Summary of "Learning Arrows and Enlightening Zen"

Preface 1. At first, I didn’t realize how profound the Confucian classics were, and I looked down on the saints and the Confucian classics in my heart. I just felt that it was a shame for a Chinese to be so unfamiliar with the classics of my nation. I wanted to communicate with like-minded people.

Just getting to know each other.

2. The connotation of Zen is beyond the nation and beyond the direction.

He knows that there is something more important in the depths of things. The appearance of things often constitutes delusion, and superficial understanding only deepens the delusion. Only vivid experience and confirmation can overthrow delusion and see the truth.

3. This is a book about Zen, but it is different from other books about Zen. It is written by a German philosopher whose nature is very different from that of Zen, and he has gone a long way in the opposite direction of Zen.

An experiential account of how, under the guidance of a Japanese archery master, he gradually overcame the difficulties in attaining Zen enlightenment in Mount Lu, how he first used his fingers as the moon, and how he later followed his fingers to see the moon.

4. Mencius said that everyone can be like Yao and Shun, and everyone has the potential to become a saint. It just depends on whether a person has perseverance and whether he can practice it faithfully.

Chapter 1 Kyudo and Zen? 1. No matter what the conditions are, kyudo does not mean using bows and arrows to achieve any external purpose, but only to achieve the inner purpose. Bows and arrows are just something that can happen without them.

A pretense is a tool to achieve the goal, not the goal itself. It only plays an auxiliary role in the final decisive leap.

2. Zen, like all mystics, can be understood only when you become a mystic yourself and are not tempted by unfair means to obtain what the mystical experience does not allow you to obtain.

3. Kyudo is very much like a preparatory school for learning Zen, because it allows the beginner to gain a clearer understanding of events that are otherwise incomprehensible through his own hands. Objectively speaking, starting from any of the arts already mentioned

Zen is entirely possible.

4. In a traditional sense, the Japanese regard archery as an art and a national tradition, but they do not regard it as a sport, but as a religious ceremony. Kyudo does not refer to how many grams an athlete can use.

It is an ability that can be controlled through the training and tenderness of the limbs. Its source must be found from the heart training area. Its goal is to hit the target of the mind, so that as long as the shooter aims at himself, even

Can successfully shoot myself.

Chapter 2 Reasons for Learning Zen 1. In the midst of discouragement and disappointment, I gradually realized that only those who are truly transcendent can understand what it means to be without a deacon. Only those who meditate and close their minds and can’t think of getting rid of themselves can become one with the super god.

For one, therefore, I have realized that apart from experiencing personal experience and pain, there is nothing else, and there can be no other way to metaphysics. Without this premise, all talk about metaphysics is just empty talk.

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2. No matter how I look at it, I find myself standing outside the locked door, but I can't help but keep turning the doorknob. My yearning for mystery lingers, and once I become tired, it will rise again.

Arouse the longing for longing.

3. As long as there is some hope of getting closer to Zen, no matter how long it takes, I am willing. A circuitous road, no matter how tiring, is better to me than no way to go at all.

4. Since Zen rejects all traces of teaching, one cannot expect to be theoretically satisfied unless one first begins by learning some Japanese art related to Zen.

Chapter 3? God has drawn the bow 1. You can’t do it because you are not breathing properly. If you can breathe properly, you will gradually form a rhythm in the future, because through this breath connection, you can not only discover all spiritual power

The source of the source, and the more relaxed you are, the more abundant this source can flow and the easier it is to inject into the limbs. Inhaling is to converge and combine, holding the breath allows you to make every movement accurately, and exhaling is to overcome all limitations.

The final relaxation and completion.

2. Here's the problem, you're thinking about it hard, focusing all your attention on your breathing, as if there's nothing you can do.

---When breathing, I learned how to let go of myself effortlessly from Enhui. As a result, I sometimes have the feeling that I am not in Hohhot, but that I am being breathed.

3. Why did the master stand by and watch for so long? Why didn’t he emphasize the correct breathing method from the beginning? A real master must also be a wise teacher. For us, the two are inseparable. If we call it breathing practice from the beginning,

He can't convince you that breathing exercises play a decisive role in you. Just like after a shipwreck, you have to suffer a little through your own efforts before you are willing to grab it. The lifebuoy he threw to you, in my opinion

I know from my own experience that the master knows you and any other disciple far better than we know ourselves. He can penetrate into the soul of his disciples and see their hidden selves.

Chapter 4: Difficulties in Archery 1. The master still patiently gave me the normal posture for archery shooting, and I patiently tried to follow him, but the only problem was that I became even more confused than before, as if I was in a state of confusion.

The centipede, thinking only about the order in which its legs should walk, ended up staying where it was, unable to move at all.