MY HUMBLE GOLDEN RICE - FROM SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE - REPORTING FROM BEZIERS - FRANCE

a small Japanese story I learnt from Master Toshifumi Ishida san

DURING THIS TIMES OF confinement, post-confinement or re-confinement, I remember this quote learnt in Japan
“Never mind how rich and successful you are, always remember the rip sprig of rice, gold and full of abondance, bowing toward nature goodness with humility”.
NO matter what are our circumstances, living in this Covid world, made of hostile environnement and life threat, most of us are wondering at different levels what will be our tomorrow?

I remember this special day, sometime last year, visiting the filed of a friend in Suo Oshima, looking at his ripped rice, drying in the sun, ready to be packed and sold, when the threat of an epidemic was in nobody’s mind in our 2019 reality, where our world could only be moving towards its ever greater expansion.
In our 2020 world of fresh air, silence, proximity and boundaries, I remember this Japanese saying and how we had forgotten how fragile we are and how we have step overs head to make our way forward.
For most of us, our century have been so fare extremely generous: economically, socially and healthily. Of course we have had ups and downs, lows and high but over all the majority of us have been blessed by amazing new possibilities and technologies allowing us the equilibrium between amazing progress and massive destruction - forgetting too easily that not all we see as normal is a due but more likely a duty.