A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki

When up looks up, up is down. When down looks down, down is up. Not-one, not-two. Not same. Not different. Now do you see?

some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children’s history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things.”