What is Zen salvation

Everyone dies one day. I too will pass away someday. It's scary when you think about it.

I'm also afraid of getting sick. I'm also afraid of getting old. It's scary to break up with someone you love someday...
When I start thinking about it, it's all scary.

Humans just don't want to accept what actually happens, they don't want to acknowledge it, and they struggle to see if something can be done.
The more different it is from reality, and the more you think about it, the more you suffer.

This is what makes it possible to sincerely accept reality. In other words, I think it can be called “enlightenment” to accept reality as it is, and to be in a state of clear mind where you don't feel fear, fear, or anxiety.

“Enlightenment” is not something you can easily become, even if you try to achieve it, and it is necessary to work tenaciously against the fact that the mind simply separates itself from reality and begins to suffer. To that end, we will perform zazen meditation, etc., and seek changes in our state of mind from our daily actions.

I hope you find it helpful.

Nyamu-chan

Basically, in Buddhism, it is important to “do yourself,” and for “enlightenment,” in order to achieve “enlightenment,” your own “actions,” that is, the “law” to smoothly adjust your “work” (the state of affairs) and that “karma,” in other words, “Buddhism.”

Also, “salvation” does not mean that someone else, such as a Buddha or Bodhisattva, saves you, but rather saves yourself. In other words, it's about not being able to do one's “business.” Doing things smoothly is going to save yourself.

Zen teachings can also be called “salvation” if they contribute to the smooth management of karma.

If you keep your business going smoothly, you won't have to go through any worse reincarnations.

Death (the collapse of the current body) comes naturally, and there is no way to avoid it, but the fine consciousness and karma that govern reincarnation act for the next life.

That awareness and state of work are more important than anything else. If we can steadily advance in this life to cleanly adjust our consciousness and work, we won't be in a worse state than we are now (of course, there is a possibility that we can pass away to the Pure Land), and if we can have an even cleaner flow and ride the Buddhist path, we can be sure that we will reach “enlightenment” beyond that, I think that anxiety will be relieved even a little bit.

In order to pass away into the Pure Land, for example, if it is Amida Nyorai's Pure Land of Paradise, it is necessary to cleanly adjust one's work (accumulate good roots), strengthen the Buddha relationship with Amida Buddha, and be able to pass away, as the Amida Sutra says, “Those who have few good roots cannot pass away in the Pure Land of Paradise.”

Incidentally, the leading funeral service in the Rinzai sect in the Zen sect is Amida Nyorai's Pure Land of Paradise.

Gassho

“Enlightenment” is the highest purpose, and death in the “Pure Land,” or rather the celestial world, is a “relief” measure to go to a good place as a place to be reincarnated when not enlightened.
In Chinese Buddhism, which was introduced to East Asia, it seems that both China and Korea practice Zen and the Pure Land together. Do your best to be enlightened, pass away in a good place even if it doesn't work, and stop slipping? It's probably that feeling. That one is closer to the original Buddhism, but when they are divided into sects in Japan, they each place too much emphasis only on enlightenment and only the Pure Land, which makes you worry? It made me feel like that.
Once you are completely satisfied, you will be enlightened and you will die. You won't be reincarnated. It disappears.
People who do a lot of good deeds and merits still have a feeling that they want to do something more, and that is distressing, so they will be reborn in a good place like the Pure Land. Once you're reborn to the same level, you can meet them again.
People who do a lot of misdeeds or misdeeds will die while regretting various things or getting angry, and they will be reborn in a slightly bad place. If someone at the same level of heart goes there first, they'll meet again.
From the perspective of Buddhism, the laws of karma are as simple and clear as this. The only difference is which one you choose.