Tag Archives: zen

On Letting Go of a Tree Branch in Japan

Posted on April 4, 2012 by E.

There’s about 4,000 kids outside my apartment screaming about cherry blossoms.

Posted in Culture Shock, Homesickness, Thinking, Tradition, Zen | Tagged anxiety, cherry blossoms, haiku, japan, sakura, zen | 6 Comments

On Running in Japan

Posted on February 1, 2012 by E.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. – Wallace Stevens, “The Snowman” Japan makes me anxious.

Posted in Uncategorized, Zen | Tagged meditation, running, zen | 20 Comments

On Seasons, or: On Poets Taking Over the Japanese Meteorological Service

Posted on October 19, 2011 by E.

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – The Great Gatsby There’s a central body in Japan that declares the coming and going of rain. That means that there is a weather bureaucracy, and someone stamps … Continue reading →