Ma

Ma is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation.

In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision.

Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements; it is the thing that takes place in the imagination of the human who experiences these elements. Therefore ma can be defined as an experiential place understood with emphasis on interval.

See Wikipedia for more on this concept, and try to experience ma daily in your life.

— Shin Noguchi

yan gone fairy tale

sharing apple core illusions of value creation
OZ king bankers - profit before people
minus integrity and ethics

humor laughed as
little ceo E
a small letter in a big alphabet
lived all daze long
in his fake castle
planning planning planning
welcome to my air-conditioned nightmare
people say nothing exists
i do nothing all day long

too busy to pay attention
inconvenient details
he hired hospitality
TO GET THINGS DONE
she evaluated his
broken garbage system
this stinks

E rearranged deck chairs
on his educational Titantic
a ship of fools
in yangon

theoretical clear learning objectives
SMART goals
dumbed everyone down
everyone drowned
a good fool is hard to find
said Crow with no mouth
winging free

Bhaktapur, Nepal

Wander Free

Kathmandu

don't repress anything

engage senses
a foreign man in myanmar
makes his living by reading
in a coffee shop
on a train

singing words flying free from a little story
crows release wing words gliding over a forest
above falling yellow leaves
a canopy of green shelters
debris decay leaf blankets soft shaded
meditating monks in burgundy
touching whorls
gentle way
soft eyes

sunlight saturday shatters shadows
as invisible traveler scribbles women
rearranging small orange carrots
wilting leaves

incense smoke curls into chinese temple
light as women wash flowers framing
red yellow orange
flickering buddha lights
enticing past present future potentials

in the long now