"If you are alive, Ki is Extending" Koichi Tohei Sensei

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[@danielgifford8993]

How does the teaching of plus and minus Ki fit in with the acceptance of everything? It feels like the promotion of plus Ki and the elimination of minus Ki is a dualistic teaching… The acceptance of one but not the other. Could someone comment on this? Thanks 🙏 Or perhaps the meaning of plus Ki IS the acceptance of everything, and minus Ki represents the non acceptance of things.

[@mauikiaikido844]

Hello Daniel - Thank you for your question. "Accepting everything" does not mean that we must follow every invitation down the proverbial '"rabbit hole.'" On the other hand, our practice considers that aversion to an idea, circumstance, or a person is just an inverted kind of clinging. '"Accepting everything" means seeing life's imbroglios for what they are, not more nor less, and learning to let them be, instead of struggling to force change simply because we can't be in the presence of that which challenges us. While it is true that "plus Ki" and "minus Ki" may appear to us as obvious opposites in this world of relative values, such judgements ultimately lead only to a sense of confusion and separation, as you suggest. We encourage the choice of :plus Ki only when we are struggling with something we see as "negative" or minus Ki. Actually, minus Ki has no substance of its own, but is only the absence of plus Ki, in the same way that darkness is the absence of light. We don't need to struggle to fight off the darkness, we simply turn on the light of awareness. This is plus Ki.

[@danielgifford8993]

@@mauikiaikido844 thank you 🙏