Sauna Philosophy🧖 and Nothingness🫥🫧 (Part 3)

──A time when boundaries dissolve

Introduction

Sauna PhilosophyPart 3 of the series☺️

Sauna Philosophy Series
1. Cosmic Thinking (Scale of Thought)🚀
2. Time Distortion (Chronos/Kairos)⌛💧
3. Nothingness (Stillness of Thought)🫥🫧
4. Boundaries (Self and World)↔️🚪

These four, in fact, all

“harmony with the heterogeneous”

lead to.

A story of traveling through the universe, time, consciousness, and boundaries in the small space of a sauna,
and finally returning to the shop counter.

Main Part: Nothingness (Stillness of Thought)🫥🫧

When you stay in a sauna for a long time,
a certain moment arrives.

A time when you are thinking of nothing.

No,
to be precise,

it is a time when even if you try to think, thoughts do not continue.
it is.

For the first few minutes,
your mind is still active.

Today's events.
Tomorrow's plans.
The conversation from earlier.

However,
as you repeat your breathing in the heat,
they gradually fade away.

Rather than thoughts stopping,
the density of thought becomes thin.

It is as if
a drop of ink has been dropped into water,
slowly diffusing.

In psychology,
it is explained that a quiet environment restores attention.

Attention Restoration Theory
──Attention Restoration Theory.

In places with few stimuli,
the brain's forced concentration rests,
and attention is said to return to its natural state.

The sauna room
almost perfectly meets those conditions.

There is little sound.
The light is dim.
The only thing to do is breathe.

Then,
the tension in your brain begins to unwind.

However, in the sauna,
there is a state that goes one step further.

It is not just that your attention is restored, but
the very contours of the ego soften.

The sense of "I"
expands a little.

The boundaries of the body become blurred.

That sensation
is somehow familiar.

An orange sea.

The
Sea of LCLthat appears in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

There,
the boundaries of the individual dissolve,
and consciousness diffuses.

Of course, the sauna
is not that world.

However,

that sensation where thoughts quiet down and the contours of the ego soften,

is somehow
similar to it.

Religion and philosophy
have long called this state
by another name.

Nothingness.

But that does not mean
"there is nothing there."

It is quite the opposite.

When the unnecessary things disappear,
the world looks a little wider.

When sound decreases,
you can hear the silence.

When thoughts decrease,
space is created.

In that space,
something floats quietly.

About the universe.
About time.
About humanity.

It is
less of an answer,

and more of a feeling in the shape of a question.

And strangely enough,
this time of "nothingness"

feels very short.

When I look at the clock,
10 minutes have passed.

But the experience
is just a fleeting moment.

Here, too,
the structure of time has changed.

⌛️Chronoskeeps flowing.

However,
the time being experienced is different.

In it,
only meaningful moments remain.

In other words, it is
💧Kairostime.

And when those two
quietly overlap,

I call it that.

💙 BLUE time

Time that flows passively, and
moments felt subjectively.

Time where that boundary
has melted a little.

Inside the sauna room,
sometimes I

stand in that place.

And when I enter the cold water bath,
I return to the real world in an instant.

The contours of my body return.

My thoughts return.

Chronos returns.

Yet deep in my heart,
there is still a little bit

of the margin of nothingnessremaining.

Holding onto that margin,
I sit at the shop counter.

And
take a sip of the golden liquid.

In the spiritual world,
it is called the Sea of LCL.

In the material world,
it is called a large draft beer.

In other words, today again,

while traveling back and forth between nothingness, the universe, and the sauna,
I am quietly drinking a glass🍺

《To be continued》

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