Messages from Master Kozo Nishino (5) What is Taiki?

 

From Headquarters #6 - Messages from Master Kozo Nishino (5)

What is Taiki*?

Kozo Nishino


True freedom can only be obtained by physically sensing your body on a cellular level.

Rules and mechanisms are things that are only made up, and if you try to gain freedom within them, you will run into a wall at every turn.

Certainly, mechanisms and rules are necessary to form a group called society.

Without them, social order cannot be maintained.

However, social rules are only created by the greatest common denominator.

They are often inconvenient for individual ways of life, which is why people suffer.

To get out of this system, you must first act against the wall and feel the resistance. People tend to give up before taking action, thinking, "If I try to live freely, I will run into walls. However, the important thing is how to carve out one's own freedom in the midst of encountering various walls and feeling resistance.

Imagine being alone on an isolated island in the middle of the ocean. You will realize that there seems to be freedom there, but there is not.

Freedom comes from living in the hustle and bustle of the city and acting within its partitions and frictions.

If you are alone on an isolated island, even if you have all kinds of electrical appliances, food and other necessities, and access to information from around the world via the Internet, you will not feel freedom, but rather a sense of emptiness and fear, even though there are no barriers, no conflicts, and no interference from others.

A human is a single biological being, but only when he or she interacts with others does he or she exist as a human being.

When we become human, we are free. We are human because of our interactions with other people.

How to gain a distance is a way of life.

It takes a great deal of energy to think strategically and manipulatively about how to make that pause.

In Nishino Method breathing exercises, the body, rather than the brain, is used to practice to be able to freely take control of a distance between people. This is a unique method called "Taiki”.

Taiki is a way for people to learn to communicate with each other through the two-way communication of life energy, without even knowing it.

Note: “Taiki” is an application practice of the Nishino Method “Sokushin (soles of the feet) Breathing”.

Nishino, Kozo. “生命エネルギーの躍動（Vitality of Life Energy).” Kodansha, 2002, pp.3-4.


（Original Japanese）

対気について Part 2

真の自由とは、自分の身体を細胞レベルで体感することによって、初めて得られるものなのです。

ルールや仕組みはあくまでも作られたものですから、その中で自由を得ようとするとことごとく壁に突き当たることになります。

確かに社会という集団を形成するためには、仕組みやルールが必要です。

それがなければ、社会の秩序が保たれません。

しかしながら、社会のルールはあくまで最大公約数でつくられたものです。

個々の生き方にとっては不都合なことが多い、そのために人々は悩むのです。

その仕組みから脱するためには、まず壁にぶつかりながら、抵抗を感じながら行動することです。人は、ややもすると「自由に生きようとすれば、壁にぶつかるだろう」と考えて、行動を起こす前にあきらめがちです。しかし、さまざまな壁にぶつかり抵抗を感じながら、その中で自分の自由をどう切り開いていくかが大切なのです。

絶海の孤島に、ぽつんとひとり置かれたことを想像してみてください。そこには自由があるようで、ないということに気づくはずです。

都会の喧騒の中で暮らして、その仕切りと軋轢の中で行動することで自由が生まれるのです。

孤島の中にひとりでいれば、たとえそこにはあらゆる電化製品が整い、食料や嗜好品がそろい、インターネットで世界の情報を受発信することが可能であったとしても、仕切りや軋轢、他人からの干渉はないけれど、自由を感じるどころか、虚無感、恐怖感にとらわれるだけです。

人というのは一人の生物的存在ですが、人との交流があって初めて人間としての存在があります。

人間となったとき、自由になります。人と人との間合いがあるから人間なのです。

その間合いをいかにとるかということが、生き様になります。

その間合いのとり方を、頭脳で戦略的・策略的に考えるためには多大なエネルギーを使います。

西野流呼吸法では、頭脳によらず身体で間合いを自在にとれるようにする稽古をします。それが"対気"という独特のメソッドです。

"対気"は人と人が生命エネルギーの双方向コミュニケーションによって、知らず識らずのうちに間合いを体得する方法なのです。

Nishino, Kozo. “生命エネルギーの躍動（Vitality of Life Energy).” Kodansha, 2002, pp.3-4.

 

生命エネルギーの躍動　西野皓三　まえがき「自由を取り戻す呼吸法」pp3-4

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