24-11-2020
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a one-of-a-kind teacher and it is the opportunity of a lifetime to study with him. His intellect is astounding, yet he is balanced and playful, and has the unique ability to see into a person. It is truly an honor to study with Yasuhiko and I consider him the greatest teacher of my life.
Yasuhiko is truly unique because he encourages participants to be their own “guru” and think for themselves, and to explore all systems and modalities of thinking and use the work to help discover their true essence—the Authentic Self from which to live life. Thanks to Yasuhiko, I have begun to unfold into the person I have always wanted to be. I have more fun in life, make more money professionally, attract more like-minded relationships, and have strengthened my connection to humankind.
To say that Yasuhiko’s courses transformed my life is an understatement. Authentic Thinking for Creative Evolution (ATCE) delivered far more than it had promised. ATCE has helped me clearly identify my true Authentic Self, and has ignited me to live a more passionate, joyful, and balanced life. Before the course, I was very much attached to the illusory world of DOING and lived my life from this unsatisfying structure. Thanks to the spiritual work and meditation practice I learned in the class, I now experience much more joy and fulfillment in just BEING.
The third retreat of ATCE II was especially profound for me. In ATCE II we not only study esoteric principles, we gain entryway into the experience itself. Our study of Buddhism and Zen combined with my meditation practice has awoken in me a deep spiritual knowing that is nearly impossible to describe. It is the most beautiful, intimate, and personal experience I have ever known. Now I know for certain that I have begun to awaken. Furthermore, my ATCE II experience has shown me that I am actually already awake. I have a new sense of calmness and trust that comforts me no matter what situation I find myself in. I am in this world more joyously than ever, but I am no longer of this world.
What I love as much as the work is the ATCE community. The people in ATCE are truly a family. We support each other and most importantly have fun together. There are few groups of friends who can be solving Zen Koans one minute, then telling jokes around a campfire the next! Knowing the ATCE community is rooting for me and gives me the courage to ask questions my ego tells me are dumb, and also gives me the chance to experience true friendship. They love me – warts and all, and I love them too. Thank you, Yasuhiko, for leading a phenomenal retreat. I am grateful and blessed to have you as my friend and teacher.
After much spiritual study, in ATCE III I had come to the edge of what I knew. During my most aware moments, I experienced a space upholding all experience. This space seemed undefinable, yet begged for exploration. This space seemed ever present, yet not always accessible. I wanted to know this space more intimately and yet my past insights would only take me so far into understanding. Why? Thankfully, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura and ATC III Course helped me take the grand leap into living in the unknown and this great freedom has changed my life forever.
In ATC, we co-create a sacred space for inquiry and approach life as an ongoing question to be explored, not a problem to be solved. With Yasuhiko’s masterful guidance, attention comes to the space which permeates all and he encourages being with and as that space. Spontaneous discoveries abound for the participants because there is no agenda with which to adhere, no dogma with which to align, no guru to follow, and no right way. Instead, there is commitment to evolution and gratitude in just Being. There are big belly laughs, minutes of shared silence, and tears of joy. Above all, there is reverence for the wonderment of all we know and all we know we don’t.