20 Sunday Sep 2026
Posted in Landscapes, Life, Zen, travel
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fall, Falling leaves, Japan, Life, nature, photography, poetry, spirituality, travel, yoga, Zen
This was taken outside the Tokyo National Museum.
I had spent a pleasant few hours wandering the Museum galleries and was happy to be back outdoors where I found a coffee and a bench to take in the afternoon crowds and the gardens as they gently subsided into fall.
Lao Tsu “As you are about to leave the world behind, could you write a book for my sake?—Words …
“Zen, it might be said, is the art of being ‘in form’ for everything, all the time. There is …
“Usually in history, when two nations have contested for the same markets, the nation that has lost in the …
“Yo, bro, you gotta go see the monster truck jam!” The insistent young man next to me had …
“Therefore, I beg you to let me go my own way in loneliness for a while and devote myself to …
I don’t usually quote at such length, but I’ve been returning to the following passage again and again since first …
“Could by any chance culture be the meaning and purpose of the second half of life?”—Carl Jung, as quoted from …
This is from a response I wrote yesterday, with adaptations, to a comment I received from—with apologies Mame—a compassionate soul …
Omphalos Cafe 