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"All the priciples of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is the truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. When the myriad variations in the universal breath can be sensed, the individual techniques of the Art of Peace are born. " -Morihei Ueshiba "To learn the Buddha Way is to learn one's own self. To learn one's self is to forget one's self. To forget one's self is to be confirmed by all dharmas. To be confrimed by all dharma's is to effect the casting off of the body-mind of the self as well as the body-mind of the other. All traces of elightenment then disappear, and this traceless enlightenment continues on forever and ever." - Dogen "The art of the sword consist of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, of the enemy not seeing me & my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven & earth, where even yin & yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art." - Takuan |
