up with...

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Life is at a rock bottom

I'm 38 years old and single. There were also people in their 20s who were considering getting married, but I was busy with work due to changing jobs from the age of 30, and I became single until this age. When it comes to job types, the salary system isn't that good, and if you try to change...

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