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Is this world really all suffering?

 I think there is a Buddhist teaching that everything is suffering, but I usually enjoy life. This pain seems to mean that things don't go the way you want, but for example, if you want to turn on the TV, you can turn it on. I don't think at all at this point.
If everyone is in trouble in the first place, wouldn't it be okay to commit suicide? (Suicide is not recommended) Even if everyone is said to suffer at all in modern Japan where there is no assumption of reincarnation, “then why not die?” It makes me think
I'm not an antagonist; I'm a Buddhist. I'm a disciple of the Shinshu sect, but I get caught when they say that everyone is suffering at all.

 

5 Zen Responses

There aren't enough questions about why that television shows up.

There are times when speculations pass through in this world due to balance with others.
The television is shown because there is a lot of help, such as people who work at the TV station, people who make electricity, and people who do the maintenance, etc., and it's not because I wanted you to be shown.
It's not what you think when you're dependent on others like this.

Also, just because the TV won't work if you don't depend on others doesn't mean that TV shows will be boring.

It's not “not going the way you want = boring, painful.”
So, as far as my impression is, I think this is a world worth living in.

About the meaning of “everything.”

Certainly, if you take “everything” as everything in each event, 365 days a day, 24 hours a day, every moment, every little thing, etc., then as the consultant said, it will not be “all suffering at all.”

In our lives, we have that person's own happiness, fulfillment, fun, etc., and there are many things that are not suffering (or things that don't go the way we want). As the consultant said.

I don't know if that will be the answer, but I think the Buddha's teaching “everything is all suffering” means “everything is connected to suffering, everything becomes suffering.”

For example, the suffering called “love separation (love separation)” is happiness when spending time with loved ones, but it does not last forever in the future. It's a pain that some kind of breakup will come someday.
In other words, even if you are happy and fulfilled now, you will lose it according to the logic of impermanent conduct. It means that even if you try to do something about losing it, things that don't quite go the way you want will lead to suffering.

Physical strength when young is also limited. There will come a time when life, relationships, money, and a sense of versatility all don't turn out the way you want them to. Actually, the happier you are, the more likely you are to suffer from that gap of loss.

I want to stay young forever. I don't want to break up. I don't want to die. The stronger your obsession, the more painful it becomes.
In order to ease or overcome this suffering that we humans have that does not go our way, the first step is to firmly admonish and say to our own hearts that “nothing will go the way we want due to suffering.”

“How to look at suffering”

A book by Elder Sumanasara titled has been published. I think it's written there, but if I add a little bit in my own way...
“Everything everyone” is a mistake. Rather than making a mistake when translating the Hannya Sutra into Chinese, etc., later people may have made a mistake when it was translated into Chinese as “everyone does everything” in the Heart Sutra, etc. In the Pali primitive Buddhist sutras, if translated into Chinese, it would be all suffering. Every action or phenomenon, that is, what has occurred, is suffering, and what has not occurred is not suffering.
So, when it comes to death is suffering, this is the meaning of Buddhism, so death and life are a set. Since actions and phenomena continue to live and die instantaneously, it means I understood that this is true from the standpoint of capturing the phenomenon of being born, dying, and being born moment by moment, that is, oh, all actions are painful.
That suffering includes physical and mental suffering, but it also means instability. It's painful because it continues to live and die and isn't stable.
The words put together from the standpoint of enlightenment that saw through the truth that living and dying = succession of life and death are not at all easy or stable. I'm not talking about the hardships of everyday life.

“Everything is painful”

Yat-sama

Absolutely all suffering means “all suffering,” and everything is auspicious, empty, and impermanent, and it always shows that we have suffered due to the manifestation of the mundane and obsession with the mundane, even though there is nothing real there.

Devastation and suffering will also result from this misconduct.

A television that can be turned on as soon as you think about it now is not something you can enjoy being turned on forever and forever. It's not something that both the owner and customer can enjoy forever, and if they are caught up in fun assuming that there is something tangible, it will surely cause suffering someday.

Gassho

The true meaning of all suffering is not “suffering,” but “freedom from human views”

It doesn't mean that everything is suffering.
Everything means “doukha” = “appearance away from human opinion” and “appearance unrelated to this wish or request.”
If you make a mistake here, you will get caught in misinterpreted Buddhist books that are common in the world, and wrong thoughts will be born.
Certainly, there are “many things” that don't go the way you want if you're alive, but that's why I've been saying “Ow! it's painful! Tabby!” There is probably no one who lives while saying something like that. If everything were to suffer, it would be an elixir, and Shakyamuni is also an extremely negative person, and there is nothing to be saved from. 💦
I think there is also a need for more people to correct the fact that misinterpretations have been made even in the Buddhist industry.
I think there was a slight gap in the translation from Chinese to Japanese from the sense of the Sanskrit language.
I think the strange trend of past great university professors and authoritative people “interpreting it that way,” people from later generations will disdain and skillfully inherit so as not to deny that trend is unique to Japan. I actually have to become a monk even after that. The same thing happens in the political world. It seems that if people who have failed due to diplomatic issues still have power in the industry, it is sometimes difficult for people in that faction to come up with a movement to fix that problem.
What is important is an attitude of moving towards proper salvation from there.
If suffering that doesn't go the way you want, such as four struggles, “how can we save it?” One answer to that is that everyone is “suffering.”
It means that everything, every event, every occurrence, everything that happens has the appearance of “being far from what we hope for, seek, want, and expect = not going the way we want.”
You cannot control the weather, temperature, brightness, or humidity.
Conversely, it probably means that humans have an attitude of looking at things roughly centered on themselves.
“There's roughly that kind of place” on the human side, but originally everything in this world makes you look ❝ free ❞ unrelated to your desires or demands, right? It's a guide to salvation.
The Four Dharma Seals and the Three Dharma Signs are the laws of salvation.
There are many negative opinions about Japanese Buddhism.
That's not the case.
It's the law of salvation.
There are just few teachers who can preach it like that.