2019.03.11
Apparently, people seem to be concerned about evaluations from the other people. It seems that people who want to be evaluated better do not want bad reputation even if they get older. At the same time, people keep evaluating the others.
Even in the society, people tend to say, “he is capable, or he is not capable”.
Certainly, there are people who can work or run better and faster than others. But there may be other people who can do more in the world. Such a thing will not last forever. Eventually they will be replaced by more capable people.
People’s evaluation is not reliable. In the first place, nobody can understand exactly what the people are. Evaluation is merely superficial. However, people are annoyed by unreliable evaluations. People may suffer from undue evaluation.
People are not living for people’s evaluation. Buddhism does not regard value in such a case. Everyone is an absolute existence that no one can consider as a substitute for himself.
Famous mathematician said “violets only bloom like violets, so it does not matter how violets are, regardless of how they affect spring fields.”
Every flower hopes to be bloomed. No, every flower already bloomed. No, each flower is already in bloom.
2018.05.19
People always want to be happy, but the wise man said,
“Give up your mind that you want to be happy if you really want to be happy, then you can be happy”
How will each other be happy? Would you be happy if you could become a president at a company, or happy if you can be the best at the exam, or happy if you save a lot of money, or happy if you can have your new house, or happy if you can marry a person you like?
It certainly may be so. But when these happen, what will happen next? Will you find a new target or create a new goal? These happiness search lasts endlessly. And how far will they last?
In recent years, research on the brain is progressing and it seems that happy hormones are secreted in the brain if there is something happy. However, once the desire is satisfied, that happy hormone will not last forever, as another substance is created and release these hormones. We will have to wait for the next happy hormone to come. Therefore, this happy search is endlessly repeated.
However, there is a way that the secretion of that happy hormone is sustained.
That is not the mind seeking but mind accepting.
The time of happiness is when you want to be happy. This is a miracle time because you live here!
Everyone is breathing unconsciously. In this sense, this world is full of happiness!
Certainly, it is precious to have a goal. The pleasure is also exceptional when the goal is achieved.
However, it is also true that blissful happiness will come when you can accept the appearance of the nature as it is. It may be called “a world of relief”.
2016.01.01
Congratulations to all of you for the new year of Heisei time and I pray this year will be a good year for everyone.
As the new year comes, many people set goals. Usually they will not last three days.
However, the world where you strive for is truly narrow. The world that can be reached with that effort is different from religion. The wise man never seeks outside. When we look at our legs, we will notice how wonderful we are, and we will notice what a wonderful world is open!
The living human figure is the beautiful, fair natural figure in the earth.
2013.04.05
Nittaiji temple enshrines the Buddha’s holy bone. April 8th is the day when Buddha was born. Around this time, the cherry blossoms in the precincts will be at their best time.
Everyone sees the cherry blossoms and thinks they are beautiful. Do they feel the cherry blossoms are beautiful if everything in the world is pink with mountains, rivers, seas, trees, and even buildings?
Everyone unknowingly compares the colors of the cherry blossoms with that of the surroundings and feels they are beautiful.
There is another reason why cherry blossoms are beautiful. That is hope. The cherry blossoms are the budding hope of plants at the early time of the spring’s cold weather. Do you remember following sceneries? The entrance ceremony when we held hand in hand with my mother under the cherry blossoms, and when we first got a job. These memories were full of expectations and hopes.
When Buddha was born, it is said that “Everyone of us is incomparably respectable in this world”.
This is what everyone has to realize. Here is a beautiful cherry blossom!
The cherry blossoms and each of us are absolute existence unnecessary to compare.