This is an excerpt from an excellent blog about visiting
Fukuoka Farm
Buddhism and Agriculture II: Hope and Despair on Fukuoka Farm, Iyo
I wondered if anyone here has a set of these
cards?
"More and more, he became convinced that
books and lectures could not change anything. Indeed, his final
project was to create a deck of Uta Karuta
cards, which he called Iroha Kakumei Uta (Iroha Revolutionary Verses)[1]. Uta Karuta cards are used in a Japanese game popular amongst children, in which one must match the first half of a poem with the second half. On the cards were written poems that Fukuoka-sensei had composed regarding the limitations of human knowledge and the importance of living close to nature. He believed that these short verses and the images accompanying them might have potential for more transformative impacts than the endless speeches that appealed to the intellect alone."
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young