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Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi on Mt. Gassan

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I write a blog every day. Here are the most recent posts.

October 6, 2019

Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes you have no choice but to sit still and let the world flow around you. Embrace it. Let it flow. You'll still be taken for the ride.


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 …

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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 …

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man wearing straw hat drawing his sword

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. …

Using The Beginner’s Mindset Read More »


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 …

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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 …

Doing things makes things happen. Read More »


coffee beans

October 1, 2019

Light roast. First light roast in a while so I may be a bit biased but the taste is not as fruity as I expected. Still fruity. Tones of orange. Maybe, still need practice at this. Tastes nice though, but could this be change for like of a deeper roast? Maybe this one is too …

Kathima beans from Kenya Read More »


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