Hiroko Yoda
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
the going in the mountains and going through the hard trainings, those are the tools for them.
And so we have a lot of tools.
Just going to the mountains and in the hardship, it's not just only a tool.
There are so many tools that we can do.
And that's what I learned.
Buddhism arrived in the 6th century, but it was...
It was just glorious.
Because Shinto...
There wasn't even the word Shinto back then because it was a part of their life.
And the spiritual beings, kami, are avatars of nature.
And the people were in it.
They didn't see.
But Buddhism, on the other hand, there's Buddhist deities.
There's a lot of sculptures.
And then also when Buddhism came in, there's a lot of new idea comes in.
Government, the early stage, early form of a constitution.
And so it's a very, very new thing.
That's how I started it.
At the very beginning, there was a friction.
There was a friction because it's a new concept.