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| "Faith" -What I think highly of, What I seek for- (1) |
What do I live for? I often ask myself that question. This question is usually put away to the deepest part of my mind. And I totally forget taking it out for examination while I'm happy enjoying my university life. But it suddenly comes to my mind when I'm alone and free from everything. There are lives filling this world. The truth I exist on this earth proves an existence of my life. All living creatures, even small insects equally have their own lives. I admit that I have my own life.
But I don't know where it came from and when it will come to an end. The only thing I can tell is that each one of us will come to the end of our lives someday. When I think of this, everything seems transient to me. I feel as if I were pushed into the darkness where I find myself to be at a loss. I think that many people have the same experience as mine. And I exclaim to myself like this, "I need a light to enlighten me! I need a light to tell which way I must go! I need a light to encourage me!"
If so, what is the light in this darkness? Gutoku .Shinran said in his book, "Buddha's eternal light is a never-declining sunshine which breaks the darkness of ignorance." I think the devotion is that everlasting light which defeats the darkness. I will study from now, considering that I have inherited lineage and the landmark light of Shin Buddhism, from Shinran, passing on to Rennyo, continuously.
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