In addition, I want to put special meanings to the words. The concept of life studies I used the words life studies in 1988, however, the concept of life studies has been gradually changing as my thoughts grew. The followings are the outline of life studies at present. Life studies means synthesized wisdom for living one's own life without regret. This does not mean that life studies is a kind of knowledge of getting along in life.
Life studies needs deep philosophical understandings on life.
Life studies is a kind of vivid movement of our wisdom in which we contemplate the reality of our existence, struggle against our inner desire, and try to find a way of resolving contemporary issues such as world wide violence, medical technology threatening our lives, environmental crisis, and many other problems we ourselves have created through the centuries. The first step of life studies is to reconsider one's own self. You must gaze at your real existence that you have skillfully concealed from yourself and never want to look at. In this process your self will be dismantled, and whole your existence will start transforming itself. Then you will be ready to reconsider your actual way of life, social systems that you are involved in, and modern civilization with scientific technologies.