Daily Yamabushi for August 22 to 28: I'm on The Mountains
Doing the Akinomine Autumn's Peak Ritual
If you’re reading this, I’m on the mountains. The Akinomine Autumn’s Peak Ritual officially started on Tuesday. I’m probably more than halfway up Gassan by now.
This is my fifth Akinomine ritual, my first was back in 2017. A lot has changed since then. For starters, there are now 120 yamabushi instead of the 160+ they had my first time around. There are also more foreigners too. This year, myself, Rick from Yamabushido, and a few other people who participated on our programs will be joining us (three, one Brit, one Australian, one American, in fact). There’s usually a Dutch guy that joins too, and the occasional Australian.
Anyway, we spend a whole week living in the Dewa Sanzan mountains doing a whole lot of chanting, but also visiting sacred locations on only yamabushi can visit. We also pray on your behalf, I hope you don’t mind.
This week’s video ‘Waterfall Meditation Explained’ is up now!
This video is based off my Fudo Myo’o article, but is essentially entirely new. This video answers the questions:
Why do Yamabushi stand under freezing waterfalls?
What does it have to do with a flaming, sword-wielding Buddha?
What can it teach us?
And many more.
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Daily Yamabushi for The Week
Daily Yamabushi posts for the week of August 22 to 28, 2025.
This is the only time of the year I don’t write and post on the same day.
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