The international organization known as Rotary promotes trips each year, that all men aged between 26 and 40, male and female, and of all backgrounds to know - - it is a study funded by Rotary, six weeks on board, and everyone can apply, if a part of this important life experience. If you are in this age group - you could enjoy the kind of experience that is described in my notes in this article, too. They want to know more about the program go to Rotary International and the WebSearch GSE - Group Study Exchange - and contact your local Rotary Club for more information.
Our adventure continues:
3. May - Tuesday:
Today is a very rare pleasure it was for us all - it is fun to evaluate because the seats can not go in your daily life - and that was the case today - including our Japanese visitors will not be able to have experience, unless it is specially organized. Mika Ogawa note of the international department of the CityHall, visiting for a long time - and has prepared for us in the Zen Buddhist temple - especially when women are not received, and second, when the public is not invited - but we were treated to a very privileged . By taxi - we went to the oldest Zen Buddhist temple in Japan - and we were greeted by Byakuhou Hosokawa, welcoming the Zen master - when he was in his robe, the Zen-Japanese-style garden at the door and walls of the Community. (6-1 Gokusho, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City812-0037 Japan).
The Master was soon - as it should be Zen masters - and have had the wish in-the-moment calm, the Zen master should have - I liked him immediately - and I felt like standing next to his presence. There were so many questions I wanted to ask you - like to hear someone on the elbow of a master - and not for the issue at this time. We left, and under a stone path - in a traditional Japanese sliding door buildings - with the meditation cushion for us all. ThisSaikouji was the Temple. I decided on a cushion in a corner - and Monaco, Genmyou Iso, sitting in a lotus position, leading to me - in a ceremony meditation. He knew that the Americans are back in mediation would be very difficult - and broke up the order - but I fall deeply in mediation and was grateful for the opportunity to have disappeared for twenty minutes - and never mind that the rest of you were writhing . Coming out of meditation - I felt a stinging blow on my shoulder, and then click athe other shoulder - with a sort of long, flexible sticks - and the monks had hit my back. He explained that was part of the process - not just complain, but to encourage the student in the process of enlightenment. If you are asked - Anthony, Harry, Monica, Julia, and Dr. Mika Funakoshi - all accepted the beatings - as if Dash away the car fool.
As I said - that was a unique experience that we are blessed with - and we were then taken through a gate andShoufuku-ji - wooden floors in the corridors of the "Star Gathering Room" - the one room, they have no right of monks in training, to give - it's just the master. Here Sokyo Shimura (a beautiful Japanese woman in kimono Spring Green) - was introduced, the traditional tea ceremony - and we charge. Byakuhou Hosokama, the Zen master SA formally invited to the bottom of the front of the square room - and each of us, through space. They literally told us to sit, as the sweetJapanese Sweets were presented - three cups individually decorated cakes were made - and everyone has voted, and put the bowl say (something like "Sorry for the host first") in a sentence to our neighbor. I opted for a cake that looked like a green leaf - and knew sweet bean paste, which I ate with chopsticks from the paper. Young women in kimono came to prepare the tea - and the Zen master said that green tea is grown and the best from the Temple. Each of us was served the tea -- and we turned the cup in the traditional style of the exhibition design of the cup to the other - and to drink tea spiced. Then he bowed to the ceramic cups to admire the grace -.
Zen masters enjoyed ourselves - and that was our luck - because we went through the halls certified wood floors - and the national archives of special treasury - where we saw a big hand, pieces of wood carved by l ' Emperor of China, this time as first Zen temple> Japan. There were books and statues carved - and an artifact, "said the teacher was a small piece of bone of the Buddha. In the middle of the third room was a large bell that hung at once in the temple garden - and is one 1000 years of Korean old bell - which is a big piece of wood line - and we enjoyed playing. The gardens of the temple have been maintained with precision - the stones into finely-tuned lines and circles - and the trees again Japanese style, a form. Wewanted in quiet moments linger in the garden, nature, beauty, order - the history, philosophy, the spirit of the moment - and the Zen master pointed to the gate until it disappeared into the distance.
We were treated to lunch is just around the corner and down a side street - to Murata Restaurant - 291-0894 and handmade soba noodles and tempura. Dr. Funakoshi and I sat at the bar - and the other SA with Mika on the table. We have pasta and French fries, soy sauce firstDraft of the soba dough - and appreciated the warm tempura - all good. We talked about education, Dr. Funakoshi in the United States - and how many of our guests have had some American education.
Today is the beginning of Dontaku Festival in Fukuoka - and the whole town for the festival, which lasts two days - the gathering of 30,000 participants and two million people live. The streets are full of festivities, as we leave the restaurant - and head to the parade route to watch the parade children and adults tooThis colorful event. Which one day - and Julia and Monica are new host families again this evening. E 'to thank for a lot to do after this trip.
This article is a series - so read on - and for many days to follow in our wonderful adventure!
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