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From The Zen Way to The Martial Arts...
"The moon's refection on the surface of the water moves incessantly. Yet the moon shines and goes nowhere it stays but it moves."
A very short poem on the secret of Zen and the martial arts, and also a great koan.
The stream never flows backward. The water slips past, past, past...but the moon doesn't move. In a contest the mind must be like the moon, while body and time slip past, past, past like water in the stream.
Now never returns. In zazen every breath out is that one, the one now, and it never comes back again. Of course, you can "catch" your breath but what you catch is never what went before, The breath that comes after is never the one that came before. Yesterday was yesterday and today is today. Different.
To be continued...
RJF
