Experience... with the heart.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 1998 2:29 am
I think this forum is a good idea.
Many of us come to the arts with the desire for personal power to overcome our fear. If we can't get beyond this, then we have lost. Even the strongest can be defeated. Everyone must die. Our training can bestow so much more. Practice with an open heart and learn to experience fully the ephemeral beauty that is life.
The following is paragraph from David Lowry's wonderful book, Persimmon Wind, a sequel to his Autumn Lightning.
"The world is full of experts in the analytical or theoretical sense of that word. They are authorities on military tactics although they have never had a shot fired at them. Childless psychologists speak endlessly and write books on the art of raising youngsters. The bugeisha respects analysis, values theory. Be he recognizes that such knowledge is etic in nature, knowledge outside and untempered by actual physical experience. He knows too, that a culture (or a person), if it is to have complete balance and diversity, must e complemented by a dose of the emic, the sweat, the pain and the pure expression of energy and motion."
Practice with your fear, anger, love, joy and hopes.
david
[This message has been edited by david (edited 10-02-98).]
Many of us come to the arts with the desire for personal power to overcome our fear. If we can't get beyond this, then we have lost. Even the strongest can be defeated. Everyone must die. Our training can bestow so much more. Practice with an open heart and learn to experience fully the ephemeral beauty that is life.
The following is paragraph from David Lowry's wonderful book, Persimmon Wind, a sequel to his Autumn Lightning.
"The world is full of experts in the analytical or theoretical sense of that word. They are authorities on military tactics although they have never had a shot fired at them. Childless psychologists speak endlessly and write books on the art of raising youngsters. The bugeisha respects analysis, values theory. Be he recognizes that such knowledge is etic in nature, knowledge outside and untempered by actual physical experience. He knows too, that a culture (or a person), if it is to have complete balance and diversity, must e complemented by a dose of the emic, the sweat, the pain and the pure expression of energy and motion."
Practice with your fear, anger, love, joy and hopes.
david
[This message has been edited by david (edited 10-02-98).]