Against The Grain: Discipleship at Kirana East

Discipleship, as practised at Terry Riley's Kirana East, turns the Western paradigm of individual creativity on its head, argues Ryan Meehan The train had taken me some three hours out of Tokyo to Kobuchizawa, a hamlet in Japan's Southern Alps - a first taste of countryside quiet beyond the reach of the megacities. My contact meets me at the station: Hiromitsu Hirata, who will serve as my…