A Summer of Continuous Celebrity Obituaries and Why We Cannot Just Feel Sentimental [Shogyo Mujo]
Have you ever felt a sudden sense of fleeting sadness upon hearing frequent celebrity obituaries lately? In this episode, we discuss the bittersweet feeling experienced in such moments and the Buddhist teachings that emerge from it.
Obituaries of figures like Yamada Goro and Bando Eiji continue to arrive.
Lately, we have seen a succession of obituaries for familiar figures such as 67-year-old Yamada Goro, 86-year-old Bando Eiji, and Higashino Keigo, who passed away at 68. The personality shares that feeling sentimental and recognizing the impermanence when seeing the news is actually a manifestation of Buddhist sensibility, sensing Shogyo Mujo not just in our heads but on our skin.
We are sensitive to the impermanence of others while forgetting our own end.
It is a wonder that while our hearts are so easily moved by the death of others, we live completely forgetting about our own death and end as human beings. It is even surprising to hear that even doctors, who should be facing life more than anyone else, can forget their own impermanence. It is said that true Buddhism and life begin from knowing the fact that we too will certainly end someday.
It begins with confronting our own impermanence.
The program delves into the illusion of how humans live while pushing away their own death. Facing the overwhelming reality that everyone will end someday, how should we live our lives? Further deep discussions follow, but please listen to the main episode for the rest.
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