Pictorial

 Whatever the people build

nature engulfs it

Languages interaction through Buddhism

 Sanskrit influence on Chinese

過去, 未來, 現在 map directly to Sanskrit past (atīta), future (anāgata), present (pratyutpanna)

Guòqù, wèilái, xiànzài

過去、未来、現在

Kako, mirai, ima

天堂 and 地獄 Tiāntáng and dìyù  heaven and hell

天国と地獄 Tengoku to djigoku

世界 lokadhatu Shìjiè

世界 Sekai world

 剎那，覺悟 moment, awakening

Chànà, juéwù

瞬間、目覚め 

Shunkan, mezame

JLPT tests

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Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers

Been a fan of Stoicism, had to know whats beyond it.

Havent heard of Cyrenaics (not thinking about virtue). Marie Kondo style of simplifying.

Epicurius Natural and necessary desires

Dynamic and static pleasures. The fleeting joy at the end of vacation 

Thing about translation

 Translation changes based on the language it is in and going into. The order is different so that it makes sense and is the convention of the language it is translated into.

Today's learning from learning Japanese

 I kept coming across benri this morning. Later in the evening when I came across it, I was able to recall because in the morning, when I came across it the second time, I had to register it in mind.

The many conjugations of the verbs are a good way to learn the kanji with repetition.

Useful free Japanese resources

Remembering the Kanji vol I A complete course on how not to forget the meaning and writing of Japanese characters

wesleycrobertson books

Irodori books

Lets learn Japanese book

Got some of them from here 

Genki

Basic Japanese

pomax Grammar

Colloquial Japanese

Murakami Kijo

 The life and works of Murakami Kijo

Japanese resources

 Japanese beginner

Nihongo Now

This book Love to Learn Japanese 2 is a game changer for me with colorful pictures. part of Easy to Learn Japanese series

book 1 excerpt

book 2 excerpt

book 3 excerpt

book 4 excerpt

Junique

 Santoka's Soumoku collection

Junique is not a free-form haiku. It is a new 12-syllable senryu style proposed by Nishizawa Yoka.

Themed reading

 CTsalazar list of poems read at a retirement community

Language learning journey

 When you have  alist of words to learn, itmight not be easy. But if you make sentences with them it gets better. When you understand the basic sentence structure, then all you need to know are the meanings of the new words. Its amazing what everday practice can do. Yesterday I borrowed a Japanese book from a teacher. It was very colorful but I didnt think I could make any inroads with it. But I sat down and started reading it slowly and realised that I could go forward. I started writing down Kanji as the script is cartoonish and less intimidating.

Something beautiful

 Friday morning, while driving I saw two  dried bougainvillea flowers being swept by the wind and thought of a haiku when the gray clouds let a whimpering rain. In the evening, while walking I thought of picking up a few of the flowers by the walkway to model them into a haiga. I was going to a fall festival and knew, I couldnt keep them safe.

Next day morning, when I opened the garage door to go outside, there were two dried bougainvillea. They werent there when I set out for walk the previous evening. But the wind of the car, must have followers.

Japanese painting

 Painting a Japanese Crane with Lian Quan Zhen

Recognizing Japanese letters

 I began my interest in Japanese with trying to look up the original haiku in Japanese after reading English translations. Looking back at the journey so far, when I searched for a translation, I understood that this image had the original that I am looking for. But how do we find the letters. Using google translation and midway letters that I could read, I had to adjust the Japanese text back and forth to finally get:

"誕生と死を見つめる 蓮はすでに 花を 開いた

Tanjō to shi o mitsumeru hasu wa sudeni hana o aita " - Soseki