{"id":846,"date":"2023-04-10T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2023-04-10T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:24:53","slug":"kyoto-in-sakura-season-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/kyoto-in-sakura-season-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto in Sakura season, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After our guides left us, we headed towards the Philosopher’s Path, so named since Nishida Kitaro, founder of the Kyoto school of philosophy, frequently strolled along this route. His work focused on clarifying in contemporary philosophical terms the significance of the Zen Buddhist concept of Nothingness, which may seem a little ironic considering the rich sensuality of this path in the spring time. Well perhaps this is not ironic at all since by Nothingness Kitaro was pointing at the not a stagnant void, but the bottomless well-spring of everything that is manifest in the ever changing world we encounter. We only got to see Kitaro’s path as it underwent one small part of the many changes he must have witnessed walking back and forth on this serene hillside beside a small irrigation canal throughout the year, as afternoon faded into dusk. Before we got there however, we encountered another unexpected jewel, the Jodo sect’s head temple of Eikando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surrounded by mossy gardens the wooden structures of Eikando wander up a hillside to a pagoda overlooking the floodplain of eastern Kyoto. Here among and within these beautiful structures we watched monks go about their daily business including doing their later afternoon chanting in the main dharma hall.<\/p>\n\n\n