Ikigai
Ikigai
is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." It is similar
to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone, according to Japanese culture,
has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self.
Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one's ikigai
brings satisfaction and meaning to life. [Examples include work, hobbies and
raising children].
In
the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a reason to get up in the
morning"; that is, a reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner
suggested ikigai as one of the reasons people in the area had such long lives.
The
word ikigai is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or
the things that make one's life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer
to mental and spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that their
lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the
present state of society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but
they have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviours that make us feel
ikigai are not actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous
actions.
In
the article named Ikigai — jibun no kanosei, kaikasaseru katei ("Ikigai:
the process of allowing the self's possibilities to blossom") Kobayashi
Tsukasa says that "people can feel real ikigai only when, on the basis of
personal maturity, the satisfaction of various desires, love and happiness,
encounters with others, and a sense of the value of life, they proceed toward
self-realization."
Excerpt
from Wikipedia.
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thanks to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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