Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024

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Many temples serve Matcha tea while sitting on Tatami and enjoying views to the gardens around.

Bonsai

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Lunch

[ARNC]

@Chap bonsai 6 is stunning! Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

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...and Tonkatsu for dinner

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@ARNC said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

@Chap bonsai 6 is stunning! Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

Thanks, yes they were amazing some of them hundreds of years of age

[Chap]

@Daniel-San said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

@Chap
wonderful pictures Jens !!
really enjoying your journey
and happy new year in

Thank you! あけましておめでとう。(Happy new year)

[goosehd]

@Chap An aspect that I love and appreciate. So many of us get caught up in the wanting the perfect (insert item), that we forget it’s the process of getting there that’s important.

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After morning prayer at Daitoku-ji temple in our neighborhood

We are standing on a so called Nightingale Floor surrounding the temple. These flours make a squeaking sound (chirping noises) when you walk on them. Legend has it that the squeaking floors were used as a security device warning of intruders.

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At Orinasu-kan one of the oldest (and most famous) weavers of Kimono cloth in Nishijin, Kyotos weaving district.

Matcha tea in our Machyia

[Aetas]

Thanks for taking us along @Chap

[Alex]

@Chap said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

After morning prayer at Daitoku-ji temple in our neighborhood

This looks familiar - is it the zen temple within the larger complex? If so, Kira and I did a private meditation / sutra chanting here early one morning earlier this year with the temple master. Was a very cool experience

[Alex]

@Chap said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

...and Tonkatsu for dinner

This also looks familiar...

[Chap]

@Alex said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

@Chap said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

After morning prayer at Daitoku-ji temple in our neighborhood

This looks familiar - is it the zen temple within the larger complex? If so, Kira and I did a private meditation / sutra chanting here early one morning earlier this year with the temple master. Was a very cool experience

@Alex Yes it's a in a sub-temple of the complex of Daitoku-ji. I am pretty sure it is the same.

[Chap]

@Alex said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

@Chap said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

...and Tonkatsu for dinner

This also looks familiar...

@Alex it's the one in Nishiki market, I think I got the recommendation from you when we were in Kyoto in March

[Alex]

@Chap you did, glad you still remembered it

[Chap]

@Alex said in Maxi and Jens (Chap) - Japan November 2024:

@Chap you did, glad you still remembered it

Yes it is really good, Maxi been there a couple of times during his Kyoto time.

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Another Omakase restaurant in Kyoto. They take their Dashi very seriously. A couple of dishes from that evening.

Different types of Katsuobushi (Bonito flakes for Dashi)

Unreal Wagyu

The Wagyu

Fugo (Pufferfish)

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On the bikes again for breakfast and more temples

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My Goshuin book, collecting Goshuin from the Temples (stamps, handwritten by the monks, that work as a kind of proof that you have visited a specific temple or shrine, Maxi has already completed three books )

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@Chap Those are beautiful photos of such serene places.

A personal goal I have is to slow the F down and enjoy the current moment more. I'm typically mentally moving on to the next thing before I fully enjoy what's right in front of me. I feel like those temples should be enjoyed slowly, quietly, and thoroughly and would be just the test I need to help me over the hump.