Lecture 14:
To become the healing existence for the world
Please sit beside the person (your partner) lying down.
…Then after a while... If you are giving heaviness to the partner… it means that you don't have the clear relationship with Tao Shiatsu, you see?
The question is… whether your existence for Tao Shiatsu, as you can see at this moment…, is the one that gives healing to the world, or is the one that gives just heaviness to the world?
Simple and clear, isn't it?
If you were the one who is a healing existence to the world, the partner would be feeling lighter, wouldn't it?
Is everybody clear at this point, I mean not in your head but at heart? Isn't it touching your heart?
First, remember this (relationship between you and Tao Shiatsu and the world) always. Don't get caught in any ego trick. Remember this over and over. (As Ryokyu sensei writes on the board)
In the world of Ki, Tao Shiatsu is equal to all beings. Also your relationship to Tao Shiatsu is your relationship to the world…
[Relationship to Tao Shiatsu ＝ Relationship to All life, to the World]
Remember this in every moment, in yourself…OK? Or you will be pulled in the direction of the idea IT IS NOT. Ego will whisper to you all the time. Remember this repeatedly in yourself, and make it your foundation.
This is the foundation---the starting point.
The reason is that for the first time Tao Shiatsu will be established only when you become the one who gives healing to the world…So this is the starting point.
How to become such existence?
To become such a one, first of all, think about the grace you're receiving from Tao Shiatsu, including that you can come to the class, as you nestle against the partner lying in face-up position. Actually this means something big… I will explain later the significance of attending the class.
So that (think about grace) is the 1st step.
Then next, have the gratitude heart towards them (the grace you receive from Tao Shiatsu).
Further… Is there anything you can do through Tao Shiatsu or what you can do, for the world? Think of it, and determine to do it. …so the 1st , 2nd, and 3rd steps are connected as one flow.
The 4th step is... First feel the responsibility since you were born as a human-being.
Then feel the responsibility that your heart has towards the world…the responsibility of your heart to the world.
Then feel the responsibility for Tao Shiatsu.
Think of these.
When you have this heart, right here at this moment, The One(God/ Buddha),will presence.
The receiver will feel it. …Won't you? The receiver feels it… You can ask if you wish.
He/she feels the presence/glory.
The receiver doesn't feel any heaviness ---Instead this time you feel so good! …OK?
The receiver felt presence of The One(God/Buddha), at this very moment. and bless with spiritual Ki. Your heart state inhabits The One here now…
OK then. What did you feel? Discuss with each other a little. I will write on the board while you talk. (Sensei writes and student discuss with each other)
Grow your heart
Now the giver and the receiver switches.
If you are resisting the word you hear in the lecture, you can't become that heart. So be aware.
So all these things go into your subconsciousness, and when this becomes your sub-consciousness 24hours, you will be in this state 24 hours. Then the method you do will become Tao Shiatsu, actually.
So please tell the giver if you, the receiver, feel heaviness at any moment.
When you feel heavy, the giver's is not heart but just word.
Then start all over again from the 1st step.
And…really it's for 24 hours, but for now the goal is for 1hour. (laugh)
It's because while you are giving treatment you must be in this state all the time. This state becomes your subconsciousness, then while you are in the treatment you are at this all the time and that is Tao Shiatsu, isn't it?
Well, in truth when you can really be in this state for 1 hour, you will be that always, in opposite words. (laugh)
But this is only the first step of " Grace and Growth Method". (laugh)
Anyway, we have to grow our heart. Isn't that why you are here in this class? Aren't you? (laugh) …Your heart grows, you become a healing existence for the world, then you become Tao Shiatsu.
Just to grow the heart you are here in this class…
Just to raise the spirit you are born as a human being…Really know both of these two!
Aren't these the same?
Tao Shiatsu is the life/spirit of the universe
In fact, in "Grace & Growth Method", the pivot point is " to think about what one can do for Tao Shiatsu and to determine. "
The point that -one's relationship with Tao Shiatsu is the relationship with all life and also it is the relationship with the world- has to be very clear… Or your determination will never be born.
You might start thinking, "There my teacher goes, to let us do something for him" misunderstanding it and taking it negatively.
In truth, the determination is a big relief (liberation) from your ego restraint, the best liberation from your own shell.
But you take it in opposite way, unless this "the relationship of Tao Shiatsu and the world is one / Ichinyo" is very clear.
Hence you must go back to the starting point, that these are one / Ichinyo; hence force you determine.
You must make this very clear- the meaning behind this method.
Because of that your determination will continue.
Then you make this determination your natural state.
This is a real "effort," isn't it?
But this effort becomes your natural state.
Be aware not to make it in opposite way.
You don't make the insistence of your ego the natural state; you make the effort the natural state.
Then it will be so good.
How light, bright, good for the world it can be…
How much meaning now what your existence has to the world…lighter, brighter…
How much your life will open up and how creative you can become…
From customer to pupil
Although the other day, in Wednesday class, I explained it more thoroughly, I'd like to talk about it again briefly.
What process of heart it takes for the tradition to be transmissioned, or you fade away in the middle of the way.
What I mean is the different process of these hearts it takes.
Usually, as one process in Tao Shiatsu, in the beginning, there is time of customer. (laugh)
During when you are customer, you appraise Tao Shiatsu.
At that time, well, you are customer, still.
Then you convince, …understand perhaps?
You are still a customer at this stage, though.
This doesn't mean (he/she is a customer) for Tao Shiatsu.
But it means (he/she is a customer) for him/her.
It means that he/she is making himself/herself his/her own customer.
But anyway if you continue, then the next stage comes. Many various blessing from Tao Shiatsu will come.
For example, you start to be able to do something you could not do before. Or such as you can really reach the bottom, you be able to give very effective treatment, you get more patient to come or actually did get more patient, or your heart is enriched, etc.
Many good things will happen.
So you feel gratitude.
This state is a little bit distant from a customer.
If you are a customer, you think " of course you are right to get something, since you are paying a class fee."
But here you are still in the middle.
Gratitude doesn't have any reason
But from here, you are at the first crossroad.
Whether you "will grow" or "will not grow." From here you will differ.
Where, or in what attitude you will differ? First, you will be different in an attitude of whether you think it is very reasonable to receive these graces.
In case you think it is reasonable, you think the person just wanted to teach, so he / she taught. The person here means any Tao Shiatsu teacher.
Or, you think the person really did it for you.
Whether you think "He/she opened up this path for me," or you think "I'm paying for this, so of course I get this."
This difference of gratitude is the first crossroad. It is the crossroad that leads to…180-degree different destination
If you are prepossessed to worldly common sense, you will be pulled into money-trade kind of thinking.
When that happens, for you this is just a trade, and no gratitude will be born.
It would be like "He/she wanted to do so, so I did that."
You take as if it was not for you.
It is just that you don't understand the heart. The selflessness heart is the basis of the Tao's Ki that any teacher passes down.
Instead of you feel gratitude you want to start reasoning why he/she gave you the path.
On the other hand, if you have such that unification for the humankind or for the world, you will realize these as such a really wonderful thing for humankind. Then added that, you will feel gratitude that he/she really opened up this grateful path for me.
Then, what was done for everybody turns into, making you feel like, as if he/she actually did it just for you.
And… for the gratitude that arises from there, there won't be any reason.