Category Archives: Misogi

…last river misogi of 2014…

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O’Sensei on “Rokkon-sho-jo!!!”…

We cannot get by, just using our mind and our five senses: this doesn’t work. Notice how, in Buddhism, for example, they talk about purifying the mind and these five senses (“rokkon shoujou!“)… And when we talk about the mind and these five senses (rokkon), in relationship to the manifest world, well… in order to see this world clearly, and really know it, we have to understand that this is something we can only do through our physical body of flesh, and it takes some dedication to acquire this faculty.

And, paradoxically… as we work on [through our physical body] acquiring the ability truly to see the manifest, physical world as it really is, we find that this is very much about purging and clearing the pathways and channels of the mind and the five senses so that they are clean, harmonious and bright.

– – – O’Sensei,   probably audio-recorded by by Masatake Fujita, transcribed by Sadateru Arikawa Shihan, published in Aiki-Shinzui,  p. 44

…winter misogi!…

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…winter misogi! (3)…

…winter misogi! (4)…

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…winter misogi! (5)…

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…winter misogi! (6)…

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…misogi bushes!!!…

…night moon in the river!…

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