Zen Arnis

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	Zen Arnis
	In Search of the Ox. In the pastures of the world, I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the Ox. Following unnamed rivers, lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains, I search for my true nature.....
	... the joy of fighting .... "We fight for the joy of fighting, not to hurt the opponent, but rather, we strive to enter the world of children, where play fighting is a joyful expression of the body ....."

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	Stillness, "in this state the activity of consciousness is stopped and we cease to be aware of time, space, and causation. The mode of existence which thus makes its appearance may at first sight seem to be nothing more than mere being, or existence. However, if you really attain this state you will find it to be a remarkable thing. At the extremity of having denied all and having nothing left to deny, we reach a state in which absolute silence and stillness reign, bathed in a pure, serene light. Buddhists of former times called this state annihilation, or Nirvana. But it is not a vacuum or mere nothingness. There is a definite wakefulness in it. It is a condition of existence that recalls the impressive silence and stillness that we experience in the heart of the mountains." Zen Training, Katsuki Zekida
	Zazen

	*.... s*tillness in everyday life .... "My acts are sincere but they are only the acts of an actor because everything I do is controlled folly. Everything I do in regard to myself and my fellow men is folly, because nothing matters. Thus a man of knowledge endeavors, and sweats, and puffs, and if one looks at him he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control. Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn't; so when he fulfils his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn't, is in no way part of his concern.", Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda




	.... there is another world of mood ....
	Can we not cast off this mood? We can. There is another world of mood, different from that of the adult's world. It is the world that we have tried to depict in this chapter, the world of children. When I described this as an idyllic world, perhaps some readers identified it with the romantic vision of pastoral poets and dismissed it as being no more than a subjective dream that could never become a reality. That is not so. The experience of zazen tells us that there is a certain stream of mood running continuously in our minds from babyhood through to our adult life. If a Zen student reaches pure existence at the bottom of absolute samadhi, he emerges and finds this stream. If you doubt this, you should do zazen yourself, just as a scientist makes an experiment to confirm the findings of other scientists. The practice of zazen was started 2,500 years ago and has been handed down through the earnest efforts of outstanding men of every generation. The results are reported in the massive literature of Zen, which is there for everyone to read, Zen Training, Katsuki Sekida
	.. the merchant mind ....
	"The merchant mind does commerce. But freedom cannot be an investment. Freedom is an adventure with no end, in which we risk our lives and much more for a few moments of something beyond words, beyond thoughts or feelings."

	"Every one of us human beings has two minds. One is totally ours, and it is like a faint voice that always brings us order, directness, purpose, The other mind is a foreign installation. It brings us conflict, self-assertion, doubts, hopelessness: it's ourselves as the me-me centre of the world." Carlos Castaneda. The Active Side of Infinity

	.. life as a challenge ....
	"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or as a curse", Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda

	.. Zen mood ....
	"It matters not, what techniques we practise, what matters is how we do it ...."

	*.... Movement through Stillness ...*
	"when we move from a place of stillness, the movements perform themselves ...."

	*.... out of the stillness ...*
	"out of the stillness .... comes the movement ...... spontaneously .....