He has spent much time and energy, largely unsuccessful, in efforts to fully explore, discuss and analyze what actually constitutes the real and effective achievement of proper martial mindset. I can suggest the study of “The Free Mind”, attributed to Takuan Soho, a legendary Zen Buddhist Priest, who became famous for being the spiritual mentor Kensei or Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi, as advisor to the shogunate, and generic pickles are named.
However, is doubtful that any physical or technical achievement of significant merit should first start your journey in the mind. What one perceives, leads to what is conceived and hopefully leading to what one finally gets. Great Works great thoughts come from, leading to proper planning, timely research and discoveries. Last, have to be ready to run, without hesitation or doubt, Whatever the required task, and during the time required. This really requires great courage and great inner faith.
There is no lack of good ideas. There is also no lack of opportunities to explore what you find interesting or fascinating. What seems to be in rare supply are the key people who are willing to pay the price to learn their truths onerous, through failure and disappointment, undeterred, and the time required. The founder of Aikido was that person, and is this amazing example of both, lazer focused determination and willpower, we most admire, and not merely the elegant art form he created. His is an example of a “free mind”, we can study, appreciate and emulate, if we have the vision and courage to create our own version of quality Aikido.
The “free mind” refers to that special state of subconsciousness, where the visionary genius, and clarity of thought superhuman, can coexist without any distractions or priorities strange compromised. In this state of awareness, improved knowledge is accompanied only by the perceptions and knowledge necessary to finally reach personal enlightenment. It is also true that the free mind can function effectively only for that person, that is committed to your course of action unconditionally, and indefinite.
In search of proper training for the development of the “free mind”, one can start by immersing your body and soul in a proven system of meditation and self-discovery. Finding an exceptional guru who can guide committed personally to search along the lonely road can also be a good choice, but there remains a grim reality, there are many simulators in business. Then, also, remember that the guru should be discarded somewhere along the way, after serving their limited usefulness. Any route you take, a combination thereof, common ingredient is regular intervals solitude necessary. To be well prepared to endure long periods of solitary existence forced state, only one's thoughts, altered state of consciousness and epiphanies as a company, the form must also accept and often unpredictable conditions such severe course of study throughout life.
For the samurai, it certainly was a major achievement, have cultivated a mind both unwavering and undisturbed, especially when faced with life or death situations. Persevering determination to endure, aside all thoughts of winning or losing, or to live or die, was the sole purpose for the desired achievement of the coveted “free mind”.
For “warrior” modern, the prospects for success in getting a “free mind” nowadays, no less difficult than for historical figures, although certainly different challenges to be sure. Nowadays, such individual faces full of ambition, not the lack of opportunities and options, but a plethora mind consuming them, and in many languages, cultural systems, and examples stored, past and present. Being flooded with too many good choices can be as devastating as having very few.
Hopefully that as one approaches the end of its search, find yet a new beginning, a renaissance, I find him happily and finally separated from the past, Untethered in this, without worrying about what the future might hold. This, then, test would have achieved a real “free mind”.
Francis Y Takahashi
Traducción Carina
Fuente Aikido Academy USA
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