The possibility of pushing beyond ones own limits, of their body or awareness or of the civilization which they are immersed in or the conceptual framework they have inherited. Can we avoid taking on the burdens of the past? Why not, why must only academia attend to them? New problems need to be articulated, but at what cost, what risk, what authenticity?

How to learn from the sensitive handling of objects and our physical surrounding. How to actively attend to ourselves and our world of things as a practice of activating attention and working beyond things? What is learned or lost, which must we gain and what could we lose, for better or for worse?

Is the Japanese culture truly more concerned with questions or is it the answer I have been looking for, concerning integration of nature and natural elements and the praxis of philosophical focus.