= 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.