Taiyo Okamoto

Returning to the Nature / The Last Episode

Returning to the Nature / The Last Episode

I was able to pursue "myself" and spent a quite precious time throughout this year. In a way, it was the most important time in my life so far. More and more I was able to return to the nature of myself. I wasn't good originally at criticizing someone or something. I wasn't good at hating somebody. By stopping striving and unnatural things, my days have become much more peaceful. When we stop the unnaturalness, only our true nature remains. Therefore it is retuning to the cor

Life is Not a Battle

Life is Not a Battle

I don't watch or read the news now. I've found that I don't need that old behavior of mine any more. However, while texting with a friend I received "Everybody is having a tough time. That mayor is a fool," even though I did not ask anything. Spitting out negative emotions to others by getting into the stories and dramas presented by TV or internet news. I was doing the same before but now that way of interacting doesn't fit me anymore. The introduction has become long, but t

It's the Time to Surface

It's the Time to Surface

Especially now, I feel that I've been able to pursue more than ever "Why I'm here now." I'm grateful. I received a message "Renting the body" the day before yesterday. It means that this carbon-based body belongs to the earth. We, who are born consciousness, borrow a body born from the earth. And that we are borrowing means that the return date will come someday. I thought, I see. If we have a sense of borrowing the body, we become more conscious of how to use this limited ti

Rain is a Blessing

Rain is a Blessing

It was raining on Friday and Saturday this week. So when I talked to people on those days, I heard something like "It's raining but fortunately I can..." Because we have an image that rain is not a good thing or something inconvenient. Actually, there was a fire in my neighborhood Friday night. Many fire trucks and police cars came but the fire stopped before it became a big trouble. "Rain is a blessing" indeed. There are cases that rain helps us. But in this contemporary soc

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