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The Richness of Seeing Nothing
雪見 ／ Yukimi The Richness of Seeing Nothing KOTO／The Intangible Resonance | MEGURU STILLNESS JAPAN The garden was there yesterday. The stone lantern, the raked gravel, the small maple whose every branch had been trained over years int... -
MA — The Japanese Art of the Meaningful Pause
間 ／ MA The Japanese Art of the Meaningful Pause KOTO／The Intangible Resonance | MEGURU STILLNESS JAPAN The guest kneels before the tokonoma before the tea has even been prepared. There is a single scroll hanging in the alcove, a singl... -
One Bowl. Four Walls.Two Hours of Nowhere to Be.
茶 CHA — One Bowl. Four Walls. Two Hours of Nowhere to Be. KOTO／The Intangible Resonance | MEGURU STILLNESS JAPAN On chado — the Japanese way of tea — and what happens to time inside a room you cannot stand up straight in The entrance t... -
Zen Is Not a Feeling.It Is a Practice of Not-Knowing.
禅 ZEN — Zen Is Not a Feeling KOTO／The Intangible Resonance | MEGURU STILLNESS JAPAN On Zen — What it actually asks of the body, why it resists being understood, and why that resistance is the point. It was four forty-five in the mornin... -
What Happens in the Space Between Two Bows
On the Japanese practice of ojigi — and what bowing reveals about the architecture of respect The shinkansen had already rounded the curve and disappeared when I noticed the conductor was still bowing. He stood at the edge of the platfor...
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