"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself."

- Buddha

Dressed up in bright orange Torii arches, the path to Fushimi Inari-Taisha (伏見稲荷大社) Shrine is the perfect analogy of life.

Each time someone walks past an arch, it resembles a day lived, and how little by little that presence fades with time.

This analogy is one of the teachings from ZEN philosophy, on one hand, understanding the value and importance of living our lives to the fullest, and at the same time letting go of our ego thinking that the world revolves around us, therefore setting us free.