"Structure of mental movement should be one with the structure of physical movement to develop the body's instinctive understanding of life." - Nahum Stiskin.
The body follows the mind and the mind leads the body whereby the body trains the mind to see, hear and feel the body creating a unified mind-body for a wholehearted understanding of all things.
The quote came from the writings of Nahum Stiskin in the book "The Looking-Glass God: Shinto, Yin-Yang, and a Cosmology for Today." It provided me the idea that reinforces my belief that our body-mind training holds a high place in the practice of martial survival systems like karate-jutsu-do. It also alludes to the connection the practice of mind-body training includes the more philosophical side as presented with the "ken-po goku-i." This along with other findings in my research tend to bear this out as true and the only solid way to move through life.
We tend to take to many shortcuts because we seem to have this overwhelming urge, an obsession really, to get to the end and the heck with all those requirements in the middle. The most direct route is not always the best. A direct route might involve obstacles along it that would disrupt and damage the journey delaying the true goal at the end while taking another more fluid route might take a bit longer but the end result is reaching a true, solid and long-lasting goal with more benefits to you, your life, your practice, your family and your friends and associates in your group, tribe or society.
This is something to think about, yes?
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