「時間をはずした日の祭」に寄せて

7月25日は吉備の国 岡山で和良久の稽古会を行います。

今回、私たちはこの吉備の国から世界に向けて 「時間をはずした日の祭」を発信させていただきます。

吉備の国はスサノヲの神気あふれるツルギの里です。

ツルギとは天と地、神と人、そして人と人とを「釣り合わせる儀」という意味です。

それは「人を傷つけず 人に傷つけられず 人もよく われもよし」ということの実践です。

私たち人類はいま大きな岐路に立たされています。

天災などによらずとも、人類は自らの手でこの地上から消え去る～このことは、もはや架空ではないリアルな話しとして私たちの身に迫っています。

人の世の戦いを終わらせ、天地和合を招来させるというスサノヲのツルギ。

いまこそ、このツルギの力が世に出る時。

私たちは7月25日に、世界の空に向けてツルギを天高く突き立てます。

そしてスサノヲの神の名をもって何度も何度もツルギを螺旋させます。

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われらの心に巣食うヤマタノオロチよ

今われらは高きにいます神に強く強く頬を打たれ、気を失わむばかりに打ち倒れたるなり。

そのあまりの痛さにわれはようやく心が覚めたり。

覚めし心はツルギの光に満たされ、もういましが入る隙間はなし。

天津神 守りたまへ
国津神 幸はへたまへ

NPO武道和良久
前田比良聖

The spirit of NPO Budo Walaku

It is written in Kojiki that the god created this world with a pike.

That means 武bu (military arts) originated not from destruction but from the art of creation like the creation of nations or human resources creation.

I believe having men fight with each other and decide victory or defeat thus training to develop the body and mind through fighting, does not fit in the way of Yamato (Japan). The survival of the fittest or the law of the jungle is not the way of Yamato which respects wa (harmony).

This is not only budo but it is the tendency of modern society itself.

As long as we uphold “fight and win” as the goal of training we cannot expect the world of harmony to arrive.

One of the causes for this, I believe, is that we put the starting point on Bushido (the code of the samurai) in the medieval period and applying the art of killing and its idealism of the warring times to the present day Japan.

Even today when we are approaching the pinnacle of civilization we repeat the tragedy of a nation fighting with nation and men fighting with men for rights and concessions, thus making the powerless and the weak war victims suffering for hunger and sickness.  This is nothing but a real hell on this earth.

What is needed now in today’s world is not to inspire fighting spirit beyond necessity and defeat the opponent and win but to calm our minds and learn to make the best use of human resources.

We should fight no more

We should hurt no more.

Live and let live; let us be good for both you and me.

Let’s keep this in mind and let go of our egotistic mind.

Let’s turn the clock back to the warless times and go back to blissful kamiyo, and make it shine like the light of spring.

Let’s explore the primordial power of creation of the universe through our body.

We are determined to ban all destructive military powers in this world and work toward the realization of the harmonious and loving unification of human race through our body.

Budo Walaku  http://www.walaku.com/