人生で本当に大切なことはたった一つしかない【ブッダの教え】

Details and registration for the public lectures are available here. If you are interested, please register here. ------ Osaka https://kikutani.hp.peraichi.com/sinn... Hiroshima https://kikutani.hp.peraichi.com/sapporo ------ There's a saying, "Parents' education is the last education a child receives." We learn many things from various people—school teachers, cram school instructors, club seniors, company superiors, friends, colleagues—but above all, we learn the most from our parents. From the start of life, we learn everything from table manners, cleaning methods, greetings, and responses from our parents. Even our native language becomes the language our parents use. If our parents speak Kansai dialect, their children will also speak Kansai dialect. Children learn the weight of responsibility that comes with working by watching their working parents. Eventually, as parents grow old, children learn what "aging" is like through caring for them. And one day, when a parent "dies," it is through witnessing their passing that we learn what "death" truly means. "My father worked so hard and suffered so much, and in the end, he was emaciated like a withered tree from illness... What was my father's life all about?" "My mother died with that expression on her face, what did she want to tell us?" The sight of a parent dying confronts children with the solemn reality of life, prompting them to deeply consider, "What does it mean to live?" This is the "final lesson" we learn from our parents. How we receive this "final lesson from our parents" changes the course of our lives. Shinran Shonin lost his father when he was four years old and his mother when he was eight. Shinran Shonin lived a life that can be described as "full of ups and downs," and it could be said that he was hit by fierce waves right from the start of his life. Matsuwakamaru (later known as Shinran Shonin) was stunned by the suddenness of death, realizing how quickly death could come. His mother, who had just moments before been gently stroking his cheek with warm hands and speaking to him with kind eyes, suddenly closed her eyes, the color drained from her face, her hands grew cold, and she was gone forever. At that time, Matsuwakamaru was eight years old, so he must have longed, "Where did Daddy go? Where did Mumma go? I want to see Daddy. I want to see Mumma." Matsuwakamaru then pondered his own fate. "Daddy died, Mumma died. It's my turn to die next. Where will I go after I die?" He seriously considered what would happen after his death, and was shocked by the bleak future. In this world, even when a father dies, a mother dies, a husband dies, a wife dies, or a child dies before the parent, there are people who dismiss it all as someone else's problem, stubbornly believing they are still far from dying, and who do not consider their own inevitable fate. Matsuwakamaru was different. The deaths of his parents prompted him to confront the grave issue of his own life and death, and he was so determined to resolve this great problem that he knocked on the door of Abbot Jichin of Mount Hiei. He was nine years old. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Understanding Buddhism" Official LINE Account Here ----------------------------------------------------------------- • Updates on videos and columns • Mini-corner explaining Buddhist terms in simple terms • Exclusive projects for LINE friends, etc. ▼"Understanding Buddhism" Official LINE Account Here https://lin.ee/GbzwYBX ----------------------------------------------------------------- 20-Lesson Free Email Course Here ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://peraichi.com/landing_pages/vi... ↑The free email course reveals the answer to the "meaning of life" as taught in Buddhism. Those who register will receive a bonus booklet, "5 Common Sense Mistakes That Prevent You from Being Happy"! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel here -----------------------------------------------------------------    / @bybuddhism   ----------------------------------------------------------------- Community where you can ask questions to Ryuta Kikutani "Reiwa Gobou" ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://reiwagobou.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Self-introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- I dropped out of Waseda University in 1988 to pursue a career as a Buddhist lecturer. I obtained a Buddhist lecturer qualification from the Jodo Shinshu Shinran Association and began giving public lectures throughout Japan. Since 2010, I have been writing an email newsletter, which has 12,000 readers and is one of the largest Buddhist email newsletters. Since 2014, I have also been active in providing vid...