“Cultivating mental clarity is all about your willingness to give up logical thinking and avoid getting trapped in a spider’s web of words and thoughts”, Monk Tsuda tells us as we settle on to the straw-matted floor in as close to a lotus position as we can physically manage. For more than a decade, I’ve been strugglin... See more

in the empty courtyard, i tiptoe, holding my breath, careful not to disturb its stillness. a solitary afternoon at my favourite temple @komyoin (1391) in kyoto, with a dry landscape garden designed by #MireiShigemori #重森三玲 in 1939. #japanesemodernism

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Kyoto, Komyoin Temple is a hidden sanctuary known for its breathtaking Hashin-no-Niwa (波心の庭), or “The Garden of the Moving Heart.” Designed by renowned landscape architect Shigemori Mirei, this karesansui (dry rock) garden embodies the simplicity and depth of Zen aesthetics. The carefully arranged rocks and raked wh... See more