The mind. What is the mind? Where is the mind? Is the mind in your head? Or is it all around you? Isn't everything you see, feel, touch, taste, smell part of the mind?Originally posted by Phenix
Zen is about using the action to stretch the mind since mind is not everything. Sitting there with thoughts influence by others' theories; give raise to ideas from those thoughts; and then give raise to the intention to believe those theories is Zen is not going to go any way.
The mind is not everything, but it is everything. In a way the mind is also nothing.
So what if you have a solid steel pole? You are very strong but not very flexable. What if you are a graphite pole? More flexable, but less strength.
So, when developing power we must always use the whole body. Why is a reverse punch so powerful?
What attributes must we train to gain power in our techniques?