2009/11/10

Magazine Articles

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Magazine Articles


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A rather old magazine about Japan was sent to my by Mr. Tajima.
Thank you so very much!


Japan Illustrated Autumn 1974

04 Japan Illustrated


Daruma, the Carricatured Patriarch
by Douglas M. Kenrick
Asiatic Society of Japan

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06 page 2


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The taste of Zen and the taste of Tea are the same.

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週刊 世界百不思議(29)
Wonders of the World Weekly Magazine



<神秘>

「だるまさん」が招ぶ 開運講座
Daruma san ga yobu Kaiun Koza
Why does Daruma bring good luck?


●不死説も。「達磨大師」の生涯
●日本各地のいろいろなだるまさん


01 Daruma Koza

02 explanations

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禅の風 第46号 Zen no Kaze - Nr. 46 2017

- reference source : suiyosha.hondana.jp/book -


and the magazine

. 禅の友 Zen no Tomo Magazine .

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2009/11/09

Exhibition Fukuyama

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Exhibition in Fukuyama
From July 3 till August 31, 2009

「福よこい!だるま大百科」展




広島県福山市 日本郷土玩具博物館
広島県福山市松永町4-16-27
2009年7月3日~8月31日


Daruma from all over Japan
for family security, good luck, good business and all other wishes in life.



福よこい!だるま大百科展






Children have a chance to try their hand at painting a Daruma from Mihara. Their teacher is Kubo san, the leader of the Mihara Daruma workshop, he is already 82 years old.
This daruma contains a little bell in the belly to make a sound when your wish comes true. It also has a little headband.

三原だるま工房の久保等工房長

source : blog.chugoku-np.co.jp


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Mihara Daruma / 三原だるま

My Visit to Fukuyama Bingo Shrine


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2009/11/07

Zen no Tomo

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Zen no Tomo Magazine

禅の友

Zen no Tomo


禪の友
A magazine of the Soto Zen sect.
monthly Sōtō magazine


Shikan Taza means just sit,
and does not indicate that there is any particular style.



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The magazine from October 2009 is about

Daruma Memorial Day .. Daruma-ki, Japan 達磨忌


Daruma Museum

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Sanpo-Ji Kyoto

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Temple Sanpo-Ji 三寳寺 (さんぽうじ)
Sanpooji 三宝寺 Sanpoji

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A Nichiren sect temple founded in December 8 1628.
The statue in the Myoken-do Hall was carved around the middle of the Edo period and the deity it depicts is affectionately known as 'the Myoken of Narutaki.' Chinese quince trees line the approach to the temple while the cherry trees next to the Main Hall are said to have been transplanted from the Imperial Palace. Both quince and cherry trees are well known features of the temple.
On the first Sat and Sun in December, the temple bustles with people who come to take part in the 'Nichirenshu no Daikodaki' or 'Nichiren White Stewing Radish Festival.'
source : kaiwai.city.kyoto.jp

Narutaki no Myoken-san
Matsumoto-cho Narutaki Ukyo-ku
京都市右京区鳴滝松本町32


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Mikuji - fortune telling slips in a wooden Daruma


source : Copyright (C) 2009 ZauCats
http://www.geocities.jp/philn/kyoto/ukyoku/sanpoji/sanpoji11.html



Charm

Mikuji Sanpo-Ji Temple


Mikuji backside
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厄落としの大根焚き(お会式)Daikotaki
Cooking Radishes for Nichiren

kigo for mid-winter

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This festival is in memorial of Saint Nichiren and Nichiro 日朗上人.
If you eat a piece of the radish stew, you will be protected for the coming year and also not contract palsy 中風封じ祈祷.
Radishes are cooked with tofu from Saga 嵯峨豆腐.

When believers gave this soup to Nichiren, he tasted it and said

大根は大仏堂の大釘の如し、
あじわいは『とうり天』の甘露のごとし」

The big radish is like a nail of the big Buddha Hall.
It tasts like the sweet dew in the paradise of Tooriten.


There is also cooked rice with yuzu citron flavor, yuzu gohan ゆず御飯, another speciality which Nichiren liked very much and praized highly as food to warm the body.

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厄落としの大根焚き



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Japanese HP
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Saint Nichiren 日蓮上人
and related KIGO

Bishamonten and the Tooriten paradise とう利天

Myooken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 Myoken Bosastu



Daikodaki (daikotaki) 大根焚 Cooking large radishes
kigo for mid-winter


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Sanpo-Ji in Tokyo, Nerima Ward
練馬区の石神井公園近くにある三宝寺
Tokyo, Nerima, Shakujiidai


source : Nobuhiro, facebook

. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .



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Ikefuchi Historical Park
On the south of Shakujii Pond 石神井公園, just behind a little fox shrine, is the much smaller Ikefuchi Historical Park (池淵史跡公園) where shards of pottery were found, believed to be connected to the Shakujii Castle mentioned above. It is due to have a small museum built in it by March 2010.

Just a little east of Ikefuchi Historical Park is Sanpoji Temple, built in 1394 and later moved here.

At the eastern end of Sanpoji Pond, just in front of the site of Shakujii Castle, is where Japan's first 100 meter pool was built, in 1918, for training Japanese swimmers in preparation for the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1989, the eastern end of the old pool was turned into a "Waterside Observation Park" (水辺観察園) where various rare waterside flora can be seen, and serving as a resource for the full renaturing of the area.
- source : www.japanvisitor.com



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2009/11/01

Bonji Daruma Sanskrit

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Bonji Daruma 梵字だるま with sanskrit letters





Temple Jindai-ji 深大寺 and Sanskrit eyes for Daruma  

The bonji in the eyes represent 子 and 丑, thei first two characters of the Chinese zodiac.
. ne 子 (nezumi 鼠) Rat (mouse)
. ushi 丑 Ox (cow, bull)
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bonji mandara 梵字曼陀羅 bonji mandala,
written with sanskrit letters
梵字マンダラ



成就文字(梵字)般若心経
Heart Sutra written as a mandala with sanskrit letters


http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~vam/joujuhannnya.html


Hanya Shingyo 般若心経 Heart Sutra 
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Jewellery
金剛界梵字マンダラ
Diamant world mandala


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胎蔵界曼荼羅



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Sanmaya Mandala 三昧耶曼荼羅
Deities represented by symbolic objects, some of them in the form of Sanskrit letters



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Shuji Mandala 種字曼荼羅 or
Hoo Mandala 法曼荼羅 "Buddhist Law Mandala"
Deities represented by Sanskrit seed syllables
biijaakushara ビージャークシャラ


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金剛界種字曼荼羅 Diamant World Mandala


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七観音の種字 Seven Kannon Sylables



Fukuu Kensaku .. Batoo .. Jundei ..Sho .. Senju .. Juuichimen .. Nyoirin

... ... ... Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩


. Toono shichi Kannon 遠野七観音
Seven Kannon Temples of Tono .


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- - - - - Mark Schumacher on the subject

. MANDALA or MANDARA 曼荼羅 .  
Mandala Intro
Mandala Quick Guide
Mandala A-to-Z Glossary
Mandala Dieties Dictionary

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Mandala Therapy

My Mandala and Labyrinth Collection

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .

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............................................................. Fukuoka 福岡県
筑紫野市 Chikushino city

isoo 異僧 a strange priest
享保18年春頃、筑紫国天拝山の頂に毎夜火の光が見えるので、太守が怪しんで家臣を見に行かせた。すると1人の僧が五穀豊穣の護摩を修していた。家臣が確認をしに来た事の証拠が欲しいと言うと、僧は梵字に似た字で歌を認め渡した。太守がそれを見て僧を召したので、家臣たちが再び山へ入ると、僧の姿は無く、護摩の跡も無かった。



............................................................. Yamagata 山形県
鶴岡市 Tsuruoka city

bonji 梵字
戦国時代に、戦に破れた大将が川で水を呑んでいたら、大きな梵字が流れてきた。不思議に思い呑むと、非常に元気が出て、それから連戦連勝してこの地方を征服した。



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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -
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2009/10/31

Regent hairstyle

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Regent hairstyle リーゼント(スタイル)
"Regent Daruma" リーゼントだるま



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The Regent Hairstyle in Japan
The hair is kept in place with a lot of pomade and wax.
It got its Japanese name from the Regent street in London, where it was often seen.

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gure Daruma ぐれダルマ

デザイナー: 現代美術二等兵

On his belly there is the Chinese character for

bad 悪  aku

It comes in many varieties, even as a piggy bank.



Gure Daruma in Black 黒ぐれダルマ


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Pompadour
is a style of haircut which takes its name from Madame de Pompadour.

The pompadour was a fashion trend in the 1950s among male rockabilly artists and actors.
In recent years the pompadour hair style has been adopted by those enamoured with vintage culture of the late 50s and early 1960s that includes antique cars, hot rods, American folk music, rockabilly bands, and Elvis Presley.

In modern Japanese popular culture, the pompadour is a stereotypical hairstyle often worn by gang members, thugs, members of the yakuza and its junior counterpart bōsōzoku, and other similar groups such as the yankii (high-school hoodlums).
In Japan the style is known as the "Regent" hairstyle, and is often caricatured in various forms of entertainment media such as anime, manga, television, and music videos.

A pompadour is often created by combing the sides of the hair back, while fanning the top of the hair forward and curling over itself. There are numerous ways to sculpt a pompadour. Some only curl the front few inches of their hair up, while others comb their hair back and use their hands to "push" it into its desired place.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !



ponpa ポンパ pompa
the hairstyle for girls, like Madame Pompadour
Marquise de Pompadour,
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson、(1721―64)
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2009/10/27

Taiyaki Daruma Yaki

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Taiyaki たい焼き waffle in form of a sea bream

More photos with Taiyaki Daruma


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神田のたい焼き屋 達磨

A store in Kanda, Tokyo, with the Name of Daruma
Kanda no Taiyakiya Daruma
Taiyaki Kanda Daruma (たいやき 神田達磨)

Some waffles are sprinkled with sesame seeds.


神田達磨(Kanda Daruma)
2-1 Ogawamachi, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: 03-6803-1704


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. WASHOKU
Figure waffles (ningyooyaki 人形焼)
 



another variety of Daruma Yaki だるま焼き








だるま水産株式会社
札幌市西区二十四軒3条1丁目42-1
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Waffeln in Form einer Meerbrasse

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Diese Waffeln stillen nicht nur den Hunger nach etwas Süßem, sie bringen auch Glück für den Esser, denn das Wortspiel mit TAI (japanischer Name der Meerbrasse) und MEDE TAI (glückverheißend) bringt jedem Glück. Daher fehlen sie auf keinem Festplatz und kleinere Buden verkaufen sie vor vielen Kaufhäusern, besonders in den kalten Monaten.

Eine Waffel aus Weizenmehl, gefüllt mit süßem Bohnenmus oder Vanillecreme – das ist alles. Der Bäcker hat entweder eine getrennte Waffelform für jeden Fisch oder eine Stange mit mehreren Fischformen nebeneinander, die gleichzeitig über das Kohlenfeuer gehalten werden.
Ahnherr ist die Imagawa-Waffel von einem Laden der Edo-Zeit an der Brücke über den Fluß Imagawa im Stadtteil Kanda. Sie wird aus Weizenmehl, Zucker, Eiern und Wasser gemacht und ist einfach nur rund, mit süßem Bohnenmus oder Vanillecreme gefüllt.

Daraus entwickelten sich Waffeln in verschiedenen Tierformen, aber der TAI mit dem glückverheißenden Schwanzwort machte das Rennen.

Im Schwanzteil ist keine Füllung, den soll man am Schluß „zum Ausputzen des Mundes“ verspeisen. Wieder andere meinen, den Schwanz zuerst zu essen erhöhe das Glück bei den nächsten süßen Bissen.
Oder noch anders:
Die Herren beginnen mit dem Kopf, die Damen mit dem Schwanz. ... Japanische Lebensphilosophie!


. WASHOKU
sea bream waffles, taiyaki 鯛焼き



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Fudoo yaki 不動焼き waffle from a Fudo Temple
Fudoyaki, Fudo-Yaki


This is more a kind of dorayaki, round waffle with red bean paste filling.

狭山不動尊 Sayama Fudo Temple 不動寺
It has been founded by Kobo Daishi.
This temple has been patronized by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in 1632.
It has a lot of important buildings in the precincts.
In the neighbourhood are places which specialize in food with tofu.

In Tokorozawa (所沢市, Tokorozawa-shi), Saitama prefecture.
Sayama green tea is another speciality.

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鯛焼を割つて五臓を吹きにけり

taiyaki o watte gozoo o fukinikeri
  
I break open
a taiyaki sweet waffle and blow
on its intestines


Nakahara Michio 中原道夫

The freshly baked taiyaki are usually very hot and steam comes out after breaking htem open. People have to fuufuu blow on them for cooling.

gozoo
is an old term for the intestines, five zoo and six pu, gozoo roppu 五臓六腑.
According to the old Chinese medicine, these are the five full organs (heart, lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys), and the six hollow organs (stomach, small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder and reproductive organs).


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2009/10/22

frontispice

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Frontispice (kuchi-e)
くちえ【口絵】



『安政見聞誌』「口絵の達磨」
(あんせい けんもん し)
from the magazine "Ansei kenmonshi"



〝悟れかしこれぞ禅機の無門関ゆり崩れては一物もなし〟

「一物もなし」が御叱りの対象になったのだが、梅の屋は扇面に認めたものを写し取られたと釈明して、咎を免れた〉 
"安政見聞誌"「口絵の達磨」 一登斎芳綱?画
source : www.ne.jp/asahi/kato


Illustration from 歌川芳綱 Utagawa Yoshitsuna
(fl.1848-68)
Ittosai Yoshitsuna 一登斎芳綱


The magazine "Anzei 安政" was first published around 1856. It is a reportage of the effects of the earthquake of October 1855. It showed the destruction and detailed maps of Edo.
The magazine was also called 垣魯文編 .
It had illustrations by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川 国芳(うたがわ くによし) and others.



CLICK HERE for the Japanese Version of the Magazine:
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Ansei (安政)
was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō) after Kaei and before Man'en. This period spanned the years from 1854 through 1860.
The reigning emperor was Kōmei-tennō (孝明天皇).

Ansei 2 (November 11, 1855):
Great Ansei Earthquake in Edo, one of the Ansei Great Quakes, with resulting fire damage and loss of life.
Epicenter -- (Latitude: 36.000/Longitude: 140.000), 6.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale.
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http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/kikaku/index75/namazu.html
source : National Museum of Japanese History

Namazu-E of the Ansei Earthquake


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Namazu to Daruma 鯰とだるま Catfish and Daruma

The Black Ships and Earthquakes


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2009/10/10

chataku saucer

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Saucer for tea cup
茶托 / 茶たくchataku / cha-taku


chataku are small plates used for the small cups of green tea. They usually come in a set of five, just like the tea cups.


made from Negoro laquer



ダルマ茶托 : 根来

source : uchiki-co.com




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Negoro lacquerware was produced at the temple Negoro-ji (根来寺)in Izumi province. The red layers of lacquer of the Negoro wares are intended to gradually wear away with use, revealing the black lacquer underneath. This effect has since been copied and emulated elsewhere.

Mercury was used in the production and the deities for mercury were venerated at the local temples.




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H A I K U




銀無垢の茶托の翳り冬灯
gin muku no chataku no kageri fuyu akari

the shimmer of these
saucers of plain silver -
winter lights


Nakamura Teijo 中村汀女
Tr. Gabi Greve


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Negoro Laquer ware and the Deity Niutsuhime
丹生都比女 . 根来塗(ねごろぬり)

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2009/10/05

Shibata Zeshin

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Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 / しばたぜしん
(1806 - 1891)


painter and plastic arts, laquer ware.
ZESHIN means "the truth of truths".

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Shibata Zeshin
was a famous and revolutionary Japanese painter and lacquerer of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. In Japan, he is ironically known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and also an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this odd reputation in Japan, Zeshin has come to be well-regarded and much studied among the art world of the West, in England and the United States in particular.

Zeshin learned not only the basics of painting and sketching, but also Japanese tea ceremony, haiku and waka poetry, history, literature and philosophy. This would form the foundation of his training in not only the techniques of the traditional arts, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the aesthetic and philosophy of Japanese traditional art. Many of his works from the period of his studies with Nanrei were fan paintings. The great ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi was impressed with these fan paintings and, approaching the young painter, began a friendship which would last for many years.

Today, one of the greatest collections of Zeshin's works is the Khalili Collections of London, containing over 100 works by the artist.
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Shibata Zeshin: Masterpieces of Japanese Lacquer
from the Khalili Collection

(Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art)
by Joe Earle

Combining unparalleled technical skill with a highly individual decorative style, Zeshin's paintings and lacquers are imbued with traditional humour, energy and grace, but are fully in tune with the innovative spirit of Meiji-period Japan.
source : Oxbow Books




笠につく蝶と一つに都入り
kasa ni tsuku choo to hitotsu ni Miyako-iri

on my straw hat
there is one butterfly
when I enter the capital



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A Haiku Menagerie
edited by Stephen Addiss (1992)

The caged bird
envies the butterfly–
just look at its eyes!

Issa

The introduction to this collection looks at the history of haiku and Japanese woodblock books and the relationship these two media have.
Addiss discusses their printed relationship as well as direct influence such as Shibata Zeshin’s “Swallow” as a direct inspiration from an Issa haiku.

source : A Haiku Menagerie

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English Reference

Japanese Reference


Featured in - Daruma Magazine 64 , 2009


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Meditation in Nature

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A Breath of Fresh Air

By Mark Coleman




Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment,
because in its presence we realize
we need very little to be happy.
Since we are part of the animal kingdom,
our senses are naturally more alive
in the outdoors.




Read more about meditation in nature

source : www.tricycle.com


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Ishi no ue san nen 石の上三年
Meditating on a stone for three years

Meditating Daruma Paintings

 Meditation, Skillful Meditation

Menpeki Kunen, Wallgazing for nine years
Daruma and Meditation

Mudra, Daruma Mudra meditation position
dharma-cakra-pravartana 


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2009/09/16

Ukiwa swim ring

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Swim ring (ukiwa 浮き輪 )

This one is big enough for grown-ups, it is 100 cm wide and comes with a long rope.




The whole package

Photo from my friend Ishino.



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