Mono no aware (the pathos of things) lectured by Toshiyuki Namai
Mono no aware (the pathos of things), lectured by Toshiyuki Namai
It doesn’t matter whether you are Japanese or not.
But it matters that I’d like you to be delicate enough to feel the pathos of things.
Do you feel to satisfy with the essence of the quality of your life?
Human life is transient.
In your transience, I’d like you to be delicate enough to feel some sort of beauty
in observing things and in your observing nature.
Talking of the feeling, there are two kinds of feeling. The one is you feel actively.
On the other hand, there is the one. You feel after experiencing some matters outside.
There are the two. I tell you once again.
You feel inwardly and actively.
Conversely, through feeling something what you got somewhere outside,
you come to feel deeply in your heart.
Talking of the Japanese culture, there is a concept which is called, Mono no aware.
You feel the pathos of things.
This is quite a matter of your experience.
After observing some matters, you feel inwardly quite sentiently.
You are here to feel some sort of common matters.
Are you delicately enough to feel the same like others?
Are you delicately enough to feel some matters like the one, this mysterious nature tells you?
This is not a matter of mystery.
As a Japanese national, this is the very matter of the greatness ability every human being experiences to feel something.
As a Japanese national, I’d like to tell this is quite a matter of the greatness of the pathos of the things.
If you are rational enough,
if you are sensitive enough to think of applied comparative culture,
you do understand.
Any of persons here on this planet,
It doesn’t matter which country you belong to.
It doesn't matter which civilization you belong to.
It doesn't matter which culture you belong to.
But it matters you feel the possession of sensibility to feel the pathos of the things.
It shall be some sort of common possession as a human being who dwells here on earth in the solar system in one of the galaxies in this universe, super naturally given.