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
Link to Q&A with Haruki Murakami (in Japanese)
For all those that keep complaining that there is not enough English videos on our blog, Muho talks about Mahākāśyapa’s practice of watching decaying corpses in the Shobogenzo chapter Gyoji, and about differences in attitudes toward death and funerals in the West and in Japan. Shot in the back and in the fron of the … Read more
Seigaku’s UNSUI CAFE: 「雲水喫茶」 Seigaku’s UNDO： facebook.com/undoinberlin
Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again. Yet, do not suppose that the ash is future and the firewood past. You should understand that firewood abides in the phenomenal expression of firewood, which fully includes past and future and is independent of past and future. Ash abides in the phenomenal expression of … Read more