In ancient China, there was a living Buddha Jigong who "passed through the intestines with wine and meat, and left in the heart of the Buddha", and in Japan, there are now nuns who "covet good men, and wine and meat wear intestines".
Setouchi listened to the extra greed of a man when she was young, and she did not hesitate to abandon her husband and daughter for the sake of her lover, and even mixed with her husband who had a wife. But these unrequited loves seem normal in Seto's silence. After the renunciation, the wine and meat were not broken. When others question, they will directly reply, and when they do these things, they will take off their robes.
Leaving all this aside, Setouchi was also a brilliant writer and was even awarded the National Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito of Japan.
However, such a Japanese "flower nun" can say in public: "I am ashamed of Japan's war of aggression against China, and even feel ashamed of Chinese." ”
When japanese people generally deny or even downplay this history, why can a nun stand up and acknowledge this history?
He was repatriated to China and abandoned his husband and daughter
Setouchi Washito, whose original name was Harumi Setouchi, was born in 1922 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
A Family in Setouchi runs a Buddhist altar shop, so the family is still relatively wealthy. Although it is not said to be rich and expensive, at least the family is worry-free about food and clothing.
During the time of Harumi Setouchi's birth, the status of women was generally inferior, especially in Japan.
However, Setouchi's parents did not think that their daughter did not need to go to school, as other families did, but only learned to run the housework at home, serve the male members of the family, and then marry out at a certain age.
Instead, they choose to send their daughters to school, and they do not expect their daughters to have much success, but they hope that their daughters will be able to learn and be reasonable, not as short-sighted as those women who have not been to school, and even more ignorant in some ways.
Although Harumi Setouchi's life is more chaotic after adulthood, she was also a pure and sweet girl in her teenage years.
At that time, Setouchi Harumi was a well-behaved girl who was loved by many elders at home. In school, he is also a good student who is recognized by his classmates.
Later, Harumi Setouchi was admitted to Tokyo Women's University with excellent results. It was at this school that Harumi Setouchi met her first husband, Jun Sano.
At that time, Jun Sano was a teacher at Harumi Setouchi. The two fell in love almost at first sight, and the scholarly temperament of Sano Jun deeply attracted Harumi Setouchi. And the girlish feeling and gentle and cute personality of Harumi Setouchi also deeply attracted Sano Jun.
Not surprisingly, two people who have a good feeling for each other fall in love.
The affair between the two was soon known to Harumi Setouchi's parents. Although the two are not particularly feudal people, after knowing about their daughter and her teacher, they still hope that the two can complete the marriage as soon as possible, otherwise their daughter's reputation will not be good.
Therefore, 19-year-old Harumi Setouchi married Jun Sano in such a vague way. Young and unaware, 19-year-old Harumi Setouchi may have been infatuated for a while, and she was not ready to spend her life with Jun Sano. But in any case, she became the wife of her teacher at a young age.
In October 1943, Sano was invited to teach at the former Fu Jen University (now Beijing Normal University) and Peking University.
At this time, Setouchi Harumi was pregnant and was not suitable for a long journey, but it was undoubtedly a torture for the two to keep a newlywed couple separated for a long time. Therefore, after considering it, Setouchi Harumi decided to follow her husband to China.
Soon after arriving in China, Harumi Setouchi gave birth to two daughters, and the family of three lived happily in China.
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered in defeat. With that, China began to clean up the Japanese on Chinese soil, and the Setouchi Harumi family was naturally not spared.
But at this time, Sano Jun was already addicted to studying ancient Chinese music and did not want to leave anything. At that time, they did not know what kind of method was used, but they stayed in Beijing for the time being and have not yet been discovered. Of course, there are also many people like Sano Jun, who are reluctant to leave China, and they are also quietly staying here like Sano Jun.
However, the good times did not last long, and in June 1946, Sano Jun and his party were discovered. Under the tough attitude of the Chinese side, the group was sent back to China. And Sano Jun's family also returned to their hometown of Tokushima.
After returning to his hometown, Sano Jun did not choose to find a job in his hometown. Instead, he chose to go to Tokyo to make another living.
However, as a scholar, Sano Jun is still a teacher even if he changes jobs.
At that time, Sano Jun had a student named Kinoshita Othiko, who was only twenty years old, handsome and handsome, and was also exceptionally good in his studies, and was deeply loved by Sano Jun.
By chance, Kinoshita Omihiko met with Harumi Setouchi. Xu is love at first sight or for other reasons, the two are getting closer and closer, until they start a forbidden love.
At this time, 24-year-old Harumi Setouchi and 20-year-old Kinoshita Otomi are the age of madness for love. Naturally, we must meet each other from time to time and talk to each other.
When the two were fighting fiercely, gossip between them naturally began to circulate around. As the days passed, Sano Jun naturally knew. For the sake of his daughter and his own face, Sano Jun did not want to divorce, but he did not give Setouchi a good face and often scolded him.
And Kinoshita Othiko, who is in the age of impulse, how can he bear to watch his beloved woman being abused in this way, and at the first impulse, he will take Harumi Setouchi to elope.
With love on one side and a violent husband on the other, Harumi Setouchi naturally wants to choose love. Therefore, she ignored her husband and daughter, nor did she care about her own reputation, and directly left with her little lover.
Repeatedly deceived, become a good writer
Harumi Setouchi thought that after she eloped with Kinoshita Othiko, she would be able to stay with him. But the reality is far from simple, and it doesn't take long for the feelings between the two to change.
Kinoshita Omihiko himself was at a young and crazy age, and although he eloped with Harumi Setouchi, although it was out of love, he did not necessarily think about spending a lifetime with Harumi Setouchi.
Sure enough, Kinoshita Othiko, who was still young and irresponsible, quickly empathized and fell in love with the hostess of a bar. And soon after, he did not quit. This move was no different from when Harumi Setouchi eloped at that time.
Harumi Setouchi never imagined that the man who had died and lived with her not long ago had quietly left her. But the most important thing for Harumi Setouchi at this time is how to survive in the vast city of Tokyo.
After packing up her emotions, Harumi Setouchi went to an interview with a magazine called The Writer.
As a graduate of Tokyo Women's University, Harumi Setouchi naturally has no bad literary literacy. As a result, she successfully passed the interview and entered the magazine to start writing.
By chance, Harumi Setouchi became acquainted with Ozaki Kazuo's student, Hitojiro Koishi.
After coming and going, the two secretly began an underground affair.
The reason why it is a sneaky underground affair is because Nijiro Koshige is a husband with a wife.
If you say that you are involved in the feelings of others, there are nothing more than two situations: one asks for money from men, and the other asks for feelings, which generally requires men to divorce.
But Harumi Setouchi didn't, she didn't ask for money, she didn't ask for a divorce from Nijiro, she just wanted to be with him all the time.
At that time, Nijiro Koiharu was already a well-known writer, and he was also really in love with Harumi Setouchi, and although he did not want to divorce his wife, he was willing to pay for anything else.
Under his financial support and literary guidance, Harumi Setouchi was also a little successful in literature. During the eight years she spent with Nijiro Otoshi, Harumi Seto's fame rose all the way.
At that time, Harumi Setouchi and Nijiro Kofumi were also soul mates, and the reason why they could not go all the way was that in addition to the fact that Koto Injiro was a husband with a wife, there was also Harumi Setouchi's ex-boyfriend Kinoshita Othiko who found the door again.
After finding Harumi Setouchi, Kinoshita tearfully tells her regrets and vows never to be confused again.
It is reasonable to say that at this time, Harumi Setouchi is already with Nijiro Koshige, and should reject Kinoshita Othiko. But this was not the case, and Harumi Setouchi accepted Otome Kinoshita's request for peace. At the same time, she was not willing to let go of her current boyfriend, Renjiro.
In this way, Harumi Setouchi took the money of Renjiro Koshina and her own writing fee to support Kinoshita Ninhiko, and Kinoshita Took the money to start a business.
The most amazing thing is that Nijiro Koishimi and Otino Kinoshita know of each other's existence. After the three have a love triangle for a while, Nijiro Ogata chooses to quit. This "long-lasting love" has finally come to an end.
Since then, Harumi Setouchi has been concentrating on being with Kinoshita Ninhiko. When the two were together, Harumi Setouchi was responsible for all the expenses, but she didn't complain at all, and even used it as a kind of fun.
Kinoshita's love affair with Harumi Setouchi originally began at the point of immorality. After eloping, Kinoshita Othiko empathizes again. After many years, knowing that Harumi Setouchi already had a boyfriend (although it was also immoral), he still asked the two to get back together.
It can be seen that Kinoshita Otomi did not have any sense of responsibility and morality, not to mention that he chose to appear when Setouchi Harumi became famous, and it was not necessarily for what.
Therefore, his re-infidelity seems to be exceptionally normal and not surprising at all.
But this time, Harumi Setouchi finally grew a snack. When he found out that this man was holding his own money to make a girl, he directly cut off with him and did not linger.
These three feelings of Harumi Setouchi seem to be very serious in each of them. But in fact, since Harumi Setouchi left her husband, it was like liberating her nature, and she had relations with many men. As Harumi Setouchi once said, "The beauty of love lies in stealing affection." ”
Thinking that this is also the reason, Nijiro Koshige did not react much when he learned of Kinoshita's existence. Perhaps in his opinion, this is just another episode between him and Setouchi Harumi.
However, at this time, Harumi Setouchi, who was betrayed by Kinoshita Ninhiko again, was heartbroken and decided to become a monk.
The flower nun Setouchi listened
Initially, Harumi Setouchi wanted to convert to Catholicism as a nun, but was rejected because her past love history was too rich.
Later, I thought about becoming a nun, but the road was not very smooth. Finally, under the guidance of the monk Higashi-toko, he was ordained with the help of the Tendai Sect and was called "Silent Listening".
After renunciation, Shunting still did not change his old style, he should eat meat and eat meat, and he should drink wine and drink. It is also claimed that as long as the robe is taken off when drinking wine and eating meat, it is not allowed to insult the Buddha.
After taking refuge in Buddhism, Shantideva continued to devote himself to literary creation. In 1992, the book "Asking Flowers" published by Silent Listening won the Tanizaki Junichiro Award, one of the most important awards in the Japanese literary world. This pushed her to another peak in her career.
After this, Heon paused in writing and began translating the famous Japanese literary work The Tale of Genji, striving to translate it into a beautiful but easy-to-understand vernacular. After a full decade of use, Silent Listening finally completed the translation of the Tale of Genji.
This time, she was awarded the National Cultural Medal by Emperor Akihito of Japan.
For this medal, Shanting was also surprised, because she had always been publicly opposed to imperialism and propagated anti-war ideas.
She even said bluntly in public: "I am ashamed of Japan's war of aggression against China, and even feel ashamed of Chinese." ”
In the years when she went to Live in China with her first husband, she saw how the Japanese invaded China and slaughtered Chinese.
Therefore, she was full of disgust for the emperor for war.
Silence has always been out of the ordinary, and ordinary monks are eager to live in the deep mountains and old forests for qing cultivation, but she is different. In his later years, He often put his daily life on the Internet and became a well-known Internet celebrity.
He even serves as a host on TV shows and holds pulpits to promote Buddhism.
When she was a host, she faced the current situation of Japanese society without any mercy, and ridiculed Japanese politicians on her own programs.
After gaining fame and money, Shanting did not lose herself, and she took out her money to do public welfare. During the Iraq War, she used her fame to collect daily necessities and medicines for Iraqis.
In November 2021, 99-year-old Setouchi passed away.
epilogue
Setouchi's life of silence is breathtaking. And her love life is far more than those of us outsiders know.
And the two men who changed Setouchi's lifelong silence had long gone before her. In 1977, three years after hearing of setouchi's renunciation, Nijiro Otoshi died of tongue cancer. Kinoshita Othiko, who had twice betrayed Setouchi, also hanged himself in 1991 because of a failed business.
Although Setouchi has a rich history of love affair, it is undeniable that she is an excellent writer and one of the few people in Japan who is sober-minded.
During Setouchi's life of silence, some people scolded and ridiculed her life chaos, and some people envied her freedom. Setouchi is indeed immoral in a way, but it is also a personal choice, and we cannot evaluate whether her life is right or wrong.
It can only be said that it is these experiences that shape Setouchi listening, without which there would be no Setouchi listening.