Questions for people who turned around and became monks

Hello, nice to meet you.
I'll try to answer it in my own way.

I don't have a previous job like the one you asked, but I don't think anyone was a monk from the beginning. Before becoming a monk, of course, you will go through some kind of student experience. Suffice to say, I “turned” from a student to a monk. However, just because students are in a situation where they are not employed does not mean that there are no “crimes or acts that have been committed.” Even if I'm not a “pro wrestler,” I remember “raging on my opponent with foul language.”

In the first place, in Buddhism, “sin” refers to doing something opposite to the direction of becoming a Buddha, and the result of doing it, in general. So, the moment you hate someone in your heart (even if you don't speak up or act) or think you're going to lie (as an example, there are many more) is already evil, and as a result, it becomes a crime. This is a harsher way of looking at it than the law.

When I think about it from this Buddhist perspective, I and my “relatives” are no exception in terms of doing things every day, harboring evil, and making sins. The way you point out that you have committed a crime and that you are “worse than a hypocrite” is really a phrase of someone who reflects on their own sins (like Buddhism). I think people who look at each other's deep-seated evils and sins will naturally come up with different words.

If you explain it this way, I think you can understand that it is important to apologize and “settle the past,” but that doesn't mean that evil and sins have disappeared and you have become a pure monk.

So, that doesn't mean you can become a monk because you haven't committed a crime, or that you can't become a monk if you have committed a crime.

Rather, it is reasonable in Buddhism to think that one becomes a monk in order to face the evil and sin that springs up in one's heart every day, as described above.

At least I think it's the monks who face evil, sin, and behavior and are trying to struggle with the past, present, and future. I would be happy if you could take a warm look at the monks who are searching for the path of attaining Buddhism by facing each other.

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Don't you understand the meaning of having or not having a previous job isn't an essential issue?

The reason I don't know if that's the answer is because you don't understand the Buddhist explanation of sin.

I wonder if I need to be humble enough to make homework once I do my homework, properly organize it, think about it, and respond.

It's a pity.

I read your question.
What I felt when I was reading
Using being a monk as one of my jobs,
Capturing it,
Since I'm going to do this kind of job,
If these characteristics are present,
I felt it.
A secular clergyman
On the premise that it should be like this
It's standing.

What is the purpose of Buddhism
Get right to life. In other words, enlightenment
It's about opening.
Conversely, when you attain enlightenment,
The rank of no retreat,
Because there will be no reincarnation
I'm not in this world.

In other words,
Both the fool and you are ordinary people,
People living in the same Shaba world,
From a somewhat Buddhist standpoint,
Make use of your social experiences
I'm just expressing my opinion.
There is no way this will bring enlightenment,
I'm stupid,
Nyorai's oath
Helping Sentient Seido
I intend to.
So volunteer,
It's free.
It looks like they're answering the question,
I'm learning.

Idiots start at age 5
Imitate a walker
Recite mantras every day
Tie a seal and say congratulations and sutras
I'm chanting.
We had a relationship halfway through,
It changed to Shinshu.
This is a way of life.
Elementary school, middle school, high school, university,
Go to graduate school,
From company employees and group employees,
Right now, the chief priest and manager
I'm doing it.
This is a livelihood.

Because I have trouble and suffer from relationships,
Precisely because they run east and west in terms of cash flow,
If you can resonate and empathize with people's pain,
I think so.

Since they're the same person,
The boring thing is,
It's frustrating,
later,
What a lousy self,
I think I can reflect on that.

Because I'm such a sloppy person,
Due to Hasunoha,
I'm learning.

Nice to meet you.

I'm from an ordinary family, and I can't eat even now, so I work for a general company and live while making various mistakes as a monk, but I'd like to know things like how to deal with past actions in Buddhism, right?

There are various types of “formal” depending on each denomination, but I think there is usually something called “repentance” during ascetic practices. As the saying goes, before entering the Buddhist sect, all of the various crimes committed in the past are repented in front of the Buddha before entering full-scale ascetic practice.

However, the reason I'm reading the content of the consultation and don't want to be misunderstood is that just because I did this, I was like, “Yes, this is forgivable!” There's no such thing, and I don't think there are (probably) people who have such stupid ideas. I feel that it is an act of learning how to face crime and attitudes without looking away.
From there, they will practice a way of life where they face things they have deceptively pretended not to look at until then without turning a blind eye.

What bothered me was that my relatives had quite a few preconceptions, and I wonder why they are talking on the premise that the monks have shelved the past or have already done something.
You can read something like aversion to monks with a vague image of a bad image in the brain from every edge of the word, but how about speaking on an assumption (in other words, speculation) that isn't based on a firm basis as a member of society? ... but I wasn't able to say bossy things when I was young, so I lick my subordinates softly.

There are many monks in one word, so if I had to say each person is different, that's all, but as far as I look at people who have entered the Buddha with something on their backs, there are times when I feel that everyone keeps their eyes peeled all the time and is working hard with all their heart, and there are also people who aren't.
There are as many dramas as there are humans, but I think that area is similar to the general public.

Since we don't know the inside of a person's heart, there's no way others can fathom the mystery of how that person regrets the past, but it's probably not all people who dare to say such an inner state of mind as lightly as coming out.

It's a bit off the rails, but I don't think there are people who live in isolation from the past regardless of whether they are monks or not.

Hello.

I see. A monk who may have hurt people in the past thought that problem counseling wasn't persuasive.

I was an office worker before I became a monk, but looking back on the past, there are many times where things I thought were good hurt people. That's still true now that I'm a monk. I reflect on it every time and try to make sure I don't do it anymore. Nevertheless, there are still failures.

There was talk of pro wrestlers, but pro wrestlers only play against pro wrestlers on the ring. It's a match. It's not unreasonable or bullying the weak. It's the same as kendo and judo. If you only think about pro wrestling as the target of criticism, that would be discrimination against occupations. There is no value in the job.

If this person had a clean and innocent monk since birth, of course, that is admirable and I respect them, but don't you think a monk who says bad things, reflect on them, be careful, and then fail again... is also quite tasteful and good? There are also many points I need to reflect on in the past, and people may think “OK” (don't say it). Nevertheless, I have a feeling that I want to be useful to someone, and I can't suppress it, so I'm continuing to respond here.

I'm sure they were worried about being bossy.

Everyone is equal when it comes to crime, and once you know it, it's basic to change it.

There was a saying “swollen feet with pus”.

My feet are pungent.

But people say “your legs are swollen”

It seems to mean don't point it out.

Looking from above too

And the line of sight from below

I wish it were gone.

I've written it somewhere, but we are living with other lives.

We have no choice but to commit crimes every day.

I think that depth of awareness is precious.

We are weak and tend to speak ill of others.

However, we all live with the same weaknesses.

I became a monk because I wanted to do something about my suffering.

Is that a deep business in a sense?

Doesn't that mean they suffered?

If so, “a senior who made a crime (there are many cases where he is not a senior)”
I say it to everyone.

“You're in this corner of a difficult situation right now,

I think it's safer over there!”

So to speak, this is my hometown, so I can show you the way~

Is that what it feels like?

Of course, I'm guiding them because I want them to get through there more easily than myself.

It's probably something I don't need to say because of pus and swollen feet,

There are also people who say they were saved.

Becoming a monk

I have a feeling that I did a lot of bad karma in my previous life, or that I had done good karma otherwise.