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[kendraw]

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[reticentshugyosha]

On the Spirituality of Martial Arts

The spirituality of martial arts (Budo) is not an obvious thing. No amount of outfits, other accoutrement, or religiously adjacent cultural customs can elucidate (let alone comprise) the actual heart of training.

Contemporary definitions define spirituality as that which concerns “the nonphysical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character,” with etymology uncovering the nature of spirit as “breath,” that essential yet often overlooked exchange of life giving gasses between our environment and innermost being.

In East Asia, the etymology of the word spirit (神) pertains to lightening, and the seemingly spontaneous manifestation of raw, overwhelming power in nature. The ancients saw lightening as coming strictly from the sky. Contemporarily we understand the visible force of lightening to come from the ground up. In reality, it’s both.

Budo is simultaneously an outwardly recognizable physical discipline and more subtly internal set of commitments and challenges. It is something learned from the outside in, but truly manifest only from the inside out. This meeting place between interior and exterior, between mental and physical is where the spirituality of martial arts abides.

Beginning with the common grappling between bodily compliance with the obscure physical demands of the arts (and the competition for attention and motivation with myriad other forces vying for our time) the spiritual path of Budo has its genesis as mere discipline, and its truest revelation in the spontaneous inseparability between technique and the dispositions, commitments, and activities of everyday life.

Budo is a pursuit that comes to occupy and possess one’s mind as much as one’s mind, when peeled back to its essence, comes to occupy and define Budo. In this, Budo is not simply a practice of combat or military tactics, but rather an orientation toward life that elicits awareness, acceptance, and harmonious accord with reality as it is. For this reason, aphorisms such as “Ken Zen Ichi Nyo” (拳禪一如) have come into being - “the fist and Zen are one.”

Conflict and peace are in constant relationship, seemingly a dichotomy until their dynamic tension is realized as a fundamental unitary nature. Life and death, and indeed all supposed opposites are also like this. Budo is a ground of intentionality where this fundamental unitary nature can be perceived and proactively engaged, with conscious attention and agency. What could be more spiritual, lest we confuse the constructs of belief and creed with true matters of spirit?

(Pictures from 15+ years ago, 10+ years ago, and 1+ year ago)

~Sunyananda

[beloveddawn-blog]

if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!

1) My sister and I look so alike that I actually answer to her name without even noticing people got it wrong most of the time. This is especially hilarious when people who don't even know I *have* a sister do it (I apparently just have a <her name> vibe of some sort).

2) I'm a certified instructor in two branches of my martial art discipline.

3) My very first comic book (I was three-but-ALMOST-four when I talked my Dad into buying me the first two collections) contains VERY BLATANT LGBTQ+ relationships and characters, discussion of consent and revoked consent, long-lasting or complex grief, suicide by proxy, ethnic cleansing and racism (both from outside groups and inside their own species), sex positivity, violence, torture, and different ways of facing one's mortality. Dad used to read it to us as a bedtime story, so I can confirm that none of these topics are things children are "too young" for if supported by compassionate adults who engage with delicate conversations and encourage kindness and curiosity. It was also published in the 70's.

[capfly]

Hapkido (1972) starring Angela Mao choreographed by Sammo Hung directed by Huang Feng

[solinastkd-blog]

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[ganzl]

The Evolution of the Shaolin Martial Arts!

The History of the Shaolin Martial Arts Most people say the Martial Arts came from the Shaolin Temple. Undoubtededly, the Shaolin Temple is a big influencer. But, my own theory is slightly different. Originally I wrote a short column about ‘Og and Bog.’ Og steals Bog’s apples by conking him on the head, Bog imagines a defense for getting conked on the head, and we have a technique and the birth…

[hellhammersbignaturals]

I opened Tumblr but got distracted from what I was going to post but anyways I passed my third black belt exam I think the next one is last but it sounds like torture, anyway we started with a five mile hike up a mountain which was fun because I ran the whole way down and I was super excited but then I thought my mom's car was going to explode for a second

[oneofusnet]

Digital Noise Episode 320: That Fist of Legend Man Wright is Nobody's Fool DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 320: THAT FIST OF LEGEND MAN WRIGHT IS NOBODY’S FOOL This is a weird episode of Digital Noise. Mainly because we have not a single horror film to talk about. Sometimes it just shakes out that way. But Chris and Wright do discuss that period piece version of Top Gun movie that… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 320: That Fist of Legend Man Wright is Nobody’s Fool read more on One of Us

[reticentshugyosha]

Bukkyo, Budo, and Shugyo

True spirituality (bukkyo), like true martial arts (budo), brings us face to face with the realities of life, and chiefly, with its limitations. In intentionally confronting mortality, suffering, violence, pain, and unknowing we can realize the confidence to actually enter into the streams of our lives already in progress, unburdened with the weight of fearing the unknown (consciously or otherwise) which keeps us so readily anchored to a half-life of ignorance, reservation, and even reckless attempts to break free from our molds.

As these fundamental matters are broached, and the ambiguity of their relationship to our being is resolved, through ongoing training in the midst of our daily life (shugyo) we can come to authentically entertain the nuances of love, joy, peace, awareness, and freedom. We can come to celebrate the would be ravages of time as the play of temporality, and to dance with its steps.

At its heart, such training is always about honesty, agency, and intentionality. Through it we can find meaning, narrative, and poetry that can withstand the gravity of reality, and persist as wisdom embodied.

~Sunyananda

[chubbycutegirl]

So today I went back to Hapkido and I enjoyed it. I also had a very bleh day at work (probably due to little sleep).

I work at a call center so we get a lot of free time and I didn't want to really do anything during that.

Tomorrow will hopefully be better.

[sugihapkidomx]

Be prepared! Be safe! Be a Hapkido master! 

Join us for this special event to learn more about traditional Korean martial arts. One of the best masters is coming all the way from South Korea to teach us. Get your spot now before it's too late!

¡Prepárate! ¡Sé seguro! ¡Conviértete en un maestro del Hapkido! 

Únete a nosotros en este evento especial para aprender más sobre las artes marciales tradicionales coreanas. Uno de los mejores maestros vendrá desde Corea del Sur para enseñarnos. ¡Consigue tu plaza antes de que sea demasiado tarde!

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