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Pictogram, Ideogram and characters are defined in English as, “non-violence or non-harm.”
How then can we have hiboryoku/ahimsa in Buddhist beliefs especially when associated with martial disciplines? Because, to know, understand and appreciate the capabilities of violence as a tool makes us completely and utterly aware of the repercussions of that violence so we create an attitude that avoiding violence is the best “Way or Path” that we, as martial practitioners, can take while maintaining the attitude, understanding and ability to met out violence in protection/defense when no other path is available.
In his book, “When Buddhists Attack,” Jeffrey K. Mann speaks to the practices of Zen Buddhism in the Budo world because of the plethora of misinformation on it exists and is promulgated through modern training utilizing certain, like Zazen mokuso, disciplines within the dojo. The author does a wonderful job of illuminating the very core of why one does certain practices in the martial disciplines and once that is presented then practitioners, as you can imagine, start to make connections that often are left to assumptions and personal speculations…without an effort to seek out and study what many don’t know they don’t know.
Hiboryoku, from Buddhism studies the term is Ahimsa, teaches us about non-violence as a meant of solving certain issues that entail aggressive behavior often leading to physical, and psychological, violence. The author helps us to understand why such seemingly counterintuitive beliefs are actually beneficial weights that balance out the martial violences to a moral and socially mandated handling of violences.
Non-violence is non-harm, physical and psychological and social, that through the understanding and appreciation of the devastating repercussions of applying marital skills against another human leads us to the full understanding that self-protection and defense comes first from knowledge/understanding so that our abilities will allow us to recognize and choose wisely to, “Avoid or escape ’n’ evade or deescalate.”
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