Martial arts

All can be used to find The truth Even a warrior can use his sword in the fight against another warrior He does not need to sit down to meditate The usual before knowing zen It is first to think And then act in martial arts based on zen philosophy Thinking is no longer the main thing In this way of understanding the reality without thoughts in the head the opponent's action is taken against himself the sword is a fundamental part of the Japanese fighting culture

What it symbolizes as an instrument to kill The ego Cause of all quarrels and all sufferings In this conception of Buddhist origin To achieve nirvana, the Samsara o Wheel of life and death has to be transcended By erasing the idea of death from consciousness The survival instinct flows freely and magnificently The sword fighter gets to that point while the enlightened zen master goes farther There comes a point of breaking away from perceived reality by connecting with the ultimate reality beyond the Time and space This is the so-called swordless technique of simply perceiving the action of the opponent by the non-action of the mind

Causes the energy of his sword to be used for his own destruction is counted in Japan What has happened in occasions which two Zen warriors That having attained satori they get into a sword fight and never one can defeat the other

For neither of them ever fails The zen It was the religion of the samurai warriors and they reached perfection in fights such as kendo

The Kyuido Judo Karate and Aikido It is also the religion of the samurai warrior

Where the most effective act in war Is to fight to the end Not looking back The Japanese They may not have a very strong philosophy of life

But they do have a philosophy of death And this one seems to show up in a way Extraordinarily stubborn And ephemeral Like the cherry blossom hence the Zen culture has made a great influence on the masses Leading the people In difficult moments To such an extreme struggle That seems unimaginable in the West The sword It is the soul of the samurai He always wears it Above Because with it transcend life and death Is easy With it you can kill Or die This detachment about one's own life in its philosophy Is the only way to live In the present The katana It is the symbol of loyalty and self-sacrifice

Where the two sides are manifested again To finish with all that is Oppose the will of the warrior Or to end any hint of self-preservation For this reason They are works of art Sacred too Why when they are forged They are sanctified to keep evil spirits away from them Tsukahara Bokuden Crossing Lake Biwa In the boat Ran into an arrogant samurai Who was commissioned ready for the fight

Bokuden being rebuked by the samurai affirmed My art is different from yours It does not consist in defeating others But in not being defeated The samurai He was puzzled And I ask him why he was carrying two swords To which Bokuden replied My school is known as Mutekasu

What it means to defeat the enemy with no hands This is No swords To which the samurai I dare you to go to an island in the lake Where there were no people and duel to the death To which Bokuden accepted Arriving at the shore The samurai gets out of the boat after the boatman and Bokuden very calm He knocked the boat back into the lake and away

Gave no more explanations Defeating the enemy with empty hands