Because You Only Live Once
No matter how much people pray or plea, when they die they die, and when they can't do something they just can't. People always live within limits, including the limit that everybody ends up dying, no matter who they are; that's reality. However, precisely for that reason, great meaning arises out of the way of living and being that each person chooses within the single life they get. So it follows that if you have a way of thinking about something, then it will be worth something to give it a try. Also, once you realize this, you can take the whole spectrum of sorrow and joy as resources for your maturation. There are people who say, "I will discover this being called myself, believe in myself, and develop myself, "I will discover this being called myself, believe in myself, and develop myself into someone worthy of trust." Why do I call to you, saying I want to build up the numbers of people such as this? Take your participation in today's program as an opportunity, and ask yourself, "Why am I in Shorinji Kempo?" This is a good moment for that. What do you say? Ask yourselves the question once more in earnest.
If you don't, then the meaning of taking this vacation and paying train fare and coming all the way to Shikoku will be lost. There are all kinds of ways for university students to enjoy themselves, but you've gone to the trouble to carving out time and coming to meet me. Isn't that because you're seeking something that you couldn't figure out yourselves? Something's missing. Somehow you're uneasy. Somehow the world's out of kilter. Whether or not you're fully aware of this desire, this dissatisfaction, this doubt, it's always there gnawing at the corners of your heart, isn't it?
Cutting to the conclusion here, not being able to understand that missing something in all its details, not being able to resolve your doubts, not even knowing what tomorrow will be - that's what it is to be human. I hate to say this because it sounds a little like a Zen monk talking, but that's what makes living interesting. Let me give you an example in easier terms. Say you knew right from the beginning that you would marry someone on such and such a day and separate on a specific day in the third year of your marriage. For me, I wouldn't even want to fall in love.
What I'm trying to say is, you don't know how it's going to turn out, so just try going ahead with it, right? And then, if you try and it doesn't work, it's also important to have the spirit to try again, and again, and again. Let me give you another ordinary, everyday example: you think you're in love and so you join together, but somehow you were wrong. It doesn't go well. I experienced this myself? But if that's what happens, rather than gutting it out and snarling at each other, separating instead can lead both of you to happiness. If you give up on this because it seems too much trouble, it can become a much nastier conflict. When you decide, "this is what I should do," then just try it. Suppose you fail and lose everything you had? Like I've been saying, you're still not dead, so you should realize that you still have plenty of chances to hold firm for what might come next. So if you grasp the fundamentals of living that way, you won't have to brood over the trivial details right in front of you or be paralyzed over vague uncertainties about the future.
(March 1975 University Training Camp sermon)
If you don't, then the meaning of taking this vacation and paying train fare and coming all the way to Shikoku will be lost. There are all kinds of ways for university students to enjoy themselves, but you've gone to the trouble to carving out time and coming to meet me. Isn't that because you're seeking something that you couldn't figure out yourselves? Something's missing. Somehow you're uneasy. Somehow the world's out of kilter. Whether or not you're fully aware of this desire, this dissatisfaction, this doubt, it's always there gnawing at the corners of your heart, isn't it?
Cutting to the conclusion here, not being able to understand that missing something in all its details, not being able to resolve your doubts, not even knowing what tomorrow will be - that's what it is to be human. I hate to say this because it sounds a little like a Zen monk talking, but that's what makes living interesting. Let me give you an example in easier terms. Say you knew right from the beginning that you would marry someone on such and such a day and separate on a specific day in the third year of your marriage. For me, I wouldn't even want to fall in love.
What I'm trying to say is, you don't know how it's going to turn out, so just try going ahead with it, right? And then, if you try and it doesn't work, it's also important to have the spirit to try again, and again, and again. Let me give you another ordinary, everyday example: you think you're in love and so you join together, but somehow you were wrong. It doesn't go well. I experienced this myself? But if that's what happens, rather than gutting it out and snarling at each other, separating instead can lead both of you to happiness. If you give up on this because it seems too much trouble, it can become a much nastier conflict. When you decide, "this is what I should do," then just try it. Suppose you fail and lose everything you had? Like I've been saying, you're still not dead, so you should realize that you still have plenty of chances to hold firm for what might come next. So if you grasp the fundamentals of living that way, you won't have to brood over the trivial details right in front of you or be paralyzed over vague uncertainties about the future.
(March 1975 University Training Camp sermon)
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