“All_ Nothing_ All ” 色即是空

Talking with Spanish people, sometimes I am told that "Japanese are childish ".

Perhaps they are guessing it from Japanese anime and manga culture.

At such times, feeling offended, I become immediately an petite patriot.

But is it really embarrassing to be "childish ''?

The children give directly their emotions in an innocent manner.

That is because they are not regulated by common sense, preconceptions, and stereotypes.

Picasso said, "It took me a long time to become a child."

He could turn the emotion into action, because he was in contact with the world with clear eyes and vivid sensibilities like a child, .

Also, being honest and flexible is important for learning something.

In history Japan could change and grow into a modern nation because of having had honest and humble feeling of learning culture and technology from China and Europe.

As we grow up, the accumulated experience and memory make the ego, which determines our standards of behavior.

To protect the ego firmly, we become too stubborn, too arrogant to learn.

Furthermore, being afraid of failure, so we try to avoid as much shame as possible.

It's the same as you don't dare to dance because afraid to fall.

Shame is just an unpleasant feeling about one's ugly appearance reflected in others.

If you are self-established and are convinced that you are doing the right thing, you won't care anything even if someone else laughs at you.

When someone starts something new, the people around laugh at that person at any rate. Once upon a time, Noah was laughed at by people when he built a big “ark” where there was no sea.

Anyway, the kids are crazy about what they are doing at the time, so they don't care absolutely about the surroundings.

“Dance!”