Joichi Ito
Joichi Ito
Time ：5:30 Scroll ："yuen" by Kitaro Nishida Bowl：9th Ohi Chozaemon Tea： Hoshinoen "Hojyu"
Had a nice bowl of thick tea this chilly morning.
Nishida is the founder of the Kyoto School of Philosophy and one of the founding members of the Chiba Institute of Technology. The scrolls says "yuen" and it means far and distant in time and space or eternity.
Tea practice has made me much more aware of time - many of the utensils we use are hundreds of years old, and the scrolls and the utensils we use will likely continue to be used for hundreds of years. Hold an ancient bowl; one can imagine when it was made, the people who handled it, and the society and history surrounding them. Then, it is easy to imagine the bowl in the future and the people and cultures they will live in. Then stretch and keep pushing time in the past and the future until you envision eternity.
