OR WHY DR KEN, ENERGY TREATMENT GURU, CHOOSES FAR ROAD FOR TRUTH INSTEAD OF A NEAR ONE
Ken was a legend among us. Dr Ken. Or to be exact Dr Kenichi Kumakiri. Being Japanese and energy treatment guru made him a very special person for us from the very first meeting some ten years ago.
I was puzzled myself while answering to the question of a yang lad who in a workshop break asked me what is the point for Ken of coming to Lithuania and teaching his energy treatment methods a bunch of exotic massage enthusiasts? It doesn’t make him nor money, nor a flock of followers or any other evident tangible benefit. That question of commercially minded youngster was a riddle for me as well. Later on looking for some answer I found Ken’s sayings worth a thought from his book “Dynamics of Human Energy” like “Look for it far away”, “It is better to take the far road than the near one” and “There is no subjectivity or objectivity in nature”.
And here he lives himself up to his own philosophy. He travels to another side of the World and teaches people virtually for nothing how to be healthy, how to relieve pain and first of all how to think in order to stay healthy. His views might be at odds with the Western understanding of what is life and perversive glorification of machines and drugs at the expense of Nature, but for those who get deeper into his mind, it opens entirely new perspective. No matter what your age is.
He takes his voyages even as natural treatment himself. There among his enlisted kinds of treatment I found “Come to Another World Treatment”. And he keeps coming to us.
I was asked by Liuda, my niece and a professional energy treatment adept, to pick up Ken from Vilnius to Kaunas. We met on the outskirts of the city at an agreed gas station. Some lady took him to the place by car.
He shook my hand smiling. A greyish short cut hair and some stoutness gave me an impression of an ageing man. But there was something that prevented me to call him old despite his age of sixty four. Calmness, serenity and agility concealed somewhere with in his slow movements emanated around.
“Pardon us for being a little late,” said the lady. “Our guest was praying, so we couldn’t start earlier.”
Ken in his teaching advocated for plain open clothing, not wearing socks and shoes wherever it is possible. He used to walk barefoot himself. When entering the room and leaving shoes at a door he stayed barefoot. Never wearing socks. As these much prevent “fresh air flow to the body” and therefore are detrimental to good health.
We talked in a car about Apple computing, Japanese fascination with mobile phones that act like small banking equipment for all kinds of payments, licensing and purchases. With a modern mobile software deeply woven into Japanese social fabric you buy train tickets or pay for doughnuts and coffee in a bar. That’s why iPhones in Japan had to be adjusted installing that special software. He also happily noticed me driving Honda Civic, a car though almost twenty years old, but in good shape due to my son’s good care and devotion to auto-motion. Apple gadgets and Japan designed Honda apparently were the only two things that naturally drew his attention in grey aboriginal landscape swiftly passing away on a highway.
Thin light glasses were almost leaving no trace on his tanned face. Looking from my driver’s seat to his face profile I noticed a big flashy birth-mark on his upper lip. While talking most of the time he was faintly smiling. With eyes perhaps. His English had a strong Japanese accent. Short sentences much helped to make his mind clear. I think he hated idle talk as it “evaporates human energy”. Most of the time he rather kept silent.
Ken’s behaviour during his treatment workshops was extraordinary to say at least. He was stepping with his full weight, no less than some hundred kilograms, on a patient’s belly or repeatedly rhythmically punching with force patient’s back or any problematic body part. To newcomers of holistic medicine these methods were appalling. But according to Ken, unexpectedly, all this is good for health. An idea of hard versus soft as being good for our health both in nutrition, in everyday life and in treatment initially looks false. Because all this is about pain we feel when hit by or treated with any hard thing. We all hate pain. How it could be for good?
But when you get serious and take Ken’s ideas deeper into heart it facilitates to gain firm personal standpoint. It gradually teaches start thinking being aware of constant change. There is nothing absolutely stable in this world! And nevertheless there’s also a balance that helps us survive in a flow of changes. What shapes our state of mind and state of our health is our ability to balance.
When the workshop was over I saw Ken smoking outside the building.
“Why do you smoke? Isn’t it harmful?” I asked him straightforwardly.
“I need some fire energy to balance myself,” he answered with a serene unrepentant smile.
Master Ken
Treatment by standing on
Hard push
Technical to the point
Stranded body treatment
Treatment by just sitting on
Tags: acupuncture, energy treatment, massage, pointing
