Saturday 21 March 2015

The challenge for the Japanese people (Japan, 4)


I believe You are having another blog about Japan?

The Japanese people has heart for the surroundings, for the beauty of nature, has an eye for beauty itself, and has great respect for the other.
The Japanese is humble, unobtrusive and respectful to get on with.
But however, We have to take up the causes of polluting nuclear energy, the ruthless killing of whales, the empty food from the sea, the excessive attachment to matter, to engineering, to the Internet, to gadgets, and the uncritical adaptation to capitalism.

There's one simple reason.
The split personality of the Japanese, so to speak between reason and feeling.
And I make a distinction between the man and the woman.
The man seems to be the problem in Japan. Japan is still for a while a patriarchy.
The women are strong, grounded, more in harmony with themselves and their emotions. But they adapt themselves too much to the man, in this sense they have a common problem.
The woman just needs to act on her abilities, the man on the other hand still has to learn a lot.

The men are facing a major challenge.
They are more attached to the mental, and are suppressing the emotional more than the women do. So the Shinto basis of the Japanese people has been overlooked a lot. And capitalism has taken over it all. Just for a while.

The feeling, the compassion, the bond with nature, respect for the spiritual world and for God's servants on earth, especially for the spirits of trees, mountains, and rivers and cities and forces is still enormous.
But has been overshadowed by a fascination with the mental, with technology, with the Internet, with capitalism, with thinking, and must be balanced with the emotional.
And this is what will happen this time.

The turning point is the period from the Second World War to the present, the extreme cruelty of the Japanese abroad during the war, the beating by the USA with the atomic bomb, the adaptation  to American capitalism, the reliance on the market mechanism, the devastating disaster after tsunami and nuclear power plant, this all belongs to the turning point. And this will be accompanied by a shift from the mental to the emotional, from the masculine to the feminine, from technology to nature, from patriarchy to matriarchy.

By more economic crises and environmental disasters, the Japanese man will bow to the Japanese woman, who is still adapting herself too much and who has more binding with the inner self and already is realizing what is meant to be.

Namely living in harmony with God, with the spiritual world, with nature, with the inner emotional life.
And only then Japan will build again.
Now she is still in the demolition phase.
The Japanese people are blessed.

My blessings to you all

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