Michael Stone is a Yoga and Buddhist teacher and activist from Toronto, Canada who arrived on a pilgrimage to Japan in April of 2012 to learn how the Japanese were responding to the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In addition to this essay, his trip resulted in a film project called REACTOR, directed by Ian MacKenzie (One Week Job; Sacred Economics, including interviews with Rev. Kawakami Takafumi, of Shunkoin temple, Kyoto; Mizuno Toshinori of the avant garde art collective Chim↑Pom; Dr Imanaka Tetsuji of Kyoto Research Reactor Institute; Ogura Keiko of Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace; and Fujii Hanamaru, Tokyo illustrator/writer of The Power Story. Key question: "How can we embody the Bodhisattva vow in these times?" See http://www.reactorfilm.com
