Sublime

shakuhachi music, ikebana flower arrangement with its asymmetric

Mitchel mastered Rule Four by taking a hiatus from his aggressive debt payments and putting that money toward his thirty-day buffer. His spending was still tight, but knowing it was for the purpose of building his buffer made the penny-pinching more tolerable.

Nowadays, you hardly ever see monks practicing takuhatsu. In Kyoto, they are found on the bridges; in Tokyo, they are usually in Ueno and in some more traditional neighborhoods; and in Nara, you can see them near the temples, but not inside.