Tranquillity of mind
"In kendo and especially in kendo kata, you must empty your mind of all preconceived ideas in order to see what is really there. You must be able to step from your mortal body to your spiritual mind; to move the mind into nonresistance. When one finds this path up the mountain trail, it is like going from walking to riding. The trail doesn't become easier; you just don't tire as quickly. You'll find a feeling of tranquility, of being at one with the sword and the spirit. This tranquillity will control the mind, and the mind will allow the body to move in a way only the masters know."
Darrell Max Craig - "The heart of kendo"
Darrell Max Craig - "The heart of kendo"
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posted by Production Korea at
3:17 PM
12 Comments:
ya, truly aggreable!! thank you for sharing this. i've recently noticed that people's the aging of sprit or mind,
some young people who are cynical and negative, lack of sprit: not much attractive, even though old, some olders who devote and concentrate his/her energy for achieving something, i can say they are more attractive and younger impression to me.
we can't avoid of aging of physique..many aware of this and going for gym to make shape, put intersest in it much but the mind or sprit.. which are invisible,
but
if we don't try it in fit, all body and mind totally frustrating and collapsed by the outside factors. the young don't mean the freshness of flesh, the rich don't mean the heavy money on his/her account. it's she/he who i envy most is see the possiblity with wise angle and pierce it like a hawk's attack and keep the tranguillity of the mind within him or her..like serene atmosphere of temple. so i can say the person is young and rich, so i envy of.
Ah! Hey Alrean, (aka. Ollie) That is a good book Huh!
I have many favorite parts from it. One is of the mind being like water. "...A calm mind, like undisturbed water reflects accurately all images within its range."
Learning something has four stages:
Unconscious of knowledge
becoming conscious of knowledge
consciously applying knowledge
unconsciously applying knowledge,
Mushin=no mind.
Hey Reagan (please let me know if I mispleled your name),
Yea I just started the book as I remembered that you told me it was quite good. I look forward to read more!
Moana: quite a nice picture you put there in your descriptions, although reality is quite harder to describe because you talk about what you think but it cannot be the same for everyone for one good reason: life is different for everyone!
Therefore, when a yound girl from a poor country decides to get herself up, she will be attracted to rich men as an ideal to a better life. It doesn't mean that being wise is not important, but the practicality is more important than the spirituality in that case.
It is hard to say what is good or bad or what is to be envied and what is to be respected but not purchased. We usualy envy what we need right now and that will change later.
So do you think that kendo people are attractive Moana? hahahaha!
to rox,
i like the word of mushin=which makes me aroused when i feel hopeless of daily practic in life.
but im always not that good though:P
to alrean,
it's true, people are looking for and bind with something or someone which makes them stable and complement the portions they're missing. but me if there is only the object remains without subject;real love or compassion. it's soreful..so me tempt not to easily believe(doubt is a kind of my friend:)) romio and juliet story in now world. we're so fogged with too much matireal stuff to confuse the real emotion of persons. and i admire the word of "practicality" which i lack of..me was a quite thoery follower..still..but getting to change with awareness.
ya life means differently to everyone, but me quite easily distractive. so me trying to find the point of purely indulged, more than fancy or flash things or convineant patterns of useages.
to know the limit of middle: nor excess or deficency is the belif which i filter for obtain or empty of things in life.
do i feel attractive to kendokas?
umm..
i just like being with people who strongy pursue the unite of body and mind and sprit without other packages they wrap for themselves outside. so i like the way we practice..not just words worship, the move they cordinate and grasp for own themselves.
moana
im also closely aware of economic condition of people which even influence the morality. im with pople with same problems, not with monks in the deepest temples.=when we abadon it's easier to handle our pain more than chasing for possession.
me very good at throwing away which not in need for me, whenever im in that situation, i regret i shouldn't have bought unnessesarry.. some people have economic benefit by the partners they choose. but when time all passed..skiming all the fake..the tureness only remained. and feel pain invisibly without external reasons. they may ligten the hardship of pysical duty but on the contray they also be loaded with the guilty which always dragging behind.
*p.s. now some guys do that! not only young girls...whoohaha..examples? many cases..
Heya Ollie! lol its Regan, but no worries, I get called much worse at work over the phones (rega? frida? megan??!)
I have brought the book and do read it every now and then. Though I really do need to set aside some time to re-read the philosophies that are in it. Its not hard reading, its quite nice.
Hey Moana, I just re-read your first comment:
"it's she/he who i envy most is see the possiblity with wise angle and pierce it like a hawk's attack and keep the tranguillity of the mind within him or her..like serene atmosphere of temple. so i can say the person is young and rich, so i envy of."
Do you actually mean someone who is mentally sharp? Being Agile (a.k.a young) and rich with wisdom?
if so, I feel the same way.
however, I cannot be that way. I am young and still have too much to take on, and when I do feel able I will be old. Its unfortunate that I did not start out in a educated back-ground. for me to gain wisdom I have to walk the line.
there are lots of people in this day and age that are apathetic to life due to our predecessors creating the things that we now rely on- (I doubt most of us even acknowledge this fact, we just think the older gen are ancient) -Those things were made for convenience, taking away from our future real hard work. Physical work. mental work..
Just hit a button and go!
So I can sympathize when you say some young people are cynical and negative, lack Spirit; and the older generation are more hard working. They earnt their way
I like the way you think. No excess, no baggage.
I feel it is so hard to be rid of the things in my life which I am reluctant to leave, or cannot avoid. My family for example. They make me so anxious yet I cannot leave them behind. Totally Uncool!
And I cannot seem to stop being so immature either, so attitudes are hard to shake too. Some thing I remember from my days of church is "it is easier to get a Donkey through a stamp hole than to change the heart of man".
Im not sure if I am attached to many material things, though I am quite self conscious. Something that I will never shake...
Im not sure of my middle ground anymore, My mind is so full of things that I am eager to pursue, that it becomes unnecessarily cluttered. But once I had my middle ground perfectly. It was the simplest happiest time of my life.
Sorry Hope i have not gone off topic!
But how can one find their middle ground? (And yes this is off topic but going on the previous vein: I really want a sugar daddy! stuff working hard for crap money I just want to study hard with no financial worries n__n!)
Any Takers! (whistle!whistle!)
Yea! Yea! me me me!!!
Arf...! No actually, the financial side might make you laught!!
Moana: What do you define as "the point of purely indulged"?
to ally
it's the moment when im only focusing only at the moment. no thouht of who was i or who am i or who i'll be. we say "yeolban" in korean. but the english?..let me check..aha "nirvana"= see more detail in wikipedia. oki?
to rox
me not know any sugar dady:P
but i may buy some lollipop for you? ==very traditional moana joke kk:)
mo
umm. here i add a picture im thinkion of.
the each moments are like beads you're making..but if you're not left with the destiny like the one day lived bug, not just temporarally impulsive being.
you shouldn't only excite and hold with just each joys and hardships =scattered beads, i mean you should prepare a thread next you. this pierces and connects what you've found in your actions.---very weird? huh:P
when it's all connected in the end, that's the answear for you.
but don't try it everything in correct oder, we're not robust,<-i don't opt for it at all!!
keep humor and smile make you more shinny= true character whom loved fully.
as a human nature,
making mistake is unavoidable.. but learning to correct should carry it after, right?
i answeared olly's question in wrong manner.
*purely indulged*, to me,
it's a blissful status of self forgetfulness, in korean "samekyoung". you get more hint from below link..hopely +:->
moana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi
Hey Regan,
I didn't get back to you on something you said. I wanted to and I forgot. Sorry for that.
When you said that there are some things you cannot get rid of, this is very true but you can change your attitude towards people and situations, and your kendo can help you do that.
For your family for exemple, it is one of the hardest thing to deal with because, well it's family. When they make you so anxious, ask yourself why? And when you have this answer, which I am sure you have, ask yourself if it worth geting anxious for?
Samurai used to meditate, it was a part of their practice. Well, what were they meditating about?
I believe they were geting rid of all their bad thoughts and put behind them all the things that was blocking the way between them and a peaceful death.
How about this immature thingy? A technique I use is this one: there are attitudes I have that i do not like, when of them is rising inside me, before I actually do it, i think "this is a kendo battle, am i going to let the attitude defeat me? No, i must stand!" and so far, there are things i control much more than before.
When you feel that there are some things you don't want to do, see it as a battle that you must win "for your spirit, for yourself, for honor". (haha! i am pushing it a bit too hard aye...)
At the end of all this, you must feel peaceful with yourself, whatever it takes. Family is important but it shouldn't a source of sorrow.
Mokuso should be a good exercise for you: think about what you'd like to change, what you'd like to become or ask forgiveness (as Inoue sensei said once) to your parents within yourself or ask forgiveness to yourself as well. Put all those things behind you, those luggages, by watching them face to face (whatever it is) and ask yourself forgiveness to be able to let them go.
Cannot be angry, always, cannot be sad or regret, what has been done by or to you is past and cannot be changed. What matters today is how you can handle it.
Well, i should stop, talk to much ahahaha....
For those who just woke up, here is a review of what I wrote above: blablablabla....
Aurélien
hehehe, I suppose a Lolly-pop will have to do for now :P !
Hey Alrean, cheers for that.
I know I can change, but I know I can also slip back into old habits. There are many things that I dislike about myself, but having done them for so long i have worn it into myself like a groove.
I really REEEEEEEEly need to wear some good habits into myself.
Yah-know (lol) have good Zanshin, everyday (hehehe)
Ah yeah. I love this forum. Its just like my Sempai said. You start relating everything in life to Kendo. (now I just need to learn some Dan sense!)
Im sorry, I know my family should never be a source of sorrow. I find it difficult to forget the stupid things that I have done. I do fret over small things quite a bit its pathetic. But then I do prefer this than to live in a messy house! (amongst other things in life to fret over)
Making mistakes though are unavoidable. we should learn to recover and learn from mistakes. Things like hurting others or doing something stupid I can definately learn from. However spriritual things I have never really ever repented of?
Isnt this strange? the physical/everyday things we learn from easily. But the spiritual things, i now feel are so different?
it feels like it is totally separate from my Everyday World? and yet it is part of it, right?
How come I never repent as easily as I can learn to not do something again?
Maby it is the same thing?
Maby not? like stealing something, being caught and saying sorry. Not doing it again but taking small things for granted like pens? > Learnt not to do that again, but has that person really repented?
Ok Im starting to get stupid in these thoughts but it would be nice to see what you think?
Spirit dictates the decision of the mind to do the physical right?
Tranquility of mind?
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