Radical Acceptance and Uketamo

As in Yamabushi training, as in life.

The sun rises above Haguro-san’s Five Story Pagoda and Grandfather Cedar. Haguro-san is a core mountain for Dewa Sanzan Yamabushi like myself. Photo by author.

Try only being able to say one word for a day. Try it while being essentially forced to undertake ascetic rituals such as fasting, waterfall meditation, walking in silence.

That’s Yamabushi training. That’s what we do out on the mountains. Think you could do it? Think you could go a day or three without talking? Without…