Pantheist Aesthetics

Kenneth Leong
6 min readMar 25

Today is March 24, 2023. In Japan, the cherry (sakura) blossom season extends from the end of March to the beginning of April. It is just a short window of about two weeks. During this period, there are many festivities. There is much eating, sake drinking and barbequing underneath the cherry trees. It is customary for the Japanese to go out with colleagues, friends and family to have cherry-viewing parties. This called hanami, which literally means…

Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human