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Konkōkyō's beliefs center around the betterment of human life in this world by showing appreciation for all things, living upright, and providing mutual help, and prayer for others. By embodying these virtues, it is taught anyone can become an ikigami, or living kami - one who helps others unconditionally and has inner peace. An ikigami is ...
According to psychologist Katsuya Inoue, ikigai is a concept consisting of two aspects: "sources or objects that bring value or meaning to life" and "a feeling that one's life has value or meaning because of the existence of its source or object". Inoue classifies ikigai into three directions – social ikigai, non-social ikigai, and anti ...
Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...
Theravāda Buddhism describes the development of samatha in terms of three successive mental images or 'signs' (nimitta) [note 10] and five stages of joy . [ note 11 ] According to the Theravāda -tradition, pīti , a feeling of joy, gladness or rapture, arises from the abandonment of the five hindrances in favor of concentration on a single ...
Inner peace (or peace of mind) refers to a deliberate state of psychological or spiritual calm despite the potential presence of stressors.Being "at peace" is considered by many to be healthy (homeostasis) and the opposite of being stressed or anxious, and is considered to be a state where one's mind performs at an optimal level, regardless of outcomes.
Detachment is a central concept in Zen Buddhist philosophy. One of the most important technical Chinese terms for detachment is " wú niàn " (無念), which literally means "no thought." This does not signify the literal absence of thought, but rather the state of being "unstained" (bù rán不染) by thought. Therefore, "detachment" is being ...
t. e. Godai (五大, lit. "five – great, large, physical, form") are the five elements in Japanese Buddhist thought of earth (chi), water (sui), fire (ka), wind (fu), and void (ku). Its origins are from the Indian Buddhist concept of Mahābhūta, disseminated and influenced by Chinese traditions [1] before being absorbed, influenced, and ...
The New Japanese Bible, published by the Organization for the New Japanese Bible Translation (新日本聖書刊行会) and distributed by Inochinokotoba-sha (いのちのことば社), aims to be a literal translation using modern Japanese, while the New Interconfessional Version, published by the Japan Bible Society, aims to be ecumenically ...