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Ten Years, One Step
​Teachings from Kyudo Master Kanjuro Shibata XX

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Hatsuyume - the dream of the new year

1/1/2017

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photo above by Anthony Rich, taken on Sensei's birthday (December 29th).

Thought you all might appreciate reading Sensei's New Year's Day address given at Ryuko Kyudojo in Boulder in 2007--as pertinent as ever! 

HATSUYUME - The Dream of the New Year
At this time, of course, everyone hopes that the year ahead will be better than the last
year. But, this year, my hope is that we progress naturally. Power, strong power, comes from the
plan we make for the New Year. This year we can elevate our aspiration one step from the
previous year. We can have a high quality dream, not just for ourselves as individuals, but for
everyone altogether.

We have many dreams at the New Year. You will have many, many good dreams, I hope.
But the starting point for realizing our dreams is the cleaning of your inside ki. This is where the
New Year begins. Everyone understands having aspiration on the morning of New Year’s Day,
hatsuyume, the first dream of the New Year, and trying to pull a good dream. Many, many good
dreams arise, but these dreams are also too good! Too much hope, in this way, is not helpful. My
wish is that you will realize your dream in a more natural way and not just try to pull a dream
based on hope for yourself.

Everyone’s various desires for the year: to make good friends, to have a beautiful house,
a good car, money—many, many hope, hope, hope. Too much hope! This is all a rental from
Shakyamuni. Now, everything you have, your money, your car, your house, your friends, you
seem to have a lot, but the truth is, it’s zero. You have nothing. It’s all just help from
Shakyamuni.

Kyudo is not a sport. It is Zen style meditation, standing meditation. Dojo, dojo, kyudojo.
What is that? The kyudojo is a Buddhist meditation hall. Kyudo is standing meditation.
Meditation, everyone understands, sitting, zazen, is first. Second, is standing meditation.
Standing meditation is kyudo. When you see kyudo, you look at the target and think, “shooting,
shooting”. But shooting the target is not the essential purpose of kyudo.

Today, outside, is an exceptionally blue sky. May everyone have blue sky on the inside,
as well, during this year 2007. From this new feeling we take one step, this year walking. Many
good wishes for the New Year to you all. Thank you very much. Please keep your bodies strong
and healthy, so that from the good help you are given, you are able to offer back!
6 Comments
Tenzin gyurme
1/2/2017 02:03:43 am

Sensei...!

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Jimkatz link
1/2/2017 07:46:10 am

Arrigato gozemashta, Sendai and Carolyn. We passed New Years at a family member who just lost her husband after long hard health struggle, so many hard dreams. But still natural, so no problem.

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Carolyn Kanjuro
1/2/2017 09:23:21 am

Ah, Jim, thank you for taking the time to post these poignant words. May a good dream dawn for all your family in this New Year.

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ben (Karma Chöpal) link
11/19/2017 11:12:00 pm

Where on earth did Sensei get that hat! It's absolutely perfect!

I can't find the right word for the aspect of him it brings to mind. Not "comical", but close. Unpretentious? mishievous?
The snapshot that came to mind:
http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-Gampo-SEP1991-Ingonish.jpg
I had been doing ?what? personal service that day. We were doing a day trip to the resort at Ingonish. He and I did a bit of walk-about. He did not miss this chance to mug a bit!

p.s. a couple more from his visit to Gampo, September 1991. (One component of a Shambhala Arts program.)
* http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-SEP1991-2ndSet-a1.jpg
* http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-SEP1991-2ndSet-a2.jpg
* http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-Gampo-SEP1991-a.jpg

TD!
--KC:

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Carolyn Kanjuro
11/21/2017 07:41:27 am

Ah, the hat! It was a gift from a dear friend, but I agree he had a way of bringing out the personality in a hat, just so. Fearless that way.:-)

Thank you so much for the photo links--wonderful to see him looking so "genki"! (I couldn't get the second one to come up, though. If you have a fix, please send.) Gampo Abbey was high on the list of places he loved to go.

With appreciation,
Carolyn

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ben link
11/21/2017 12:43:42 pm

Ain't hats special? (I've been wearing the wee skull-cap type toque knitted by my X since OMG 1996?)
Perky <==> Fearless? works for me!

I staffed at Gampo for 9 months ... garland of treasures! 1st shot w/Sensei, yarne (one of the last in the autumn), and 2 count'em /2/ dathun! (The second one Pema gave the lectures on tonglen that became the book. I was doing sound / recording so with headsets I had her voice directly into my ears!)

TD!

p.s. The second pic works on both of my browsers. I wanted to use HTML but not sure this blog is set up for that. Since there's no Edit option.
> http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-SEP1991-2ndSet-a2.jpg <
<a href="http://bentrem.net/images/ShibataSensei-SEP1991-2ndSet-a2.jpg" target="_new">pic 2</a>




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