Re the last post Ikeda Sensei’s book Traditional Japanese Acupuncture & Moxibustion (i think that’s the title?) is a must at the beginning of the journey or anywhere along it, I still keep rereading sections and think did those words just magically appear on the page or did I just hear what the master is communicating a little more clearly!

A little story – I had two days in Tokyo, one of which I took travelling south to Kamakura to stay with the family of an esteemed collegue of my father’s. The other was spent in Edward Obaidey’s clinic in Sangenaya, well half of it before I had to catch my bus back to Kyoto. I learn’t so much in that few hours re bedside manner, sensing energy and being present in my body than all the books & workshops that I had probably spent thousands on. But I’m not too sure about the impression I left as I slipped on my shoes & headed off into the human & mechanical chaos outside the clinic’s door. Edward had this curious look on his face as I said my hurried goodbye, as if to say “moving so quickly how do expect to know what is available now when you are already where you think you ought to be”.