The Ultimate End-Point of the Terminal Point-and-Click Man
You may own the libs online, but you're probably still a f$cked c%nt...
"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."
- Voltaire
Although I like to make claims without evidence, many of the claims I strongly make on the nature of physiology, and the brain and their interaction are made with replete evidence. And also hard-won experience. Usually, I loath to reference EsOtErIc TeXtS and tend towards only commenting using my own experience as a marker.
I have been lucky in my long list of mentors; they taught me and reiterated the same learning style and knowledge. They were (and are) sceptical of the role of language as it is commonly accepted by the species. I have found my place in this lineage because I consistently seem to meet such people for which I am very grateful to the great woah. I try to pay it forward, pass on something of this shade of human experience to show what is possible to those stuck in dogma dazes. It is not just chance that I ended up here.
Today I will present a short and excellent Japanese text on belly breathing…tanden breathing…Hara breathing…whatever you want to call it. Firstly, in this context, I want to clarify why I come off as tewwibly cwuel to everyone about so-called online kultare. I don't often talk about the left because they are so unbelievably stupid, and it's so done to death that it's not even worth thinking about. Yes, they must be excised. It is important to note, however, that my grievances extend to the very nature of the human being itself - which extends far beyond the petty grievances of "right and left". Such afflictions are very much jewniversal.
In my opinion, there is a dynamic tussle between online activism, probable and desired cultural outcomes & how it impacts your organism for participating. Affects you in unsuspecting ways. Like the crack addict, unmarried middle-aged wine woman or child who won't stay away from the chilli bush in the garden. We are very, very good at justifying ourselves and what we do, no matter how destructive it is to us.
In my later years, I strongly erred against magical thinking and ancient texts. Silly, clumsy, unspecific language humans used in the past and misconstrue now. Indeed, it may have meant something to them. It tends to just confuse us.
If an ancient text is operationalist and I can take something from it that I act on - excellent. However, if it's telling me that if I put my willy in a waaman, there is some far-off mystical hell where I will be prodded with bamboo sticks. A place that is nonetheless amazingly immaterial and poised upon a giant tortoise floating in space - I choose to remain sceptical.
I reject the notion that all the ancients got everything right. I am very Nietzschean in this sense. I consider it a very likely possibility that delusions induced by prominent thinkers can last millennia. It means I don't fit into Trad, Buddhist, Scientististic, Warrior-core, Irony-bro or 'Havin' a Heckin' Normal One', or even Nietzschean circles since I have ruthlessly gone my own way, and many of those people are chronically book or internut-bound, anyway.
I am less concerned with ideas I like and more with empirically experiencing what works and what doesn't. If something doesn't work, I throw it out - for if I do not, I risk using it as a coping mechanism to cover up parts of myself I'm not happy with. We are programmed not to face those parts should they upset our precious homeostasis.
Which is what almost everyone does. I did this for decades.
Thus, it's easy to misconstrue what I'm writing about, and it's challenging to elucidate.
You should also note that I'm not just making it up; recently, much of this has become very clear to me whilst measuring people with my new equipment. Like a zoologist watching his chimps in a cage and how they react to a banana. I’m the Jane Goodall of nervous, fucked humanoids. I've been hooking mofos up and exposing them to different stimuli. Needless to say, the results are highly unsurprising.
So I want to clarify what I mean a little more to avoid the global flood of tears that will undoubtedly ensue as I shitcan people's precious online lives. With this, and once you read the text presented below, things should become much more transparent, and perhaps you'll throw away all those excess books written by ancient and modern people with probable severe mental illness. Maybe even start practising yourself and defining yourself on your own terms.
Rather than focus on the induced mental shortcomings of being permanently online (one of my favourite things to shitcan, other than statue heads and health grifters), I've always tried to focus on the physiological angles. hardly anyone does this, which is why my points always get misinterpreted.
It's hard to explain this to people because even though they may be aware of some connection, people are rarely willing to acknowledge these ideas in their totality. To arrive at the end point of their reasoning. This is also because they reasoned it out; they didn't experience it.
And because it's just a thought, rather like gripping sand in our hands, it disappears. Thoughts are impersonal, and they're impermanent. Yet, Experience can be made organic. It can become a part of us, which is something mere thought can never do.
Most critical analyses of our thing miss the mark. This is the "we're going to win/have a normal one" dichotomy; both camps tell me to “fuck off, we don't care”.
The we're going to win types see their activities as part of a globally powerful wave of change. Destined to inform the normie and fix the errors of his or her or thems or zers hypocritical ways. I can get behind this, even though it will fail, because it doesn't analyse the problem with the species sufficiently well. It is nonetheless positive and optimistic, and there is a small probability of something marginally better arising. As an aside, if the fundamentalists were to win, well, i’m almost certain there would be no place for me in that.
On the other hand, have a normal one fags will spend days analysing nonsense with esoteric philosophy and then determine that "everything online is deranged and fake and you should just have a normal one" whilst they bang their tranny girlfriends.
I don't go for either.
Instead, I am happy to maintain my radical confrontation or acceptance of reality as it is. When you do this, the only viable conclusion is that hypocrisy and delusion are more or less baked into the cake regarding ideas and ideology.
In this confrontation, the real power lies waiting. In many ways, when Nietzsche spoke about man overcoming himself, and I understand there was very much an intellectual component to what he meant - he was also a man of physical culture. I often wonder if he had been exposed to some practices from the east and some of the derivations of it, like my work, for example, if this would have provided him with the necessary pieces to finish his puzzle.
One of the ways a man can overcome himself is through physiology and not in the ways you may think. Always through self-experiment. No one can save you except for you.
When we run through this process, we realise a few incontrovertible truths about our condition:
Ideas and thinking are not enough to overcome physiology and never will be. In fact, Our thoughts and thinking result from a mish-mash of primitive circuitry interacting with culture and environment over time, trying to survive. This process, which has led to biological homeostasis, is etched into our bodies. They are our ancestors' bodies and decisions also. There is no more significant example of the absurdity of selfdom than realising how much of what you think is self is absolutely not of you. You're, at best, an illusion of biological convenience. A hologram. Part of our war may be against other people, but for many moderns, it's mostly against yourself, in a manner of speaking. So realising how little control you have - is the decisive first step to true power. Selfdom is a destructive illusion. One that keeps mankind imprisoned in fantasy.
Weightlifting is not enough, and critical physiological habits are "sub-additional-muscle". For some people, lifting weights can worsen the problem or at least concretise the things you want to change. Make it harder. I love the gym, by the way. But as we will see below, it's not enough for true, transcendent groundedness. End of story.
Regardless of content, computers and phones worsen the physiological condition, posture, breath and subsequent hormonal cascades. There are literally hundreds of other ways it "fries" your circuits. All you need to do to confirm is to film yourself, to witness how Sméagol like you get when "owning the libs, mang". I also hate libs. The great irony is that in no way are you owning yourself. And in some way, you certainly are pwning yourself.
Engaging with content online, books or whatever is essentially passive - meaning that you get taken away with stimuli that are not self-directed. This contributes nothing to your ultimate well-being. You then become part of what isn't of you, which takes away from self-expression and self-sculpting. This is another level of being lived. You're literally hypnotised most of the time. Memes are helpful for people with an agenda; up to you if you want to be a part of their agenda or not. Who knows if they've even thought through their plans. Chances are they haven't.
It is like hyper-reading. Reading can be fun, and some reading can be helpful in an operationalist sense. Only if you use it. Having fun with fiction can be inspiring and insightful also, but you'll be dead soon….Collect as many pdf's as you like. And say how much you've learned all you want. When you take stock of your movement through space and the conditions of your conscious experience - be hard on yourself - how much has really changed due to books? Don't lie to yourself when you ask this question. I know how easy it is to lie to yourself; trust me.
It's easy to justify bad habits. Most people will expend vast energy on this rather than seriously look at self-willed change.
"Winning arguments" (as far as I can see, are never really won) is less important than living life well. Way less critical. From what I can see from the regular self-loathing I bear witness to, I find it challenging to comprehend how being "politically correct" or correct, politically, matters all that much when you want to knock yourself off every couple of days. There's something deeply wrong with that. It's the same as "winning an argument with your missus". She doesn't give a shit, and it's counter-productive. Better off leaving, living life with vitality, grabbing an average, normal one beer with the lads and leaving her in a seething rage. Metaphorically speaking.
There can be balance, sure.
These ideas have become abundantly clear to me as I've been filming myself doing "normal" things (i.e. slagging off women online) whilst working through Kevin's course recently.
For sure, I credit the internut with introducing me to people and some methods. Yet, in the complete analysis, the actual outcome of time spent vs things learned is extraordinarily poor.
It's almost entirely self-defeating unless you make money from it, which, incidentally, the people promote all seem to - which is okay. Yet you have to admit that ultimately, as likely you are just some f%cking c%nt no one cares about, you're basically only scrambling your consciousness and your brain and making yourself of someone else's context. Think about Australian posters posting long diatribes on Americoon or republicoon politics - how is that even a thing?
Having said all this - it's not just the content itself, but rather, the bodily habits whilst engaging in the content and what the content itself does to ANS states. Passively browsing induces terrible conditions. Long term, it is inarguably self-defeating, however funny. Everyone always says they're of the body and love Mishima, and Mishima was Japanese. And that's why you'll find the article below interesting. I'm not sure how Mishima would view it, but I see much of his malaise and rebellion against the neurasthenia of his time as fitting perfectly into many of the ideas I've presented on this phenomenon in Japanese culture. A young man who was a sickly wordcel - rejecting it all for a taste of the supremacy of his body.
In many ways, the only difference between us and the other is the simian gurglings that emanate from our mouths. Gurglings and blurps that we feel differentiate us from the "other" or make us unique in some way.
And yet, many normies, in terms of their ability to exercise power in the real world, far exceed most people online in our circles. This is a bitter pill to swallow, for sure. Yet it's true. So have all the opinions you want. It quite literally is worth nothing when the rubber hits the road.
Having said that, I'm not condemning everything. There are some excellent writers and posters. We are all works in progress with differing abilities and aims. All is not lost.
I'm just trying to show that all is not what it seems.
And there are inarguable physiological reasons for this. Thus - a balance must be struck. And that balance will almost certainly consist of not acting like Carlsbad, as the archetype of someone who is fucking out of their mind. Living in an online-induced fugue state.
While he was losing it, I thought, "I wonder what this guy's body state is right now?" I wanted to hook him up to my EEG and blood pressure sensors, perhaps the GSR, to measure the harsh realities of being a permanently online lunatic, deprived of sleep, totally wrapped up in a conceptual world. A world built on top of a character of petty spite and jealousy. Lashing out at those who "can't even fucking acknowledge my concepts mang". So it is with concepts and conceptual living.
In truth, we all go to places like that regularly, I'm sure. That example is great because it was so unbelievably cringe-worthy and relevant to the physiological problems I'm describing.
As the ultimate end-point of the terminal point-and-click man.
A word on the Japs…..
I've been referring to Japanese texts for tanden and hara breathing for some time now. I am writing the second addition to the basic-bitch addition of my Hara ebook.
Thus I've been researching Hara and Tanden texts. They're hard to get, and many of the best books, or guides, were written at the beginning of the last century. Thus, they are much not often in Engrish ranguage.
I like the Japs for several reasons:
Their physical culture's transition to being gay was in living memory, and there are many records you can reference on how they viewed these matters and how it fucked them over. I'm sure many instructional texts exist I don't know about in Japanese, which is frustrating. I experienced this most acutely whilst researching for my book, the Western Literature is primitive at best.
From a Buddhist perspective, they state the utility of breath and posture more clearly than any other culture did. Indians are all flowery and silly, rendering sometimes useful things almost incomprehensible. Japan is unique; these habits were imbibed in the culture at large – particularly of the elite classes. Thus, it informed the spiritual worldview of the people.
At the turn of the last century, suffering from malaise and neurasthenia, the culture felt very clearly the heavy burden of hyper-rationalisation and its physical consequences. Thus, they were uniquely positioned to comment on the absolute niggerishness of logo-centrism and the mentally ill Western Culture of the time (and now) as a severe, debilitating cultural handicap.
They were, in many respects, at sometimes in their history, a society of overmen. I'm not aware of another culture that reached such lofty heights of the ritualised discipline of body and mind and expressed it by slicing each other up and themselves up and somehow making it aesthetic. A true expression of the human beast in its purest form.
Sicknesses are degenerative bodily habits that become so entrenched that they kill you. The prime mover is your breath and form.
More importantly, was their attitude towards the body and its poise. It's essential interaction with gravity and what this meant in the totality of the organism's expression.
So, with this in mind, I present to you the thoughts of master "Okada Torajiro".
SAYINGS OF MASTER OKADA TORAJIRO
Introduction Master Okada Torajiro worked during the first two decades of this century. Many of his pupils, then students, have attained high official positions. One of them, Count F. told me the following story from his youth. 'When I was studying at the Tedai (the Imperial University) about 1910 it was the time when intellectualism in academic education was at its peak. We were overfed with rationalism. The lectures frequently consisted of nothing but recited translations from Western books. We found nothing that moved us, that touched our nature, so to speak. But there was Master Okada who, we were told, had said "If you come and practice with me you will not, it is true, accumulate knowledge, but you will learn to understand the speech of
birds."Many of us went to him very early in the morning. We would get up at five o'clock to "sit" with Master Okada before our lectures began. In the bitter winter weather this was often hard but we were keen and we went. Little was said. Mostly the Master just "sat" with us, corrected our postures, scarcely speaking. But we gained much and today I still know that I am infinitely indebted to him for this work.' It is an interesting fact that everyone considers Count F. to be about fifteen years younger than he actually is.
Another, a man of great physical and mental Vitality, Ambassador K. told me (he was then over sixty) that as a young man he had been weak and sickly and that he owed it exclusively to Seiza that he was now fresh, vigorous and in excellent health. These are but two examples out of many.
After Master Okada's early death his work was carried on by a woman, Dr. Kobayashi, with whom I had the opportunity of practicing Seiza. She also gave me the little book 'Words of the Master' to keep with me always on my way. Quite uncomplicated directions are typical of the methods of the Japanese. Masters. The master rarely speaks, he demonstrates. The pupil adapts himself to an atmosphere and imitates the master as best he can – over and over again. From time to time a quick correction drops into the silence. Madame Kobayashi's method--as far as I could see--was for the most part simply to sit or kneel opposite her pupil at a distance of some thirty inches, while she herself simply 'practiced' for half an hour. I remember how, at my second session with her I had tried during the half hour or my practice to keep my eyes open. She realized this only at the end of the period and then, seeing that my eyes had watered, told me that I might just keep them closed for the time being.
This wordless teaching, coming out of the silence and the silent action makes a very strange Impression.
Only now and then during the following lessons came a light word, a silent gesture, a light touch on my shoulders or head, a quick pressure at the small of my back.
In what follows I give a translation of some of the sayings of Master Okada. The sequence is not that of the original but is here arranged according to subject-matter.
Sayings of Master Okada
Tanden (Hara ed.) is the shrine of the Divine. If its stronghold is finely built so that the Divine in us can grow then a real human being is achieved. If one divides people into ranks the lowest is he who values his head. Those who endeavour only to amass much knowledge as possible grow heads that become bigger and so they topple over easily, like a pyramid standing upside down. They excel in imitating others but neither originality nor inventiveness nor any great work is theirs.
Next come those of middle rank. For them the chest is most important. People with self-control, given to abstinence and asceticism belong to this type. These are the men with outward courage but without real strength. Many of the so-called great men are in this category. Yet all this is not enough.
But those who regard the belly as the most important part and so have built the stronghold where the Divine can grow-these are the people of the highest rank. They have developed their minds as well as their bodies in the right way. Strength flows out from them and produces a spiritual condition of ease and equanimity. They do what seems good to them without violating any law. Those in the first category think that Science can rule Nature. Those in the second have apparent courage and discipline and they know how to fight. Those in the third know what reality is. Seiza makes use of the posture most certain to produce people of the third category. The sorrows of humanity are caused by loss of balance. To preserve it one has to have a healthy body and an upright heart. These can be achieved only 'on the way'. To reach the way means 'sitting'! If you 'sit' for two or three years you will understand. From getting-up time until bedtime you must be awake (on the jump). Keep your posture in Hara, come what may, and you will be alert in the right way.
You sit for one year, two years, three years, and you think-and so do others-that you are like one born anew. In truth however you are just a little shoot on the way to the development of your being. It takes fifty to sixty years to become like the heaven-striving cedars and cypresses.
Even if the body is changed in Seiza the deepest inner state does not change so quickly. Keep a carp in a pond with a stone in the centre and another of equal size with nothing in the centre. In the pond where the stone is the carp swims round the stone all the time and thus has its exercise without meeting resistance. He grows more quickly than the carp in the other pond. This is the result of endless repetition.
What is Seiza?
Before l am, thou art, he is-is that .... ! To know that is Seiza. Christ said, 'Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.' That is true. The same applies to Seiza.
Seiza aims at the perfection of human being. The achievement of health and the acquisition of healing powers are secondary factors. People did not know before that there was a method of developing intelligence, physical health and morality all at the same time. Therefore they laughed at my teaching.
There were people who thought that Seiza was a kind of hypnotism. But Seiza is not that. On the contrary, Seiza implies such a development that one will never fall under the power of hypnotism no matter how strong it may be.
On Breathing
Seiza is the master and breath the serving-man. Breathing is a means of achieving Seiza. Therefore Seiza is the more important. But both, Seiza and breath, are means of developing mind and body. Their operation is fulfilled in faith.
Some say that it is a kind of health-breathing, others that it is a new religion. And there are many other views. But none is correct, and all that merely makes me laugh. But one day it will probably become a great question for learned circles and then my aim will become clear. Until then I'll leave it at that.
Sit quite still, breathe gently, giving out long breaths, the strength in the lower belly. Only because there is no strength in the belly does one get out of breath when running.
He who swims with Hara will make good speed. Nowadays a soldier is allowed to sleep with his mouth open. In olden times he would soon have been done for. Breathing through the mouth is a sign of decline. When a fish is dying he puts his big mouth above the surface of the water and gasps for air.
Many of our people breathe through their mouths. But the whole people should breathe through the nose and press the breath down into the tanden.
Tanden breathing is the beginning of tanden practice and the foundation of Seiza. With each breath one should gather one's whole strength in the tanden. When exhaling one should not give out the breath entirely. One should keep enough back to enable one to speak a few words.
One breath after the other with the whole body strength of tanden-this is like a chisel which gradually shapes up all the muscles fully, organically. Always, even when climbing a precipice, one should exhale very slowly at the same time pressing strength into the tanden. Let us repeat-to strengthen Hara, long, slow out-breathing. As if emptying a pump one must press his breath down into the belly.
Most people lack this training in everyday life. So they know nothing about gathering strength in the belly. Nor can they keep their mouths firmly shut.
Make the exhalation long. In olden time a knight crossed the Ryohgoku bridge during the time of one breath. I have seen fisherwomen who when diving could hold their breath for many minutes. In a Chinese book it is said that one should cool oneself by staying half a day under water. And there is also a story of a shipwrecked man who was under water for days before he was brought up in a net. Then only did he draw breath.
For inhaling a moment is enough. The study of breath is of the greatest significance. Even ninjutsu, the art of making oneself invisible and other ancient arts come from the mastery of breathing.
Ordinary people breathe eighteen times a minute. Less than ten are sufficient for those who practice Seiza. But if one can manage with three a minute it is really good. Someone asked whether he would make progress if he stayed in the country for a year and worked with Dr Kobayashi. 'Yes, if you have got beyond the boundaries of happiness and ambition then you will be able to develop yourself.'
A difference of a hair's breadth (with his hand on a pupil's body) and already there is a split between heaven and earth. But the unity that is-before 'heaven and earth’ were-is what matters. Let the heart of the whole body be completely empty and only here (pointing with his finger to the pupil's tanden) let there be strength.
The Seiza posture is in accord with nature. Why does a five-storey pagoda not collapse? Because it keeps its physical balance. If one sits in the Seiza posture one does not topple over no matter from which side one may be pushed. Like a five-storey pagoda-so faultless should your posture be. Gather your strength in one point only-in the lower belly.
In your head is no tanden. Do not put so much strength in your head. It is useless if you cannot keep it up for thirty minutes. Keep the trunk erect. Hands folded and lightly pressed on the belly.
The trunk (koshi) should be taut and firm. When the base is strong the extremities are easily controlled.
Do not try to free yourself from all thoughts. Simply be watchful and keep your strength in your belly. Why is one unshakable in the Seiza posture? Because the foundation-stone is firm and fixed. A trunk held well erect shows that the spine is not out of line.
Letting force (tension) out of the pit of the stomach does not mean that it should besoft when the tanden is being filled. Of course it becomes somewhat firm. Only it should never be swollen and hard.
Do not keep the mouth open. Let the neck touch the back of the collar. When the perpendicular of the body holds firm the perpendicular of the mind is also firm. Relaxed quiet and bold force both have their source here.
There must be strength in the eyes.
Blinking is not good, it weakens the nerves., There are people who half close their eyes when they go into the summer sunshine. They are weak people.
One should be able to keep one's eyes wide open even when looking straight into the sun.
Push your back collar stud out.
If one takes care only to pull in the chin paying no attention to the pit of the stomach and to the trunk, the chest will gradually protrude. When the chest protrudes a person becomes obstinate and selfish-self-centered.
Your posture is twisted because your minds are twisted. The feet are the kindling, and the belly the stove. You should always have your head cool and your feet warm.
When there is no force in the tanden the head gets hot and the feet get cold. The hot-headed and the cold-footed is either over-sensitive or ill. Such people do not have themselves in hand.
A man of strong body and peaceful feeling will certainly have a cool head and warm feet. He has his strength from Hara.
Learning and Teaching Knowledge of the ways of the world cannot be won by ordered, logical thinking. If one can 'look' into that true knowledge which arises from the body ́s centre one will understand the ultimate meaning of all the 'world's appearances.
Nowadays the way of educating as well as the way of learning is wrong. True knowledge is not in written word. Books are always ‘translations’. The ‘original’ is what is by its own nature.
It has never occurred to me to keep in my head what I have read. If I merely ‘read' the Bible or Buddhist books and prayers I find there only such things as agree with my own thoughts.
To make others remember what has been given to them is not education. The creative force which invents, discovers and begins something new - the release of this force is education. Creative force? That is the in-dwelling Divine. Creative force results from the development of the Divine in us - including our bodies.
What a pale face! If you practice yet look pale, and you don't begin to like a dish you disliked before your work has been useless. Such practice is good for dying but not for living. Take unto yourself real learning and thenceforth you will live happily. Look to it is to be taught as little as possible. If you 'sit' you will understand quite by yourself.
Seiza as practiced by teachers in ordinary schools is completely unsuccessful. This is due to the fact that they practice Seiza as though it were a curse of training of which they learn a little and then straightway pass on the little they have learned.
You should never (when sitting) think about concentration of mind or even try to achieve clear purity of mind. (Against the danger of form.) You must be able to see the face of the child that was there even before it was conceived in its mother's womb. In the past I never thought about the 'form' of sitting. And what I mean could perhaps be shown more easily through dancing than through Seiza. Therefore do not be too concerned with form.
Seiza means to teach children as yet unborn, to influence them without any pre-conceived picture (idea). How could one want to give children still unborn the Seiza form?
You must understand what the rice and the corn say. To raise rice and corn and to bring up children is, in principle, one and the same thing. Can you let rice and corn 'sit'?
The true meaning of education is to draw out the natural essence (original nature) of the individual. This leads also to the perfecting of the personality and the awakening of the soul.
Enthusiasm and ecstasy? These make the blood rush to the head. But when practicing Seiza one should keep one's head quiet and cool. A cypress increases its rings even as a very old tree. One should grow indeed until the moment of death.
Therapeutics
There are people whose eyes begin to fail. Because of the cornea? For three months they may go to an eye specialist. What nonsense! If they are made to do exercises with their eyes, not only will their eyes be spoiled their lives will be endangered. They maintain that their eyes are bad. Fundamentally, however, it is their minds which are not in order. If their minds are healed their eyes will be healed in a perfectly natural way. If they will 'sit' constantly for three months their eyes will be all right again. The good doctor is within themselves.
An old woman felt sharp pains in her hips during the Seiza posture. She thought she was suffering from a bone disease. Later, to her great surprise, she realized that she was completely healed. 'Sitting' in a room next to that of a mentally disturbed person will produce a change, a transformation of that person.
Why do your feet ache? Because there is no force in your lower belly. (To one whose hands were too cold.) It is because you are putting no strength in your lower belly.
'I have such a headache.' No answer. 'Oh! the back of my head!' Still no answer. Then, in a deep voice, 'Try sitting, and watch.’
Kurosegawa (a sumo wrestler) fell ill though it was part of his profession always to be in training. For a long time he found no cure. After sitting for two weeks he was healed. Good eating and sport by themselves are useless.
The weaker one is the less appetite one has and the more one desires 'tasty' food. Rough food must become for us a feast. The meaning of all things is within, in the 'mind', not something which exists ‘out there'.
One who always fears that his honor is going to be offended is weaker than the person who offends him. One who is disturbed by dust is weaker than dust. And one who is frightened of germs is weaker than germs.
Strong people can ́t be disturbed by anything. They may have weak intestines, fever, consumptive lungs and yet they are healthy because they are never in the least unquiet.
Even if one lung is diseased and the other gets stronger and does three times as much work as the diseased one does that not indicate more strength? ‘ One whose ki (mind) is in disorder is called byoki which means troubled, disturbed mind.
Be interested in the universe. Do not cling to this world. Do not want to possess anything. Never think of your ‘pension’.
Mrs. X has given away her diamond ring. But what, after all, is a ring? If she did not cling to her life she could be happy.
Seiza means to give up one's 'I'.
When one sits, a good meal and a good bed are being prepared . The good cook and the good mattress are within oneself. When one sits, a lovely cool wind blows in summer and in winter a cosy fire burns on the hearth. The cool wind and the warm hearth are within oneself. The soldier stands in absolute obedience before one who is, after all, only one rank above him. If one masters Seiza one can stand calmly before anyone.
'The way' - it is within oneself. If one goes on sitting quietly the way will be revealed. I have met all my misfortunes as though they were my honored teachers. Therefore I have no place for pity towards anyone who complains, no matter how unhappy he maybe.
It is a bad sign to grow thin when one meets misfortune. The deeper the sorrow the better the appetite should be and the more one should put on weight. Never will you reach the way unless you live in the Absolute and away from relativity. The foundation of all education is love. This love is not the one whose opposite is hate but the love that is like sunshine. Practice Seiza and you will experience it.
It is not that only after you have practiced you reach ... The state of ... is even now, since you 'sit'.
Result and Effect
Until the voice and the eyes alter one cannot say that one has sat in the right way. The voice must come from the belly.
Patience, self-discipline and perseverance-he who does not use these words in this world, and he who feels Spring everywhere in heaven and in earth-one who has reached this state of mind has really understood.
If there is no strength in the tanden, vices such as Jealousy, envy, wrath, greed and distrust appear.
Pride, laziness, moodiness, suspiciousness-all these come from lack of force in the belly.
Practice in such a way that nobody will ever again be able to constrain you. You should not alter when circumstances alter. In all that concerns the way you should show yourselves incapable of being led astray.
The whole of creation is mine. All books are merely translations of my mind. Seiza is the original of all books and the eternal Spring. Are books then no longer necessary?
One cannot say that. By reading one can see how far one has progressed. That applies to all practice.
The fool and the clever man are equally worthy of veneration when the divine light strikes them.
Once you have entered the way, philosophy is no longer difficult. Philosophy, so-called, becomes commonplace once you have Seiza. Seiza sets people free. The really blissful life-not wonderful food and beautiful women, but unlimited love for primordial Nature.
One may have second sight. But trying to preserve it destroys one's health. It is the devil's way. I – he – you - what that means you will grasp only when you grasp what ... is. Feel yourself as rich as a king. On the way everyone can be happy even if he is a beggar.
Every man has reichi - divine wisdom, and reinoh – divine Power - within himself. Before I - you - he - exists, there is.... To have this inwardly - that is Seiza.