No.9 Ka Chu Ten Shitsu

1. Ka Chu Ten Shitsu:

"Ka Chu" – Literally means Big Whirlpool. It is a commonly
used phrase which means "being in trouble (big trouble) or
in chaos".

"Ten Shitsu" – Literally means "Get Out or Get Away."

"Ka Chu Ten Shitsu" – Is a Japanese saying that people use
which means, "If you find yourself caught in a "Big Whirlpool",
get out of it."

So in other words, "If you find yourself in trouble, get out of
the situation that is causing you the problems."


2. If you find yourself in the place of "Ka Chu" don’t stay
there. There is no law that says you have to remain in the
place of trouble or be stuck with many problems. Just get
yourself out of there. Sometimes other people create the
situation that makes trouble for you. Sometimes you create
the situation that causes the trouble not only for yourself
but also for others. When others create situations that
makes trouble for you, it doesn’t mean that the person is
purposely doing so. Just by the fact that we are all different,
problems simply arise. It is just the natural functioning of
this Life.

3..When Nature creates "trouble", there is some necessity for
this occurrence. It is almost like it is a solution to
something. This just lets us know who or what we are and
that the Earth is not dead. It is a living thing. In other
words, the Earth is only one small part of the Bigger Life
(the Solar System, the Universe). The Solar System is one
small part of the Universe. The Earth is one part of the
Solar System. We are only one small part of the Earth.

4. We have to remember who we are and our position in the
whole scheme of things. We humans like to think that we
are the Center of the Universe. We think that we can
control or at least have a big influence on the whole thing.
But the Truth is we are just a little piece of the Earth,
which is a little blue ball wandering around the Solar
System, which is one of the countless solar systems in the
Universe. The real Truth is, in the whole scheme of things
we cannot really affect much at all.

5. There is no end to Human Desire.
There is no end to looking up or looking down. We are
never satisfied with where we are at.
There is also no end to comparing with other people. There
will always be someone above you and someone above that
person who and so on.
And there will always be someone below you and someone
below that person and so on.

6. If you don’t know how to be satisfied right now at this
moment, how can you expect that you will feel satisfaction
in the next? If you are like this, you will never be truly
satisfied.

7. True Satisfaction is not complacent. You are happy right
now. You are happy from the inside. You are not happy
because of what you have or what you have experienced.
You are just happy. True Satisfaction/True Happiness is
not dependent on something outside of yourself. In fact,
you can always feel grateful because all you have to do is
remember that, "At least you’re alive. And you have to
appreciate the time that you have because sooner or later,
really in just a blink of an eye, this Life will be gone. And
you will be no more…forever."
Also, no matter what happens in your Life, whether you
are up or down, smallest or largest or all over the place, you
can remember that you are at the center if it all. So in other
words, you actually are the "Center of the Universe
(yours)". And again you must appreciate this and be happy.

8. When you feel happy from the inside, you can do anything
you need to do with a good feeling and good spirit.

9. The Three Stages of working with something:

a. Hate to.
b. Have to.
c. Happy to. (Like to/Love to.)

10. If you don’t know how to be happy now, tomorrow will
be the same.
For Example:
If a person who is from Japan and is unhappy (unsatisfied)
here so they want to go back to Japan. What they don’t
understand is that when they go back, they still will find
themselves unhappy.. Most likely the reason they came here
in the first place was that they were unhappy in Japan to
begin with.

Or For Example:
A person who doesn’t like Kata because it is not "real
fighting." When they do Kumite, they many times hate it
because they get busted up.

11. Today is the foundation of tomorrow.
We are the product of yesterday (our past). When we see
this point we can learn something from our past.

Then today we can act upon the lessons that we learned
from yesterday.
For tomorrow (the future) there is always the hope for
something good.

12. The Past, the Present and the Future are an inseparable
Trio that continues on forever.

13. The most important thing is that you are happy now and
carry with you the spirit or heart of appreciation and that
you learn from what is happening right now. Then Souke
says, "Next day, next day and next day…same forever!!!"

14. Because of this way of seeing Reality, Souke says that
people might have a hard time with him. He is not functioning by
the standard, conventional way of looking at things.

15. As an outside observer, it seems to me that Souke is
functioning according to Reality just as it is. Many people,
if not most, function according to their concept of Reality
rather than Reality itself. They are functioning from their
conditioning that is based on many years, and in fact
generations, of misconceptions.

16. We have to know Reality. We have to know how to
discern what is Real. This means that we have to know our
place in this Reality. We are just a part of this Earth. Just a
little speck in the Grand Scheme of Things.