{"id":209,"date":"2019-04-30T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2022-10-05T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:23:56","slug":"to-create-a-peaceful-world-each-person-must-be-in-a-peaceful-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/to-create-a-peaceful-world-each-person-must-be-in-a-peaceful-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"To Create a Peaceful World, Each Person must be in a Peaceful Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My last post was about\u00a0 Oki-sensei\u2019s description of what the natural body, natural mind-heart and natural lifestyle are for human beings and that yoga is a system of \u2018philosophy and practical methods\u2019 that teaches this to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this post, I summarised two lectures from an English booklet \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/reading.php\">Last Lectures<\/a> by Masahiro Oki\u2019. The lectures are one given in Finland on 28 June 1985 (pages 5-10) and another given in Belgium on 15 July 1985 (pages 33-37). Oki-sensei draws our attention from lofty ideals (as per the last post) to very practical indications which we can apply in our daily life.&nbsp; He says the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendees of the lectures suggested\nmany subjects such as love, religion, peace, health, and yoga. He decided to\nspeak how to create peace, because in \u2018peace\u2019 all aspects of human beings are\nincluded. After the Second World War, he decided to become a peacemaker and\njoined many so-called peacemakers\u2019 groups. However, he found that there were\nmany paper- or mouth-peacemakers but they were not necessarily peaceful\nthemselves. Then he realised that, if we want to create a peaceful world, each\nperson must be in a peaceful condition, where we need three elements: peaceful\nbody, peaceful mind-heart and peaceful life-style. He concretely indicates as\nfollows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to create Peaceful Body<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Keep your muscles flexible.<\/li><li>Keep your spine stretched.<\/li><li>Keep your breath deep.<\/li><li>Keep your blood clean.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yoga Asana and Pranayama teach\nthese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to create Peaceful Mind-heart<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obtain a balanced state in\nemotions, desires and intellect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emotions and desires come\nspontaneously, not by thinking. When some thought or feeling comes, don\u2019t deny\nit. But, think \u2018what is the opposite thought or feeling to this one?\u2019&nbsp; If you think well, you will find there are so\nmany ways of interpretations. Then bring in the opposite thought or feeling to\nthe one which originally occurred to you. Through this practice, your mind will\ncome to feel alright whether this way or that way.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unbalanced thoughts or feelings come because\nyour ability of adaptation is weak. <\/li><li>To keep your intellect peaceful, you must distinguish what you\nunderstand from what you don\u2019t understand. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to create Peaceful Lifestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peaceful Lifestyle means the lifestyle where we help each other and develop together. This is love. There are two causes for human quarrels: egocentrism and attachment. How to practise this kind of lifestyle is as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You do not need to deny about\npossessing things, but utilise them as public things, or for both yourself and\nothers.<\/li><li>Whatever you do, keep its\nbenefits for yourself and others at 50% each. Keep your own joy and other\u2019s joy\nat 50% each. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oki-sensei showed us both lofty ideals and practical indications. I think that having these both is one of the beautiful characteristics of Okido Yoga.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post was about\u00a0 Oki-sensei\u2019s description of what the natural body, natural mind-heart and natural lifestyle are for human beings and that yoga is a system of \u2018philosophy and practical methods\u2019 that teaches this to us. In this post, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/to-create-a-peaceful-world-each-person-must-be-in-a-peaceful-condition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okidoyoga.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}