No Dojo Ninja Dojo blog

Liberation from the bondage  of the non ending cycle of mortal ego-self life ( birth & death ) with its permanently temporary, limitless limitation, of its perfectly imperfect entities (self included) is done through (in descending level of effectiveness), and the order of their importance is the complete opposite when (mis)used for ego: 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 / Salvation / 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. 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 ...

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...