The Japan tour June-July 2023 has been a profound experience for a first-timer to Japan. A before and after.
Sitting with an increasingly aching back & butt on the long flight home from Tokyo, I feel encouraged to improve my game when I return. To my family, my friends and colleagues but primarily in relation to myself.
What I have felt standing in front of a cheering and waving audience of around 1500, or when I order a cafe hotto at Starbucks in a regular mall day after another late night divine meet-carnage….is that if I can get that care and respect, that dedication and ‘presence in the moment’ as a stranger – then I wish to seek to better synchronize myself with those attributes.
Where I come from we have lots to learn from this ancient culture. For this experience I am very grateful.