一所懸命 Isshokenmei in Japanese means with all one’s might, try to accomplish the impossible. 一線生機 Yi Xian Sheng Ji in Chinese means there is a slim thread of a chance to survive and live.
As we made our way through this incredibly claustrophobic, scary deep ascending cave with just a crevice of space between rocks called One Thread Sky, the thoughts were about this idea of hanging by a thread in one’s existence. The two phrases from Japan and China mean the same to me- that we all exist in just that thread of chance and opportunity, and that tenuous opportunity is what we must hold onto, like the thread of a spider. How much effort we apply to our existence means whether we will have the opportunity to view the sky yet again….
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