I dig Japanese pop culture, language and traditional asian arts 'n crafts, music, tantric buddhism, martial arts, computers, museums, medieval history, motorcycles, tattoos, piercings, cooking, reading, hiking, military science, psychology, architecture and cats. I'm fond of Harajuku and EGL style... Taco Bell and Starbucks.
I'd like to meet:
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there... to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be but when you look into their eyes, you know that every moment that you are with them, they'll affect your life in some profound way.
Have you seen the bright lily grow, before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked the fall of the snow, before the earth hath smutched it?
Have you felt the wool of beaver, or swan's down ever?
Or have smelt of the bud of the brier, or the nard in the fire?
Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
Oh so white, Oh so soft, Oh so sweet is she!
So sweet is she.
Oh so white, Oh so soft, Oh so sweet is she!
So sweet is she.
For my beloved, devoted...... devotion.....
You are my mantra and my meditation.
Worshipping your divine spirit and beauty, I whisper your name into the flower petals and set it floating gently, a vesper on the evening breeze.
A million hearts would be too few, to carry all my love for you!
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
of children in famine, of victims tortured
and of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life... I found it worth living.
Music:
Prince, U2, Sting, Jimi Hendrix, Barry White, James Brown, George Clinton, The Time, Alicia Keys, Jill Jones, Vanity, Sheila E., Taja Sevelle, Gwen Stefani, Nia Peeples, The Cure, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode, ATB, Perasma, Dreams Come True, B'z, Sing Like Talking, Chage and Aska, Hikaru Utada, Namie Amuro, Morning Musume, My Little Lover, Miho Nakayama, Masaharu Fukuyama, Puffy AmiYumi, Junichi Inagaki, Seiko Matsuda, Mr Children, Southern All Stars, Chisato Moritaka, Rie Tomosaka, Hikaru Nishida, Ai Otsuka, Ayumi Hamasaki, Tomomi Kahala, Chemistry, BoA, SES, Nana Kitade, Kana, Globe, The Alfee, Gackt, L'arc~en~ciel, Every Little Thing, Tommy February6, Aya Matsuura, Kumi Koda, Speed, MAX, Ami Suzuki, Chae Yeon, Olivia, Yuki, Twelve Girls Band, Da Pump, Maki Goto, Ryoko Shinohara, Dragon Ash, Glay, YUI, Judy and Mary, Rina Chinen, Shena Ringo, T.M.Revolution, Yuna Ito, Noriyuki Makihara, Dir en grey, Aikawa Nanase, Do As Infinity, TRF, X Japan, ZARD, Hitomi, The Brilliant Green, Kana, Luna Sea, D&D, Misia, Mai Kuraki, The Black Horn, Yoko Shimomura, Hitomi Yaida, Rie Fu, Myco, Melody, Wink, Origa, Rurutia, W (doubleyou), Yukari Tamura, M.I.L.K., Cheon Sang Ji Hee, Chieko Kawabe, Kaila Yu, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church, Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, The Carpenters, Queen, Berlin, ABBA, Bee Gees, Thalia, Shakira, Bjork, Coco Lee, Yoko Ishida.
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Movies:
Purple Rain, Sign O' the Times, Grafitti Bridge, Under the Cherry Moon, Excalibur, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Saving Private Ryan, Casualties of War, The Terminator, The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shinobi no Mono, Legend, Shogun, The Matrix, Ghandi, Seven Samurai, Ran, Rising Sun, You Only Live Twice, Rashomon, Yojimbo, Kagemusha, The Hidden Fortress, The Name of the Rose, Willy Wonka, Harry Potter, The Karate Kid 1 and 2, Star Wars, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Revolution, Glory, The Bourne Identity / Supremacy, Batman, Strange Brew, Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Flesh and Blood, Mission Impossible, Lost in Translation, Aliens, Austin Powers, Wayne's World, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, The Chinese Connection, Game of Death, Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Butterfly and Sword, The Heroic Trio, Fist of Legend, The Shaolin Temple, Anna and the King, The Lost Empire, The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor, Raise the Red Lantern, Owl's Castle, Red Shadow, House of Flying Daggers, Kundun, Little Buddha, Seven Years in Tibet, The Razor's Edge.
Television:
Japanese, Korean and Chinese drama, Hey x3 Music Champ, Yoru mo Hippare, Cops, Miami & LA Ink
Books:
"Shingon - Japanese Esoteric Buddhism" by Taiko Yamasaki, "The Weaving of Mantra" by Ryuichi Abe, "Shogun" by James Clavell, "The Lord of the Rings-Trilogy" by JRR Tolkien, "The Quantum and the Lotus : A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet" by Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene, "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "Book of Five Rings : The Classic Guide to Strategy" by Miyamoto Musashi, "Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai" by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, "Art in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism" by Ryuken Sawa, "Saicho : The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School" by Paul Groner.
Heroes:
The Dalai Lama, Kobo Daishi (Kukai), Dengyo Daishi (Saicho).
