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: …

Zen and my earthly desires

He asked: “Will all my earthly desires disappear if I practiced here?” Master answered: “No way! Your earthly desires will never perish. But they will start shining” A phrase from a dialogue between Fujita Issho, Zen practitioner, and Hoshina Machiko, …

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）  

Nothing is beautiful when it’s brand-new

Nothing is beautiful when it’s brand-new. Connoisseur says “if you see it, the parts where most used gets worn out the fastest, that’s where the under-layer of black lacquer surfaces. if these are to show in any other unnatural parts, …

Always where it’s supposed to be

Things are always where they are supposed to be, if only I trusted myself.　No need to worry, nor rush. I will find them when and where most appropriate. ない、ない、と思っても。探し回っても。結局はあるべきところにあるようです。少し自分を信頼してみれば良いだけの話。  

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 …