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Going to the State of Enlightenment
At the heart of the Ise Shrine (The First Shrine) is the pillar known as the Shin no Mihashira (the pillar built in the heart of the altar) and represents the true body of God where the divine spirit resides. The pillar is not for supporting the structure of the shrine and is buried half above and half below the ground and the meditation is to connect the ウ (U – ‘oo’ ) point, where the pillar is going into the ground with the イ(I – ‘ee’) point at the top of the pillar with the ヰ (Wi – ‘we’) point at the underground tip of the pillar. The idea is that the ‘U’ point represents life as a path to the top or bottom of the pillar. This meditation is similar to the organization that Nanasawa proposes with the nine phases. If considered from the perspective of the nine phases as presented above, then living with awareness of Kotodama is the path to understanding our consciousness.
Nanasawa teaches that, from a Buddhist perspective, practicing the Tokusa no Kandakara (The Ten Stages of God’s Treasures) could lead to a state of enlightenment.
In other words, pure subjectivity is a state of consciousness in which the individual is the universe. This stage of consciousness, which is called the ‘universal self,’ appears on the surface to correlate with the term, “enlightenment” as used by Buddhists, however this is only one side of the practice. The true goal is to see oneself as unified with human and God, after moving back and forth between the states of objectivity, which is being human, and the subjective state of being God, the practitioner can be accustomed to the movement of the fields and then be able to grasp what the strata are all about.
The observances of Tokusa no Kandakara are offered to students at the Hafuri Den (shrine) at the Shirakawa Gakkan Institute. In this sacred room, the practice of the ritual becomes a miniature universe that is especially designed and attuned so that students can become aware of their own consciousness during the movements that are part of the practice. Through the practice of these observances, students will seek to reach the state of unity between subjectivity and objectivity.