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  It translated the thing which the Benedict Bauer father who belonged to the American Benedict society (rules called kansoshudokai are severe, and send almost silent cohabitation) wrote.

 

  "First one step to go ahead through the way understanding a problem of our lostness is to stop. It does not stop while working halfway and stops without completely doing one motion. And then I stare at a series of time that oneself lived in until minute-to-minute, second chopping fine and ascertain it. And finally, it is to listen to a voice to say own name among oneself.
  There is not God outside. It is to the house of in "existence" that is us literally there. All answers are inner"

 

  The difficulty of staring at oneself may be a matter of course for a thing performing a social life. There is our reality applying a heart to outside outside not to hear the voice of the heart. We have a custom to pay more attention to outside of own heart called a TV radio, the human being. I quiet a heart, and our heart becomes afraid that I go to the open place other than the sound of nature.

 

  During two weeks, I have climbed four mountains for mountain climbing once starting from 2,000 meters of mountain huts of the height. Of course there was neither TV nor the cell-phone nor the smartphone without electricity. It was only a sound and a star-filled sky of the natural world that there was.

 

  It is only the light of the lamp to read a book. On around 2nd, I take a rest slowly after coming home because I am tired. It was the days when it became glad the fatigue piled up in a week, and to rest. When few days followed both TV and the radio at the same time, I noticed oneself who talked with oneself in a heart. The beauty was not odd, and there was oneself who talked with the mountain familiarly to see the mountains. On seeing the pretty flower of the alpine plant which bloomed in the field, I seemed to hear anything which the flower spoke to.

 

  bendikuto Bauer continues it. When "time when a person reflecting the mirror of the room from a peek, a mirror lost somebody stops.
When you thought that the person is not me though the reflected figure is me, you should stop. It is such a case when it lost all reason that we stop and pay more attention and must listen to if you talk in a different way.
The reason why I stop is not that I give you an evaluation what you do who oneself is. The point where I stopped in becomes the starting point to go for a trip to remake our life.
We sometimes stop, and it is necessary to remember oneself. In other words, I stare at the past and am to see people on an event, the date when I let you let you strengthen oneself and do it weakly."

 

  Zen Buddhism has a method to stare at own heart called "introspectiveness". A method called "meditation" is in not only the Zen Buddhism but also the Christian world. I stare at oneself and am the trip of the heart to meet oneself of the straight fact. After all both TV and the radio separate oneself from all media at time and spend one week or ten days alone. I face oneself at the place that is full of remote nature from the town to be easy to talk with oneself.

 

  It is revealed how oneself was surrounded by much noise then so as to have a pain. I feel that such noise wants to be restored again after a long stake in such noise at the same time. When I spend time in nature, like Takashima of last summer, I know it well like ponape island of the Federated States of Micronesia of the year before last.

 

  I look back while looking back on time when I lost sight of oneself while I am always pressed by work whether oneself is just what kind of one which stands, and is at the position. I notice the message that God always gave when I look back. It is the word of the person concerned with in life. When oneself hesitates whether such way of life, way of thinking are all right, it is a message giving by all means. In that way I notice the meaning of the message only after becoming when I face oneself.

 

  It becomes common, and there is nothing without it all the time when I get used to putting the body for the noise. It went to Tokyo several times for one year, but it was fresh surprise that all the passengers who were in Yamanote Line were doing anything towards a smartphone when it went to Tokyo in April of the last year. And I was more amazed to learn that nothing lasted, and what looked around handed a rotation and was alone.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi