Liberation is certainly not easy, is it?
Nevertheless, if you follow the Buddha's teachings and accumulate merits, it is thought that even if you don't realize it in this world, it will be easier for you to become enlightened in the next life and beyond.
Nakamichi is a Buddhism that is neither dark practice nor hedonism, in other words, the three sciences of the four teachings of the Eight Judges, Dharma, and Wisdom, called Nakamichi.
Well, all of us are suffering, but this is the teaching at the entrance to salvation.
Bitterness never goes away from living things; it's just that the shape of suffering changes moment by moment.
If you inhale, the pain of wanting to exhale occurs, and if you exhale, the pain of wanting to inhale this time occurs.
Life is about continuing to deal with suffering, time after time. In other words, you won't run out of homework every second of every day.
People who stay at home dream of leaving, and travelers miss their hometown.
Being single has the suffering of being single, and married people have the suffering of being married.
If we learn that suffering will not go away from living things, discrimination against suffering will decrease.
Whether it's a major illness or disaster, a slight physical itch, or having to put trash together on the day you take out the trash, there are small homework assignments if you break them down into 1 second, that's all.
Therein lies salvation.
Also, if worries such as greed, anger, laziness, pride, etc., which are the cause of worries and suffering, can return to the “normal mind” of those days when elementary school students lived laughing even when they had homework every day.
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There is a character limit, so I can't answer all questions, but for example, whether it's the road leading to a sad funeral or a fun wedding, if there's a pedestrian crossing right in front of you, you have to cross it, and the only pain in 1 second is the simple suffering of putting out your right leg and then having to stick out your left foot next.
Suffering does not go away, but there is no big worry in the suffering in front of you; there is salvation there.
No matter how big a job is, at this moment, there is nothing but simple work, and that is where salvation lies.
Even though it's a long journey towards enlightenment, the present moment is a successful life just by doing simple ascetic practices, and there is salvation there.