ICHI - One
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As with all things, one is simple. Each thing is a one. Each moment is the first time, just as this glass piece that the artist produced here at Punahou in his first year.
Yet, ... as with all things, one is NOT simple. Each thing contains the universe in its pulsating richness. All things are this one. One is the world.
To be one is a challenge. It is not easy to be simply as one is. Here is a key: give up defending the separate one and yield to the world as one.
Once this begins to make sense, you are starting to see through a window to the world that is revealed through what is called Kegon in Japanese. Not through these words, but through this practice: See one as the world. See the world as one. Tenderly treat each one simply as it is as thought the world depends on it. It does.
by Robin Fujikawa