April 2026
“The Heart Sutra”: This Essential Power Tool!
The famous phrase from the Heart Sutra: “Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.” Of these, the phrase “emptiness is form” offers a precious teaching that helps us live with a positive and vibrant spirit in today’s complex and chaotic society. For us today, who tend to voluntarily burden ourselves with mental distress and stray onto the path of delusion, the Heart Sutra is truly an essential power tool for cutting through evil and delusion, enabling us to live our lives with vigor and vitality.
Eating the rivals of “Edo-mae” (Tokyo Bay) fishing!
Back when Tokyo was known as Edo, Tokyo Bay and the Sumida River, along with other waterways, must have been a veritable paradise for anglers.There were far more fish swimming there than there are today, and aogisu(blue whiting) that are now extinct were still thriving.The shirogisu(white whiting) is still thriving today, and like a lotus blooming from the mud, it delights us with its beautiful, pearl-like body.Edo-mae(Tokyo Bay) fish. That includes shirogisu(white whiting), of course, as well as conger eel, big-eyed flathead, flounder, Konoshiro, and so on. If we even include fish like the Ginpo—a staple of high-end tempura—a truly vast array of species comes to mind. However, here I’d like to focus specifically on three fish that are particularly familiar to us and renowned as formidable fishing opponents: the sea bass , the black sea bream , and the mullet. I would like to limit my thoughts here to these three fish.