From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Is Supernatural Real? Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:18:36 -0700
On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Alan Ackley wrote:
When my inner tension was finally relaxed, after years of training, suddenly I had a deeper understanding of religious literature, and was also able to see more meaning in my dreams, which prior to this had eluded me. I was then able to make sense of the flow of the Tao, as described in Taoist writings, and could see that this was the same as the Holy Spirit as described in Christianity. What Usheiba Sensei (the founder of Aikido) called �the ki of the universe�, is apparently this same thing; The Tao, The Holy Spirit, the ki, (or in Chinese, �chi�). The language creation speaks to us in synchronistic external events, is the same language as dreams.
This is also what Buddhists might describe as the union of mindfulness and awareness -- the pure focus of mind on one point, but with a broad awareness of everything else that falls into one's sphere of consciousness. It's a delicate balance and. the moment you're aware you have it, it goes away. Sigh.
I got similar states in my own martial arts training (Shotokan and Tae Kwon Do), particularly in kata/form practice. But I got the same kind of states in programming a deep algorithm or writing some intense graf of prose. It's an available event in many pursuits that, when it happens, feels almost magical in its intensity of focus, its broadness of accessibility, and most especially its ephemeral nature.
Mushin.
Sorry, I'm just going through what I haven't already.
-Travis
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