Beyond “We Won’t Know Until We Die, LOL.”

The Ultimate Threat, Wrapped in Kindness, Built into the Cosmic OS — Applying the Flexibility of Upāya: “方便のための方便”

To English-Speaking Readers

This story was originally written in Japanese, through the eyes of a Japanese stonemason.

I have deliberately kept its ambiguity, humor, rough edges, and occasional absurdity as intact as possible in English.

Because they, too, are part of the story.

And one small warning:

This is long. Very long. LOL.

If you have the time, I recommend reading it on a PC monitor rather than on a smartphone.

Now, let’s begin.

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Over the previous nine chapters, I have reconsidered the afterlife and the meaning of graves from the perspective of quantum information science.

I have argued that the theory of reincarnation within 49 days can be understood as a reorganization of information, and that a grave can be seen as a dedicated base station—an interface—for synchronizing with the deceased person’s “Super Copy (ION®),” which remains permanently present in the Cosmic Cloud, or ZPF: the Zero-Point Field.

All of this is nothing more than the logic of what I call the “Super Copy Upāya”—a skillful means for redefining our increasingly confused modern views of life and death.

But when we turn our attention to actual traditional Buddhist practice, one enormous question remains.

When religious practitioners speak about graves and what happens after death, their explanations often contain a fair amount of ambiguity—and even apparent contradiction.

They speak of reincarnation, while at the same time suggesting that the deceased remains permanently present in the Pure Land.

So what exactly is the intention behind this?

In this chapter, I would like to strip away the veil of metaphor and carefully reveal the entire structure beneath it.

That said, this chapter is where all the foreshadowing from the previous chapters comes home to roost.

So naturally, you’ll have to accept that it’s going to be long. LOL.

Therefore, as the absolute limit of how far I am willing to accommodate your determination to keep reading, let me first show you the hierarchy of themes we are about to travel through.

Death
↓
Reincarnation
↓
The Pure Land
↓
Wait… what?
↓
Upāya — Skillful Means
↓
Salvation
↓
Prayer
↓
Dedication of Merit
↓
The Six Pāramitās
↓
Non-Duality of Self and Other
↓
Oneness
↓
The Grave
↓
So… where do you think we’re going to land? LOL

Now, on to the main story.

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■ The Fate of the “Original” and the 49-Day Deadline in Japanese Funeral Culture

Why does Buddhist doctrine go out of its way to teach that a person is reincarnated into the next life within 49 days after death?

Suppose the “Original”—the entity still carrying all the attachments and regrets accumulated during life—were allowed to remain indefinitely in the physical world.

The system of this world would bug out.

Total signal interference.

But exactly how this Original transitions from one state to another is not something ordinary people like us can clearly observe in every detail.

And there is a very good reason for that.

Behind the scenes, a strict system is operating with a deadline of 49 days, forcibly separating the ego from what comes next.

Without this process, if the Original simply wandered around indefinitely in this world without going anywhere in particular, we would be left with nothing more than occult stories about “ghosts” and “unfinished business.”

And graves would become nothing more than haunted houses.

The cosmic purification system that prevents this is precisely what the 49-day transition period represents.

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■ The Historical Precedent of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism — And the True Nature of Upāya

Before anything else, we must remember one historical fact about the Pure Land that so many of us now take for granted as a spiritual refuge:

The Pure Land itself can be understood as a historical Chinese “Super Copy Upāya.”

The spark that originated in India—the sutras—was adapted to the brutal realities of Chinese society during periods of upheaval.

Masters such as Shandao in the Tang dynasty dramatically localized and remixed that system.

Instead of relying on difficult contemplative practices carried out inside the mind, they transformed it into the ultimate easy-to-use OS:

Simply recite “Namu Amida Butsu” aloud.

This is nembutsu—the recitation of Amitābha Buddha’s name.

Then, in medieval Japan during the Kamakura period, Hōnen and Shinran further refined that system to suit the land and people in which they lived, eventually developing the radical logic of absolute Other Power.

In other words, Buddhism has always formulated the appropriate medicine—Upāya (方便 / Hōben, “Skillful Means”)—for the people and conditions of each particular age.

That itself is part of the Buddhist tradition.

Put simply, Buddhism—and perhaps religion itself—is about salvation of the human heart within the ordinary life of its time.

That may be all that really needs to be said.

If I were to add just a little more:

Religion may be—

gratitude and salvation, and something that gives meaning and a place to those things human beings cannot carry by themselves.

In ordinary times, it teaches gratitude.

In suffering, it offers salvation.

To death and absurdity, it gives meaning.

It brings people back from isolation into connection.

And it has implemented these things in everyday human life through the forms of prayer and ritual.

If so, perhaps religion was never fundamentally about endlessly arguing over complicated theories.

Perhaps it was an Upāya for living alongside things that human beings cannot overcome by their own power alone.

And if we follow that “connection” far enough, we eventually arrive at something I will return to later:

Jita Ichinyo (自他一如) — the non-duality of self and other — what we might call “Oneness” in contemporary terms.

…but we’ll leave it there for now.

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■ Wave–Particle Duality, the Super Copy Theory, and the One Line Connecting Them to the ZPF Hypothesis

Here, as this column moves toward its conclusion, I would like to borrow one important concept from physics.

That concept is wave–particle duality in quantum mechanics.

In the quantum world, the particles that make up all matter—including us human beings—possess both particle-like and wave-like properties.

Quantum mechanics has confirmed phenomena that seem deeply strange from the perspective of our everyday experience—for example, physical quantities such as “where something is” becoming definite through observation.

Now then.

From this point onward, I am going to boldly extend the quantum world into our everyday world as my own form of Upāya—a skillful means.

I do this because I think it makes the idea much easier to visualize.

So, imagine that beyond the limits of your field of vision, an indescribable “wave” spreads out—and the instant you turn around and “observe” it, that wave becomes a “particle” and rematerializes before you.

Let us simply imagine that this is so.

This is one example of what happens under the logic of the “It Simply Is” Theory introduced in an earlier chapter.

And when we look at wave–particle duality through the lens of this “expanded-interpretation Upāya,” my own Super Copy Theory and Hiroshi Tasaka’s ZPF (Zero-Point Field) hypothesis begin to appear strangely and beautifully connected by a single line.

When a person dies, cremation decisively separates the “particle”—the physical body—from the “wave”—information.

The person returns to the Pure Land, or ZPF, carrying with them the “wave” of how they lived and what they remembered.

—It simply is.

This is the Original soul itself.

Eventually, after the 49-day judgment, the memories and life-history of the Original are completely erased, and it reincarnates into the next stage—a new physical existence.

At the same time, however, the record of that person’s pure love and way of life—the “information” they left behind in this world—spreads gently throughout cosmic space, the ZPF or Cosmic Cloud, as an energetic “wave.”

This vast body of “wave-data” is what I call the Super Copy.

And when we stand before the physical hardware of a gravestone rooted in the earth, consciously focus upon the deceased, and “observe” them—

the “wave” that had spread throughout the Cosmic Cloud once again forms, upon the screen of our minds, the definite image of a “particle.”

We remember their face.

We remember their voice.

We remember the time we spent together.

And sometimes, we speak to them.

The physical “Original” is no longer there.

But the “information” that person left behind in this world once again appears within us as a definite presence.

—It simply is.

Seen through this lens of Upāya, the concept of wave–particle duality that we borrowed from science and the view of life and death that human beings have carried for generations begin to appear beautifully connected by a single line.

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■ Permanent Presence in the Pure Land — The True Final Destination

If the theory of reincarnation is a warning wrapped in kindness telling those of us still alive:

“Live properly.”

Then permanent presence in the Pure Land is the true final destination that we users should seek.

At this point, an obvious objection arises:

“How can someone attain liberation if they haven’t even reached sa-upādisesa-nibbāna—awakening while still alive?”

The answer is very simple.

We cannot do it while remaining trapped inside the muddy ego we carried during life.

But when death arrives, the Cosmic Cloud forcibly optimizes the data for us—liberation, Buddhahood.

The Original, its information erased, moves once again into the material world.

Meanwhile, the purified wave-data—the Super Copy—is automatically incorporated into permanent residence in the Pure Land, the ZPF.

We will return to this in greater detail later.

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■ Transcending the Grave: Dedication of Merit and the Six Pāramitās as a Practical OS

Now then.

Some of you may have encountered a few unfamiliar words throughout these chapters and thought:

“Non-duality of self and other? Oneness? Come on—is this just another spiritual poem in the end? LOL.”

Fair enough.

But wait.

In fact, we Japanese have been repeatedly reciting something very close to the idea that self and other are not completely separate existences for a very long time—inside Buddhist ritual itself.

Many Japanese readers will have heard these lines at memorial services:

Gan ni shi kudoku
Fugyū o issai
Gatō yo shujō
Kaigu jō butsudō

願以此功徳
普及於一切
我等与衆生
皆共成仏道

This is a traditional verse for the dedication of merit.

Put extremely simply, it is a prayer that says:

“May I not keep this merit for myself. May it extend to all beings, so that we and all living beings may walk the path to Buddhahood together.”

What matters here is not difficult Buddhist scholarship.

It is not:

“As long as I am saved, that’s enough.”

The merit we accumulate does not stop with ourselves.

We open it outward—

to others,
to the dead,
to those connected with us,
and ultimately to all beings.

I pray.

But I do not lock that prayer inside myself.

I pass it outward.

And finally, “we” and “all sentient beings” become:

“all together.”

That is ekō—the dedication or transference of merit.

And when you think about it, this is precisely what Japanese people have unknowingly been implementing through rituals such as funerals, memorial services, and visits to graves.

Earlier I wrote that religion:

teaches gratitude in ordinary times,
offers salvation in suffering,
gives meaning to death and absurdity,
returns people from isolation to connection,
and implements all of this in everyday life through prayer and ritual.

So what does that “implementation” actually look like?

One answer is:

the dedication of merit.

Rather than locking ourselves inside our own grief, we think of the dead.

We think of others.

We think of our ancestors.

And little by little, the boundary between ourselves and others begins to loosen.

Seen from that perspective,

Jita Ichinyo = Oneness

is not some suspicious concept that suddenly fell out of the far reaches of outer space. LOL.

Perhaps we have been standing at its entrance all along, through prayer and ritual.

You do not need the modern word “Oneness.”

You do not even need to know the difficult Buddhist term Jita Ichinyo.

At the end of a memorial service, simply recite:

Gatō yo shujō — Kaigu jō butsudō.

We and all sentient beings—together, may we attain the Buddha Way.

Even that alone takes us at least one step outside the world of:

“As long as I’m okay, nothing else matters.”

But prayer must not end as prayer alone.

The OS for implementing that prayer as concrete action in this life is the Six Pāramitās.

That is why we need this ultimate practical manual that can be applied to everyday behavior:

Dāna — Giving
Pass your resources to others through altruism.

Śīla — Ethical Conduct
Control your ego and the noise of your smartphone-addled brain.

Kṣānti — Patience / Forbearance
Accept absurd reality and attacks from others from the perspective of Oneness—as events taking place upon the same ground.

Vīrya — Diligence / Effort
Keep making the messy, unglamorous effort required to increase the density of life in this very moment.

Dhyāna — Meditative Concentration
Shut out external noise and clear the memory of the brain.

Prajñā — Wisdom
Through all of the above, suddenly realize:

“Ah. Other people and I are standing on the same continuous ground.”

That is the system specification of this world.

In other words:

It is not enough merely to pray.

Nor is it enough merely to act.

Prayer opens the heart beyond oneself.

The Six Pāramitās translate that opening into action in the real world.

And through repeating that process, a realization begins to emerge:

“Are other people and I really as completely separate as I thought?”

Ancient Buddhists expressed this as Jita Ichinyo—the non-duality of self and other.

In contemporary language, we might call it Oneness.

So no, this is not some flower-field emotional poem saying:

“We’re all one ♡.” LOL.

There is a logic to it:

Prayer
→ Dedication of Merit
→ Action
→ Six Pāramitās
→ Realization
→ Non-Duality of Self and Other

There is a structure.

And repeatedly running these six actions in everyday life is the ultimate form of doping—a survival strategy—that allows us, while still alive, to log directly into the Cosmic Cloud (the Pure Land) and raise the purity of our Super Copy to its maximum possible level.

It is an action that brings us closer to awakening while still alive.

And the system keeps sounding its warning—its update notification—to human beings in this world:

“If you don’t practice these Six Pāramitās while you’re alive, the time-performance and cost-performance of this life are going to be absolutely terrible: welcome to the hell of cycling through the Six Realms.”

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■ The Judgment of the Ten Kings = A Six Pāramitās System Audit

People casually speak of “the 49th day” as if it were merely another date on the memorial-service calendar.

But its essence is something else entirely.

This is the period called chūin—the intermediate state in which the deceased undergoes judgment before the next destination is determined.

Traditionally, this is described through the judgments of the Ten Kings.

But for modern people, it may be much easier to understand if we call it:

a Six Pāramitās system audit—log analysis.

The court after death is not simply a terrifying mechanism of punishment.

It is a data analysis of how much altruistic code you managed to implement during your life.

And for the shallow realist who reads three lines and immediately complains:

“Hey! There are only seven judges!”

Allow me to explain. LOL.

The 49th day is not the finish line.

It is merely a checkpoint in the first half of the system audit.

Seven judges preside over the intermediate state, followed later by another three auditors.

Only when all ten are counted do we get the complete system specification known as the Ten Kings.

First Half: The Seven Auditors of the Intermediate State

Shinkō-ō — 7th day
→ Audit of Giving and Ethical Conduct

Did you avoid harming other lives for the sake of your ego, and were you able to pass your own resources toward altruistic purposes?

Shokō-ō — 14th day
→ Audit of Ethical Conduct

Theft is examined. Did you maintain the discipline required to live without invading the territory of others?

Sōtei-ō — 21st day
→ Audit of Ethical Conduct and Patience

Immoral sexual conduct is examined. Could you control the noise of your own desires and endure friction without being ruled by them?

Gokan-ō — 28th day
→ Audit of Wisdom and Meditation

Lies are examined. A karmic scale measures the weight of your altruism during life in one shot.

Enma-ō — 35th day
→ Final Login to Non-Duality of Self and Other

The most famous King.

Your actions during life are reflected in the Jōhari Mirror, confronting you with this:

“Every kindness and every malice you directed toward others ultimately returns to you.”

It forces recognition that the world is continuous—that self and other are not truly isolated.

Henjō-ō — 42nd day
→ Re-audit of Diligence

Based on all previous logs, your case is reviewed again to see whether the next stage can be improved even slightly.

Taizan-ō — 49th day
→ Checkpoint in the System Audit

This is the final court of the intermediate state.

Here, the destination among the Six Realms is selected and the data is temporarily packaged for reincarnation.

But the audit is not yet over.

Second Half: Three Additional Judges

Byōdō-ō — 100th day
→ Synchronization Check of the Family’s Memorial Merit

This audit occurs as the grief of the surviving family begins transforming into altruistic action.

Toshi-ō — First Anniversary
→ Audit of the Stabilization of the Data Trail

One year after death, as the Original adapts to a new life, the system measures whether the Super Copy has properly taken root in the world left behind.

Godō Tenrin-ō — Third-Year Memorial

→ Completion Notice for the Entire System Audit

Two full years after death, log analysis by all ten auditors is completed.

The data reaches its final, immutable status.

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■ The Cosmic Specification of Kindness: Reincarnation and Permanent Presence at the Same Time

We now have two things:

1. You reincarnate into one of the Six Realms.

and

2. Without exception, you remain permanently present in the Pure Land.

How can this enormous kindness allow both to be true simultaneously?

Borrowing the language of quantum mechanics, we can describe it as:

the multiple existence of data—a multitasking state—depending on the perspective of the observer: the surviving family or the person who died.

This is the ultimate specification of kindness built into the Cosmic OS:

apparently contradictory, yet not contradictory.

Let’s unpack it completely.

First, from the perspective of the energy-trail of the deceased—the Original—it reincarnates according to causality as a particle clothed in waves.

1. Reincarnation — and the Two Fears That Come With It

Fear No. 1: You Don’t Know Where You’re Going

There are six possible destinations.

The Three Lower Realms:

Hell,
Hungry Ghosts,
Animals.

And the Three Higher Realms:

Asuras,
Humans,
Heavenly Beings.

What if you end up in one of the Three Lower Realms…?

Well, you’ll still only be able to sleep at night. LOL.

Fear No. 2: You Get Shackled Before Reincarnation

Here is the important part.

Your entire life-history is erased.

But before reincarnation is completed, the definitions of the Six Pāramitās, wrapped in layer upon layer of invisible oblaat, are forcibly incorporated into you as shackles.

Until the instant before reincarnation, you understand that they are there.

The moment reincarnation occurs, you become incapable of recognizing them.

Terrifying.

And annoyingly clever.

Why?

Because in your next life, you must activate altruistic action—the practice of the Six Pāramitās—by your own power.

If you go through life without realizing this, you become exactly the kind of cost-performance/time-performance obsessive who cannot understand the old Japanese saying:

“The Sun is watching you.”

And there is another important system.

When you notice the shackles and act accordingly, the layers of oblaat gradually peel away and the shackles become lighter.

Fail to notice them, and the wrapping grows thicker.

That terrifying logic is called:

life.

Whether you noticed or failed to notice therefore has a major effect upon the audit carried out by the Ten Kings.

If you notice, you may begin making the effort to overcome suffering through the reversal:

“Maybe I can learn to enjoy overcoming this.”

If you do not notice, your life becomes one long exercise in escape.

Wrap enough layers around the legs of someone like that and they become so thick you’d think:

“What the hell is this—an oblaat-wrapped boneless ham? LOL.”

Their lack of effort is visible from space.

Careful.

You might get express-shipped into one of the Three Lower Realms before the first seven-day memorial even arrives.

But don’t worry.

The Original soul is still guaranteed to attain liberation and merge with the Pure Land.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call:

ultimate kindness.

So:

If you notice, you can change yourself.

Now then…

How thick is the oblaat wrapped around you right now?

(￣ー￣)ﾆﾔﾘ

← What an unpleasant guy. LOL.

2. The Main Route: Permanent Presence in the Pure Land — Without Exception

As explained earlier, the Cosmic Cloud legally skips the requirement of achieving awakening while alive through the practice of the Six Pāramitās.

It forcibly optimizes the Super Copy data and guides it toward nirvāṇa without remainder—complete liberation and Buddhahood, ultimate stillness.

Therefore, when those left behind think of the deceased through the router that is the gravestone, the essential presence of that person—the Super Copy—exists beyond space and time as an infinite wave spread throughout space.

It remains in the Pure Land.

100%. No exceptions.

This beautiful parallel processing is the true salvation mechanism prepared by the cosmos.

It is the default setting.

And this is the ultimate expression of the “It Simply Is” Theory, as well as an expression of the particular gentleness found within Japanese spirituality.

But when attachment to this physical world becomes too strong, the Original fails to recognize the Cosmic Cloud’s default setting of enormous kindness.

The result is an intentional miscopy by the Cosmic Cloud:

ghosts, spirits, apparitions.

But perhaps even this miscopy is fully understood by the Cosmic Cloud.

Why?

Because it deliberately shows those of us still alive an example:

“This is what happens when you refuse to live honestly and refuse to accept death honestly.”

The Cosmic Cloud therefore understands both the material world—the world in which we live now—and the spiritual world after death far more completely than we imagine.

It wants, almost desperately, to guide us toward happiness.

This is the absolute reason behind the ultimate form of:

“It Simply Is.”

At some point, all you can do is accept it.

There is no answer beyond it.

This resembles dark matter floating throughout the universe.

Modern science cannot see dark matter directly, and much about its nature remains uncertain.

Yet without the unseen gravitational effects attributed to it, the large-scale structure of the universe as we understand it could not be explained.

Likewise:

“Perhaps we cannot scientifically prove it. But because the universe of our connection with those we love would collapse without it, we pray: ‘It is so. And I hope it is so.’”

The instant that intention—born of kindness—is observed before a grave, the uncertain “wave” of the deceased becomes 100% real upon the screen of your mind.

It is projected and fixed as a “particle”:

the memories of when that person still had a body.

Once you understand this, there is no uncertainty at the grave.

Because beneath that stone lies an anchor with enormous physical certainty:

the remains of the deceased.

Boom.

If some uncertain spiritual phenomenon were to occur, perhaps it would be because the deceased remained so strongly attached to this world that they could not accept the Buddhist priest’s final guidance at the funeral.

The result would be a miscopied wave—the soul—generated before reincarnation and left floating in this world.

Only when the wavelength of that soul synchronizes with your own does it rematerialize as a ghost upon the screen of your mind.

Therefore, a funeral is a ritual that simultaneously organizes the heart of the person doing the sending and the heart of the person being sent, with the help of a religious practitioner—a Buddhist priest.

It is salvation for everyone on both sides:

this world and the next.

The funeral may therefore be one of the clearest examples of what religion actually does.

It is both:

a funeral as part of ordinary human life

and

the simultaneous salvation of the hearts of the living and the dead.

For that reason, the Japanese expression “funeral Buddhism” should perhaps not be used mockingly.

Now that you understand the reasoning above, shouldn’t it instead be understood as something worth affirming?

If you choose a funeral solely through your own concept of “cost,” perhaps neither you nor the deceased is truly saved.

And that lack of salvation may also impose enormous emptiness and trouble upon those connected to you on the other side of your Oneness.

Please notice that possibility.

Likewise, inviting a Buddhist priest to conduct a funeral is not simply a “cost.”

Alongside grief, it creates something beyond money:

the sense of completion and satisfaction that comes from knowing, in your own heart, that you properly saw the deceased off.

And this, too, is an experience.

One that happens in this life.

And only a limited number of times.

So this experience, too, can make the oblaat shackles of the Six Pāramitās lighter—or heavier.

That’s how it works.

If someone has the financial means but says:

“Paying a priest is a waste of money. I don’t need a grave either.”

I call that person:

a loveless cheapskate.

…just saying. LOL.

I don’t know, though.

But after learning this much about the workings of the universe, suppose you live all the way to death while proudly maintaining the operating principle of the loveless cheapskate.

What happens when you die?

And furthermore…

You don’t even have to die.

If someone who has read this far has honestly understood it and awakened to the idea, that person may instantly see straight through your reasoning.

And the person who ends up embarrassed may be you.

Probably…

…I don’t know, though. LOL.

And if you have just realized that you may have been a “loveless cheapskate,” the method for saving yourself independently is written below as well.

If you still cannot understand it, then rather than waiting for the Ten Kings to judge us, why don’t you and I—me, the guy who mistakenly thinks he has achieved some strange enlightenment—just reincarnate together before the first seven-day memorial?

Don’t worry.

Our Super Copies will remain permanently present in the Pure Land, so the families we leave behind can put their hands together in prayer with complete peace of mind.

See?

Once I write it this far, it becomes easy to understand!

…I don’t know, though. LOL.

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■ Maybe the Answer Was in the Fourth Line All Along

I have written an absurd amount by this point.

But perhaps Japanese Buddhism has been reciting this entire logic for centuries in just four lines.

And perhaps the most important part was waiting in the fourth.

願以此功徳
普及於一切
我等与衆生
皆共成仏道

Gan ni shi kudoku
Fugyū o issai
Gatō yo shujō
Kaigu jō butsudō

From me toward all.

From us toward all sentient beings.

And then, in the fourth line:

all together.

To recognize, while we are still alive and through the practice of the Six Pāramitās, the supreme Buddhist code—wisdom—embedded in this continuous world, this universe:

Jita Ichinyo (自他一如) — the non-duality of self and other — what we might call “Oneness” in contemporary terms.

The grave is a solid antenna that allows us to remember that unchanging connection whenever we need to.

Reincarnation is a compassionate warning directed toward the living.

Permanent presence in the Pure Land—Dainichi Nyorai, the ZPF—is the unwavering cosmic default that embraces everything.

Even without consciously knowing all of this, Japanese spirituality has endured by recognizing these things simply as:

“It is so.”

This is not a childish question of whether the interpretation is “correct” or “incorrect.”

Think of the old Japanese television series Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi—animated folktales from old Japan.

Many of those stories did not end by fact-checking everything that happened and declaring:

“And therefore everything was objectively verified. The end!”

Had those stories instead ended by carefully explaining something like the Super Copy Theory, perhaps the Japan of 2026 would be even more crowded with people endlessly debating Yogācāra philosophy.

What a boring place that would be.

Perhaps, then, the invisible world can be described in another way:

It cultivates the hearts of those who are alive now.

In other words:

morality.

And perhaps that is the true nature of the salvation that religion has carried through the centuries.

Therefore, I believe we should affirm a way of living that says:

Under Oneness, death does not exist—and the afterlife does.

You do not have to go around announcing that belief to everyone.

Simply allow it to remain—quietly, flexibly, almost secretly—inside your own heart.

Perhaps that is the vitamin the heart needs in order to:

live all the way to death without fearing death.

I pray that graves can serve as a tool for exactly that purpose.

And with that prayer, let us bring this long-running series of columns to a temporary close.

But…

I’m not finished yet.

(￣ー￣)ﾆﾔﾘ

What? You still don’t get it?

What are we supposed to do now, Buddha…?

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■ With a New OS, Would You Like to Design a Form of Prayer Unique to You and Your Family?

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Perhaps you feel:

“Something about the way we conduct memorial practices today feels bugged.”

Or:

“I want to discuss what a genuinely meaningful grave might look like, based on independent thought rather than convention.”

If so, please feel free to contact us.

Think of it as an opportunity to update the OS inside your own head.

We will do everything we can to support the first step toward making your own life OS shine.

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The original story, written expressions, and original concepts concerning views on life and death presented in this column—including “Super Copy Upāya (スーパーコピー方便),” “Psychoframe Gravestone Theory (サイコフレーム墓石論),” the “Higher-Dimensional ‘Sō de Aru’ Theory (高次元の「そうである」理論),” and related derivative expressions and concepts—are original works of Kono Sekizaiten Co., Ltd. (Representative: Makoto Kono) and are protected by applicable copyright law.

Any temple, company, organization, or other party wishing to officially reproduce, adapt, use, or implement this Propagation OS (theory) in brochures, websites, seminars, or other materials must obtain prior authorization from us under a formal licensing agreement.

Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, modification, or reuse of copyrighted material may be subject to legal action for infringement of intellectual property rights.

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