8.15, 2021

Thank you, to those who walked before me, many of whom have already perished despite your wish to love and be loved. Thank you for paving a way to create this beautiful world that I see and live in now. …

Pain and sorrow

I said: What about my eyes? He said: Keep them on the road. I: What about my passion? He: Keep it burning. I: What about my heart? He: Tell me what you hold inside it? I: Pain and sorrow. He: …

It is difficult to “just do it”

“All I had to do and could do was to paint as I like, but somehow I made myself believe that I had to back it up with logics and theories. And I was over-reacting because I couldn’t. What is …

to walk

“What matters in life is not whether you succeed or not. It is to keep walking. However many times you trip or fall, to pick it up and keep walking.” Jose Mujica The words of the poorest president in the …

Japanese Poem/俳句

Japanese poet has a specific gift that detects something great in small things… This is the East. Zen way takes life as it is lived instead of chopping it to pieces and trying to restore its life by intellection. (DT …

Let your unconscious think/ 無意識で考える

The head is conscious while the abdomen is unconscious. When the master tells his disciples to “think” with the lower part of the body, he means that the koan is to be taken down to the unconscious… The koan is …

My flaws

Once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks, or even flaws. （Natalie Portman)   技術がある一定のレベルまで達した後は、欠点すらも武器になり得る。 （ナタリー・ポートマン）  

It won’t be alive if we oppressed it from changing. 変化なしに生きることはできない

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Should the same be said of existence in general? Henri Bergson How immature of me to naively have believed that there …

One’s life work: 人生の仕事

Ryuichi HIROKAWA Once a young boy, full of dream and hope for “an ideal community” just after graduating the University, headed to Israel where he later found a ruin of Palestinians. It led him to another journey; the journey to …

When a physician asks a ZEN monk

“In Zen Buddhism, mind exists before the matter?” Professor Lichtenberg asks…