In martial
practice, each and every one of us can see different types of practioners,
amateurs as well as veterans, those who come to defend themselves or to search
for something : they’re researchers.
As far as
I’m concerned, I tend to categorize myself as a researcher since I began to
practice casually and my goal has always been the following
« understanding the energy ».
The energy,
depending on civilisations and cultures has quite a lot of names, the ki,
t’chi, Ka … ? and many more.
The more
time has passed, the more my vision of the energy has changed, the one I had in
the beggining is not the same anymore. In order to properly understand that
notion of the energy, I realized that you must observe it from multiple angles.
I have a
friend who is always taking exemple on the look we have at a same valley but
from different hills. It’s true, it is like watching the stars while forgetting
everything that’s composing our universe.
We are
completely a part of the universe, we share its size, nothing differentiates us
from it.
Our limits are those our mind has determined. We are thinking beings.
That means each of our actions must bring us to think over why we did that
action.
Why do we
not need this notion of the energy anymore ? Because our civilisations
have taken a path that’s made non simplistic by the material vision of things.
This also
what understanding the depth of the Aunkai is about.
In my
search of an understanding of the energy, I crossed roads with Akuzawa Minoru.
Before I met him, my first day of Aunkai practice deeply called to the depths
of me. It was like an echo but difficult to get a hold of. I then decided to
dig deeper in order to understand. The more I moved forward, the more the
certitude of the direction became clear.
My meeting
with Akuzawa Sensei confirmed that the core of his work was the energy.
The langage
of the energy is subtile but not innaccessible.
The Tanren are the langage that
Akuzawa Sensei gives us to understand.
Like in
every teaching, there is a way to do so, a way to approach the subject.
For the
Aunkai, it is the work on ourselves, because for the energy to express itself,
we’re gonna need to feel things within ourselves. That feeling must bring us to
self questionning in order to find our actual depth and our original state.
I can
practice the Tanren in a physical way without questionning but the result will
not be as phenomenal as it should be because I will miss the langage of the
Tanren.
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| Akuzawa Sensei |
The Tanren
speaks to us, it’s then up to us to listen in order to understand the message
it’s delivering.
Keep in
mind those questions : Why does Akuzawa Sensei only use a few
Tanren ? Why is that ?
Why has he transformed them with the
time ?
Whenever
the practice of the Tanren seems meaningless to you, ask yourself that kind of
question.
Akuzawa
Sensei talks about a « Forge ».
I studied
metalwork, I know how a Forge works.
The first
image that comes to mind when talking about « forging the body » is
that of a blacksmith hitting iron with his hammer.
But that,
is not Forging. That is heating the material in order to make it flexible and
be able to transform it in what we desire.
Tanren are
Forges designed to get rid of the physical stiffness of the body and have the
energetic potential be released from it.
Akuzawa
Sensei has his own langage.
In order to understand, you must read it, not try
to interprate it.
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阿吽会 |
When Akuzawa Sensei show the Aunkai logo, he brings the
attention on the importance of the flames : flames, symbol of the Forge
and the Awakening in bouddhism.
What’s
essential is invisible to the eyes
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