Are human lives equal in weight?

Thank you for your daily nursing work.
Last year, I was also hospitalized for less than 1 month due to malignant lymphoma, received anticancer treatment, and then went to the hospital for 5 months. Of course, I'm still going to the hospital.
Meanwhile, I am very grateful to all the doctors and hospital staff, especially the nurses, for their support. There is nothing but gratitude for being nursed so hard over 24 hours that I couldn't do it myself. I was allowed to say a lot of “thank you” every day.

Now, I think it's difficult for Haruna-san to get directly involved with patients in the medical field.
In particular, this story makes me think about it from various aspects as a real problem. Even though they are in the same medical field, the thoughts of patients are completely different, so it is unavoidable that such questions also arise.

Let's change the angle slightly and think about it.
For one thing, is it OK for doctors to think that humans die or that letting them die is a failure? I've heard that before.
If that's the case, we have to make the most of everything. Of course, it may be the same in medical settings. I think that's how they dealt with me. Therefore, I am making the most of it in this way.

On the other hand, my way of thinking was born as a human being, and I live my life for various reasons. Eventually, they will die. Whether the cause is aging, an accident, illness, or disaster, the body reaches its limit and physical changes (death) occur.
However, the soul and consciousness continue without being destroyed, and since this is invisible to the eye, there are no certification specifications, but there may be strange things in the medical field.
This means that if death is just a physical change (of course, it's sad and painful when an important person dies), then there is a next one, so nothing can be done so as not to destroy the body. It is natural for me not to receive life-prolonging treatment, and I make that choice when necessary.

Also, I think there is meaning in what Haruna Haruna is experiencing at various medical sites this time. I think it means that there are things we know and learn again by experiencing that unreasonable and contradictory world.
It's not about whose way of thinking is right or wrong, it's that everything has meaning.
In modern times, we can receive precious organs from other people. Then I want to spend the rest of my life making use of people and living a life where I can be kept alive.

Thinking about the category “humans” separately among animals is a hypothetical concept we have decided in our heads.
Therefore, both humans and non-humans, animals have different characteristics and individuality, and I also think that humans and non-humans “want to live” the same.
In other words, there is not much difference in the severity of the crime between hitting a cockroach or mosquito and killing a human.
(Although national laws only discriminate against humans.)
We kill people who get in our way because of our own interests and likes and dislikes.
We love pets, kill cockroaches, and are selfish.
So I think it's a natural emotion for you to have anger or murderous intent in your heart.
However, anger and hatred can cause stress and trouble, so if you cultivate a sense of mercy, you and other living things will be at peace.
Let's aim for mercy after being aware that everyone has anger.

I read it.
I think it's undeniable that when I see people who are arrogantly selfish and do whatever they want, like you, they think so even if it's not you.
I think people who are unable to appreciate it through their own selfishness may have felt at ease after all, and there may also be people who are unable to accept things, let go of their melancholy, and their work comes back to them, and violates their own mind and body. It may be that my heart is also being damaged by illness.
This is not the case, and I think there are also people who are constitutionally ill.
Since all things are equally precious to the Buddha and gods, those people are also precious.
There will always come a time when they will complete their lives. At that time, there is a pick-up phenomenon, and Buddha, gods, and many other people come to pick you up.
What do those people think when they look back on their own lives at that time, how do they see themselves being affected by mental and physical illness, how do they think when they are born into this world and have lived with so many blessings, and what they thought and did.
Only the Buddha, gods, and ancestors understand that.

I know it's going to be tough at work, but why don't you imagine it for a moment in between.

All things are equal, and each one is blessed and precious.
It is truth, truth, and law.
Please take your time and look back.
I know it's going to be tough at work, but please do your best in moderation while taking care of yourself and the people around you.

I sincerely pray to Shinto and Buddha so that you can live through every day fulfilling while caring and respecting each other while cherishing so many things.

I read your consultation.

I think there are inequalities in life from the way humans look at humans.

There is a difference if you measure abilities, humanity, status, etc. with some kind of thing. The reality of humans is that they feel unequal.

And since inequality is a human issue, it is a problem that humans deal with.

The secular way of thinking is to realistically address and transcend various inequalities... due to medical care, social systems, education, politics, etc.

Buddhism's way of looking at humans goes beyond humans and the world. From the Buddha's point of view, all lives are equal.

When it comes to equality in terms of what, it is based on the law of “being born by marriage, living by relationship, and dying by relationship.”

However, everyone's relationship falls apart. However, measuring that difference with “this is good and this is bad” is the idea of humans, not Buddha.

Are there people who are born with only their own will and want to become complicit, addicted to gambling, or become poor? Was it something I chose of my own free will?

That's not the case. I guess I was formed as that kind of self through relationships.

This isn't fatalism. I'm not saying that each person is completely unresponsible for their current situation.

However, in the eyes of the Buddha, we are weak beings who are swayed by relationships. I'll do anything when it comes to relationships. Things like having excellent humanity, having a calm personality, or having a stable life are things that just blow away at any cost once a tough relationship comes down.

That means you never know when you might change to the side you despise.

But that doesn't mean we can get the Buddha's eye to see everything equally.
As you honestly wrote, discrimination occurs in everyone.

Trying to clean one's own mind by any means is not the salvation of Buddhism. The basis for salvation is not given within oneself, but from outside. That is the Buddha's teaching.

The salvation of Buddhism is that if we continue to be encouraged by teachings and are made aware of our reality of actually discriminating against equal lives, we can receive the courage to take on the disparities in human society as our own issues.

In Buddhism, it is an encounter with the truth that envelops you from the outside without being able to do anything about yourself.