Between reality and mystery

I am not a mystic.
However, I do like occult topics.
It's like a ghost story told on a midsummer night,
like a touch of seasonal elegance.

It is said that ghost paintings were meant to ward off evil.
It is said that people wish to take a peek into the "meaning-obscuring world" somewhere.
It is probably for the same reason that the nine phases of the nine phases of the nine phases of the nine phases of the nine phases of the nine phases are talked about.
Death, decay, and ugliness.
They have always attracted people's attention as "other worlds" that are kept away from everyday life.

But I know.
Reality is only reality.
I was in the business of special cleaning.
I have been in a place where life and death intersect, a place that anyone would want to turn away from
on a daily basis.
There is not a millimeter of "spiritual presence" there.
There is only frantic work and overwhelming reality.

Dogen said.
Dogen said, "There may be ghosts, but they have nothing to do with Buddhism."
Buddhism is a study, and it does not deny the existence of monsters, but its "world line" is different.

I was impressed by this thought.
I was impressed by this thought, and by the grace with which he dismissed it as "irrelevant to my reality.
At the same time, I was impressed by the depth of his nostalgia, saying, "I don't deny it either.

Mysticism has one context in art.
Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Yayoi Kusama.
They entrusted the invisible world to art.
I do not deny it.
The meaning of existence is certainly there.
But it has nothing to do with "me".
I myself am only interested in reality.

I sympathize with the "weak.
I sympathize with the "weak" because I myself am weak.
I feel the same way about mystics.
They, too, are minorities.
I tolerate them, but they are not like me.
But I think minorities can coexist
with other minorities.
I hear that from the outside, they can look like kindred spirits.
I think it's stupid.
But minorities should not impose themselves.
We live in different worlds, so even if we huddle
together, we should not push each other.

Spirituality is one entertainment in my mind.
We can play like a summer ghost story.
But I don't believe in it.
For me, reality is a study and a dream.
The thickness of this reality is where I live.