On his blog, the foodie Cai Lan recorded the story of participating in an international food competition in Japan many years ago, when he was surprised to find that there was an elderly nun among the judges present.
The monks served as food judges, Rao is a well-informed Cai Lan also felt very fresh, he observed, this nun is still very cheerful and talkative, many people came to greet her, talk to her, she did not refuse.
Cai Lan finally couldn't help but go over and talk to her, he asked the other party as a judge, every dish should be tried, but she is a monk, what should I do when I encounter meat dishes? The monk's eyes narrowed as she laughed, and she said that the Buddhist scriptures didn't say you couldn't eat meat, but you just couldn't kill. Cai Lan felt strange, is there any difference between this? The other party laughed again and told him that if he figured it out, he would know the difference.
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This so unusual monk, named Setouchi Shun, is a well-known writer in Japan, but also a very controversial figure, and it is really shocking to talk about her story.
She often appears in Japanese programs, not only eating large pieces of meat and drinking wine, while talking about love, marriage, infidelity between men and women, there is no taboo, any topic can be said, her unique style, won the love of many young people. But her boldness did not begin after she was old, from a young age, she was a different girl.
In 1922, a beautiful and lovely baby girl was born in the family of a merchant named Setouchi in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, who ran a Buddhist altar, and the family was very happy and named her Harumi, hoping that her life would be full of clarity and beauty.
Because the family is doing Buddhist business, so there are many monks and believers come and go, under such a subtle subtlety, the girl has some experience with buddhism since she was a child, but at this time she has no intention of becoming a monk, but immersed in sweet love.
Harumi's love interests in this conservative family caused an uproar, and in this society that pays attention to rank and generation, Harumi, who is still in college, actually falls in love with her teacher, Jun Sano. Although the teacher is more than ten years older than herself, Harumi still falls in love without hesitation.
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In 1943, Harumi, who was already pregnant, came to China with her husband and gave birth to their daughter in Beijing. After the surrender of Japan, according to the regulations, all Japanese who remained in China were to be repatriated, but her husband, who was obsessed with classical Chinese culture, wanted to stay in China, and Harumi also decided to stay with her husband, and the next year, they were still sent back to their hometown in Japan.
It is said that there are husbands and daughters, Harumi should be very content with life, but the ordinary days make her start to get bored, and her husband is arranged to work in Tokyo, leaving only her and her daughter at home, her husband's student Kinoshita Oginohiko often visits, for a long time, Harumi actually developed feelings with this student who is 4 years younger than herself.
Still the same Harumi who is unusually attached to love, she abandons her husband and daughter and decides to come to Kyoto to live with Kinoshita. This history of elopement has made Harumi reviled all the time, but what's wrong with thinking that she's only working for her own happiness?
However, what makes her sad is that the life with Kinoshita is not so good, and there is constant friction and dispute between the two, and finally they break up.
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After that, Qingmei had another relationship, the other party already had a wife, although it was an extramarital love, but Qingmei embarked on the road of literary creation with the help of this man. From the publication of her first work in 1956, Harumi's unique writing style has been loved by female readers.
Under the blessing of one popular work after another, Harumi became more and more popular, at this time, the lover kinoshita found her, and the two continued the frontier, but this time it was not a simple love, Harumi found that the other party only came to cheat her own money, and the heartbroken Harumi chose to become a monk, and the name changed from Harumi to Silent Listening.
Although she is already a Buddhist disciple, she does not aggrieved herself at all by drinking wine and eating meat, and openly says in the TV show that she cannot quit male sex.
After she became a monk, Setouchi listened, and the style of her work also changed, and she used her own words to tell everyone that we should cherish life, live well, and do not have to be sullen because of small things, which is also in line with the main theme of Buddhism.
In 2021, at the age of 99, Setouchi died of illness in Kyoto, Japan, and she has used her life to practice the motto of not being trapped in the heart and not being confused, and her experience is worth pondering by each of us.