Global Taimyo Community
Welcome to the Global Taimyo Community
The Global Taimyo Community (GTC) formed after September 11, 2001 as the Taimyo Network for World Peace, as a peaceful and compassionate response to the violence of 9/11 and subsequent retaliatory violence. As we practice, we see ourselves standing around the globe holding hands in a protective embrace.
GTC believes that Taimyo Kata can function as a movement form through which we can search and/or heal our inner world as well create better relationships with our outer world — neighbors, community near and far, and Nature — beyond time and space.
About Taimyo network
Originally Posted on 2005-06-03 - edited 2024
The Taimyo Network for World Peace uses the meditation form Taimyo Kata as a form of [personal] prayer. Taimyo means “Great Mystery” and kata means “form.” Taimyo is a distillation of the creative experience of Shintaido founder Hiroyuki Aoki. We use the kata to practice together, and to express our caring for the Earth and for one another.
The physical practice of the kata and the spiritual connection through the network are complemented with a [WhatsApp] forum. The forum is available to Shintaido practitioners around the world, allowing us to transcend national boundaries.
When we synchronize our schedules in order to meditate together, regardless of where we live in the world, we are working to bring forth a vision of world peace, a safe and clean environment and freedom for all oppressed people.
Perceptive people around the world have known for a decade that our world was in crisis but I was slow to come to that realization. It was not until the events of 9-11 that I realized there truly is no safe place on earth.
Since this is the case each of us must become a medicine man/woman, shaman or spiritual warrior so that we can pray without ceasing in our daily lives for peace, a healthy planet and social justice.
If all of us around the world encourage one another and allow our light to shine in the countries, cities, towns, and villages where we live, we will make small changes around us gradually and one by one even if we’re unable to realize our vision of peace and justice immediately.
It’s as if we are walking through a dark tunnel, drawing slowly closer to the light at the other end. The closer we get, the clearer it becomes. In the same way, I believe our lives (and fate) can shift gradually from a negative direction to a positive one. Then we can truly be a light to the people around us.
Haruyoshi Fugaku Ito/Facilitator of Taimyo network
Our Practice:
Taimyo Virtual Community via Zoom
In August 2021 the group gathered to mark its 20th anniversary, connecting globally in real-time via Zoom. Since then the GTC has met virtually in community with three to four meetings each year where we contemplate and reflect together on an annual theme. In these meetings we have time to move together, with time to talk about our annual theme in small groups and as a larger community. We join in a multi-lingual space and participate in language-specific small group discussions, and invite those familiar with Taimyo Kata to join us.
Taimyo Personal Practice Connecting in Time and Space
On the first Saturday of each month, at 8am or 8pm in your local time, the GTC can join shared personal practice.
(NOTE: these are NOT Zoom or other formal meetings. As the Taimyo Network for Peace did early on, we choose this day and time to practice in our own space knowing someone else is also practicing on their own in Time and Space. In this way we are connected.)
Use the GTC WhatsApp group to share insights and reflections of your personal practice. In addition you are encouraged to suggest other days to practice in community. When offering a suggested date please let the community know why that day is important to you or it's meaning. (contact GTC for a link to join the WhatsApp Group)
In addition to the first Saturday of the month here are a few other days GTC suggests for personal practice “in time and space” - at 8am or 8pm your local time.
• April 22 - Earth Day
• May 28 - Ito’s birthday
• August 6 - Hiroshima Day
• August 9 - Nagasaki Day
• September 11 - the 9/11 bombings
• September 21 - International Day Of Peace
WhatsApp GTC Forum: To join the GTC forum on WhatsApp please Contact GTC
