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When you keep a refredgiater closed for a long time, various smells inside get mixed up and become odorous. When you use a deodorizer, magically all those bad smells disappear and don't stay in the food. When you place an air freshener in a room, the good smell fills the room, which makes you feel better.
It can be said that the role of the martial art is to train people to play a role like a deodorizer or air freshener. By merely being there, the people around them feel fun, don't meet disasters, and everything goes well for them, etc. They don't yell and threaten others, act big or do anything in particular, but just live cheerfully as free as the wind.
WARAKU is the only way to makes it possible to lead a person to a master of the Budo.
A meaning and a mission of WARAKU are to create pleasant harmony eternally.
How do we achieve it? You should perform a lesson to achieve below.
We form it the people who can accomplish the achievement of peace of the permanency that is a general idea of Waraku by performing three following lessons basically.
 The skills of Waraku are based on the basic movements of Hachiriki, or "Eight Energies". Hachiriki is the first practice everyone learns when introduced to Waraku. Hachiriki consists of horizontal and vertical movements, the movements passing through the four points of heavens, earth, water and fire. The movements are done in a spiral shape that keeps the energy continuous and flowing. Hachiriki shows the body the feeling of the movements and positions. The movements are kind of exercise by bare hands to become the cause of a lesson of all about Waraku's movements. |
Hachiken, or "Eight Swords" is like Hachiriki, "Eight Energies," exceptusing a bokken, or wooden sword. The bokken is used, like the hands, as a guide to how the body should be moving, and if it is taken away the hands should still be in the same position as Hachiriki. The bokken is also a visual representation of the energy movement, and the extension of that energy from the body. It is also used when practicing with a partner so there is no bodily contact.
When practicing with a partner, even if there are no bad intentions, at times hard physical contact can produce bad feelings between the two people. With a bokken, the energy that is passed between the people is passed through an outside object that is connected to the body, so there are no bad feelings.
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 Chinkon is a calm, relaxed, yet engaged and alert state. Awareness is inside and outside of the body at the same time. Inside the body the heartbeat slows, body temperature is neutral, and sense of the physical body is magnified. At the same time, because the mind is calm, outside energies are felt more as well. Especially if the eyes are closed, the other senses become more acute, for example hearing and smell become more sensitive. If other people are around, their presence can be felt more, and air movement can be felt more. Also, Chinkon is a state that makes it easier for communication with gods, because of the inside and outside awareness and calm yet engaged state. |
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