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- From: notkin@cs.washington.edu (David Notkin)
- Subject: New Year Practices?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.161436.16701@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Summary: what do you do?
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 16:14:36 GMT
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- I'm curious about the different special practices that different
- schools and different arts have on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
-
- At Seattle Aikikai, where I practice Aikido, we start practice at 6PM
- on New Year's Eve. The practice is to perform 108 shomenuchi ikkyo
- from suwari-waza (kneeling). The nage does 108 and then roles are
- exchanged and the "new" nage does another 108. The 108 is supposed to
- represent the set of human impurities, with each technique expunging
- one of those to start a fresh new year. Afterwards we have a party
- with a traditional "kampai" with o-sake. Some folks run down to the
- nearby lake for a quick misogi practice (although Sensei says that the
- lake's no dirty that nobody could be purified in it :-).
-
- At Pittsburgh Aikikai, where I practiced in the early 1980's, we
- practiced from about 11PM until 11:45PM or so. Then we'd sit in a
- semi-circle, around candles, and meditate through midnight, complete
- with all the fireworks and screaming outside. At about 12:15AM we'd
- stop the meditation, party long into the night, and (often) sleep on
- the mat until morning.
-
- What do you do?
-
- David
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