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= Wei Wu Wei
* Also known as "Wu Wei"
* cf. Chapter 63 of the Tao Te Ching

== The Unfettered Mind
* THE UNFETTERED MIND
* WRITINGS OF THE ZEN MASTER TO THE SWORD MASTER
* link: https://www.yama-dojo.ca/resources/Zen%20-%20Takuan%20Soho%20-%20The%20Unfettered%20Mind.pdf


* The Buddhist priest Bukkoku wrote:
* Although it does not mindfully keep guard,
* In the small mountain fields
* the scarecrow does not stand in vain.

* Again, we can speak with reference to your own martial art. As the beginner knows
* nothing about either his body posture or the positioning of his sword, neither does his
* mind stop anywhere within him.
* If a man strikes at him with the sword, he simply meets
* the attack without anything in mind.

* As he studies various things and is taught the diverse ways of how to take a stance, the
* manner of grasping his sword and where to put his mind, his mind stops in many places.

* Now if he wants to strike at an opponent, he is extraordinarily discomforted. Later, as
* days pass and time piles up, in accordance with his practice, neither the postures of his
* body nor the ways of grasping the sword are weighed in his mind.

* His mind simply becomes as it was in the beginning when he knew nothing and had yet to be taught
* anything at all.

* In this one sees the sense of the beginning being the same as the end, as when one counts
* from one to ten, and the first and last numbers become adjacent.