In your daily life, when you feel stress, anxiety or loneliness, do you perhaps judge problems and situations as “you” versus “the world,” “you” versus “the problem,” or “you” versus “that person,” thereby separating yourself from everything else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you become aware of that and pause to observe the situation more closely, what might you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are your tense hands not touching a glass full of water that has just started to be poured?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t the noises of cars and pedestrians on your commute reach your ears?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding the sagging seat of your chair at home, what kind of shoes are embracing your feet in the winter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you noticed that the chair at home has begun to creak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you lower your gaze and look carefully, you will realize that you are receiving innumerable sensations, sounds, visuals, tastes and smells through countless things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And those things, like you, have an identity with 3 selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They carry memories, replay them over and over, and experience problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything you encounter through things shares memories with you and at the same time longs to be free from memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From there, when you once again encounter the chair, sofa or seat you are sitting on now, when you look at the smartphone you are touching, perhaps the cleaning has already begun at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n