MingeiABC

study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』49

「行キナン 行クヘ知ラデモ」

           柳宗悦『心偈』

Let's go however you don't know where you are going.

 

Life of person can compare to journey.

Living is walking endless roads.

Where we go to?  For what do you keep on traveling?

If there is capital to aim, you are happy to walk than the trip there is no goal. 

But who can know what is capital?

Then If you have known this is capital, will journey end?

Though I aim to capital, then are I and capital always separate each other?

Moreover If I can know capital is such and such, is the capital a thing that I can know?

Is journey of heart approaching the depth which I can't know?

Though a point to aim isn't sure, we keep walking is a life of man?

We shouldn't be stupid, but how does cleverness have the power?

Walk to capital isn't that we go to capital, but the capital is equal meaning of walking.

At least we walk  thoroughly, capital will be waiting for us.

Walking and capital isn't separate two.

In philosophy there is an argument of teleology, it will be imperfect. Because an act becomes the purpose.