• Roots, Seeds & Themes

      SHUGENDŌ IN-SPIR/IT/ED

      KOBAYASHI SHUMEI

      小林 秀明

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      Before the spread of concepts such as 'religion', 'Shinto', Buddhism',

      there were followers of a mountain-centred animism in Japan

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      宗教、神道、仏教 と言う言葉が浸透する前から
      日本にも山岳を中心にアニミズムの流れを汲む者たちが居た。

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      In a world changing at a frighteningly fast pace,

      primitive religions such as these have all but disappeared

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      世界が怖ろしいスピードで変化して行く中で

      これらの原始宗教の殆ど全てが自然淘汰され今日に至る。

       

       

       

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    • I was born into a long line of ascetic monks.
      My earliest recollections are of myself in the midst of six old practitioners of the Shugendō sect.
      To achieve an understanding of the universe, ritualistic training was unrelenting from day until night, sometimes gentle, sometimes severe.
      I recall it as the caring nurturing of a lost young lamb.

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      私は先祖代々が行者と言われる家に生まれ物心付いた時には修験道の爺婆6人の 中に在りました。昼夜問わずの修行、天地と同化する為の練習をある時は優しくある時は厳しく、まるで迷える子羊を育てる様に手を尽くしてくれたことを想い出す。

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      What do all those questing seek in this life?

      Those multitudinous seekers of the path,

      what were their goals?

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      あまた多くの求道者達は何をもとめて活きたのだろうか？

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    • Jikokuten

      持国天

      Guardian of the East

      Kōmokuten

      広目天

      Guardian Of The West

      Zōchōten

      増長天

      Guardian of the South

      Tamonten

      多聞天

      Guardian of the North

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      Being made aware of the question,

      ‘why I am here in the universe’,

      is the state of ‘eyes half closed’.

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      宗教、神道、仏教 と言う言葉が浸透する前から
      日本にも山岳を中心にアニミズムの流れを汲む者たちが居た。

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    • Conversely speaking, the closer one is to the state of ‘eyes half closed’, the more one usually grasps the entirety/universal. 

      逆に言うと半眼なればこそ平常に全てを見定める事ができて居る。

      An achievement of self-awareness will naturally create the state of ‘eyes half closed’. ​

      人が平常心をもとめ尽くした時、自然に半眼は形づくられるものであるし、

      The power of understanding all truths lies in this state of ‘eyes half closed’. 

      この半眼の姿勢は全ての真意を見極める力を有しているのである。

    • My current way of life lies in attempting to maintain the state of ‘eyes half closed’ as I use the art of tsutsugaki to express my particular creativity, emotions and impressions.

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      出来るなら ばこの半眼の姿勢をたもちつつ、感動や印象・想像を、自分の感性の赴くままに、身に付けたTSUTSUGAKIを用いて表現する、其れが現在の我が生き様である。

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      KOBAYASHI SHUMEI

      小林 秀明

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