City Pockets

Cities have all these pockets of possibility.

自転車

Napoleon Bonaparte just cycled past me with a shock of white hair, cycling high speed without lights on a three lane Tokyo highway.

ひかり

I met a woman with sparkling eyes who told me that there are a lot of nature angels in Tokyo, even though there are many buildings.

見

I enjoyed the presence of hundreds of stone Buddhas in a local cemetery, these are gods for some people and a symbol of a teacher for others. Yesterday a man who has meditated for fifty years told me that the Heart Sutra is confusing for us because it's from the perspective of someone who had obtained enlightenment. I'm glad about this perspective because it's definitely confusing!

植物

As I ate chrysanthemum 菊 salad for lunch outside a tiny health food shop an old lady asked me for directions to the train station, then her daughter promptly corrected her and said 'not the train station, the cherry blossom さくら festival'. I didn't know but the shop keeper did. He used to be a breakdancer.

ダンス

I arrived an hour early for my dance class but couldn't find the door so I was fifteen minutes late. We danced with our heart's electrical-field present like cocoons around us.

心

This morning started with a matcha latte and a beautiful acupuncture treatment from moxa-sensei Tomoko Sasaki. I arrived twisted and left in a line, one inch longer.

お茶

So many curves and lines of a day.