Nipponism

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I was studying at a high school of Jodo-sinsyu of Honen(due to my poor score) and there was a subject of Buddhism but I was forgetting almost all of it (^^;) until I read it.

It is indeed my always question why there is a story of a big flood in the mythologies of the world including Japanese one. We don't learn that part of story at school, but I assume that the story speak about how the Japanese islands was one day created (or separated) from the continent. There was a time when the level of the sea got up in the world.

We, so-called Japanese are mixture of the people around Japan and who was living there firstly. Our language, "Japanese" is a Pidgin language according to some professors and it has become a Creole language. I think that explains well why the Japanese vocabulary almost always contains vowels between sounds, because it is easy to pronounce.

In my opinion, in the very old past, now Kyusyu and now south part of Korea was a nation. That could explains some part of Japanese myth.

We don't need to believe the myth but that is how the people at that time understood their surroundings. Of course, there is a completely made-up story in it like the story we talk to children, but there are also the stories which come from the facts, and these facts were impossible for them to understand like we do now. So they put them into their myth.

Unfortunately, Japanese historians are like communists, they don't care at all the myth or they rather ignore it. They think there are only materials and time. They lack the undercurrent of the people which is made of the fact, and which makes them advance to the next decision.

oops....anyway, Honen claimed that that be rather the bad person who must be saved, and so are normal and poor people than the others. In only we chant, Na-mi-a-mu-da-bu-tsu, we could be saved after our death.

When a religion becomes popular? It is when we lost our hope to the future. 
But nowadays, we can ignore the sein of the god, but as far as I know, not for the people in the past. Our future, it is in a short word, the death. We all gonna die because we live. I will die and so will you. In 100 years, no one who read this sentences of mine will exist. We all die and myriad of people or animals or insects have ever been dying but we still don't understand what's next. So we had religions. A religion is a definition of after the death. 

Since some years ago, according to a journalist, more than 100000 people commit suicide each year in Japan. I think so too, it is not around 30000 (it is too small if we count the number carefully. The toll which found unnaturally but not relating to a crime has been increasing more than double and it is the authority who decide which is due to suicide). 

I don't know what is their opinion after their death. But surely better than "their world" now. Even if a cult effected political party is in the power, many people who have grown in Japan believe a religion lesser than ever. We can't talk religion seriously like politics in usual situation in Japan. The mass media, which (in this era) makes (or brainwashes) people can't talk about and criticize that new Komeito party, instead they keep to show that made-up happy world for ever (no more Fukushima reactor news). 
The happiness was a concept of the world after the death, but wrongly we took it out of it into this living world. We have to be happy in this world, so educate the mass media without doubting t the meaning of the happiness. 
There is no Honen, or the priest, or monk who could at least give some peace to the heart of those who committed suicide. As a result, each of them became a priest and said to themselves that the world after the death is better than ever. 

I hope this year, that people will notice that we don't have to look for happiness so hard and we can give a new name for the fact that we call happy because the happiness we can find in this living world does not continue for ever unless we die whilst it continues. It is not the happiness if it has an ending. That is why we have to want it in the dead world if we want to be happy, not in this world. Otherwise, we would be so worn out. 

So, say goodbye to HAPPY but smile for what you get and for what you are!

Thank you for your time to read^^

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