When The Path Leads

Kotaro Aoki takes us along on a pilgrim’s path walking with others through the sacred lands of Japan. “We walked as pilgrims, which is to say: we walked without claiming the path as ours.” Kotaro begins to listen differently, walk differently; he notices ancient structures, architectures of coherence, coordination without planning, creativity without competition, a quality of presence, responsibility, creative agency, and decisions without a lead. “The path leads.” At some point, he said, “The path is no longer something you are navigating. It is navigating you.” Unity with the path creates conditions that generate possibilities not available through individual effort. “The future and the source meet in the same step.”