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October 2008 Archive

October 31, 2008

the cold weather has set in.

when it's cold, we human beings use fire, put on some clothes, or try to get warm anyhow.
i couldn't do it neither.

so there was only one way left, and i found it so effective

"to be cold"

this was the best way when it's cold.
when you become cold, you don't have to worry about the weather.

dozo yoroshu

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October 29, 2008

do you bite a candy when you eat it?

i know many people who always bite a candy when they eat it.
they all say they can't stop biting. they are often said to stop biting from their family.

i am one of the people who bite a candy.
i can't lick it till the end.

yesterday, i found it difficult to bite a candy when your are in the condition of Zazen(sitting) or Dokyo(chanting stura). i don't mean i am licking a candy when i do Zazen or Dokyo, but in the condition of Zazen, or Dokyo(it's really sensuous from long time experience... hard to express it in words though...), i can't bite.

of course, when i force myself to BITE it, i can bite, but when i had to do that i need so much energy that is unnatural and uncomfortable feeling. i can't bite it easily.

there are a lot of people who eat much when they are under stress.
i am one of them. however, if you try to alleviate stress by eating, it actually means just shifting the responsibility on internal organs.
we can't find a cause of the stress so shift it to other part of our body.

when we strike something with your fist, it hurts, so we strike our guts. guts never complain and don't hurt until ulcer is made. we rely on guts.

i have to face to this problem...

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October 28, 2008

as an actor and unsui, i am always told "to be like a child".

but if you behave like a child in your daily life, there will be so many problems.

i was walking in the subway station, thinking about being like a child, and when i came in front of an escalator, i made a mistake trying to ride on a opposite side of the stairs.
i couldn't decide which stairs to ride on.

to live in the modern life in the city, sometimes it's important to behave like an adult.

dozo yoroshu

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October 25, 2008

currently i use bike and inline-skate to move to other place.

riding on a train in Tokyo is kind of uncomfortable for me.
it's too crowded and far from Zen place...

if you have to live in the city, you have to face so many difficult problems.

dozo yoroshu

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October 25, 2008

i had a chance to talk with my "zen brothers" today.

we use the word "禅兄(ZEN KEI, means zen brothers)" to call other monks, especially monks who spent the same days in zen temple.

when we wake up, eat, practice, and sleep together, naturally we feel like being a big family.

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October 23, 2008

after leaving Eiheiji, my main Dojo is UPS(united performers studio).
in UPS, we learn "New York Actors Studio Method" from Yoko Narahashi.]

acting is so much related to Zen.
To be an Unsui in this 21st century, i really feel the importance to learn acting.

i can't express this feeling in a word right now.

what i can do is, just believe it and do it.

dozo yoroshu

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October 23, 2008

i am an Unsui.

as an Unsui in this modern life in Tokyo, i have to be really careful about my behavior all the day.

it's more and more difficult to be an Unsui in Tokyo than in Fukui(Eiheiji is located) for me these days...

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October 20, 2008

i have moved into a new place in Tokyo.
i haven't written for a long time in KNOM, since there's no computer in my new room.

many things happened since my last article.
i wanted to express what happened around me but i couldn't.

i felt how to use computer is really important to me in this modern world.

by the way, i met Honza in Shinjuku by accident the day before yesterday.
Honza is a big Czech man. we met in Berlin and spend 3 days together in the city.
i haven't made contact with him since i came back to Tokyo and i didn't even know he's now in Japan,
but it was purely by chance that we met in Tokyo.

i'm using internet to keep in touch with many people, but if there's strong karmic connection, we can get together.

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October 12, 2008

one of my "zen-brother" is now practicing in Zenkoji temple in Yokohama.
he had been in Thailand to practice Buddhism there for years.
soon after he came back to Japan, we entered Eiheiji together as fresh unsui 4 years ago.
we were practicing together in Eiheiji, at the international department.

he told me about this program last week.
if you are interested in studying more about buddhism, it will be great to take part in this program.

here's link to the Zenkoji temple. (you'll find the English page on the top right)

The Religious Corporation Yokohama Zenkoji Scholarship Foundation for International Buddhist Study accepts application for 2009

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October 9, 2008

My parents came to see me, and my sisiter in Tokyo yesterday.
They were from West Japan.

At the time when they arrived at Tokyo station, i was in my studio to practice for acting.
we were given 2 papers from my acting teacher.
she asked us to write a letter to our important person.
one is for a letter to an important person and the other is "from" the important person to me.

I wrote to my mother.
Just wrote it without thinking.
I also wrote down a letter "from" my mother.

after writing a letter, the teacher said to us,
"if there's anybody who would like to read the letter in fornt of everyone, please read it"

3 people raised their hands.

I remembered the word by Tom Hanks, "Acrting is to expose one's private things"

i did.

when i was reading my letter, my body was completely in tense.
my back muscles around protected my spinal column from hurting something.

it was far from RELAX and far from the condition of Zazen.
but there was a certain reality in the letter.

I squeezed my body and made my voice with tears and snivel.

when i finished reading the letter, i perceived full of sympathy with tears in the room.

the origin of acting, the origin of being.

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October 5, 2008

went to Fukui with 9 lay vistiors.
we stayed at Tenryu-ji which is very near from Eiheiji.

After a period of Zazen in the morning, we took part in the morning service in Eiheiji.
We had lunch in Zazen Hall by the manners of Zen practice.

dozo yoroshu

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