Anime Lectio: TenPuru: No one can live on loneliness

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Living by yourself/on your own is difficult.  It's also difficult to live with others, as well as to understand how that can happen.  However, even though understanding how to live with others is difficult, it's also worth understanding in order to understand how people can live, as well as how you want and/or need to live.  An interesting example of all of this can be seen in the anime series TenPuru: No one can live on loneliness (usually known as TenPuru).

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

The anime series TenPuru starts off with a boy living with his father who is known for living a lifestyle that involves spending time with other women and being a ladies man. Because of this kind of living, the father of this boy decides to abandon his son in order to focus more on the kind of living that he likes to do, even though it gives him a bad reputation. This reputation is so bad that it even spreads to his son, which is why he tries to not be like his dad while still living his usual life without him, but his worldly desires still get the better of him. He eventually decides to become a monk in order to live differently and not be like his father, but the temple he ends up going to in order to live his life as a monk has "nuns," as well as a female monk and a debt due to the boy's father. The boy decides to stay at this temple in order to pay off this debt, despite still fighting his worldly desires due to who he is living with. The other girls try to help with this debt too since their temple is in danger of closing for other reasons, like not having enough support, but they all eventually realize that they need to help each other in order to do that properly, as well as realize why they are doing that in the first place.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

The idea/phrase of "no one can live on loneliness" can take time to be properly understood, which can be seen in the last episode of this anime series (last episode of 1st season?) when the boy understands that the idea of no one can live on loneliness doesn't just mean being with other people all or most of the time for the sake of being with them, which his father uses as an excuse to be a ladies man. It can also mean helping other people that you live with when they need it and having them help you when you need it. How this happens depends on who you are living with and while it does happen in interesting ways in this anime series, the point is that it happens, whether you are a male who lives with females, a female who lives with other females, or a male who lives with other males.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can understand what the idea/phrase "No one can live on loneliness" means for us based on who we are and what we want and/or need.