taiji:wei_wu_wei
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
- 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.
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