About Kuji Kiri
Kuji Kiri is the art of coming into harmony with oneself and the environment and merging with nature. For this purpose, the shamans, mountain magicians and monks in Japan have been using the most effective traditional practices and meditations since ancient times. 

Their historical sources combine the strengths of esoteric Buddhism, magical Daoism, and Japanese shamanism to form the so-called Path of the Mountain Magicians Shugendo. 

The practice of Kuji Kiri has become known here in the West as ninja magic in the context of ninja movies since the 1980s and anime series. Shadow warrior ninja are known to possess supernatural powers in addition to their sophisticated martial arts. In the movies, for example, this is the art of turning invisible or knowing about certain things in advance, or the art of telepathy and telekinesis. 

When I saw these films as a teenager, I felt touched in my heart and felt that there must be something true about them. I was often laughed at for this. Nevertheless, I embarked on a decades-long quest to get to the bottom of the truth. Researching Buddhist temples, pilgrimages, and Shinto shrines, I eventually found ways to learn the art of Kuji Kiri. 

In Kuji Kiri Level 1, we get right into the material and practice 
the Buddhist secret teachings, cleanse body, mind and spirit from karmic entanglements
and build a strong energetic protection against external influences. 


This gives us a safe space to train spiritual and psychic abilities. It will also prepare us to do the powerful rituals in Kuji Kiri Level 2.

Kuji-Kiri 九字切 means "The cutting of the 9 characters." This is a secret practice of several successive meditations and rituals of the secret teachings of Buddhism and Daoism of the Japanese Shingon and Tendai schools. 

In particular, during the Heian period (794-1185), the Japanese warrior class of samurai developed as more and more court nobles were sent to the remote provinces, recruiting mainly peasants for defense. In this way, Buddhism sometimes spread through Japan by building large monastic complexes. When feuds broke out between some monasteries in the 10th century, warlike conflicts ensued, giving rise to the Sôhei 僧兵 warrior monks. These began to apply their spiritual practices of Buddhism and Shugendô to martial arts, for example to protect themselves or to gain strength. The so-called ninja are probably special forces, some of which emerged from the warrior monks. Often they were also simple peasants who learned to defend themselves in a sophisticated way. When the teachings of the Shingon school were revived in the 12th century under the monk Kakuban (posthumously Kôgyô Daishi; 1095-1143), this met with fierce resistance from other monks, and Kakuban was eventually forced to flee to Mount Negoro. This mountain was one of the known places of residence and training of the ninja who were responsible for the protection of Kakuban and learned from him the rituals of Kuji Kiri. Thus, it is perhaps no coincidence that Kakuban composed a text entitled Gorin kuji myô himitsu shaku gi 五輪九字明秘密釈義 (Secret Explanations of the Wisdom of the Nine Signs and Five Chakras). 

Kuji Kiri incorporates elements from Japanese shamanism called Shintô 神道 (Way of the Gods) and the way of Japanese mountain magicians called Shugendô (修験道), in addition to Tantric Buddhism. Both shamanic-magical traditions drew their content from Tantric Buddhism, magical Daoism, and indigenous Japanese shamanism. In Japan, this syncretism has been common for over 1000 years.

From this it is evident that the Kuji Kiri is not a pure practice of the ninja, but that they use the Kuji Kiri for their purposes as well as others on a spiritual path.