shall I take off
the heavy evening gown
called Love and
wrap my naked self
in a shawl of mist?
ai to iu omotaki doresu wo nugi sutete kiri no shôru wo rashin ni matou
-- THE WAIL OF GAEA, Fujio Tachibana
My ancestors' homeland, Japan, is full of people disaffected towards the religions of their ancestors.
I am a staunch Buddhist, which means Methodist without the overbearing Judeo-Christian attitude.
However, the AUP of Wiktionary prevents me from endorsing a denomination, other than me admitting to being a Jodo Shinshu practitioner, with knowledge of Buddhism, Christianity, Sufi, Santana-Dharma/Hinduism and philosophy so deep and yet so subtle, the mundane world find me a dull and boring old fool.