山伏
キウイ
I write a blog every day. Here are the most recent posts.
October 5, 2019
Quite often, Japanese people say I am more Japanese than they are. Obviously this depends on how you define 'Japanese' however. I think this reflects two things; how modern the Japanese have become, and my romanticized view of Japan. How modern they have become is more a comparison to times gone by. If you compare …
October 4, 2019
I put Instagram, Facebook messenger, gmail, Line, and google analytics in one folder on my phone and it tried to call the folder 'productivity'. What a joke. The reason why I put it all in a folder, on the third page at that, is because they are not at all productive and they only get …
October 3, 2019
Over the past few years, I have done a bit of interpreting for Zen monks and master Yamabushi. I have just been tasked with condensing all their knowledge of meditation into a script that we can later use for the participants on our Yamabushido programs. I was amazed at how much I have picked up. …
October 2, 2019
If humans have created something, it means we have the ability to change it, or at least to start over. When you live in two cultures, it becomes obvious that culture is something that humans have made. This means that culture can be changed. The culture of long hours in the office, allocation of only …
October 1, 2019
I’m thinking about doing and I’m doing Two clearly different things with only one thing between them; the doing part. When you can say the latter, it feels much better. You aren't imagining a future where things happen, you are living a present where things happen. Doing things makes things happen. Once you think about …
Here are a few posts of my adventures climbing the 100 Famous Mountains of Yamagata.
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