Until you change the sub conscience mind, you cannot say that you have learned something. If something is worth learning, you should stick with it until you have changed your subconscious mind.
52 – Ki Sayings (2003)
Author: LeeHampson
Hi I'm a Sandan and an assistant instructor at Brisbane Valley Aikido. I work in a busy hospital and hold a current blue card and I'm an Martial Arts Industry Association (MAIA) Accredited Instructor.
TRANSIENCY
“We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.”
P91 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind By Shunryu Suzuki
Paradox
Life is a paradox, so naturally this training we are doing is paradoxical. We have to learn to live with this. This is nature. It doesn’t get any better than this. This is it. So any effort to understand, and in so doing harmonize that which appears out of harmony, is going to be fruitless. Because the one who is looking to control things cannot understand by its own nature.
P407 Letting Go by Christopher Curtis
Beginner’s Mind
Beginner’s Mind (Shoshin) “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki p 21
Wonder
If we want to train on the highest level, then we want to always have a sense of wonder. When we say “It’s wonderful,” we mean it has a sense of mystery about it. It’s a wonder. You must have a sense of wonder about this moment. If you think you know what it is about, you are probably wrong. You have to find that sense of not knowing. You cannot listen with half of your mind closed off. You have to be one big, open, innocent ear. This is not so much to listen to a particular person exclusively, but to perceive everything that is in this way; to take it all in. This is how we train in the dojo.
Letting Go, Talks on Aikido by Christopher Curtis
A Special Stillness
A Special Stillness.
In the space between each thought and act is a special stillness that carries from stillness to stillness giving balance to thought and act.
Everything arises from and returns to stillness. Stillness is the ease in which non-thinking and non-doing happen of themselves.
207 The Tao of relationships
by Ray Grigg
