This book mainly tells the concept introduced by Eiko Yamashita, a Japanese sundries management consultant: breaking is equal to not buying or collecting unwanted things, and giving up is equal to getting rid of useless things piled up at home. Leaving is to give up the obsession with material things and leave yourself in a spacious, comfortable and free space.
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The concept of "separation" is simple. "Cut off" means cutting off things that you want to buy home but don't really need. "Getting rid of" means giving up the rampant garbage at home. "Leaving" means getting rid of the obsession with things and being in a comfortable space.
There are three kinds of people who can't throw things:
First, escape from reality. Such people are too busy to stay at home, so they can't tidy up their houses;
Second, stick to the past. Such people have to keep things from the past that they no longer use;
Third, worry about the future. This kind of person is committed to investing in the elements of future turmoil that will happen when I don't know. For example, hoarding daily necessities such as paper towels, without which you will feel troubled and anxious.
Generally speaking, most people should be regarded as a mixture of these types. How to guide life through "breaking up"? The author has repeatedly stressed that the protagonist of "breakup" is himself rather than the object, the core is to make people think about "the relationship between the object and themselves", and the timeline is always now. This is not just a kind of home arrangement and storage, but a concept of living in the present.
Through study and practice, people will constantly re-examine the relationship between themselves and things, and strive to replace all the "unwanted, inappropriate and uncomfortable" things around them with "needed, suitable and comfortable" things, thus changing the living environment and improving the outlook on life.
The meaning of parting is not only here, it is a healthy lifestyle, a unique thinking rule, and even a spiritual practice. From paying attention to the object to paying attention to oneself, we can know, discover and affirm ourselves through the object, re-understand the world and change the world visible to the naked eye, so as to improve the intangible spiritual world and make people look brand-new from the outside to the inside.