Zen” is an expansion of the imagination.
When you install “Zen” in yourself, you can relax your mind. Just like a computer, the larger the capacity, the faster it runs.

After being enlightened by Yuki Naruse of “ON THE TRIP” in Okinawa, I wanted to know more about “Zen” and visited Toryo Ito of Ryosokuin, the Kenninji temple’s head priest.
https://ryosokuin.com/zazen/

For Mr. Toryo, Zen is “from ‘I’ to ‘We’ to ‘Here.
“Oneness” (Oneness) others become you.
Is it the image of me becoming one with the world as I think about and care for others?

In Japan, “Zen” has an image of training (zazen, keisatsu), but in the West, people are introduced to it through relaxation.
I felt that none of this was the essence of the project.

It seems that there used to be a “Zen Circle” among the myriad of circles within Google. It was taken down because too many people who joined it left the company. Maybe if you master Zen, you will start to feel the distance between you and the company.

According to Stewart D. Friedman’s book, “Work-Life Balance is Meaningless.”
There are four main areas of life. Work or School, Home, Community, and Self.

Work-life balance is not good because it trades off something in this because it tries to balance.

Know what is important to you. Demonstrate those values that seem important to you through consistent actions. To be able to use that behavior as a story to communicate your values to others at any time.

With that “self-worth standard,” even a given job may become one’s blood and flesh if one can deeply contemplate it in light of one’s own values. As a result, “self” and “work” will be integrated, and life will become more enjoyable.

As the distance between oneself and society becomes more and more distant through remote work, “Zen” as a tool is worth a try.