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Working out of Honolulu Coffee (now no more, 8/26/2019) in Paia yesterday morning. Wanting a cappuccino? This is their order - good.
My recent visit to Japan has rekindled my interest in origami. My first few shapes that I have folded have been a table, a Lilly (proud of that one!), a water bomb(!) a crane, a windmill/four pointed star, an unwell looking frog, and a hat. Great fun! More to come hopefully.
Artist by the Takase River or canal, Kyoto. The flat bottomed boat is a replica of the type of boat that use to bring goods up & down this canal.
In Koutou-In Temple, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto. Another temple in the Rinzai Zen Temple complex.
Can anyone help with a translation?
I stumbled across this cool little coffee shop while wandering the back streets of northern Kyoto on my way to the subway station from Daitoku-ji. Thank you for a welcome cup of coffee, and a bag of the house blend for back home.
The Isshidan garden at Ryogen-in Temple within the vast Daitoku-ji complex in northern Kyoto. Daitoku-ji is one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. … This garden was given its name after the Temple' founder, Tokei, was given the name “Ryozen-isshi-no-ken” by his teacher.
Standing at a train station, seeing the tracks disappearing into the distance, has always held a special place in my heart. This is especially so at a station that I do not know, in a country to which I am a foreigner. The tracks remind of the days in my early twenties when I had a pack on my back and a ticket in my hand. The destination would have a name, but the place was unknown. The tracks, my sole possessions in my pack and that sense of going into the unknown represented a sense of freedom for me. An opportunity to let go and see what life was going to present to me. Unencumbered by life’s commitments, I was free to explore life, more easily letting go into what lessons were there to be learnt.
As we drop into the busyness of life, dealing with the likes and dislikes of what is happening around us and to us, the rememberance of that offer to let go usually escapes us…but it is always there. Easier said than done, but an invitation to let go into the current moment remains omnipresent - regardless of our like or dislike of that moment - and with that an exploration of an experience that we might otherwise have avoided or missed.
A small part of the fairy tale garden at the ‘Moss Temple’ or Saiho-ji, near to Kyoto. … The temple is of Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition. Visiting the temple requires requesting an invitation, and before being able to tour the grounds, copying out a Buddhist Sutra. Non Japanese speakers can trace the sutra characters. … Beautiful, peaceful and as ever, not enough time.
