Over the centuries, a culture of cleanliness has developed in Japan which not only finds its expressed in the bathing culture. Cleaning is part of everyday life, but also has a spiritual and religious background.
Rituals and practices of purification are central in both Shintoism and Buddhism and are an expression of respect and a feeling for the wholeness of the world that surrounds us. Can cleaning and tidying up train your perception and producing purity not only of the body, clothing and house, but also the mind in a way that it can be reconciled with the modern credo of efficiency ? What contribution can such an "attentive lifestyle" or mindfullness make to the development of a sustainable society?
Diskussion:
Birgit SeverinĀ (designer) Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo (designer) Shoju Uematsu (monk, Zenkyoan Tempel)
Tetsuya Ozaki (moderator)
Villa Kamogawa - Goethe Institut
https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/de/sta/kyo/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21502496
Zenkyoan Tempel
http://zenkyoan.jp
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