No Dojo Ninja Dojo blog

Liberation from the bondage / entrapment of the non ending cycle of life ( birth & death ) is done through: 1) intent  (aspiration): 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): internal affirmation representation via action (or 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): external affirmation representation such as color / shape / people / animals / diety / location etc. from any method (religion). What is the closest thing to The Ultimate ? Nature, specifically the Elements. Here They are when used for Self in  ascending order of pain  (...

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 excess water element spurred need to show off, get a thrill, or an activity due to boredom or inactivity (or movie inspiration), or for excess earth element as 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 to endure (surrender desire), persevere & control the situation (the martial part) via the physical-mental masculine fire element, calmly & compassionately (the art part) via the relatively high elements of physical water along with the non-physical feminine air element, creatively & intuitively via the dual-gender any-form ether element, but most importantly by presence as the non-gender no-mind 6th element . That...