Enjoy✌︎('ω')✌︎🍁AUTUMN leaves @Kamakura No✌️

🍃🍃Avoid the crowds and experience Kamakura in its truest form🍃🍃

🍁🍂The second part is about enjoying the season slowly🍁🍂🧘🏻‍♀️

It's the season when “Higan bana” bloom.
Also known as "Manjushage" (Higan bana) have a distinctive feature that sets them apart from other plants: "You see no leaves, you see no flowers." They bloom from late summer to autumn, and are at their best around the September equinox.
Around the autumn equinox, the flower stalks grow and bloom, with the flowers and stems withering within about a week. They then grow leaves through winter, store nutrients in the bulbs in spring, and enter a dormant period in summer, withering and the leaves withering.
In English, they are called "spider lily" or "magic lily," and one theory is that this comes from the fact that after eating this poisonous plant, the only place to go is the afterlife (death).
So,
I'd like to introduce the word "higan."
In Japan, people visit graves during the equinox and Obon seasons.
The meaning of higan is just one of many theories.
In Japan, the year is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Zassetu refers to special calendar days established to more accurately grasp the changing seasons.

The vernal and autumnal equinoxes are seven days long, with three days before and three days after each of the midday periods (14 days in total). During this period, people give thanks to their ancestors and practice one of the six virtues necessary to reach enlightenment, one per day.

Ohigan is unique to Japan, and while it is often thought of as a time to visit graves and clean them, higan actually refers to a world free from the worldly desires that cause human confusion and suffering. It refers to the Pure Land, where one is freed from worldly desires and suffering and reaches a state of enlightenment.

To reach this "higan," one must undergo training. Higan is the period for such training. It is said that during the equinox period, even people who are not practicing Buddhism would offer prayers to the sun as it sets in the west, where paradise is located, in order to eliminate their worldly desires.

So why not try some zazen?
Although the equinox period has passed, why not take this time to think of your ancestors?
⇧Nihongo
彼岸花の咲く季節となりました。
この彼岸花は、「曼珠沙華（マンジュシャゲ）」とも呼ばれ、「葉見ず花見ず」という、他の植物とは違う大きな特徴があります。夏の終わりから秋にかけて開花し、特に9月のお彼岸の頃に見頃を迎えます。
秋のお彼岸の頃に花茎が伸びて花を咲かせ、約1週間で花と茎は枯れます。その後、冬にかけて葉を伸ばし、春に球根に栄養を蓄え、夏には葉が枯れて休眠期に入るのです。
英語では「spider lily」や「magic lily」などと呼ばれ、毒のあるこの植物を食べた後には「彼岸」＝「あの世（死）」しかない、ということに由来するという説もあります。
そこで、
この”彼岸”という言葉を紹介します。
日本では、お彼岸とお盆にお墓参りに行きます。
その彼岸とは、雑説の一つです。
雑説とは、日本には、一年の区分の仕方として春夏秋冬やありますが、雑説とは、季節の移り変わりをより的確に掴むために設けられた特別な暦日のことをいいます。
春分・秋分に、中日の前後各3日を合わせた各7日間（1年で計14日間）です。この期間に先祖に感謝し悟りの境地に達するのに必要な6つの徳目を1日に1つずつ修める日とされています。
お彼岸は日本独自のもので、この時期にお墓参りをし、お墓の掃除をする意味と考えがちですが、お彼岸は、人間の迷いや苦しみの元となっている煩悩のない世界のことで、極楽浄土を指していて煩悩や苦しみから放たれて自由になり、悟りの境地にいくことです。
この「彼岸」に到着するためには、修行を行わなければなりません。その修行をする期間がお彼岸なのです。お彼岸の期間は、仏道の修行をしていない人も煩悩を無くすために、極楽浄土がある西に沈む太陽に祈りを捧げていたと言われています。
そこで、坐禅を組んでみませんか？
彼岸の時期は過ぎていますが、先祖のことを思う期間にしてみませんか。

🧘🏻‍♀️Zazen (literally “seated mediation”) is a meditative discipline that practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind.
Practitioners attempt to concentrate enough to experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment. Zazen helps generate the energy to be aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment.
This is not something you work at a desk, but a practice available to you anywhere. So just feel it!
Kenchoji Temple offers this service free of charge on Saturdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm.

【Schedule】
JR Kamakura Sta.(JR鎌倉駅)
⇒Kamakuragu Shrine(鎌倉宮) ⇒ Kakuonji Temple (覚園寺¥500)⇒ Lunch Time🍙🥪 ⇒ 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻🚶‍♀️ Ten-en hiking trai⇒ Temple(建長寺¥500)& Zen trial (坐禅)🧘🏻‍♀️ ⇒ JR Kita-Kamakura St.(北鎌倉駅)

※Please make sure of the following.
・Please bring Suica,PASMO or Cash to pay for bus fees.
・Please bring some cash such as Coins.
・The schedule it may be change depending on the situation.

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◆Meeting Time：10:00am
◆Meeting place：JR Kamakura Station East Exit
🚏Bus Stop No.5”Kama20”
(JR鎌倉駅東口
🚏バス停 5番乗り場「鎌20」鎌倉宮（大塔宮） 行¥220)
https://www.google.com/maps?q=35.318822,139.550849
◆Participation fee：¥1,500
◆Distance Approximate：10km
◆Physical strength: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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【BELONGINGS】
・Sneakers or Hiking shoes
・Backpack
・Drink&Snacks
・Lunch（Onigiri etc…)
・Hat, insect repellent Rainwear etc…

※ To participants
Please be sure to contact me via LINE.
I will share the details of this event.
And useful when you get lost or get separated from a meeting point.
And this App. system sometimes difficult to access depending on the location😬
📩LINE Name：autumn leaves 20251025
https://line.me/ti/g/96ydsKrRyp

🌀Notice
If there is typhoon and rain or strong wind,it will be postponed or canceled. Then I will tell you the day before on the Messages.

＊Disclaimer and Important Notes ＊
I am not professional guide and not trained not for rescuing.Please check your own condition and be responsible for your own safety when deciding to participate in any events.And might cause injury if not carefully perform.I am not responsible any incidents and injury or if you cause injury to third parties during the activities.Please be responsible for your safety during the activities so that you won't cause troubles to other tour and other fellow participants.