The ultimate goal of the author’s experiment at Walden is not to prove the economic advantage of living simply, but rather to nurture understanding of self and of the universe.


I am now skeptical more than ever with structured paths.

Facilitate not teach

Structure but just enough to be confident to be free.


Who do I want to be?

An intellectual who is also a mystic.


How can we nurture a free, natural, spirituality in the Philippines?

Engakuji/Enkakuji

  • D. T. Suzuki experienced his awakening here
  • Nanrei Yokota, abott of Engakuji (advocate of contemporary Zen)
  • Check her zen videos