Monthly Archives: January 2024

  When I walked the Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan about eight years ago, I heard about another pilgrimage route in Japan – the Kumano Kodo, located on the Kii peninsular at the most southern tip of the main island Honshu. … Continue reading →

Live Limitless Light, Liberation, Love, and Life! We were born and live in limitless causes and conditions in time and space. No one can live without human societies and ecological, universal systems. So, we must repay and reform them for … Continue reading →

  Still Sitting Stills Karma, Settling in Nirvana, Seeing Dharma❣   We have all kinds of problems and sufferings, summed up in four or eight sufferings (4: birth, aging, sickness, death + parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, … Continue reading →

  Time in the Soto Zen temple Eihei-ji When planning the pilgrimage Kumano Kodo, Ancient Path, Yuko asked me: “What do you want to see and experience in addition to Kumano Kodo?” Immediately, Eihei-ji came into my mind. Eihei-ji, (temple … Continue reading →

  Solving Suffering   We have the four inevitable sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and also eight, adding to these the four common ones of parting with the beloved, meeting with the hated, not attaining the desired, and, … Continue reading →