dieper ik (5)

Zen masters have used the sword... 

as a technique for meditation. 

And they say in Japan that if two Zen masters - two meditative persons - are fighting with those swords, there can be no conclusion. No one can be defeated, and no one is going to win. Because both are not thinking. 

The swords are just not in their hands. 

They are in the hands of their inner guide. 

The non-thinking inner guide. 

And before the other attacks, the guide knows and defends. 

You cannot think about it, because there is no time. The other is aiming at your heart. In a flash of a moment the sword will penetrate to the heart. There is no time to think about it, about what to do. 

When the thought 'penetrate the heart' occurs to him, simultaneously the thought 'defend' must occur to you. Simultaneously. With no gap. Only then, can you defend. Otherwise, you will be no more.

So they teach swordsmanship... 

as a meditation. 

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And they say... 

"Be moment to moment with the inner guide... 

"Don't think... 

"Allow the inner being to do whatsoever happens to it... 

"Don't interfere with the mind!" 

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This is very difficult. 

Because we are so trained with our minds. 

Our schools, our colleges, our universities, the whole culture, the whole pattern of civilization... teach our heads. We have lost contact with the inner guide. 

Everyone is born with that inner guide. 

But it is not allowed to work. To function. 

It is almost paralyzed. 

But it cán be revived...

~osho~

vigyan bhairav tantra

(1972) - vol.ii, ch.37