May I have your ears?
Japanese monk’s Fortune Consultation

I want to marry someone who is honest to me! When can I find my true love?

40's / female

I have been dreaming of marriage long ago and tried to work it out with quite a lot of men. It was not as easy as I thought, and I am still single at this age. I really want to meet the one who is honest and serious to me. How can I meet with my true one and be married?

You never know whether you are heading to paradise (heaven) or to hell without stepping out.

Certainly, you are not able to complete a marriage without another person. When you are marrying “someone”, that means you need a partner.

Then, when thinking of what to get from your partner, the answer is nothing, all in all.

If you are just marrying a man because of his honesty, your marriage dies out when his honesty disappears. Humans and their personalities are never reliable, there is a good side but also a dark side in humanity. After all, personality is some others get to feel externally.

For instance, we may feel pleased when others do something for us, while not before long we feel confused for the exact same things they do. Similarly, you feel that someone is honest at a certain point of time does not mean that you are going to feel the same unchangeably.

Maybe you will say, “I feel even more confused after listening to that!” Yes, that is true. Let’s not to seek for anything from others, as things do change easily.

You do not need any reason to feel like marrying someone.

Everything happens by chance. But you think of your life path clearly and be responsible for what you choose. You do not blame other when things do not go all right. All in all, it is your own life, no one is obliged to your life, not even trifles.

There is a saying. The words from a monk in Japan called Shinran who lived 800 hundred years ago.

“Even if I was fooled by a master or saints and need to go to hell, I do not regret, never”.

Surely, we do not believe in liars. We believe in those who are honest. That sounds simple, right? Nonetheless, the saying goes “ feeling no regret for being fooled by a master”. That is not something merely like a little, a bit of a preparation. If you could uphold such a belief in your life, you are the master of your life.

That is a path you believe in. Alternatively, you think that is the only one path you trust with your life, the only path you could keep going in your life. No matter that is the hell ahead. That is your life. No regret. That is it.

Marriage is similarly something you cannot read ahead

Unfortunately, we are no longer surprise to know sweet couples cannot keep their lives together, and finally get divorced. Is your place in paradise (heaven) or in hell? You never know if you do not step out and try to find the answer.

Yet, if you could think that is the way you should go, no matter what the result is, probably chances are ahead waiting for you to embrace.

AOE KAKUHO

青江覚峰

Master monk of Ryokusenji Temple at Asakusa, Tokyo.
MBA from California State University, Fresno.
As a chef of temple cuisine, he has published many books and magazines, organized many events such as “dialog with Dalai Lama and 100 young religionists” (making lunch for 300 members), and given lectures at universities and other locations.

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