In this video I am trying to help Paige Shutter achieve Mu-Shin/無心
I started training in martial arts for over 27 years. Most of my students and friends know that I am blind in one eye and very nearsighted.
During my martial arts journey, I experimented and tried to figure out how to engage the mind and learn to see with the third eye.
About 18 years ago I stumbled onto a book called Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey.
This book helped me lay the foundation for a methodology of teaching using the “third eye” or Mu-Shin.
My training methodology to achieve Mu-Shin involves:
– Understanding vector force.
– Plane geometry.
– Invisible third points.
– A hierarchy of motor skills development.
– Bio-mechanical knowledge of how your body performs during fight or flight.
– The pyramid teaching method
– Flexion points
– “Tasting Good Food”
– Learning how to see by understanding movement patterns.
– How to plot movements.
The term Mu-Shin is shortened from mushin no shin (無心の心), a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of “no-mindness“.
When the swordsman stands against his opponent, he is not to think of the opponent, nor of himself, nor of his enemy’s sword movements. He just stands there with his sword which, forgetful of all technique, is ready only to follow the dictates of the subconscious. The man has effaced himself as the wielder of the sword. When he strikes, it is not the man but the sword in the hand of the man’s subconscious that strikes.”
Zen master Takuan Sōhō
Please message me if you like me to teach some of my coaching/training methodologies and help you achieve a paradigm shift in your training.
Osu,
Sensei Mong Phu,
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