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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』44

「ナ タジロギソ 一人 ヒトリカハ」

             柳宗悦『心偈』

Don't step back alone, you aren't always alone.

 

"Tajirogi" means hesitation, flinching, and delusion.

wind and wave of this world are strong and heavy.

Especially when the world is dark and is depressed, the resistance of people is strong for the man who fry a flag of the truth.

It is to say the truth that was never misunderstood didn't exist.

That is reality of the sad world.

But don't you make progress?

The truth is never lonely.

One is not alone at all.

The one becomes two people sometimes and becomes three people.

A pilgrim's stick  is written "dogyo nininn." 

If we feel lonely, but we walk with Buddha (or Daishi).

So we at least travel two people.

We are always together with a reliable power more than anyone else.

The travel of truth isn't alone.