Toilet repair on the day of the Budhha’s enlightenment, December 8th 2013
Today Rohatsu sesshin ended after the celebration of the Buddha’s enlightenment in the earliest hours of the day. Also, the pipe of my toilet needed to be repaired:
Jisui, Tsukan and Steffi are preparing tofu for the Rohatsu sesshin, November 30th 2013
Recipe can be found in our wiki: https://antaiji.org/wiki/Main/Tofu
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Part of a German TV program, filmed in the early spring of 2013.
GalleryMy second visit to Ofunato and Rikuzen-Takada, November 22nd 2013
On the 21st, I was invited to give a talk in Iwate Prefecture in Northern Japan. I used the opportunity to visit my friend Yoichiro Kashiwa, who lost his house in the Tsunami two and a half years ago.
Both the area in Ofunato where his house stood as well as the town of Rikuzen-Takada, just south of Ofunato, still look devasted. There are plans to raise the ground of the whole area by 2 to 5 meters, and build walls against the waves which are more than 10 meters high. I am afraid that even with that amount of effort, human beings will not win against nature.