Teacher and pupil are one.
Asceticism in kyu-dou Eugen Herrigel said in his book, “Zen in the Art of Archery”. “You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt the master threw you.” “Whoever makes good progress in the beginning has all the more difficulties later on.” These phrases are the sense which many Japanese love. We have been taught such thought. “The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way […]