Nijiriguchi: crawling entrance

The entrance to the origin

Be he high or low, everyone passes through the low entrance
that like the entrance of a ship's cabin leads to a journey to oneself..

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.....as if I occupy myself with a cocon of a silkworm that has become too old.

Kamo no Chomei
Hô jô ki

As a silkworm in a cocon, the transformation to ones self takes place in the darkness of a small tearoom.