retreats108 wrote:
George that is cool, which secret school? Go on, you are with friends here.....
cloudz wrote:retreats108 wrote:
George that is cool, which secret school? Go on, you are with friends here.....
Ah well, I guess it's a long story, but the name of the school was Zenkyoshin. My teachers teacher claimed to have inherited it from a Japanese family that moved to the UK. He traced it back, a long way, to a so called Blue Mountain Sect. There was interesting history and stories published some time ago when my teacher went the website route.
The main guy had a background in Oriental Studies and would tell the story of Chinese origin, what they were about, how they were part of the Chan Budhism school, described a split in that school in China. Anyway this tradition found it's way to Japan and at some point merged with Yamabushi mountain folk and or similar - just going by memory atm.
Unfortunately that website didn't last as it attracted a fair bit if criticism from Japanese Koryuu types and the Ninjas that chase down and scold the independents for being fakes. I mean if that isn't ironic I don't know what is.
I guess when I say 'secret' when I started the story of the school and how it related to Ninjutsu was a little obfuscated. In MA terms the school was a mish mash - almost on purpose i suspect; so I was mostly doing a version of TCC with a bit of aikijutsu and kenjutsu/ japanese sword. I don't think you would immidiately recognise a class or the school as anything particularly to do with Ninjas.. But yes, to me, I guess it's really more of a secret society really. I took blood oath and shared in some interesting esoteric/ spiritual and philosophical training. Including 108 precepts, that was right up my street..
They also had taijitsu and other things in the cirriculum; all in all there was a lot that had been accumalated and practiced. Much of it I suspect put together from the top guy, so to speak.
It's really hard to quite know what to make of it, even now. One thing I can tell you they (top guys) were very dedicated and practiced like hell, so they had something going on, that's for sure.
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