To make the best use of the nice weather we have these days, we got up and started with the harvest first thing this morning at 5am, before sun rise.. The plan is to finish the first field by tonight, allowing us to do a one day sesshin tomorrow. The other two fields still need time for the rice to ripen.

Ante from Australia is leaving Antaiji today. After dropping him off at Tottori station, I am checking in at the airport to go to Tokyo.

Quite a different atmosphere at Shinagawa:

A couple of minute of zazen in my hotel room:

The panel discussion took place from 6am to 8am. I will be uploaded on the channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BukkyoDendoKyokai during the next days.