I climbed Mt. Fuji on 14th of July. The weather condition was awful, although it wasn’t as bad as I expected, to be honest. How bad did I expect it to be? To the extent that it was impossible to climb Mt. Fuji. It was barely climbable. My friend Ashley, a Butoh dancer extraordinaire, climbed [...]
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama states as follows in an interview for The Japan Times:
“In order to contribute to the world, Japanese must learn English. The reality is that the universal language is English. Due to the language problem, Japanese people can’t contribute enough. It doesn’t have to be perfect English! My English is [...]
This post might be useful if you’re learning a foreign language. I’ll write about how I learnt English.
The way I learnt English is simple. After I decided to go to university in Australia, I started studying English with enthusiasm. To be able to study philosophy in English, one must get really good at English. That [...]
This year has been a year of creativity for me. It’s mostly due to Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist Way”. It’s not an easy task to define what creativity is, but I’m happy to say it’s really common and we’re all creative. It comes down to choosing to be creative as well. I’m just going [...]
I’m writing this post on my iPhone. The internet connection is somehow not working for my laptop. I thought I wouldn’t be able to update this blog today for that reason, but it seems I can, using my iPhone. Great.
It will be a year soon since I came back from Australia. Two more months. I [...]
I competed in a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament yesterday. I fought in the under 70kg division and in the open weight division, both for adult blue belts.
I had been practicing hard for this tournament, and given that I’m somewhat an overdue blue belt (I started BJJ in 2002; I got my blue belt in 2007) [...]
I started reading my morning pages today.
During the course of the Artist’s Way, you are not meant to read your morning pages after writing them except when there’s an instruction to do so later in the course.
The last time I read my morning pages was the last time I worked on Week 9 of the [...]
If you ask me what I want to do to the world these days, it’s very likely that I say this: I want to let there be more romances and beautiful moments of every kind without them being delusional. While there are many other things I want to pursue, this one is probably the one [...]
One of the basic tools of the Artist’s Way is the morning pages.
Every morning, you write down by hand whatever thoughts or emotions occuring to you at the time of writing. The minimal amount you’re expected to write is 3 pages. For me, it takes about 30 mins to do the morning pages. Since the [...]
If you see a beautiful moment coming toward you, be nice and ask the time to stop. Then dance with that moment in the timeless world.
You don’t know what beautiful moments look like? Just listen to the voice of your curiosity. I’m the first one to admit that I tend to neglect the voice of [...]