I Need to Be "Mu"

A few days ago, I was asked to write an article about underground streets around the Tokyo Station for a monthly publication of an organization. As a new member of the organization, I said “Yes!”  
 
In short, we can walk underground from the Tokyo Station to the next stop or the stop after next on any line. For example, we can go from the Tokyo Station to the Higashi Ginza Station, in which the Kabukiza is located and which is south of the Tokyo Station, without going up to the ground level. We can also go from the Tokyo Station to the Otemachi Station, which is north of the Tokyo Station, underground, without getting wet when it is raining.
 
This provide us with another fun of eating at restaurants and browsing souvenir shops on the underground streets. If you are interested in how stations around the Tokyo Station are connected underground, please go to the below website.  
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1J61r5ug6MmCxy-qK74WbKOzVQqI&hl=en_US&ll=35.68066972240541%2C139.77444144863148&z=14
 
I knew this from the first-hand experience. But I know now based on the research I did for the article that underground networks have still been expanding.  
 
Things change, people say. Yes. Not only the subway line I have been using for over a quarter of a century, but also other lines have been extended and expanded.

However, this small incident made me realize that I hated to see something I had known change, though seeing things newly created is okay but seeing. New things are outside your world and you can shut down yourself and ignore them while changes in things you know are happening inside of you. They affect you. They require you to adapt yourself to them. You cannot look away or escape from them.

Am I afraid of changes? Maybe, yes. But why? Accepting changes sometimes require changes in my values and finding myself struggling to adapt myself to the changes makes me feel being left out and…..lonely!

Maybe I need to learn how to become “mu.” According to Wikipedia, “mu” is: The Japanese and Korean term mu (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무) or Chinese wú (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无), meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.

I also found “mu” sometimes being translated as “emptiness,” but it is wrong. “Mu” is the “state” of mind by which you can accept anything as it is without any bias or prejudice. You have to be as you are with other people and things as they are. It is neither positive nor negative. It is close to unlearning. You have to unlearn or throw away everything in your mind and feel and accept what is occurring. Of course, it is impossible to put aside everything, but interestingly, even if you empty your mind, there still remains something and that is what you are, like or not.

Change is good, people say. But change itself isn't either good or bad. Also, change may come within or outside. The thing is if you can see and seize it.