White Enso Journal
Coolest magazine ever.
An enso is a Buddhist symbol thought to have evolved in the 6th century: a perfect circle, either complete or incomplete. Buddhism is about polarities. (Lesson #1 I learned about Buddhism, staring at a wall in a wooded Tokyo schoolroom while a priest who was out of my vision lectured for 45 minutes; I only attended once.)
The kanji is 円相, which combines 円 (circle) and 相 (several meanings: together, inter-, mutual, aspect or phase.
The magazine White Enso is about the coolest publication I’ve encountered. It is formerly out of Japan, published by Linda Gould, a Canadian who resettled in her home country only last spring. I am enso-grateful that Linda chose to feature an interview with me and an excerpt from the novel in this, the final issue of White Enso.
