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What do humans live for

What do humans live for?

In the third part of my favorite comic “JoJo's Bizarre Adventure,” DIO (Dio) answered, “Every human being overcomes anxiety and fear and lives to gain peace of mind.”

I see, definitely. I thought this phrase might apply to everything in human activities, but if you apply it to this word, you don't have hope to live, or rather, you don't feel like living well and positively.

In response to this question, I want such answers and words that will positively cheer you up and that will also be a song of support for life.

5 Zen Responses

Seek “truth”

I have the impression that this question is “has it finally come?” I don't have enough strength, but I'll write what I think.

First, as expected, DIO (or rather Hirohiko Araki), a few words that make you think I see. That's enough, that's one answer, isn't it?

Now, “what do humans live for?” If you ask, I think you'll get a 10-person, 10-color answer.
What made the most sense to me was the phrase “humans live in search of truth” by Nakanishi Tomomi (deceased) of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji school.
In other words, I think “humans live for 'what do they live for' and live in pursuit of it” (probably a slightly misleading answer).

The quote continues, but the Meiji era Buddhist, Kiyosawa Mitsuyuki, said, “Whereas the effects of other minds usually target finite matters, the religious mind is different from that, and targets infinite things.” It is written in the book.
After all, it probably means that you can't clearly express what you're looking for.

After all, it's hard to say “for what” in a nutshell, and I think it's different for each person. However, please pay attention to Nakanishi's word “Makoto.”
Humans never live for immediate desires, etc. The reason we live in search of something precious is probably why we are humans.

And I think the way to seek it is not economics, politics, or science, but religion.
For me, that is the Buddhism that Shinran taught.
I'm hoping that the “path to seeking truth” for Ai Taiyo will be found.

Ai no Taiyosama

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

“What do humans live for?”

The answer from Buddhism is “to aim for enlightenment.”

“Every human being lives to overcome anxiety and fear and gain peace of mind” is, in a sense, a Buddhist answer. This is because leaving worldly and worldly hesitation and suffering and attaining a state of enlightenment of “great peace of mind (anjin)” is truly a Buddhist answer.

Overcoming is “ignorance (ignorance)” (fundamental ignorance), “worry,” and “bad work,” and “anxiety and fear” are included in affliction.

There is a saying, “It's hard to get enough...”, but as an example, “when you throw a lot of beans at once, it's like beans that don't fall to the floor and remain on the wall,” it is actually rare to receive life as a human being, and it can be obtained through good causes and relationships such as good deeds and Buddhist relationships from past lives.

Simply put, free time means that circumstances and conditions suitable for training are in place. Using heaven, man, and shura as the three evils, and beast, hunger, and hell, out of these six realms, only people who have time to attain fulfillment are beings who can work towards enlightenment, and they are caught up in the eight laws of the world (gain, loss, praise, blame, honor, slander, ease, and suffering), and quickly leave (a heart that hates and wants to escape this ocean of reincarnation), and then causes Bodhi (a heart that hates and wants to escape this ocean of wandering suffering), then brings up Bodhi (the heart that saves all those who are in trouble) I want to seek enlightenment that comes from compassion as a witch It is hoped that you will wake up (to listen to the teachings) and proceed step by step with the practice of hearing (listening to the teachings), thinking (deepening understanding by analyzing and verifying the teachings you have heard yourself), and practice (practicing meditation, contemplation, and good deeds from content that you have fully understood) and ascetic practices step by step under a certain Buddhist relationship.

It may not be such an answer or phrase that will make you feel positive and energetic, or that will be a support song for life, but “Let's work hard together so that we can work as hard as we can in this world, and that we can be born into a situation where we can practice wisdom and practice good deeds again, with the aim of gaining enlightenment.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

The words “the way to seek truth” and “to aim for enlightenment” by Master Uragami and Master Kawaguchi are sufficient, but I am thankful for this relationship, so I would like to be able to answer them in my own way.
There will always be something called death for us. This is a mistake, regardless of age or gender, and you don't know when and what time it is. I think I'm living “now” so that I can think for myself that “I had a satisfying life” when I was in front of that death.
To that end, I think anything is fine, whether for people, for myself, or for mental reasons, but I think that living day by day living well with desires and worries to “want to do” for something, in other words, living day by day with meaningful desires and “motivations,” will deepen your own “what for.”

People are for people

Ai no Taiyosama
Nice to meet you. I'll give you my answer.

Each human being is born has its own meaning.
If you dare to use the word “for what”
It is “to make others happy.”
Don't you think the purpose of every job is the same?
What I did helped others, and others were happy.
There should never be anyone who feels bad when they see someone else like that.

Also, I believe that this emotional connection can change the current world for the better. Gassho

Be someone who can do nothing

This is a Zen teaching, and it doesn't mean you don't have to work or do anything.

・Be able to stay the same even when your heart moves this and that.
・No matter what happens, have the ability to deal with it without causing a thought to it.
・In “Denshin Memorial Service” by “Obaku Kiun Zenji”
(translation)
There is a teaching called “enlightenment (enlightenment) about the state of mind that is left as it is in the face of events without causing a single thought.”
It means “you can do anything” in this sense.

“What do we live for?”
When I was a student, I couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer to this question, and there was a time when I became neurotic and attempted suicide.

What was the teaching that ultimately saved me
“Don't be satisfied with giving reasons.” “Don't get drunk with giving meaning.” “Be someone you can just be.”
That was the teaching.

Humans are creatures that want to reason, give meaning, and make sense anyway.
If there is a good reason or cause, I will be convinced and agree.
This kind of act seems to have some meaning, is full of a sense of acquisition, and is fun.
As a perverse person, I wasn't satisfied with that, so I knocked on the Zen Gate.
I loved philosophy and psychology, and I loved giving reasons.
I had a hard time at the Zen dojo because I couldn't lose my sense of reason.
During 10 years of training, while repeatedly asking and answering questions with the teacher,
“You always want to give reasons”
“That's just logic. No matter how much bad things you say, it's no good.”
My insight up until now was completely useless.
“Huh? Isn't finding the meaning and meaning of life and accurately expressing it so that everyone is satisfied with it is a Buddhist practice?”
The pinnacle of Zen practice was the exact opposite.
The answer was to enjoy the real world of Nama before giving meaning to things or giving reasons. If you lick the taste of enlightenment, you can understand the world of empirical evidence.
Even if you pretend you've realized it before you lick it and imagine the taste and say it's like this, the teacher will find out the lie.
Speaking from one aspect, the ultimate purpose of life is “seeking the Bodhisattva, profit and sentience (seeking enlightenment and spreading that heart to many people),” and that is certainly true.
It's just that such an expression “works.”
By giving a reason or meaning, I don't feel like I understood anything,
“Be as if anything happens”
If you understand the true meaning of this,
It should bring more peace of mind and confidence than that.