00:01:20.783 –> 00:01:24.000 I feel it takes courage to be an optimist.
00:01:24.000 –> 00:01:27.108 I see you nod. Please, please let me have your thoughts.
00:01:27.108 –> 00:01:36.000 I feel the same. So, for me, the basic … What do we call it in German?
00:01:38.492 –> 00:01:40.392 I’m not sure. I’m Swiss.
00:01:42.000 –> 00:01:45.475 How do we call it in Swiss-German then?
00:01:46.492 –> 00:01:50.900 The basic trust in the benevolence of existence.
00:01:51.550 –> 00:01:54.750 I have that. I’ve had that since I was a child.
00:02:14.433 –> 00:02:20.114 So, in this way, I totally agree with what you say. I’m optimistic.
00:02:20.205 –> 00:02:25.475 I look forward to things unfolding in a new way.
00:02:26.183 –> 00:02:36.853 So, this is all good. But what I got tired of in the last 15 years is that
00:02:38.162 –> 00:02:43.133 somehow, really, like I said, sitting in between two chairs.
00:02:45.475 –> 00:02:52.092 It’s just not comfortable. With one cheek on one side and one cheek on the other.
00:03:19.000 –> 00:03:24.883 So, Japanese culture is very different from our Western culture.
00:03:25.683 –> 00:03:32.650 I had said earlier that I really like the traditional teaching because of my personal history.
00:03:32.650 –> 00:03:41.133 Because I spent so much time in the East with a Japanese partner or in the past with Japanese partners.
00:03:42.500 –> 00:03:48.975 Then I have this many years of meditative practice with Osho, which is also Eastern.
00:03:49.192 –> 00:03:57.642 So, I feel very comfortable with that. I don’t think it’s better than what we have in the West. It’s different.
00:03:58.000 –> 00:04:05.152 I’ve been trying to help Western people understand the Japanese way
00:04:05.152 –> 00:04:09.833 and trying to help Japanese people to understand the Western way.
00:04:09.833 –> 00:04:17.403 So, that was my position to make sure or at least to have the intention
00:04:17.511 –> 00:04:28.000 that these people, the two, can communicate more effectively together.
00:04:28.000 –> 00:04:31.100 And that has turned out to be very, very difficult.
00:04:33.667 –> 00:04:39.475 Because they just don’t understand each other and I’m sitting in between.
00:04:42.183 –> 00:04:49.250 And the consequence of this realization has led to your resignation?
00:04:49.250 –> 00:04:52.400 Yes. I can’t do it anymore.
00:05:18.158 –> 00:05:21.314 Yeah, yeah. I can’t do it anymore. I don’t want to fight anymore.
00:05:21.314 –> 00:05:29.267 I don’t want to have to make an effort all the time to bring people together and to …
00:05:39.592 –> 00:05:42.342 help people understand each other.
00:05:46.808 –> 00:05:48.233 I’m tired of it.
00:07:11.567 –> 00:07:12.417 We’ll see.
00:07:13.608 –> 00:07:22.732 You have in your personal life experienced when this merger or this fusion between East and West
00:07:23.124 –> 00:07:30.462 didn’t work out, that the aftermath had also created some pain.
00:07:32.246 –> 00:07:39.800 Probably on both sides, it’s probably fair to say as it most of the time does when two people separate and so on.
00:07:39.800 –> 00:07:40.708 Yeah.
00:07:41.033 –> 00:07:49.000 How optimistic, if that’s the right term, are you with respect to this particular separation?
00:07:49.000 –> 00:07:50.708 Very optimistic.
00:07:52.133 –> 00:07:57.855 Because I know that pain is a great revealer of truth.
00:07:58.905 –> 00:08:03.216 So even if pain happens, I welcome it.
00:08:04.691 –> 00:08:09.125 Whatever it takes, we are here to learn. We are here to …
00:08:09.525 –> 00:08:15.482 We said it earlier, if we had learned our lessons, we wouldn’t be here. So we are here to learn.
00:08:15.482 –> 00:08:23.892 And maybe we can learn as much as possible. So next time when we reincarnate here would be a little bit less.
00:08:28.767 –> 00:08:33.425 No. Me? Of course, any time, especially if I can meet my wife again.
00:08:35.258 –> 00:08:45.328 Me, I know many people say, ‚Oh, this is my last life or it would be nice to be …‘ I don’t want to finish this. This is so much fun.
00:08:47.219 –> 00:08:52.000 I’ll be right … like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know? ‚I’ll be back.‘
00:08:56.150 –> 00:09:05.075 I’m in no rush. Not at all. I love it here. I really enjoy it. Okay, all the struggles and …
00:09:07.000 –> 00:09:16.896 It’s never boring. It’s always … We always have some project, some fun, some excitement, something changing. Nothing is ever boring.
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