Does choosing the path of ascetic practice prioritize oneself over the weak in society?

First, not a single person attains enlightenment in the Age of the End of Law. This is an age called the Last Law.

Now, if you have time to look within yourself, call the poor people bread. That's right.

I would like you to think a little bit about the family and raising children.
Cleaning, laundry, food preparation. It seems like all child-rearing is mainly done by wives and mothers. However, those who protect that foundation are husbands and fathers who work outside and get paid.
Even if the shape is different, they protect the family and raise children.

When a monk meditates zazen, it does not immediately satisfy the hunger of the poor. However, there are more than a few cases where the sight of monks practicing ascetic practices gives people courage and hope. If people who have gained something from ascetic monks who practice zazen begin to look at the issue of poverty, it can be said that zazen has saved the poor, even if it is not direct. I say “thank you” for this.
Please understand that sight alone is not power.

If you want to leave your training and study alone and reach out, you should stop being a monk and join such an NPO corporation
But that's not the case

It's not a question of which one to prioritize, and I think religion is a guide to life regardless of Buddhism
How are you going to communicate it, how are you going to convince them, and how are you going to notice it?
What do you have to do in order to do that, after all, it's not something you can do without studying on your own.

A fundamental solution is necessary in order to solve poverty
Even if you give them something to eat at once, nothing changes; what is necessary is not to “eat food,” but “to be able to eat food.”
However, if you learn techniques, you will be able to eat food, but at the same time, it is also necessary to nurture the mind through Buddhism and religion, and that is also our monk's endeavor
What to do for that, after all, if you don't improve yourself, you won't be able to convey anything to people
Naturally, in order to appeal to the heart no matter what you say with your mouth, it is still necessary to make an effort commensurate with that

In other words, training and study are inseparable in order to search for a way to survive together.
It would be extremely difficult for one person to try to do something about the world, but if they try to do something about Japan little by little, it is possible to respond from those around them.

What we monks do in modern society depends on each person's approach.
Of course, I think we should coordinate what needs to be coordinated, but don't just say that it has to be this way and that is no good; of course, there are ways for each person.

For example, even if at first glance it is thought that such an activity has any meaning, if the person faces it with conviction and firm motivation, it is a way to save poverty as that person
No matter what others say, if you believe it's a way to save yourself as a result, that is a step towards eliminating poverty for that person

Everything is a process
If you can't reach results with your own strength alone, pass it on to the next generation, and it's just a process leading up to the final result
Improving oneself is something that ultimately leads to solving the problem that Maika is worried about, even though it is a short cut

Training means repairing behavior. In other words, I know it's about creating a mind where you can correct something as soon as you think it's bad.
That mind is about cultivating the ability to see through the essence.

Before I became a monk, just because I was born in a temple, I received advice from friends on how to live and instructed them to do things like this in sutras. As a result, my friend probably wasn't able to accept it. I committed suicide.
My simple words drove her into a corner.

A boy is what is a monk. Wasn't preaching teachings to troubled people a salvation!?
I asked myself questions every day.
There is more to ascetic practice than being struck by a waterfall or zazen meditation. I was taught cleaning in 1, work in 2, and academics in 3. Among them, I realized that what I learned was to put my thoughts aside for a while in order to see through the essence.

I myself, which I have cultivated through training, can now be close to “troubled counselors” just a little bit more than before. There may also be that, but the number of people who believe in me and listen to the story is increasing, saying, “I haven't been able to tell anyone until now, but I want Mr. Sekimoto to listen to the story.”

If I don't go through my ascetic practice, I wouldn't be where I am today.

At the end of the sutra called the Heart Sutra, the words “Zizoku Zubara Zubara Zubara Zubara Zubara Zubara Zubara” appear.
This word is the most important word, so it's a word that avoids changing its meaning by daring not to translate it.
I really wanted to know the meaning, so I asked Elder Chang Ming of Kogyoji Temple in Xi'an, China, which is the origin of this sutra. Elder Tsuneaki at that time interpreted it as “let's go let's go, let's go, come back when we go.”
I was taught that if I learned about the world of enlightenment through ascetic practice, I should use it to save as many people in the troubled world as possible.

You can't just give bread easily. I think giving bread should not cause conflict, cause laziness, and cultivate mercy.
Maybe they practice to learn about it.

> Decades of ascetic practice and zazen meditation

Even if the person himself wanted to stay at the actual ascetic dojo for a long time, he said, “This is like a school. It's not a place to stay forever. Put what you've learned here into practice in society. That is ascetic practice.” and you will be kicked out. There is no monk who has been stuck in the mountains for decades and hasn't appeared in society.

Also, zazen is an ascetic practice of letting go of an egocentric mind. Monks learn empirically what mercy is through the ascetic practice “life.” Those who don't know what salvation is cannot lead to salvation. So the ascetic dojo is a school.
If I have free time to learn arithmetic, I'm not talking about sending bread. Arithmetic education is inevitable in order to establish a society where bread is supplied stably. It's the same as that. Monks learn Buddhism in order to aim for a society where mercy is supplied stably.

> It is important to “be a person who illuminates a corner”

Such actions are carried out by any denomination. The Soto sect to which I belong is an initiative called the Green Plan Movement.
http://www.sotozen-net.or.jp/activity/ecology
Furthermore, a public interest incorporated association called the Shanti International Volunteer Association (SVA), which developed from volunteer groups of the Soto sect and is still closely related to the Soto sect, is working on educational measures and employment measures to improve the status of women, such as building schools and operating mobile libraries, in order to resolve poverty issues from the level of cause, mainly in Southeast Asia.
http://sva.or.jp

The most volunteers who came to the site during the Great Hanshin Earthquake were monks, and monks run around every time there is a disaster. However, it is not known because it does not appeal due to its tradition of accumulating virtue.

What I can do is tell you the reality of such unknown temples and revitalize Buddhism as a current. This answer is for world peace.

Actually, the Buddha didn't say that a temple should be built in Miyama Yugoku, and there are statements that show that even Dogen Zenji, who escaped persecution and opened Eiheiji deep in the mountains, was unwilling. Buddhism has been misunderstood too much.

Finally, this link clears up the misunderstanding that Buddhism is about concentrating on one's own path.
http://hasunoha.jp/questions/3160

Now, let's do Buddhism together.

> Even if it's imperfect or too many
It's called a Bodhisattva, and it's already mentioned. Buddhism is doing well. character limit