Shinto: A Celebration of Life - Softcover

Rankin, Aidan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846944384 ISBN 13: 9781846944383

Publisher: Mantra Books, 2011

Synopsis

Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow-capped mountains. It sees the divine in rocks and streams, communing with spirit worlds through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between cracks in city paving stones. Structured around ritual cleansing, Shinto contains no concept of sin. It reveres ancestors, but thinks little about the afterlife, asking us to live in, and improve, the present. Central to Shinto is Kannagara: intuitive acceptance of the divine power contained in all living things. Dai Shizen (Great Nature) is the life force with which we ally ourselves through spiritual practice and living simply. This is not asceticism, but an affirmation of all aspects of life. Musubi (organic growth) provides a model for reconciling ancient intuition with modern science, modern society with primal human needs. Shinto is an unbroken indigenous path that now reaches beyond its native Japan. It has special relevance to us a

About this title

About the Author:

Aidan Rankin is a writer and researcher on spiritual and esoteric matters. He is on the National Council of the Theosophical Society in England and lives in London.

Review:

This exceptional and timely book brings the primal wisdom of Japan into the global arena. Shinto offers a message of hope to humanity and all life on this planet. (Paul de Leeuw, Kannushi (Shinto Master) and Director of the Japanese Dutch Shinzen Foundation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mantra Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846944384
• ISBN 13: 9781846944383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176