How did you become a monk?

Everyone can choose from a range of options. It is also possible to cut back on business and go a different path.
I went to a Buddhist university, partly for financial reasons.
Certainly, only the options that high school students who don't know society and are influenced by their parents' financial strength are known.
At the time, I thought, “If I only had money, I could have chosen another path.”
However, that also caught my eye, and in the end, I chose a safe path for myself.
As a result, I am happy every day because I was able to learn Buddhism. If I hadn't studied Buddhism, I would have jumped out into society without techniques to reduce my worries, suffering, and stress, so I may have had poor mental health.
Well, in any case, I want you to know about Buddhism too.
Buddhism gives you the power to live happily no matter what path you take.

If you were asked, “Are you happy every day?”, they would answer that they are happy. That's because I've been blessed with relationships and favors. And that's because I feel it.

There is no point in speaking of greed, and there is no choice but to find a place and meaning to live from the environment you have been given.

The reason I live as a monk in this way is because I married in a temple. However, I wasn't told or forced to become a monk. It's just a love marriage. I originally worked in the field of education, and I also have qualifications. I was proud of my work. I was able to continue working that path even after I got married. Even so, while sitting in front of the hall and being told only the teachings of Amida Nyorai, he said, “This is how I am here. What is required. What you can do. I wanted to think of this wonder of “having that relationship together” as a good relationship. I felt that much warmth, so I deepened my learning, and now I am walking in a new way of life.

The fact that you met at Hasunoha is also a strange relationship. How do you make that mean? I'm sure it will be a source of strength and support for me to live. I am learning from every word you say.

Even if you feel that “the road will always be cut off along the way” or “it's not something you want to do,” it's not fate. You are not given a fixed life from the beginning. Even with His Majesty the Emperor, if the world, politics, and countries change, that position will also be in jeopardy.

If you think “everything has been decided,” it would seem foolish to even stand on your own. I won't be happy with the changes as my intentions, existence, and decisions have been made.

Did someone (something) do that the road was interrupted along the way? If that's not what you want, then take the world into your own hands.

I'm not satisfied with what they give me without permission. If you are satisfied, it is because your own ambitions will set you on board so that you will be happy like that. It is probably in one's own power to move towards that.

What do you want to do? Do you have yourself who can say that?

What kind of life and experiences have you had? have you resisted? I think there is something there that helped you.

You are you. It's not something anyone can decide.

I read it.
Thank you for your question.
I didn't originally want to be a monk. I didn't like temples either, and I didn't want to go to ascetic practices. So I reluctantly went to training. I wasn't interested in teaching Buddhism, so I didn't go to a Buddhist university.
When I finished my ascetic practice and went out into society, I didn't come close to the temple at all. And I worked as an office worker in Tokyo for about 20 years.
However, my father, who is the chief priest of the temple, suddenly passed away due to heart disease, and I suddenly went back to the temple. I quit my job as an office worker and became the chief priest.
I really didn't like it at first. I felt like I was doing it because it couldn't be helped.
However, while working at a temple, little by little, I began to feel that living as a monk is very important. The people around me also worked hard to support me, and a lot of people helped me.
Then, when I learned about Hasunoha and people who are suffering a lot, I began to realize that little by little I could help and help myself.
I think it is very meaningful to live as a monk now, and I think it is very precious to pass on the teachings of Buddhism and put them into practice.
I don't know what life is going to be like, but even so, I think each life is very precious.
How is your life? I'm sure various encounters and encounters await you in your life.
I sincerely pray that you will be able to enjoy your future life and live your own way, and that you will be able to survive the lives you have been given during various encounters.
And I will support you from the bottom of my heart.

I read your question.

I changed a little bit and became a boy.

When I was a child, I was involved in a traffic accident twice, got sick from playing with fire, was repeatedly hospitalized with a high fever, and even had tonsil surgery.

Well, he was probably a pretty dangerous kid (laughs).

I was introduced to the pedestrian's master by a nearby worship shop, and I was told “it's dangerous to leave it like this,” and I started imitating the walker at age 5.

Of course, I didn't choose it myself.

I was told, “If you practice training, you might become a superhuman,” and I really felt like that (laughs).

After that, they recited mantras, made seals, and continued to recite sutras.

And then 30 years.

I didn't understand it (laughs).

So,

There's nothing you can do on your own

I finally understood that.

So I moved on to teaching other powers.

If you can't be saved on your own, you have no choice but to leave it to Amida.

However, it's not that easy in Shaba Sekai.

There are jobs, relationships, and management.

“I have no choice but to decide this myself”

There are also a lot of scenes like that.

So I

While using Amida as their birthplace, they are living on their own in the Shaba world.

I think it is something like that.

Is everything decided in life?

Is it completely free?

I can't say either.

You can't choose your parents, your times, your body, or where you were born.

But in the midst of it,

How do you take it?

Which way to go?

What are you going to let go of.

There, you have room to make your own choices.

If you ask if boys are happy every day,

That's not true (laughs).

I'm angry and worried.

It's just,

“I have to do everything myself”

Now that I don't think about it, it's a little easier.

I'll do what I can.

I'll leave up to you what you can't do.

Wouldn't that be enough?

A 5-year-old walker, office worker, manager, or boy is not the life I had planned from the beginning.

Looking back, I just chose each time, being pushed by the edge.

You, too, are still on your way.