Tag: Oshosama Says
Oshosama, I’m Fighting With My Ego Every Day.

by | 2023.07.01 | Life Wisdom | 1 Comment

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...
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“I Don’t Know” Is the Answer.

by | 2023.05.18 | Life Wisdom | 0 Comments

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. After spending some time in the temple, I learned a thing or two about...
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Life Is a Losing Game

by | 2023.03.10 | Life Wisdom | 0 Comments

“Can I just say something?”  One day I just had to go up to Oshosama, the abbot of the temple, to tell him that. That day, I was helping some people all day inside the temple which I thought I was doing as a favour. But none of them shared any resemblance of...
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Tea Is the Hardware.

by | 2023.02.08 | Life Wisdom | 0 Comments

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...
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Do Samu

by | 2023.01.31 | Life Wisdom | 0 Comments

When None of Your Tools Work Yoga, jogging, walking, meditating, or breath working; when none of that works, Do samu. Samu can be anything to maintain the household... or templehold. When I used to live in a zen temple of a Rinzai sect, most of the day was dedicated...
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Do Samu

Do Samu

When None of Your Tools Work Yoga, jogging, walking, meditating, or breath working; when none of that works, Do samu. Samu can be anything to maintain the household... or templehold. When I used to live in a zen temple of a Rinzai sect, most of the day was dedicated...

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1 Out of 100 Is the Reality.

1 Out of 100 Is the Reality.

And It’s a Good One. Shortly after releasing Wisdom Toolkit to the world, I was already in my head, stuck in my endless cluttering chatter. “Even my friends are not responding to my writing, who’s going to read these?”  “My writing is not good. That’s why it’s...

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