Shame
Your ear listens to your heart and feels shame. Your heart is full of shame for how you’ve lived your life and when your ear hears all the things you’ve done, your ear feels shame too.
Feel the shame. Feel the shame in both your ear and your heart. Imagine the things you’ve done to make you feel so much shame.
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You must cleanse your spirit of this shame. You decide to complete Haj (はじ). (Haj is the fifth pillar of Islam, and is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja). Upon arrival in Mecca, you think of a funny joke and bust out laughing. “HAHAHAHAHAHA!! (は) HAHAHAHAHA!!!” Oh man, you’re in a temple and that was completely inappropriate. You feel even more shame than before.
You’re super embarrassed for bringing so much shame on yourself again. But then you think of another joke. “Hahaha!” Better luck with the next Haj, I guess.