It's like that blowfish they have in Japan. If you take out certain organs, it's not going to be poisonous. The thing is that the cooks that are really considered skillful are the ones that leave a little bit of the poison in so you get a little bit of numbness on your lips, so you have the thrill of getting a little bit close to death.
was studying pottery in Japan with one of those national living treasures, and she found herself getting upset. Every time she'd put her pots in the kiln, a lot of them would come out burned or broken, whereas the national living treasure put pots in every day and they'd come out perfect every day, every day. Until one day she
Reformed Zen in Japan was one example; Neo-Hinduism in India was another. Neo-Hinduism is the name currently given to a religious movement in 19th century India—centered in Calcutta and, with the passage of time, conducted primarily by Indians trained in British schools—to reform the Indian religious tradition from one of multiple separate ...
Glossary Pāli-English. Abhidhamma: (1) In the discourses of the Pāli Canon, this term simply means "higher Dhamma," a systematic attempt to define the Buddha's teachings and understand their interrelationships. (2) A later collection of analytical treatises based on lists of categories drawn from the teachings in the discourses, added to the Canon several centuries after the Buddha's ...
We can take a lesson from the people of Japan: Their land is poor, their crops grow slowly, and the landscape is full of volcanoes. As a result, the people have to exert themselves to make a living and always be on the alert, ready to evacuate whenever there's danger.
who went to study pottery with a living national treasure in Japan. She was getting discouraged. She'd put her pots into the kiln and they'd come out all misshapen and burned, whereas his were coming out perfect every time, every time, until one morning she came to the shed and his pots had been ruined. He was there in the
A friend of mine once went to Japan to study pottery with one of the living national treasures they have over there. At the beginning of her stay she'd often get frustrated because she'd send her pots into the kiln every evening, and the next morning find that many of them had come out broken or unevenly burnt, whereas her teacher's pots ...
There's a children's game I saw once in a department store in Japan. In the department stores there they have game arcades up on the top floor, where the children can play while their mothers are shopping. One of the games depicted a set of holes in the ground out in the American prairie. Every now and then a plastic prairie dog would pop ...
And even though there's that popular conception of Theravada as a selfish path, as someone who had studied Buddhism both in Japan and in Thailand once said, you won't find that Thai people are any more selfish than Japanese people. In fact, it can often be the other way around. The example of the Buddha in the Pali Canon is not a selfish ...
In Japan they have a little doll. When you knock it over, it rights itself. You knock it over again, and it turns right-side up again. They use this to teach children. If a child falls down and starts crying, the grandmother will toss the little doll out to the child. The doll will tip over and then it will get straight back up again—the
