No Dojo Ninja Dojo blog

Liberation from the bondage / entrapment of the non ending cycle of mortal ego-self life ( birth & death ) is done through (in descending level of effectiveness): 1) intent  (aspiration): why (are we here) or direction of middle / center / straight / higher / upper way or non-desire i.e. Surrender for: Freedom / Liberation / Return / Enlightenment / Union / Oneness / God or Self or Higher-self or most-High or Truth or The Ultimate realization / non-dualism / ego death / Great Death (same thing). 2) modeling (as within so without): how (do we see) or internal affirmation representation via movement / action (or non-movement / non-action), mantra / shingon (chant), mudra / kuji (gesture), pranayama / gokyo (breath), asana / kamae (posture), or visualization from any method (religion). 3) mirroring (as without so within): what (do we see) or external affirmation representation such as color / shape / people / animals / diety / location etc. from any method (religion). Please note...

Martial arts are external   spiritual paths to enlightenment. It doesn't often spiritually work due to the following: 1. People naturally get into it due to ego-misderected survival of earth element by self defense usually due to some unpleasantly experienced danger or   threat , which although is definitely possible, very unlikely these days.  Life naturally has problems & shortcomings, and it is important to learn how to respond through endurance (surrender desire), persevere & control the situation (the martial part) via the physical-mental masculine fire element along with smoothly & artistically (the art part) via the elements of physical water element, simply and non-arrogantly via the earth element along with the intellectual & non-physical feminine air element, creatively & intuitively via the dual-gender any-form ether element, but most importantly by presence and pure awareness as the non-dual non-gender no-mind 6th element . That takes yea...