Year: 2015

3 new bodhisattvas facebook.com/shoukou.nosen/posts/1781412452085419 Audio by Werner Penzel/Ikue Mori/Fred Frith: “Zen is the biggest lie of all times” http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/hoerspiel-und-medienkunst/hoerspiel-zen-luege-100.html After the original broadcast on July 3rd, the audio file will be available for download as a podcast. Information about “Lentil as anything” and its founder Shanaka Fernando: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentil_as_Anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanaka_Fernando http://lentilasanything.com/ Muho on the question why … Read more

Happiness is everywhere. Except for that exact spot where YOU are! (Polish proverb) Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln) A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw) Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s … Read more

Seigaku’s “Undo” in Berlin

We had quite a good number of new arrivals yesterday. Twenty of them, and feathered. They are retired hens from a chicken battery close buy, whom we buy for a price of 30 yen per hen. They will spend the rest of their days in the new chicken shed and the connecting palying ground, hopefully … Read more

Yesterday, we finished planting the third and last rice field just before an early typhoon passed by. Today the weather is fine again, and we are pushing the “tagurama”, old-fashioned tools to remove weeds in an organic way, in the first rice field. And tomorrow will be the first day of “oo-bousan”, the annual three-day … Read more