E-mail from Ito to Shigeru Watanabe, 2008-04-02

Here are some ideas I have been thinking about recently:
Tai Chi contains wisdom passed down through 5000 years of Chinese culture.
Tai Chi itself has a history going back at least 400 years.
Shintaido is the fruit of 400 years of Japanese fighting techniques and martial arts.
I was VERY fortunate to be able to play a central role in the very early development of Shintaido. [Full text]

Messages from Ito before and after the conference

-Taimyo insight
For a long time, in doing Part I of Taimyo, I have held the image of myself as a commander.....Click here

-Nanjing report
In May of 2002, I began studying Wu style Tai Chi under the direction of.... Click here

The following is a "Cry" of Belinda French who is a Taimyo member in Bristol, England.
-Ito

I have woken early in this morning crying for those people from near Mosul in Iraq who have just experienced a massive bombing...
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Dear Taimyo Practitioners:
The time has come for August meditation!
I would like to propose that we focus our attention on the "Ocean" !!
The following is a site I would like you to visit, then reflect upon how we need to change our behavior.

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(If you are not able to open this page, google- Our oceans are turning into plastic. It should be the first article that pops up.)

This coming weekend, I will be in Whidbey Island (near Seattle), WA to lead a Taimyo meditation workshop with Paula Kerby, Lee Seaman, and Nicole Beauvois.
Please join me in person or via email correspondence by practicing wherever you are!
-Ito

To see the interview to Ito Sensei and Dick Olton by Elli Nagai-Rothe.
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Click below to see Messages from Omaha Beach!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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On the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Tragedy
November 22 - 25, 2007
This conference is for people from China, Japan, and other parts of the world, who have had different war experience and education in war. Its purpose is to open their hearts and listen deeply to one another.

Report by K. Tanahashi
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Comments on this event:
from Peter
from Roshi Joan
from Heinz-Jürgen Metzger - Looking back to Nanjing

Detail of the event is here.

Tanahashi

Greetings from Japan!
Akemashite Omedeto~! Happy New Year!! Bonne Année!!!

The following is a poem I came across recently. It is really encouraging because it very much describes what I have been studying through Taimyo Kata:
Full text of the greeting

The Taimyo Network for World Peace uses the meditation form Taimyo Kata as a form of prayer. Taimyo means "Great Mystery" and kata means "form." Taimyo is a distillation of the creative experience of Shintaido founder Hiroyuki Aoki. We use the kata to practice and pray together, and to express our caring for the Earth and for one another... Full text