As we live in this world, both our bodies and minds get “dust” stuck to them. The kind that especially sticks to our minds is what we call “Yo no chiri.” “Yo” means society in Japanese, and “chiri” means dust. Just like the dust on our bodies, we can’t avoid this mental dust as long as we’re alive. But seen another way, to live is to have “Yo no chiri” stick to us. And the fact that this dust has stuck to us is proof that we’ve truly lived. So in that sense, “Yo no chiri” is a sign that we’ve lived, and it holds some kind of energy within it.