Being the only non-Japanese around in the decision making process puts a bit of pressure on me, and I am often uncertain about my thoughts and beliefs in regards to whether they are true or not. I am being relied on to provide perspective, but my perspective is severely limited, it's n=1, so perhaps one …

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What's my takeaway for today? Too many to count. But one thing is that having more responsibility as a Sendatsu assistant really felt like moving up from midget to junior cricket. It's one of those things where you know it's better for you, but there's something that holds you back from trying, some sort of …

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Buddha didn't learn the things he knew. He came to a realisation. When it comes to teaching, we aren't teaching, we're providing the environment for students to have a realisation. That is one thing that Master Hoshino got right. Yamabushi are not the teachers, Yamabushi simply set up the environment for our students, our fellow …

Learning and realising. Learning to realise. Read More »

Let them be offended. If someone doesn't like what you're doing does it matter? Some people are easily offended. Well, I would argue everyone is easily offended by something. The thing is we all think differently we all have different opinions and different thoughts on the same things. For millennia, humans have lived in communities, …

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Yesterday I heard something new, that the next frontier will be our minds. Right now we are in the information age so information is key, but in the coming future the final frontier will be our hearts and minds. I find this quite intriguing and I think it is very true. I am proud to …

The final final frontier Read More »

In the same way that there's no absolute necessity to fill silence with speech, there's no absolute necessity to fill time with stuff. You don't need to be busy every second of every day. Often being busy is just a cover, a cover that you're trying to make up for something. When you're being busy …

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I popped a rugby ball by pumping too much air into it earlier today. Granted it was a smaller size, and I was a bit frustrated at not being able to work out the piece to use to pump it, but it was something that was completely avoidable. I'm over it now, getting over things …

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