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Question: It is said that Miyamoto Musashi achieved a “unity of sword and zen,” and that he did not have to kill an opponent or protect himself, that he had freedom from all ideas with perfect serenity. Are there such effects? Meishu-Sama: Yes, there are, but they differ from “freedom from all ideas with perfect […]

Takuan Sōhō was born into a family of farmers in the town of Izushi, in Tajima Province (present-day Hyōgo Prefecture). At the age of 8 in 1581, Takuan began his religious studies; two years later he entered a Buddhist monastery of the Pure Land Sect. By the age of 14 in 1587, he started studying […]

This reminiscence is of one of the events that occurred while Meisu-sama was receiving his own revelations through divine possession. At that time, Oomoto published a journal titled God’s Nation (Kami no Kuni) and the opening pages of each issue carried waka poems composed by its spiritual leader, Onisaburo Deguchi. Directly following the period that […]