24-11-2020
We recently completed two courses led by Yasuhiko. One course was based on The Book of Balance (his translation of Tao Teh Ching); the second was titled Mastering Inner and Outer Freedom (MIOF-1). Both were superbly timed following the gnawing dramas of last year. Studying and discussing his book provided us with space to reflect on our thoughts, actions, and motives. This exploration was truly poetic in many ways. MIOF-1 was designed to remind us of the deeper power of freedom and how necessary it is for us to protect all that makes us alive, joyful, and beautiful. As we know, lack of freedom is an expression of utter disdain for spirit and wholeness.
Additionally, MIOF-1 offered a deepening understanding of essential, functional, political, religious and other kinds of freedoms, all which we often take for granted as we, gradually deceiving ourselves, lose cherished connections with essence of life itself. This course laid a foundation for the next level beginning in January 2022. MIOF-2 is designed to be a quest of the undiscovered layers of our inner being, thereby to stir the outer being into spontaneous expressions of freedom with utmost responsibility.
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is not a stereotypical philosopher, stuffy and self-important; he is a philosopher with attitude. He loves to laugh and share jokes, and, in addition to the many layers of philosophical inquiry and exposition, Yasuhiko has tales up his sleeve to provoke our curiosity of human interactions for, naturally, psycho-spiritual mentation is also a part of our delving into shadowed layers for truth/trueness of a person’s being.
Nothing comes short of scrutiny in the infinite realms that Yasuhiko inhabits reminding us through his various scholarly works of the importance of living with gratitude, with full acceptance of all one’s actions and fate (amor fati), with desire to fulfill the five longings of the soul and more. Then, of course, we jump on wings of auto-poesis and travel cosmically to proclaim we are cosmic beings. Of course, all that is local is naturally supernally cosmic (infinite space-time continuum) and vice versa.
We are reminded, too, that shadows pervade these precious lives of ours, and beauty arises naturally as breath, even in the darkness, for endarkenment is a profound spiritual process. He iterates that life must not be continual and obsessive suffering; instead, joy must be the vibration for authentic living and states, “You are the source of joy.” Indeed, we are, aren’t we?
Yasuhiko rides every terrain and pushes borders of comprehension as far as we can handle and insists that we question ourselves, even our questions. We may not ever sit with prejudgments, for then we would be on a saddle riding chaos with loose reins. He will see through veils of doubt and send us on to discover our most authentic self, which is the crux of his teachings. In this vast cosmic experience and expression, his most favorite call is for us all to be authentic, for everything else then may spread like a ray of light to infinity. It is only from this foundational understanding that we can express the freedom to be whole beyond any possible divergent paradigms, which we may muster up in order to attempt to claim any one as true, or not, or partially so.
A grand way to create and experience a new life is to experience Yasuhiko’s teachings that emerge from his heart of wise-ness and also stir ours – a lovely lila towards new creation. Isn’t it?
Read a couple of his declarations (there are hundreds):
“When the person’s basic attitude in life is that of a victim who evades self-responsibility, expecting things to be given instead of earning them through self-effort, then the person is bound to become an ingrate…. [For such beings], life…becomes de-souled and they become soulless.” ~ YGK
Read especially this one, for it is most timely:
“Plenitude is the nature and the reality of the universe. Paucity only arises in the disparity between demand and supply. The greatest resource that we humans have on the Earth is human intelligence, ingenuity, and creativity—and the resourcefulness to utilize that resource.” ~ YGK
I quote here my post from Fugue*Bach, which includes two statements from Yasuhiko and his response that follows (below):
Ambika: “our phlegmatic souls are quite incapable of genuine moral
indignation…” * “The divine fire of spiritual human emotion has been reduced
to bovine complacency,…” ~ If I were (still) teaching, I’d assign these
statements as essay topics. I’d be ep1curious to see the results. It would be
fun to shake them up a bit.
Yasuhiko: Epicurious! I love it. Epicurus was a curious man!
Are you? Why? ~ Aren’t you? Why?
24 December 2021