雲水 on Twitter: "@simonmacmichael @mikael_jibril As was described in Zen in the Art of Archery, the shot is to 'fall from you as a ripe fruit falls from the tree', or how the skin of a fruit bursts open when it's ripe." / Twitter

Sep 29, 2020

I could watch this all day. A weapons instructor once told me the most important things when aiming at a target are focus (ie exclude all but the target), breathing, and waiting for *the* moment to fire. Never seen it exemplified better than here.

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· Sep 28, 2020

In the middle of hurricanes, of tired thoughts of defeat, of conflicts, paradoxes, tensions, psychological operations, manipulations, demonic whisperings, paradigma shifts, violent uprisings, chaos — focus. Your uniqueness is in your immovability, your sacred center — focus.

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As was described in Zen in the Art of Archery, the shot is to 'fall from you as a ripe fruit falls from the tree', or how the skin of a fruit bursts open when it's ripe.

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This is very profound — as per the teaching of Musashi, there is a rhythm to the martial situation, a melody where things are not too soon, not too late, but exactly on time, like the notes in a musical piece.

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