Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One

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The idea still remains to enter a state of awareness so deep that you are one with everything around you, especially the discipline you're practicing at the moment. This book is the account of the six years he spent as a student of one of Japan’s great kyudo (archery) masters, and of how he gradually overcame his initial inhibitions and began to feel his way toward new truths and ways of seeing. If people born and raised in western countries truly want to bridge the cultural gape, they should create platform for indigenous people to tell the stories of their art and culture. Scholem also accuses Herrigel's widow of editing his writing and hiding the fact that he was an active member of the Nazi party and the Nazi organization the Militant League for German Culture.

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Anyhow the teacher then says "Sie Koennen ein Bogenmeister werden, auch wenn nicht jeder Schuss trifft" (p. By reconsidering and reorganizing Herrigel’s text and related materials, however, this paper clari³es the mythical nature of “Zen in the Art of Archery” and the process by which this myth has been generated.Anyhow years pass, occasionally Herrigel allows a glimmer of frustration to shine through and occasionally his teacher says something like "Der Weg zum Ziel, ist nicht auszumessen, was bedeuten da Wochen, Monate, Jahre?

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He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. Zen, when I first met it, seemed to validate Rimbaud´s "derrangement of the senses" and Blake's "path of excess" procedures. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers… that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.His politics to my mind is a warning that right practise of any kind does not immunize or of itself allow a person to transcend their circumstances. At a certain point of self-knowledge your eyes are irrelevant rather as a blind person can negotiate a familiar space without banging in their furniture or bumping into walls.