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The Aoinagi Ken Shu Kai Masters SeriesApplying Ancient Martial Virtues
on the Path to Self MasterySelf Mastery in the 21st Century
Green Willow Mini Camp
November 12-15 2009
Whose Birthday is it today?
Hint: A Famous Karate Master
Let’s always remember how we got here…
•Sensei Castilonia November 28, 1999•Sensei Kim November 8, 2001 (Birthday Nov 17th 1917) •Sensei Nishiyama November 7, 2008
Remembering our Past:
“Wisdom tells me I am nothingLove tells me I am everything
Between these two my life flows…”--Nisargadatta
The Earth’s PrayerOur Mother, who is here on Earth, Timeless may you reign
and may we never take your compassion for granted. The time is now, your spirit be served, with our full intention
and energy to create a Planet Earth as abundant and blessed as Heaven.
Give each person today their daily grain so no one goes hungry, and affirm our inherent goodness to care for one another, as we give thanks for those who today in their actions put the collective good ahead of personal self
interest and remind us to do the same. Inspire us in all things to maximize our potential for the greatest good as we preserve and protect the legacy we
leave for future generations. For this is our planet, with problems and possibilities, to do
with what we can in the time we have got. Now is forever.
Aum, Peace, Amen
Putting the Master’s Series in Perspective…
(560BC- 477BC) Buddha
Confucius (551- 479)
Age of the Philosopher – China Bimbisara promotes the popularization of Buddhism
Bimbisara (558 - 491) king of Magadha
600 550 500 450 400
Pythagoras (582- 507)
490AD – The Battle of Marathon
480AD - 300 Spartans and 5600 other warriors died at Thermoplylae
525AD - Founding of Athenian democracy
Followed by Persian wars
539 AD – Cyrus the Great of Persia creates great empire, conquers Babylon
Lao-Tzu (604- 521)
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha (560- 477)
Section 1: Self Discovery520AD Daruma
The 1st Patriarch of Zen
Meditation & Zen
“Who am I really?”
Spiritual Law: Clear Intentions/Present
Moment Awareness
Gua North (black): Wisdom
(520) Daruma
Justinian I (483- 565) Byzantine Emperor
400 450 500 550 600
493 – Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy established by Theodoric the Great
476 - Western Roman empire ends Romulus Augustulus Overthrown
455 – Rome Vandalized
484 – First schism between western and eastern churches
519 – Eastern and western churches reconciled
527– Justinian I, the Great, becomes Byzantine emperor
542 Plague starts in Europe
King Arthur I (?- 537)
Buddhism appears in Japan (~560) Germanic Kingdoms succeed the Roman Empire Mayan Empire evolves in multiple city state
Theodoric (455 - 526) King of the Ostrogoths
Our Three “States of Mind”
• Reasonable Mind– The logical part that
makes intellectual decisions
• Emotional Mind– The reactive mind
wherein emotions control thoughts and behaviors
• Wise Mind– The integration of the
two modalities that balance the intellect with intuition and emotions
Six Mindfulness Skills
3 “What” one does during Mindfulness Skills
• Observing • Describing• Participating
3 “How” one does it Skills• Non-judgmentally• One-mindfully• Effectively
Section 1: Self Discovery
1127-1279 General Yue Fei The Standard of Loyalty
The 8 Brocades
“How do I experience optimum health?”
• Spiritual Law: Communing with
Nature
Gua East (green): Health
General Yue Fei
Chu Hsi I (1130 - 1200) (Neo Confucianism)
1050 1100 1150 1200 1250
1096 (-99) - First Crusade
General Yue Fei (1103 - 1142)
Henry II (1133- 1189) King of England
Saint Dominic (1170 - 1221) (founder of Dominicans)
Saint Francis (1182 - 1226) (founder of Franciscan)
1144 (-49) - Second Crusade
1150 University of Paris founded
1150 University of Oxford founded 1189Richard I (“the Lion heart”) succeeds Henry II
1189 (-92) - Third Crusade
1200 (-04) - Fourth Crusade
1211 - Genghis Khan invades China
Zen Buddhism appears in Japan Final separation between Eastern (Orthodox) and Western
(Roman) churches (1054) Emergence of strong papacy when Gregory VII is elected (1073)
Section 2: Self Protection
1668-1758 Chatan YaraKarate Pioneer
(taught Takahara) Chatan Yara no Kon
Dai
“When do I use my martial arts training for self
defense?”
• Spiritual Law: Extend Ki
GuaGua West (white): West (white): RighteousnessRighteousness
1668-1758 Chatan Yara
1600 1650 1700 1750 1800
1620 Mayflower Lands
Chatan Yara (1668 - 1758)
Moliere (1622 - 1673)
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
G.F. Handel (1685 - 1759)
Louis XIV (1638 - 1715)
1644 – End of Mind dynasty in China.
Descartes Publishes:Principles of Philosophy
1643 Taj Mahal Completed
1689 – Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
1707 – United Kingdom of Great Britain formed
1751 – Publication of the Encyclopédie begins in France
1665 - Great Plague in London kills 75,000
1667 – Milton publishes “paradise lost”
1729 – Newton’s principia translated to English
Ch'ing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 until 1911. Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanack(1732)
Benjamin Franklin (1707 - 1790)
Section 2: Self Protection
1733-1815 Tode Sakugawa“Karate Sakugawa”
(learned from Takahara and Kushanku)
Sakugawa no Jo
“Who and How do I serve?”
• Spiritual Law: Wu-wei or Non-resistance
Gua North West (grey): Helpful People
Sakugawa’s Son
1733-1815 “Karate” Sakugawa
1700 1750 1800 1850
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Sakugawa (1733 - 1815)
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
1751 – Publication of the Encyclopédie begins in France
1763-1783 – The American Revolution
1765 – James Watt invents the steam engine
1754-1763 – British/French wars in North America
1773 – The Boston tea party 1789 – The French revolution
1975 - Napoleon appointed commander of the French revolutionary troops
1799 - Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt
Napoleonic Wars 1795-1815 .
1778 – James Cook discovers Hawaii 1787 – US constitution signed
1804 – Lewis and Clark expedition begins
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Benjamin Franklin (1707 - 1790)
Section 2: Self Protection
1797-1889 Sokon “Bushi” Matsumura- “First Knight”
(learned from Sakugawa)
Bassai DaiMatsumura Bucho Ikko
Combine Literary and Martial skills
How do I not just survive, but Thrive?”
• Spiritual Law: ACT!
Gua South East (purple): Prosperity
1797-1889 Sokon “Bushi” Matsumura
1750 1800 1850 1900
Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sokon Bushi Matsumura (1797 - 1889)
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
1804 – Lewis and Clark’s expedition begins
1821 – Guatemala, Panama, and Santo Domingo proclaim independence from Spain
1824 – Mexico becomes a republic
1825 – First passenger-carrying railroad in England
1826 – Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph
1831-1836 – Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle
1843 – Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman
1867 – Shogun was forced to resign Emperor Mutsuhito begins his reign Feudal system was abolishedMeijin reforms begins
1846 – US declares war on Mexico
1849 – Gold Rush starts1837 – Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
1877 – Samurai uprising and defeat
1869 – First U.S. transcontinental rail route completed
1879 – Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light
Industrial revolution Suez Canal (1859-1869)
Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
Section 3: Self Actualization
1889-1957 Mabuni KenwaFounder of Shito Ryu
His Birthday is today Nov 14th
KenseiMakoto Misogi
“How do I en-lighten myself?”
• Spiritual Law: Manifesting Effortless Effort-Try Softer
Gua South West (pink): Happiness
Makoto…
…Misogi
1889-1957 Mabuni Kenwa, Founder of Shito Ryu
1850 1900 1950
1879 – Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light
Kenwa Mabuni (1889 - 1957)
F.D. Rossevelt (1882 - 1945)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
1894 – Sino/Japanese war begins
1895 – X-rays discovered
1906 – San Francisco earthquake and three-day fire; more than 500 dead
1909 – North Pole reportedly reached by American explorer Robert E. Peary
1922 – Mussolini marches on Rome
WWI WWII
1929 – Great Depression
1933 – Hitler appointed German chancellor
1945– The United Nations established / Sensei Castilonia born
1947 – Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus
Nov 17th 1917 Sensei Kim is born
Section 3: Self Actualization
1922 Funakoshi Gichin Founder of Modern Karate
Nijyushiho (24)
“How do I maximize my time on earth?”
• Spiritual Law: Clear Intentions/Present
Moment AwarenessGua North East (blue): Education & Knowledge
1922 Funakoshi Gichin, “Founder of Modern Day Karate”
1920 U.S. Dept. of Justice “red hunt” nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported. Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. First Agatha Christie mystery. Sinclair Lewis's publishes Main Street. League of Nations holds first meeting at Geneva, Switzerland.
1921 New economic policy introduced by Lenin in Russia First sound in films Soviet states form USSR
1922 Mussolini marches on Rome; forms Fascist government. Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, overthrows last sultan. James Joyce's publishes Ulysses
1923 Adolf Hitler's “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich fails; in 1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison
where he writes Mein Kampf; released after eight months. Widespread Ku Klux Klan violence in U.S. Earthquake destroys third of Tokyo. George Gershwin releases Rhapsody in Blue. Bessie Smith, ( “the Empress of the Blues”) makes her first record. December 23rd Sensei Robert Leong is born…1924 Death of Lenin; Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953. Robert Frost wins first of four Pulitzers.
Section 3: Self Actualization
2008 Paul Schwartz“Stud-man Extraordinaire”
Hoiku Kaze
“What is the Greatest Gift I have do offer?”
• Spiritual Law: ACT!
Gua South (red): Recognition and Fame
2008 Paul Schwartz creates Hoiku Kaze
2008 Election of 1st US African American president – Barack
Obama World wide financial melt down Oil barrel reaches $150 First high jacking of an oil tanker by Pirates Michael Phelps wins 8 gold medals at the summer
Olympics Mumbai, India, attacked by terrorists Russia and Georgia start a War Polar bear make it to the “threatened species” list Kosovo declares independence Condition deteriorates in Afghanistan Vladimir Putin steps down but retains power Large Hadron collider switched on, Earth is not destroyed Paul Newman Dies Lance Armstrong does not win the Tour de France. Everyone can map their entire genome for $399 Usain Bolts runs 100m in 9.69s George Clooney becomes single again!
Data fromwww.hyperhistory.comwww.infoplease.comwww.time.com
Wondering about the shirts?
Bagua withVirtue atthe Center…
Many Paths One Destination
Jyana Intellect
Creativity
Thinking
Bhakti Devotion
Love
Feeling
Karma Selfless
Service
Doing
Raja Royal
Knowledge &Experience
Being
Daily Rituals to Harmonize with the 7 Spiritual Laws Sunday: Communing with Nature
(Shakuraki)
Monday: Extending Ki (Intentional Giving & Receiving)
Tuesday: ACT! (Conscious & Peaceful Assertiveness Training)
Wednesday: Manifesting Effortless Effort -Try Softer(Cognitive, Emotional & Behavioral Flexibility)
Thursday: Clear Intentions/Present Moment Awareness (inattention attention connection regulation order health)
Friday: Wu-wei or Non-Resistance(Nyunanshin)
Saturday: Moving from Reactive Proactive Harmonizing (reactive/reflexive reflective restful awareness creative
intuitive)
The 4 BIG Questions of Right Living
• How to be Happy
• How to be Healthy
• How to cultivate Loving,
Nurturing Relationships
• How to discover and express our true and unique Purpose in Life
To Be Happy…
• Be aware of the body
• Find true self esteem
• Detoxify your life
• Give up being right
• Focus on the present
• See the world as it is
• Live for enlightenment
The Happiness FormulaH=S50+C10+V40
• S Set point in the brain (50%)
Brain mechanism is genetically encoded and wired in childhood
3 things to change set point:
1. Drugs that alter neurotransmitters (transient + side effects)
2. Cognitive reframing/therapy to reflect on negative beliefs
3. Meditation (left pre-frontal cortex causes release of neuro-transmitters naturally)
The Happiness FormulaH=S50+C10+V40
• C Conditions for livingOnly constitutes 10% of total happiness– Lottery: At end of 1 year back to set point– Tragedy: At end of 1 year back to set point or
even stronger!
Darwin: “Adaptable Survival”
The Happiness FormulaH=S50+C10+V40
• Voluntary choices (40%)Intentional actions done for either:– Personal Pleasure
• Shopping, eating, sex, alcohol, entertainment, etc.
But pleasure exhausts
– Fulfillment• Meaning & Purpose, Creativity, Making Someone
else happy
“Therapeutic”: Curative, tending to cure or restore to
health Meta-analyses of the voluminous
research has shownonly small differences in outcomes
between bona fide treatments across a wide range of therapies
and clientsLuborsky et al., 2002
Successful Outcomes
Success = SF40+CE15+T15+ CF30
• The largest proportion of variance in therapy outcome comes from relatively static factors related to client characteristics such as; age, gender, prior history of depression, social support and other extra-therapeutic factors is 40%
Successful Outcomes
• 15% is accounted for by client expectancies or the placebo effect
• A similar amount (15%) is accounted for by specific techniques unique to the treatment modality
Successful Outcomes
• Leaving 30% of the variance in outcome which has been attributed to common factors that are present in most therapeutic encounters– Lambert 1992
The 5 Common Factorsin most (therapeutic) encounters
1. Relationship Variables2. Expectancies3. Confronting Problems4. Mastery 5. Attribution of Outcomes
with Relationship Variables being the most important and strongest predictor of therapeutic outcomes
Attention & Empathy
• Carl Rogers and others believed that the therapist characteristics of empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard, may not only be necessary but indeed sufficient to stimulate change
• Empathy: “the ability to sense another’s private world as if it was your own, but without losing the ‘as if’ quality”
• Perls- “Attention in and of itself is curative”
Creating Your FutureAs the Master of your own Destiny
“The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present,
but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, and created
next in activity.The future is not some place we are going to, but
one we are creating.The paths are not to be found, but made,
and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” --John Scharr
Has the Happiest Moment Arrived?
