Zen Dialogues

Reflections from Japan's Buddhist Traditions

What is masturbation?

It is said that if you masturbate, you will go to hell, but what is masturbation? Will I go to hell if I masturbate? Is there a hell in the first place?

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Where will they go when they die

This is my second post Last time, I talked to my parents about things I couldn't be kind to. Every time I get too hard on my parents, I look at pictures of my younger brother. Is it because they feel ashamed of me? But my brother's face doesn't look angry. Rather, I feel calm and even...

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Is suffering damage from the earthquake also causal retaliation?

According to the Buddhist idea, it is said that being abused is also due to actions in a previous life. So does it mean that people who were damaged by the earthquake or were unable to live their daily lives due to COVID-19 were hit by bees because they lived their lives thinking only about...

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How to deal with delusions

I can't stop my bad delusions. For example, I think that just reading letters makes you crazy, and that when you take in information, substances that are not good for brain function are produced and accumulated until death Should all delusions be denied until there is no scientific basis? It...

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I can't help it because I'm afraid of hell

Also, sorry for your question. As advised before, they offered incense sticks to their grandparents' Buddhist altars and apologized “sorry” while holding hands for their mistakes and mistakes when they were children. However, once again, I only remembered things I didn't like about myself,...

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I don't have confidence in myself

Recently, even though I've been getting so much help from my friends and lovers who are kind to me, it seems like I'm only bothering them, such as feeling bad or being disadvantaged. Is it worth living even for me like this? Sorry for the backward question. I really appreciate that you just...

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What should I do to think I'm fine just the way I am?

Please let me discuss it with you. I want to change who I am now. I want to do something about it. When I read a book or search the internet to do my best, it always says “the cause is my relationship with my mother when I was young.” It certainly is. The environment I grew up in was tough...

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Realising synchronicity of outcome and cause thinking

I understood the title and embodied it. Is everything destiny or are there differences, differences, and individuality from person to person? When it comes to learning about life, I think the differences and differences between popular people who try to learn are factors of parents and...

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Please tell me how to get better at reciting sutras like a monk!

I would like to ask you a question. My name is Harusora. I've been chanting sutras when visiting temples for over 3 years. Sutras begin with the Kaikyo Sutra, and include penitents, the Three Gods, the Heart Sutra, and the principal mantra. However, I can't recite sutras well like a...

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I'm afraid of prophecies

Hello. I watched humanity perish in January and March 20 of this year, and since then I haven't had a good mentality. The reason for its collapse is that a star called Betelgeuse explodes as a supernova, and what is called a gamma-ray burst that comes out at that time hits directly, and the...

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On satisfaction, greed, ambition, and self-defense

Good evening. We look forward to working with you again. I don't often continue to feel satisfied regardless of work or private life. For example, work went well, and I had a great time with friends, etc., and I feel very satisfied. However, when I got home and calmed down, I came up with...

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Life is at a rock bottom

I'm 38 years old and single. There were also people in their 20s who were considering getting married, but I was busy with work due to changing jobs from the age of 30, and I became single until this age. When it comes to job types, the salary system isn't that good, and if you try to change...

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Does enlightenment suppress the function of the left brain?

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight/transcript?language=ja In the video above, a brain scientist named Jill Bolt Taylor talks about her experience when one day the function of the left brain declined significantly due to a stroke in the left brain and she...

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Flowers offered to graves

I have a day off next week, so I'm thinking of going alone to my grandmother's grave, who passed away last year. I'd like to talk to my grandmother. Even now that I'm writing this way, I still can't stop crying for some reason. Maybe you still don't believe this time has come. So I would like...

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The monks at Hatsubon and the family temple are not allowed to come

My father-in-law (husband's father) passed away last year, and this year will be the first Bon Festival. It seems that the chief priest of the family temple and his father-in-law had a close personal relationship. Since the chief priest was unwell since 5 to 6 years ago, it is said that all...

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About the death penalty

　A few months ago, I watched a news program on TV interviewing the mother of a child (girl) who was the victim of the Ikeda Childhood Murder Incident. Fifteen years have passed since the incident, and even now that the perpetrator's sentence has been executed, when I know the situation at the...

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Is loneliness necessary for [enlightenment]

As the title says. How to master [enlightenment] Is solitude essential?

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Could you please give me some love?

Every day, my heart feels heavy and I feel like I can't hold it alone. I also tried cowselling, etc., but in the end, I couldn't open my heart I stopped it. I want you to encourage me to open my heart. I want to trust people.

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Is it OK to live like this?

We are a family of 5 with a husband and 3 children. Each of the children is living away from home. Since I quit my job last year, I haven't been able to decide on my next job easily. My husband continues to work even after retirement. Even so, I feel sorry that my young and healthy self...

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Names for newborn children

A child was born just the other day. I think the name is the first gift that a married couple can give to their children, and since their husband's name is in kanji, they say they want to add sanzui, but I often see opinions such as sanzui not being very good, and I have come to feel hazy no...

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