In cognitive science, discreteness can describe the segmentation of perception into distinct, recognizable objects or events. It refers to how the mind perceives things as separate rather than as a continuous flow

Sound of water,

of this lonely hermitage

the only friend becomes

in the gaps and gaps

of the mountain storm.

"The lack or non-eixstence of something; a void"

"Ma refers to a pause in time, an interval or gap in space. It is the meaningful space between two structural parts, not empty but filled with energy and possibility"

"The jiga, or oriental individuum, consists of a relationship in which the individual and society, while being contradictory, include each other"

"One admires the fact that the walls between the realms are so thin that one can in the same breath contemplate a statue, buy an inflatable doll, and give the goddess of fertility the small offering that always accompanies her displays."