Sight and thought!

Sight and thought!

It's been a while since I watched a Hong Kong movie called "Hoshi Gan" with my kids. Cecilia Cheung is in this movie.

It looks like a Hong Kong version of "Ghost," but I like this one better and have seen it several times.

Richie Ren plays the role of the main character who is blind and cannot speak.

In the movie,

I want you to see the world with your mind's eye. I want you to see the world with the eyes of your heart. Everything feels different.

The eyes are deceiving, but the world is beautiful when seen with the heart. The world seen with the heart is beautiful.

These are some of the lines that appear in the film.

This is the part where Richie Ren, the main character, is talking to a radio personality.

People tend to think that because they can see, they can understand.

Perhaps it is because we cannot see that we can understand more.

Without sight, they say, the third eye works. It is said that the eye of the mind works.

Perhaps we can see things (essence) that we cannot see.

Because we can see, first impressions are created.

Because we can see, we look at things with prejudiced colored glasses.

My parents used to tell me, "If you watch TV all the time, you will become an idiot.

I used to think that they were saying that because I would have less time to study, but now that I think about it more, I realize that television is a visual experience that jumps into your brain.

There is no time to think, and the visual is forcefully implanted in the brain without telling you whether you have time to think or not.

I certainly don't have much time to think while watching TV. We are just forcibly feeding images into our brains.

There is no time to use our imagination.

When you are reading a book, your brain can imagine various scenes and scenes from the printed text.

When we see a bright red sunset, we imagine its color, and when we see an ocean bluer and deeper than indigo, we imagine such an image.

If you write a document about an Asian landscape, a thousand people will have a thousand different images.

I think this imagination is important.

We humans are either asleep or awake during our lives.

In McKinsey's terms, this is MECE (no omissions, no duplicates).

When we are asleep, our vision is not working almost 100% of the time. No thought is active.

When we are awake, our vision is working almost 100% of the time. Thinking is also active.

It is impossible to use sight and thought while sleeping, but it is possible to use thought while awake without using sight.

It is meditation.

However, no one meditates on a daily basis.

When you eliminate everything that comes to your eyes and sharpen your thoughts, you may see things, thoughts, and ideas that are different from what you see before.

I often close my eyes during meetings and listen to what is being said. This is because my thoughts are sharpened.

I can see the essence of what is being said.

When I am overseas, I think that when I cannot communicate in a foreign language, I try hard to convey my feelings, which sometimes results in a better understanding of the message.

Even in Japan, there are times when people do not communicate even though they understand 100% of the Japanese.

Hmmm. Deep.

In the end, neither sight nor words can convey the essence of feelings by themselves, right?

In an anime called "Gundam," there was a character called "Newtype.

I think it was about a new type of race with selected characteristics and abilities.

In Japan, the word "reading between the lines," "ishin-denshin," and reading people's thoughts and hearts are considered virtues.

However, in the business world, working with people from overseas, we cannot say such things.

Words, vision, and what is expressed are all that matters. We are judged and evaluated accordingly.

Wabi-sabi. Japanese traditional culture.

Recently, I sometimes wonder if this is the "new type" of the world.

A characteristic ability given to the Japanese. Japanese = New Type.

A "way to convey the essence" that is one step higher than before. Communicate not by form (sight, words), but by feelings.

Japanese people are not to be discarded when you think of it that way.

I want to cherish it. The heart of Japan. Japanese culture.

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