Zen Reflection - A Slow Boat to China
Added 2019-10-12 23:46:22 +0000 UTCToday, I talk about a favorite passage from a shorty story from Haruki Murakami. Here is the excerpt below:
I wander through China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi. My adventures take me to the waiting room of the nearby dentist, to the bank teller’s window. I can go everywhere and I don’t go anywhere.
Tokyo—one day, as I ride the Yamanote Loop, all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. And I’ll be holding my ticket, watching it all. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn’t the place for me…Let loss and destruction come my way. They are nothing to me. I am not afraid. Any more than the clean-up batter fears the inside fastball, any more than the committed revolutionary fears the garrote. If only, if only…
Oh, friends, my friends, China is so far away.
Comments
Thanks for sharing your perspective. It makes me think about my relationship to my environment and other people, a discussion for another time. Take care!
The Zen Reaction
2019-10-13 14:21:51 +0000 UTCDreams do come true. Thanks, take care!
The Zen Reaction
2019-10-13 14:20:31 +0000 UTCThat’s really interesting, I’ve always been interested in philosophy and I love the idea of projecting yourself places. I think everyone seeks the same comforts and gets them in different ways, for me I don’t get as much out of imagining my environment because I think what I crave is people and their company, which I can’t imagine. The idea of discovering your uniqueness and finding tranquility within that, I think is extremely powerful though. Thanks for sharing.
Nick Graves
2019-10-13 01:17:37 +0000 UTC
