Hello. “I've lived a happy life,” that raised the question, didn't it? sharp!
Perhaps this country began in the post-war meta-meta-meta-era, and “what is the value of human beings?” On the other hand, I think they came here with “being able to live happily” as a tentative answer.
I think that's probably because the country was invaded, occupied, and so many forces were imposed on it, such as evaluations and temptations from around the world.
There was nothing anyway. I was poor. So I got the money and got the stuff. I think that was certainly happiness, “from the point of view of that time.” In the first place, living things were not prepared for very rapid environmental changes (evolution is probably in millions of years), yet there were drastic changes. I feel that it is probably because we have gone through this “reckless” era of suffering, incidents, anxiety, and dissatisfaction that are occurring in the present day.
Then, it was revealed that “after all, this was just a hypothesis,” and I think Buddhism is attracting attention once again now. After all, the starting point was “There is suffering in this world. That's because “suffering is something that doesn't go the way you want it to.”
If you don't accept this, you probably can't. You can study while thinking, “Oh, that's painful, I don't like it.” There are always people who say, “That doesn't make sense,” but it's a time when the conditions have been narrowed down quite a bit, and “there's no point in studying hard.”
“What does it mean to work hard?” I don't really care about the meaning or definition of words. It's interesting if you follow that and become a language expert, but it's not really worth pursuing as an everyday conversation or everyday thought. It's just a way to kill time. I wonder if it's about “I can continue, I can continue even if I don't like it,” as the meaning content.
I just came up with an odd example about studying!
I wonder if it's like wiping your butt after you've finished washing your bathroom. Maybe I'm doing it while thinking “I don't like it.” In the case of young children, there are children who have made it a habit to have their parents wipe them, and they rarely come to kindergarten and ask, “I don't like it and can't wipe it myself, so please do the teacher”... that's right.
Did you think, “Understanding is necessary for living, but studying isn't”? Those are your values. your story. your rules. “I study as if I were going to the bathroom,” “I read books as if I were going to the bathroom,” “I discover something every day as if I were going to the bathroom”... yeah, that's great.