In the U.S., coronavirus, which had once been under control, have started to increase cases again.<\/p>\n
I’m glad that Japan was able to hold the Olympics even under these circumstances.<\/p>\n
On a personal page,<\/p>\n
Recently, I went to a charity event called 1dayLA.<\/p>\n
If you volunteer at a high school or pre-school for about 3 hours, you can get a free ticket to a concert.<\/p>\n
I attended a concert at a big new stadium featuring Justin Bieber, Jaden Smith and other great artists.<\/p>\n
This event was religious related and believing the Jesus that one way to change your life.\u00a0 Justin Bieber who is a famous artist, he also believes about Jesus and that he changed him.<\/p>\n
Many of my friends are Christians, so they often invite me to church on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
I’ve been to a couple of barbecues, and I find that everyone is so nice that it kind of a bit scares me.<\/p>\n
My first impression is that most of them are calm and peaceful.<\/p>\n
At the end of the event, there was a speech by the organizer, and there were enthusiastic Christians and also a big funs of Justin were,,,.<\/p>\n
They were crying.<\/p>\n
They were crying and loudly agreeing with every word he said.<\/p>\n
For the first time in a long time, I was reminded of the cultural differences between religions and countries.<\/p>\n
I felt like I am a foreigner for it had been to a long time.<\/p>\n
Even though I was familiar with the language and life in America, I found it difficult to understand deeply just because of the differences in faith.<\/p>\n
At the event, we held up “love” and “Freedom”.<\/p>\n
And said that we need to all help each other because of the situation. The speeches were wonderful.<\/p>\n
It was a very pleasant event,<\/p>\n
However, most of the people at the event were not wearing masks, and there was a gap between what they were saying and what the people were doing.<\/p>\n
The gap made me feel confused and unsure of what was love and helping each other.<\/p>\n
When I asked my Christian friends, they said that there are no Christian leaders who wear masks because it is against their religion to do so.<\/p>\n
My initial opinion was that wearing a mask is a way to prevent the spread of infection, and for those who have not been vaccinated, the act of not wearing a mask is itself an act that is far from love and helping each other.<\/p>\n
But,<\/p>\n
What I learned is that there are many ways to think.<\/p>\n
Death is not a bad thing, death is eternal life, and if we have completely different ideas about death, I can understand why we don’t care whether we wear a mask or not.<\/p>\n
As a result, what I’m trying to say is…<\/p>\n
It is necessary to have an accepting heart and to understand.<\/p>\n
I found myself assuming that they were not very trustworthy, even though I haven’t tried to know them.<\/p>\n
By participating in this event, I realized that I was becoming more and more close-minded, and that I was building walls and assuming they were different people because of their different beliefs and thoughts.<\/p>\n
In many cases,<\/p>\n
Can I really know that fact for myself without experiencing or acting on it?<\/p>\n
Relationships,<\/p>\n
Friends,<\/p>\n
Family,<\/p>\n
Religion,<\/p>\n
All of them need to be acted upon.<\/p>\n
Through this event, I realized how small-minded I am and how I have been assuming that I am a different person because I think differently.<\/p>\n
I used a topic of the masks as my subject.<\/p>\n
What you really need to do is acting, and have experience to really know who they are and the difference between I and them.<\/p>\n
When I first came to the U.S., I was very open-minded to talking anyone.<\/p>\n
Before coming to the U.S., I had traveled to many countries such as India and Malaysia and had a great experience, so I thought the world was one.<\/p>\n
After I started living in deferent contrives, I had a lot of experiences that made me misunderstanding and lose trust in many people, and I was completely shut out of the world.<\/p>\n
Most of the time, it’s me who judges things and people and creates barriers between myself and others.<\/p>\n
That is way this is my fixed mindset, and it always gets in the way of having fun.<\/p>\n
But maybe that’s just I needed to know.<\/p>\n
In the past, I had no thoughts of my own and I don’t care who I am so, I could only live by conforming to others.<\/p>\n
If I have no thoughts of my own, how can I understand the thoughts and things of others?<\/p>\n
If I don’t have any thoughts of my own, I will live posseting on many things, like\u00a0religion and a partner.<\/p>\n
And when we are betrayed by others, we retreat into our shells out of fear because we ‘don’t have ourselves’ or ‘don’t know ourselves’.<\/p>\n
So,<\/p>\n
At this event, I found it kind of feeling strange to me that I had been so adamant about refusing who not wear a mask, or the mesa on Sunday without even knowing about what is it.<\/p>\n
I had been living my life in a defensive posture, building walls.<\/p>\n
Building walls and turning away from the act of trusting, and testing people’s mind from the beginning, which was making me untrusty and of course I couldn’t trust them.<\/p>\n
I don’t think I would have felt this way if I had known about the Christian approach to death from the beginning.<\/p>\n
Learning about myself and others one by one in this way is very enjoyable, and one of the things I am glad that I came abroad for.<\/p>\n
In the past, I remember being taught in Japan that religion is very controlling and dangerous because of Aum Shinriky\u014d, Islamic extremism, etc., so I didn’t have a good image of the word “religion”.<\/p>\n
After accepting that idea as well,<\/p>\n
I’m going to try to show up at the mesa that my friend is inviting me.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Zen Jin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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