
Why are japanese so good at buisiness?What is Zen?
Japan is a country with a long cultural history. Kabuki (including traditional Japanese dance) is a stage created by many people working together. Performers are only a small part of the whole process, and the stage is made up of many specialists, such as lighting technician, sound crew, costumer, wig maker, hair set, makeup, set carpenters and props. Each of these professions is a skill that takes a lifetime to master. They are all manual and require a great deal of effort to achieve.
The Kabuki stage is the result of all these specialists working together all at once. Therefore, it is difficult for everyone to grasp the whole process of the stage. There is even a profession that keeps track of the whole process, and it is called Kyogen.
Even among the people involved in Kabuki, it doesn’t mean they know everything about the things outside their own profession. If they act as if they know, it can lead to life-threatening accidents. Therefore, harassment is sometimes used to check and direct behaviour. I think it can be said that the system is hereditary because it is so difficult to learn and know that harassment has to be used. It shows how severe the system is.
Everyone involved in Kabuki has to be humble in order for the sake of the success of the stage. Behind the severity is endless labour, on top of which beauty is created. Everyone respects each other because of the hard work they all put in.
I think jazz and blues are similar to this. They are the traditional arts that were born in America. When jazz was born, records were already available. So I think it matured twice as fast as the length of time the performing arts developed in Japan.
I believe that beauty is a labour of love. If people don't understand that labour, it leads to anger, frustration and a crisis of survival.
Also, tradition means that a lot of people have been involved in it and have spent a lot of time on it. There are a lot of people's thoughts, actions and feelings, and we inherit them by being in touch with them. It's like the spaceship Endeavour.
So there is basically no personal freedom. The disadvantage is that it makes it difficult to make the choice to offer something simple, easy to understand and enjoyable, which is what today's audiences want. This is because you have to respect what the many inheritors - living and dead ghosts, etc. - have to say. Instead, when the consciousness of creating one thing as a whole occurs, all the atoms and ghosts are supportive. When this succeeds, a great vibration and energy takes place. This is also connected to Zen, and I believe that people engaged in theatres are naturally wired into the Japanese culture to do so.
Not all cultures are easy. You don't know how much effort it takes until you actually do it. Trying to know the effort is tantamount to knowing yourself, and it can lead to personal happiness. This same thing as mindfulness is naturally structured into the long history of Japanese culture.