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How should I deal with the feeling of emptiness?

I read everyone's questions and answers, and I'm always studying a lot.
This time, I was wondering if you could teach me how to deal with my own feelings, so I would like to discuss it with you.

I think I'm living a very fulfilling life.
I am grateful that I was given the work I wanted to do, that I am healthy, blessed with my family, and that I am able to spend my time without any inconvenience.
I don't have the feeling of being greedy and hoping for more than what I am now, and I am grateful to the people around me and my ancestors that I am here now.

But sometimes, really unexpectedly, “emptiness” is born in the mind.
There are times when legs that have been walking without any problems until then suddenly stop moving, and “emptiness” appears in the mind, and people are caught up in it.
When that happens, everything feels backwards, I feel uneasy about whether my existence is meaningful, and I'm at a loss while standing still.
Why am I who I am?
Why are you here?
I wonder what they're living for.
These are the only questions that go round and round in my head.
It makes me want to throw everything out.
At the end of the day, I give up thinking about it.
Then, I feel that kind of fear, as if the inside of me has become empty.

Are there any hints for facing that kind of heart in the monk's ascetic practices or in the Buddha's teachings?
I'm sorry for this very vague question, but I have also been bothered many times by the vague emptiness of unknown cause.
If there is anything helpful, such as how to deal with an empty heart that you think is empty, or how to deal with yourself like that, please let me know.
Thank you for your support.

4 Zen Responses

We live in a “floating world.”

Good evening.
Yes... I understand that sometimes I feel like that.
This is because it makes me feel exactly the same way.
There's no reason for that.
Somehow, it's like getting stuck in an air pocket,
That's how it feels.
I think of it as a kind of “sense of impermanence.”

Apparently Yusura
It seems like they're really caught up in that.
What I can say as someone who has experienced the same feelings
It means you should stop and then go through.
The same feeling comes back again, and that's fine.
I think you're probably a very philosophical person.

“Where did I come from and where am I going”... this is philosophical thought.
However, there are things about religion that are a bit similar and different from philosophy.
I mean, philosophy can't see a conclusion,
Religion requires a conclusion in the beginning.
The conclusion is that in Buddhism it is attaining Buddhism,
To put it more simply, it means being saved.

We have prepared a world where you can fit in properly even if you get lost a lot,
I think that is religious salvation.
Above all else, the question you are asking here is
I think you should be careful and face up to your questions.

emptiness and emptiness... this is the world we live in,
That's why it's called the “floating world.”

As someone who is often tormented by the same feelings as you,
I am confronted with the Buddhism I received myself (^_^).
That's why I think it's surprisingly easy...

The world was originally unfiltered

I wake up in the morning and compare the real world projected in front of me to fresh fruit.
If you reach out a little bit, the additive-free, pesticide-free fruit is right there and can be eaten in the most delicious state, yet before the butler bothers to make the young lady eat it, disinfect it thoroughly, and if you take it to your hand because you want to apply wax, you should have eaten the whole skin as it is, but it will be soaked in additives and ruined.
In this way, treating “this is valuable to me, this is worthless,” and “this is something good and bad,” even though it is extremely rational, you actually look at this world after passing through the filter of notions and thoughts.
I'm sure you're smart. Observing things intellectually, thinking about them, and watching them with a high or low value is generally regarded as a smart way of looking at things.
However, when you enter this world through the filter of your own brain, you should know that something extra is involved once by all means.

“Ananda, the world is beautiful”
The Buddha said this to his disciple Ananda.
If Ananda had attained enlightenment, she really must have felt that way.
However, Ananda was rational, looked at things through her own thoughts, and listened to Buddha's stories with her own opinions. For that reason, my worries didn't go away, saying, “Why is such an empty world so beautiful?”
If you say DIS/COVER in English in terms of Buddhism, it becomes a “discovery” of a new world because you cover the cover of that thought. There really is a world before your thoughts are overshadowed.
That is the true and unreal world as explained in the Heart Sutra.
no way. You may not be aware that you are looking at the world through your own thoughts, but try zazen once. You should be able to pick up my answers this time.
In Tokyo, there are zazen sessions with Inoue Kudo Roshi at Fukusho-ji Temple in Ebisu and Jogan-ji Temple in Nakano.
Zazen is just a waste of time if you don't meditate under the right teacher.
He is a wonderful Zen master that I respect.
Please join us and just listen to the story.

“Sky and Good Luck”

Yusura-sama

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

In this world that is just empty, there are many times when hopelessness and emptiness come and go and seem crushed.

In the past, it wasn't a Golden Bomber song either, but it was “Empty, Empty, and Hard!” kidding aside...

While Buddha was blessed with wealth and honor as a prince in Shaka Province and the Shaka tribe, he was disgusted by the “Four Gates Discipline,” and his determination to become a monk was solidified in order to find a way to escape. I believe that the motive was also one of the “emptiness” that Yusura pointed out.

Why do we sometimes feel so “empty”?

I think this is something everyone always thinks at least once by accident, especially when something painful and sad happens.

Why does it become “empty”?

That's because I really don't know or know the truth in this world.

This is because they are wandering (reincarnating) in a dark path called “ignorance” (fundamental ignorance).

So, the teaching of how to deal with “ignorance,” which is the cause of “emptiness,” is truly “Buddhism.”

I know that if we can deeply understand the true state of affairs in this world and deal firmly with “ignorance,” this “emptiness” will surely completely disappear.

One effective form of wisdom is the Buddhist way of understanding existence called “sky and luck.”

If you have read my humble answers up until now, I know that the words “sky” and “good fortune” have come up often, but I know that it is such a very important and important way of thinking in order to overcome hesitation and suffering.

Of course, Husei himself is an immature asagaku feisai person who probably hasn't come to a firm understanding yet...

Anyway, I would be happy if you could put “sky” and “good fortune” in one corner of your head as one keyword for people to learn Buddhism from now on.

By all means, let's work hard together so that we can overcome this “emptiness.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

You are admirable.

 You're a great person, aren't you? I'm too lazy to answer this question. Because you know the answer.
why is that?
① The order of worries is almost the same as that of Buddha and Master.
② Is enlightenment born from emptiness? Do you call this erratic behavior?
③ I'm empty. This is a state of nothlessness!
Maybe, “That's so bad.” It may be said, but neither great people nor ordinary people have anything particularly changed. I've lived my life with similar problems.
Did this make you feel a little relieved? That's it. I've almost been told by other monks, so the emptiness seems to increase for a while.