What are people thinking when reading the teachings?

If it's taken as “work,” I think it's probably because we monks are largely responsible for how we work (;;)

The purpose of reading sutras is to receive important teachings handed down from generation to generation from the Buddha.
If possible, everyone present will read it together, but in that respect, is Osho like Banmasu? It's just that the host plays the leading role, isn't it?
Being there means everyone holds hands while thinking about the deceased and loved ones, parents think about their children, children think about their parents, and each one visits the shrine in a circle with their own feelings, and each one “allocates” time, opportunity, and heart to that place little by little. Then, a very gentle and warm time flows, where there is not even a gap between the living and the dead anymore.
I think the relationship that is born there will become a loop of mutual aid, and the form of supporting each other will be completed “memorial service/support.”

Osho is Osho, and for example, many years of relationships with the deceased and the future with the client, so there are times when I think about such things while composing sutras, and I feel moved ^ ^

However, just because I did it, I can't say it was a memorial service with blood in it.
“What should I do to make a memorial service, what do they do, what should happen, and what is its true meaning? Is it OK to leave it up to the monks just to read the sutras?” This pursuit will enhance you yourself, and it will also be a living memorial service for people who don't know what a memorial service is.
A memorial service means that both living and non-living people benefit from everything.
A so-called memorial service is not just an offering; it is “to improve the person's religious feelings.”
The Buddhist sense of religion and salvation is called the “Bodhi Heart.”
If your bodhicitta is enhanced, you will save yourself, help others, and become someone who can save you. The memorial service is intended to lead people's hearts to an extremely wonderful heart, and also to create living bodhisattvas and major religious activists who lead the world. Therefore, it is called the cornerstone of the law, the memorial service.
In other words, it's for you to become a great person similar to Buddha, Buddha, and Bodhisattva. Cultivate a spirit of appreciation, reward, and altruism through legal memorial services, and memorial services for profit. I have it. enhance. They cultivate wisdom and compassion, and work hard to become a worthy person similar to the Buddha.
In both memorial services, everyone, and the ten parties benefit. you too. everyone you've been involved with. If I write this down, even people who don't know will say, “Oh, was that so?” This is also a memorial service.
In an extreme analogy, terrorists, thugs, and extremists say “👿 make a memorial service for my comrades.” Let's say it came. I was given a sutra and a memorial service was held for the deceased. As soon as it was over, “OK, I'm going to go on indiscriminate terrorism now!” “Dad's character!” If they were to head towards crime or outrageous acts that would cause a stir in the world, neither of them would be saved. No matter how much a memorial service is held, “the person himself does not have proper humanity” is not a memorial service. It's not okay if you just give pokpoku sutras.
What should happen to you?
The memorial service is for you to aspire to be a religious person who surpasses that of a monk.
Bodhicitta is the spirit of nurturing people who are more respectable than oneself.
You have a Bodhi Heart and earnestly seek a heart of enlightenment and nirvana (wisdom and peace)! It's no good to have a small Bodhi heart where only you can be saved and get away with it.
The world just runs away if you don't do it, don't do it, and if you can't do it. There are probably only people who criticize people. Therefore, it is the memorial service that “you too” become a memorial service. Family, friends, and people they don't like become formative people with a Bodhi mentality that leads everything in the world to “add, draw, good things, smiles, profit, and kindness.” It's a memorial service for nurturing people together.

For those of you who are asking, “What are you thinking and reading sutras?”, as you said yourself, “What is a memorial service?” There seems to be a question.
Questions cannot be solved by simply thinking round and round in your own head, so it is necessary for you to learn knowledge about that subject to some extent. In order to “relieve your anxiety,” I think this is the first thing you should do before asking questions to the monks here.
Please search the website of “Seikyo-ji Temple (Seikyo-ji)” in Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture to find it. Open that “sample book” corner and go to the second “What is a memorial service?” Please read it.
After gaining that knowledge, you will be able to calmly ask, “Well, what do real monks think...”

Yosi

It is important that both sutras recitation and memorial services become “merits.”

Merit, that is, accumulating virtue, is the basis for Buddhism's efforts to work hard at good things.

Shichibutsu Dori...
Shouakumakusa (Shoakumakusa) don't do anything bad
Buzen Magistrate (Shuzenbugyō) Strive for good deeds and work hard
Self-purification (great) — cleansing one's own mind
Koresho Buddhism (Zeshobutsukyo) — these are the teachings of various Buddha

Also, by applying that merit to everyone, it helps everyone to reach enlightenment and makes something useful.

Therefore, both sutras recitation and memorial services are a place where efforts are made to “pursue Zen,” that is, to follow good deeds and deliver them to everyone.

Also, please refer to the following humble law story for the memorial service.

Humble Dharma story “The Memorial Service”
https://youtu.be/lPp80WzKmQc

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho