What happens when the self you've been protecting your whole life begins to fall apart? Dissolving the Mirror is a spiritual and philosophical journey into the nature of the ego, identity, and the quiet liberation that comes when we no longer cling to who we think we are. Drawing from the Thai Forest Buddhist tradition, the writings of Ram Dass and Alan Watts, and personal insight, this book invites you to sit in the stillness behind the mirror-to witness the cracks forming in your reflection and discover the freedom that lies beyond it. Through poetic reflections, practical meditative wisdom, and raw vulnerability, The Weightless Now guides you gently through the disintegration of the ego-not as a loss, but as a return. A return to presence. To spaciousness. To the now, where nothing needs to be grasped and no one needs to be defined. This is not a book of answers. It is an invitation to disappear-with grace.

Akumi Hayashi represents the blurred lines between heroism and villainy in the My Hero Academia universe. She was inspired by the flawed, often brutal culture shared by both heroes and villains-a culture that elevates power but neglects the cost. It's because of this, she doesn't see herself as either. She exists in the gray area. Sometimes, while writing her, I didn't even know if I liked her or not. That confusion shows, and it's part of the point. Her story begins on I-island, where she was born and raised. The island is known to hold the smartest individuals on the planet, with a crime rate of nearly zero. It sounds almost too good to be true, because it is. Akumi was born as a subject, not as a child. The science to study quirks on the island has questionable ethics, and she is their greatest invention.