A Journey Through Manifest Hidden Divine

 

I did a zoom class Monday post election. I actually watched it as I edited and posted. It started out as a reading of some of Osensei's words. I like doing that at the beginning of a class to set a direction for myself as I go into the more movement section of the class. But the Monday class while it had movement it was more an explorative and experiential journey through what we covered during the readings. The Manifest(genkai) Hidden(yukai) and Divine(shinkai) are referred to again and again if you read Osensei's words. Like many people I was probably going through post election withdrawal. So for me the class was therapeutic and to a large degree healing. We place such an importance on the outer(ordinary) world and we let that define us. And of course in that ordinary world we are very ordinary.

So it was refreshing to just get into a personal journey which I shared with those online. And to let that personal journey emerge from our reading of Osensei's words. I do some personal misogi everyday. Some days I chant the Amatsu Norito and Kami Goto. Every day I tend to do misogi with the staff/spear and the sword(bokken). But to take the time out to start pretty ordinary with breath, charting my sense of what is going on, and to realize that the hidden and possibly divine realms are right here right now was fascinating. So I have posted the Youtube video of the class in this blog.

I was uncertain about just sharing this personal journey. But several students who attended the class online said it was "exactly what they needed' Sometimes we fail to trust our own personal experience and give our power away to words and expectations. Training or being on a spiritual path can often times get one caught up in getting 'It'.....Mary Heiny sensei once told me that a translation of Masaka(True victory) was True Accomplishment. A growth. Actualizing possibility.

Some of the most important parts of the video are the silent still places. The calm. The emptiness.

So on watching the class it was still a powerful experience for me.

https://youtu.be/evFMkJ5blbI