Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow capped mountains. It
sees the divine in rocks and streams communing with spirit worlds
through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also
the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between
cracks in city paving stones. Structured around ritual cleansing
Shinto contains no concept of sin. It reveres ancestors but thinks
little about the afterlife, asking us to live in and improve the
present. Central to Shinto is Kannagara or the intuitive acceptance
of the divine power contained in all living things. Dai Shizen
(Great Nature) is the life force with which we ally ourselves
through spiritual practice and living simply. This is not
asceticism but an affirmation of all aspects of life. Musubi
(organic growth) provides a model for reconciling ancient intuition
with modern science and modern society with primal human needs.
Shinto is an unbroken indigenous path that now reaches beyond its
native Japan. It has special relevance to us as we seek a more
balanced and fulfilled way of life.
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