NAGOSHI-NO-OHARAHI/ The Great Mid Year Purification

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NAGOSHI-NO-OHARAHI/ The Great Mid Year Purification
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Heure	26 juin · 10:00 - 13:00
Lieu	TSUBAKI GRAND SHRINE OF AMERICA/ www.Tsubakishrine.org
Créé par	Shinto
En savoir plus	Soon we will enter the 6th Month of 2011. We are already approaching the mid point of the year. The old name for the 6th month is Minazuki which means water month. The reason is in the 6th month water is poured into rice fields and sacred rice begins to grow. June means to complete the first ½ of the year and to make a fresh start for the 2nd ½ of the year. Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America will conduct the Nagoshi-no-Oharahi on June 26th, the last Sunday of the Month. The meaning of this most important ceremony of purification is to rid ourselves of any impurities that may have accumulated in the 1st ½ of the year and then to renew ourselves by receiving fresh KI from Divine Nature in order to successfully complete the 2nd ½ of 2011. The Nagoshi-no-Oharahi ceremony includes. 1) Oharahi Shinji – this is one of the two times each year that Oharahi-no-Kotoba is prayed facing to sanpaisya. 2) Chi-no-Wa Kuguri – everyone walks the figure 8 pattern through the Chi-no-Wa/ large grass hoop to receive fresh Ki of Divine Nature. 3) Katashiro Nagashi- everyone uses the Katashiro/paper forms of human being to absorb any misfortunate energy of 1st ½ of 2011…these Katashiro are thrown into the Pilchuck river and impurities flow to the Puget Sound and then to the Pacific Ocean where they are transformed to light and dispersed. Sukeisya/shrine members of Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America will automatically receive the Katashiro of 2011 and instructions for use. Please use seriously with you family and bring your Karashiro with you to Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America on 6/26. If you cannot attend Taisai please use them according to the directions and return them (with some ceremony donation) to Tsubaki Jinja before the 26th so they can be included in the ceremony in your stead. Tsubaki Grand Shrine FaceBook list members who are not current shrine members and who cannot travel to attend are encouraged to participate by contacting Tsubaki Grand Shrine off-list kannushi@Tsubakishrine.org in order to receive the Katashiro of 2011 for themselves and their families --these katashiro can be returned to Tsubaki Jinja for ceremony inclusion. The meaning of Katashiro is to be purified in your stead--- so even if you are far away from the Jinja and cannot travel here you can participate in this important seasonal observance. ************************************** Participation in such purification of the spiritual/mental and physical bodies is a basic of Shinto. Shinto ritual has real power to affect the Ki which is the basis of all life and all movement. Through receiving Harae we can understand our place in Divine/Great Nature and rediscover the best of life that can become obscured by layers of impurity Shinto teaches us to live anew, find a new self and enter a new world each day…shall we explore together how to actualize this teaching in our lives. How shall we complete 2011 and prepare to receive the fresh KI of 2012? How shall we renew our minds, bodies and spirits? If we become deeply refreshed we can meet the challenging situation of our World and enjoy the Primal Connection to Life Giving Forces. Many things prevent us from achieving our full potential. We are undermined by conflict and misfortune; we become preoccupied by distress and anxiety; we make mistakes, commit offenses and lose our purity. However, OHarahi can remove impurities and pollution from us, restoring us to an original state from which we can start afresh. ************************************* The restless and infinite movements of Divine Nature are called kannagara, movements that go "along with the kami." Our lives are located in nature into which we are born, where we live and within which our lives find meaning. We live in accordance with the spirit of kannagara. Our human lives originate from Divine Nature and our Ancestors. We stand on a vertical line with Taiyo the sun/solar progenitor and proceeding to Kami and then our ancestors to our current moment and extending to our descendants. Gratitude for the life you received from the 1) the sun 2) Kami and 3) your ancestors is central to Shinto thinking...the vertical line is called Keishin suso.... focus first on the Earth, on Sarutahiko Okami as primal Kami of groundedness and centering...once you are standing firmly on the Earth you can naturally become aware of receiving Divine Solar KI/ life from Amaterasu Omikami...then when receiving vitality of Earth and inspiration of Heaven you will consciously experience Kannagara. Yamamoto Yukiyasu Guji teaches us to always renew ourselves and be restored. You can make a new plan and implement it with all your will power and avoid repeating the same mistakes. This is the way of the Sarutahiko Okami.

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