02-04-2020, 05:54 AM
Flow – Equanimity
This has been reiterated throughout this manuscript, it is something that is integral to understanding this form and will be referenced multiple times. Without it, it is impossible to truly weave through threads of fate without entangling yourself....
To acknowledge yourself, will allow you to focus in the perspective of your target, this is the MOST important factor to take into account. How do you see your strikes? How do they see your movements? Without a grasp of flow, all they will see is erratic movement, but in your mind, you will have perfect focus, perfect balance between offense and defense....an equanimity of battle.
Balance, while platitudinous to say is the most important factor for a majority of forms or magics are tasks that you will learn. In this case, a balance between your Id and your Conscious thought, between movement and calm, between offense and defense. Training to this point requires something very simple, allowing yourself to be mindful. It’s ironic, an earlier lesson stress on losing one’s self, but in the same section it states being mindful. If you remember, this form is a form of unifying contradictions and creating an impossible dance of balance. Mind fullness and nothingness, to simply be, you must allow yourself to believe that you can simply just be...
This has been reiterated throughout this manuscript, it is something that is integral to understanding this form and will be referenced multiple times. Without it, it is impossible to truly weave through threads of fate without entangling yourself....
To acknowledge yourself, will allow you to focus in the perspective of your target, this is the MOST important factor to take into account. How do you see your strikes? How do they see your movements? Without a grasp of flow, all they will see is erratic movement, but in your mind, you will have perfect focus, perfect balance between offense and defense....an equanimity of battle.
Balance, while platitudinous to say is the most important factor for a majority of forms or magics are tasks that you will learn. In this case, a balance between your Id and your Conscious thought, between movement and calm, between offense and defense. Training to this point requires something very simple, allowing yourself to be mindful. It’s ironic, an earlier lesson stress on losing one’s self, but in the same section it states being mindful. If you remember, this form is a form of unifying contradictions and creating an impossible dance of balance. Mind fullness and nothingness, to simply be, you must allow yourself to believe that you can simply just be...