More Wonderful Japanese Food
Wonderful as usual. There are few lunches I enjoy more than one of fresh soba noodles!
The Zen Patriarch and me. Bodhidharma is the 5th century Buddhist monk credited with transmitting Zen to China. When a friend held up this woodcut (in a small restaurant on Japan's Izu Peninsula), the room filled with cries of "Same! Same!"
Great Company, Wonderful Food. In Tokyo, I'm enjoying a dinner of soba (buckwheat) noodles and other healthy, delicious Japanese foods. Across from me is Jin Tatsumura, director of Gaia Symphony 7. Also enjoying dinner are Tim McLean and Yoshiko Takaoka, practitioners of transpersonal psychology in Japan, and longtime friends who have helped with with Japanese projects for 20 years.
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Wonderful "wasabi-zuke," which consists of pickled wasabi-plant shoots and leaves. The best I have ever tasted!
The burn! The sting of fresh wasabi-zuke oscillates above and below the dimensionless line that divides pain and pleasure...