I attended the reiki gathering at midnight. There were 42 attendees. Toward the end, as usual, our teacher shared his wisdom with us. Today he talked about 改善 (Kaizen). First he let one of the Japanese male attendees to speak up. He used to work at Toyota and their company motto and philosophy is well known as Kaizen. His company encourages the workers that we are not perfect and we make mistakes, and that is why we can always make something better from our mistakes. And it is the philosophy of Kaizen. Our teacher also added the explanations of Kaizen in Japanese word. Each Chinese character has its meaning. 改 has a meaning of correct and renew and 善 means to a better way. So, Kaizen has a deep meaning than just improvement.
He as usual allowed me to share my thoughts too. I shared my thoughts like this.
I used to easily get jealous to others by comparing myself to others. But now I know I should not compare with anybody else except for me. I can only compare today’s myself from yesterday’s myself and do Kaizen, then tomorrow’s myself can compare today’s myself and do Kaizen. That is how I can keep making myself better every day and every moment.
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