hasunoha

Play fishing or clam digging.

It is natural for people who do clam digging or fishing for a living to kill, but there is a sense of guilt about what they do for fun.

Taking other lives in order to maintain one's life is a matter of the world. However, even though people involved in the primary industry are killing people on behalf of their own consumers, going beyond that system and going out of their way to kill in order to obtain pleasure is simply ego, and isn't that extremely disrespectful to the lives they have caught? I always feel that.
In fact, the fact that it's fun while clam digging or fishing is painful because it seems to support that idea.

However, now that I've caught them, I'm going to kill them so they don't suffer as much as possible, and eat them deliciously. I think that is the least I can atone for killing myself in vain.

After all, are clam digging and fishing bad things?

4 Zen Responses

If it were energy you could eat, how would you like to use it

There is a collagen-rich bird called a chicken that I keep at home (strictly speaking, it just exists in the precincts) and chirp with lots of feathers all over its body, and a puffy thing called meat sauce that sticks to its face from the morning when it's over 100 decibels. They dig up the soil with their feet and eat bugs like clam digging. Uh-huh 🐛🐔 cock-a-doo-hoo
They also eat centipedes. They also eat earthworms.
Then, night after night, the raccoons that have settled in the forest of the temple are taken away by such chickens. OK
Poor thing. They are eaten alive. (T_T) It must be painful. it must be painful. Even with that in mind, we eat yakitori restaurant oyakodon, chicken rice, and kenta.
I've also fished, and it seems painful and painful when pulling out the needle. I haven't fished since then. However, fish may also be served.
Shellfish are also pitiful, aren't they? Cooking while saying sorry and sorry after turning it into boiling water so you don't suffer as much as possible is tough.
Life is more than that. Whether it's rice or wheat, it seems that if we name each grain Ichiro Jiro Saburoshiro, we will receive over 100 million grains of rice in our lifetime. Sorry, 100 million taro.
However, all life, including humans, cannot live without receiving other lives. You can't live on cardboard gyoza or styrofoam rice.
That's why the way we use, use, and guide this life that is kept alive by the life we have received is important. Let's say you were on the side where you could eat. The demon that ate his family was eaten like Demon Slayer said, “Well, let's go eat humans next time too? If there are people who live such a way of life as “👹”, it would be an unforgivable feeling. If that's the case, at least if you're going to receive that precious life, if you're going to be treated to Buddhist food, “how do you live?”
Isn't that the pursuit of humanity and religion?
I'm human scum and there's nothing I can do about it, but I'm looking for a way of life where I can fertilize myself like human scum. A way of life where poison can be used as medicine. There must be a way of life where you can turn it into curry, even if it's a stimulant.
That kind of spirit of “help and good guidance.” A way of life that can purify bad bacteria in the world and become good bacteria. That is the Buddha's spirit. Buddha's effects. Isn't there a person's path or Buddha's path that humans should follow while receiving other lives and continuing this life? Well then, you will receive a precious life.

Immortality is an ascetic practice that brings you closer to enlightenment

Speaking of evil, fishing and clam digging are evil, and we do such killings on a daily basis.
Killing mosquitoes is bad, but you can't help but kill them at all.
Even so, aiming for immortality is an ascetic practice that can have the effect of bringing you closer to enlightenment.
Also, I don't want to be killed by other creatures as much as possible.
It is a good thing to practice non-lethality to the extent possible, for yourself and for others.
If you can quit fishing or clam digging, I think it's better to quit, but even if you can't, try non-lethal training in other situations of your daily life.

memorial service

Ginrin-sama

Humble, the first time I went fishing was six months ago...

He was an amateur in river fishing, didn't know anything, and didn't even know how to remove a needle he had swallowed...

I learned that I had to borrow pliers and pick them up, and I was tormented by a sense of guilt about how painful the fish looked when picking it up, ah... what a cute thing they were doing...

Of course, there are lives we receive and lives we must take, and we can live on.

I think we must have a firm understanding of that, give thanks, and make offerings.

Also, there was a mound at that fishing spot to properly hold a fish memorial service.

Masutsuka
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20210726/15/sunyahide/85/6f/j/o1078144014977865433.jpg?caw=800

No one may have noticed it, but at the end, we put our hands together in front of the mound and recited your mantra.

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

“Memorial Service”
https://youtu.be/lPp80WzKmQc

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

That's because

I read it.
I think your thoughts and thoughts are very valuable.

So let's say... what if you have to live your life as a fisherman or hunter?
How about if you were born as a farmer and grow fields and rice paddies?
How about if you were born into a dairy farming family, get milk every day, and eat meat from cows, pigs, and birds?
What would you think if you were born and raised while running a fishing pond or clam digging shop?
What would you think if you were born and raised in a family that made pitchnets and fishing rods?

I was born in a temple and grew up receiving rice, wheat, fish, meat, and lots of vegetables offered to the Buddha, and became an adult.
I don't remember being born wanting to be born a temple child myself, and I don't remember being born hoping to grow up as a monk's child.
I didn't think much about it because I took it for granted until recently when I became an adult. However, recently, I have received such various lives and grew up, and I think that being alive now is by no means a matter of course; it is simply something I am thankful for, and that it is really precious.

That's all, so please think carefully for yourself and try to find your own answers.