The Elderly
Amida ( 阿弥陀仏 ) coming over the Mountain The Elderly | Tuesday – March 17, 2026 T he elderly, truly the survivors of the material order , lack a proper place in the modern world, as the contemporary view based on principles of "sound" finance, view the elderly as a burden – a true disgrace. Of course, this is just one among many other disgraces in the modern world, but this disgrace in particular may be something that causes greater harm to the material order than many other deviations. It is the case, of course, that the elderly have much wisdom and knowledge of another world to share, but in the course of industrial development, sacred wisdom and ancient knowledge was simply brushed aside, and today whatever may be left of this knowledge is misunderstood and treated as fantasies. This general mistreatment of the elderly is of course understandable, since nothing the elderly can offer to the world can help to bring the material refinement to a closer and more perfe...