Kendo’s Healing Message for January

This January sees an ever-growing energetic out-reach from our Foundation to try to help as many people as possible during 2016, whether their need is for perspective on their lives, to find inner peace, or even both of these things in pursuit of self-empowerment.

For example, on March 5th, we’re holding a charity fund-raising wrestling contest at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, to raise funds for our work with our partner veterans’ organizations, the Lee Rigby Foundation and the North Staffs Veterans Organization.

Putting it all together has been – and continues to be – most enlightening for us all here, discovering how each small action towards the greater goal has had positive consequences – it’s been as if every action initiated in pursuit of helping others has been surrounded by a positive force which responds by adding its own positive energy.

This should come as no surprise to those whove followed Kendo’s teachings – as he tells us during his Affirmation Stick Burning Ceremony, it is a powerfully positive and healing affirmation to remember that we are all inextricably linked to the entirety of nature around us, and the more considerate we are towards that great organic whole, the better it responds to us; symbolised by the Shinto ‘kami’ deities of nature, as our aspirations and affirmations reach them, the more they support us.

There is a perspective available here – even though Kendo has done so much to welcome people who need help and support into his home, he would like to do more, but every thing that he has done that’s been within his power has been rewarding, and has empowered more of the same work. Kendo points out that this applies to us all – even the smallest gesture towards supporting those who need help is motivated by the kind of energy that the natural world around us will respond positively to – we will all emphatically satisfy that fantastic Buddhist aspiration to be the best we can be for our families and the societies around us.

From January and for the whole of 2016, Kendo recommends that we all nurture that positive aspiration towards the best possible world for all, and such a vision will stoke the fires of positive momentum towards that outcome, in every action we take to help others.

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