I'm a third shifter, so my routine may be a bit different to some. It also depends on which day it is in the week/month.
After work -
Gassho Kyoku-ho (daily)
Gokai Sansho (daily)
Self Treatment before bed (daily)
After I wake for the day -
Hatsurei-ho (daily)
Gokai Sansho (daily)
Enkaku Chiryo-ho/Self Treatment/Individual Technique[heso chiryo-ho, tanden chiryo-ho, nentatsu-ho] (daily)
Reiki Share once a month.
Martial Arts training five days a week.
I also try to read a little each day. My Great-grandfather use to say "The first day we fail to learn something new, is the first day we start getting stupid"

AlienProgeny,

Your grandfather was a wise man.

what martial arts training you do jotaro?

Chi - Yes he was. Taught me a great deal that he did!

Wayne - I am between dojo at the moment. I was training with the Jinenkan, but had to stop due to some severe knee issues. Prior to that I did a six year stint in the Bujinkan. I trained in budo most of my life starting as a boy with kendo and shotokan karate. I trained in a koryu (old style) from mid high school until I was 27. I am looking for a iaido/battojutsu dojo to join right now. Nicer to the knees and full of the self discipline that I need. I have thought about doing aikido as well but worry about my knees, I did a lot of stupid things when I was younger!

wots Jinekan? Bunjinkan, i was gonna do Genbukan over in Ireland. You ever try your hands at Kuji-in? some say they came from ninja.

Edit: just googled it, ninpo stuff then?

I attended some Genbukan training, good organization. I am 1/4 Japanese and grew up exposed some to Tendai. When I was little I once saw both my Great-grandfather and my Grandmother (his daughter) do Kuji-in. I personally am not religious in any way so I never took to trying it. I have heard the connection to ninja, but the training I took in the Bujinkan never dealt with it.

Only mentioning it, as i've started it officially myself (Kuji-in), being guided by a Master. Folks on another spiritual forum i go to, lots of them are martial artists, and they speak regularly bout the link. Also, that kuji-in can be used for martial arts also.

Does Jinekan teach the philosophy also, meditation, etc? Or is it physicla stuff just? Just curious, as i'm not familiar with it.

13 years ago here, in england, Bunjinkan was the big thing. Only a handful of Genbukan offical teachers, two happened to be in Ireland. They taught all aspects of ninpo. Which was what i was after. Dunno if they over here though.

I only trained in the Jinenkan for 6 months before developing my knee issues. I liked it a lot but it (from my limited understanding) focuses mainly on the physical training. Bujinkan left a lot to be desired for me. Not the way I think budo should be taught. It's good for some, but not my thing. Jinenkan and Genbukan are very attention to the details groups, which is a good thing.

I know that the Genbukan has some more spiritual training involved due to Tanemura Sensei's sokeship of a spiritual tradition called Amatsu Tatara. Some very interesting stuff to the tradition. There are three books available on the genbukan website about it. I believe the books were written by a Irishman. Suppose to be Tanemura's guy outside of Japan. Might be something worth checking out for you, with you interest.
http://www.genbukan.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?1315&csProduct_productID=172
There are several UK Genbukan dojo, one might be near you. Check on Genbukan.org, it won't paste for some reason.

One of the reasons I was thinking about aikido is the kotodama training they do in the higher levels. I also thought that with the more up-right, not so deep stances it may be easier on the knees.

AlienProgeny wrote:
There are several UK Genbukan dojo, one might be near you. Check on Genbukan.org, it

Thanks Bro, i've stopped training in all my msrtial arts classes, outta a sign of respect for my current teacher, so wouldnt' go to Genbukan, evne if it was here. Appreciate your help though!

dear AlienProgeny,

thanks and love
vj

hi Vijay

certainly an interesting question you have floated on board

i found someone quoting here the term "spiritual materialism" and i liked it...

practicing finding our inner side is most commonly a non-routine activity.... infact we very gradually make our mind settled on the things and practices like these... whenever we start something, like some breathing exerice, some mantra, some meditation, etc.... we start finding an internal resistance, obvious or latent, and sometimes it is hard to overcome that internal resistance, so mostly we give time to things to settle upon....


thats why it is always comfortable to give gaps to these rituals...

secondly, it depends on the particular mindset of the people involved... some people dedicate life to these practices... and very soon they sorta develop an obsession or craving for daily exerices.... and by all means, that is something very special...


for common lot, like me, reiki has its place in life, as well as other related disciplines/practices/etc. have... but i seldom find myself so disciplined to do daily exercises....

plus, i do them for the sheer pleasure of them, and not for any objective pre-set in mind. times i get up half way in the night... do meditation, breathing... times i get up early in the morning, walk on earth nacked feet, watch the sun rising, hear the chirping of birds.....

times i self-treat myself, times i give reiki to universe, to my home, my city, locality and my country... times i give reiki to people who have asked for it.... and, what missed, yeah, times i get up at nights for reiki, but just settle down listneing some good music or instrumentals, and sleep again without doing any reiki

take care

salman

Dear Lambs-Wool

your word is as natural as you are.



keep it up.




thanks and regards
vj

The Reiki system came to me when I
had the time to focus and engage with
its natural energy. Even if I don't
have a disciplined routine. Reiki is
always with me. I do begin and end my
day with self Reiki. I am more aware
of it on days that I give /teach Reiki