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No-Form, No thought, No Mind
When we study a new art form we are given forms of movement and told to repeat them endlessly. Our teachers are vigilant and correct our form when we stray but a hair’s breadth. As we advance we are...
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What is the One Point, hara, or lower dantien?
The one point (also hara or lower dantien) is often explained as the centre of gravity and this is a good start, or “in the ball park” as a Japanese Sensei of mine once joked. But this is only the...
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Who is the real Zo Boone? A new Koan is born
This is my final post in the A to Z Challenge for 2012…a few days late, but better late than never. Zo Boone is one of the POV character’s in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. She is the...
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A to Z Challenge – a retrospective
I have had my blog for over three years and have posted iregularly whenever I was inspired by something I’ve read, seen, heard, or thought but taking on the A to Z April Challenge meant writing 26...
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What defines an “Intelligent” species?
I’ve always struggled with how to classify a species as intelligent or not. It must be simple and applicable across any expected type of life, not just the ones we have so far encountered on earth. I...
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What would Takuan Soho tell Mark Cavendish?
A letter by Takuan Soho(1573-1645) to Mark Cavendish, pro tour cyclist, winner 15 Tour de France stages Although you see the rider that moves to pass you, if your mind is not detained by him and you...
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How can a westerner come to understand Seppuku?
If there is one part of Japanese culture that alludes most westerners it is ritual suicide by disembowelment known as seppuku, or “Hara-kiri” as it is better known outside Japan. Seppuku became an...
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