Mastering Life Unsui（雲水） is a monk in training; he goes around one temple to the other, in search of his master, or he stays in Sodo, a temple space dedicated to training. After a certain period, they become supermen. This is a little sneaky peek into how through my...
“No,” I said. No point in faking. He knows.
He started walking, through the corridor, into the kitchen, then to the hearth room. Then he asked, “You see?” I didn’t understand what I was supposed to “see.” So I remained silent.
Precision and brevity are the tools you have no choice but to acquire at the temple.
Without a Master, I Come To Enlightenment. "Dharma couldn't have been the zen originator by himself." I was listening to a zen analects lecture online, and this conversation popped up. I have come to notice that lineage is very important in zen; Dharma is the first...
Me Too. I have written more than a few Wisdom Blogs under the tag Oshosama Says. Oshosama is a way to address an abbot of a temple, as some of you may be familiar with the term “Osho”. And “sama” is an honorific suffix. In the Zen temple in the north of Kyoto, I...
This is a tricky one. Using “I don’t know” as an answer may be a safe choice for some, a way to avoid mistakes or even a self-preservative tactic.
For me, it is a very proactive way to face my ego.
What was I trying to achieve or get done by saving a few seconds of my life, neglecting my own name?
Life is a losing game, if you count the number. However, knowing the “one” rewards all the losses in the past, life may be more than what you can count.
And We Do Not Want to Die Without Knowing the Hardware… Do We? Have you been invited to a Tea gathering? If yes, you may have noticed the wet surface of stoned pavement leading up to the entrance. Uchimizu is the act of sprinkling water outside. In a Tea setting, it...