Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Zanshin Month

Next month's theme at Mokuren Dojo and here at the blog is going to be zanshin - the remaining mind.  I'd like to open this theme up with a very nicely-done video about zanshin in the context of kyudo (archery), then we'll try to define zanshin and investigate a few aspects of this state of mind.


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