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A door does not make a house and yet it does provide access to the house and all that the house has to offer.
There are many types and categories of the door. The outside door allows ingress and egress to the house. The inner door allows access to various rooms and closets AND no door IS the room or closet or garage but merely a means of access and control.
Even the doorway is not the door and yet the door helps us control access through the doorway - it is still not the door.
The dojo has many aspects that make it a dojo and one is the ganken or entrance. How that entrance is depends on the dojo and its dai-sensei. It is a means of entering the dojo and departing from the dojo, usually the main entrance. It leads us to the many things that make the dojo, a dojo but those aspects or traits or things are not the entrance and yet the entrance allows us to access the dojo yet is not the dojo, merely the entrance/exit.
The dojo has many interesting and important concepts and traits like the kakemono, the wall of hanging scrolls; the kamiza and shoman or wall of honor and a seat of honor. Within the dojo proper, the dojo training floor, there are places for the dai-sensei/sensei, the senpai and the kohai designated as the shimoseki and joseki or the lower seat left and the upper seat right. Then there is the shimoza, lower seat farthest from the seat of honor and all have there cultural places and establish certain dojo-statuses and so on AND YET they are not the ganken or entrance and the ganken is not the door, the door has its form and function that allow us to enter and leave a place like the dojo and control that ingress and egress.
All the traits, aspects and concepts within the dojo also stand alone with their form and function often indirectly related to one another yet, stand alone things within and around the dojo. The makiwara is not the dojo, the door or the entrance yet the entrance/door lead us and provide us access to the dojo and makiwara. The door is NOT the makiwara and the makiwara is NOT the door... or entrance. Everything has its place and everything is in its place while connected in category to the entire dojo with these traits and concepts and things are various types of distinct and separate things within the dojo accessed by the door yet the door, the makiwara and the entrance are themselves of an individual nature that could be anywhere but often in a dojo.
Chinkuchi is energy, chinkuchi is the door/entrance to those benefits and concepts that are like the things within and part of the dojo and provide a means to access all of them yet they are not chinkuchi for chinkuchi is the door, the energy that allows things to be, happen and become force and power to control, govern and dictate actions of the body through controllers and triggers in and of the mind from training, practice and experience. None of these are chinkuchi for chinkuchi is energy yet all of them manifest and are skills and tools that energy fuel so we can make use of them... energy is kinetic and potential regardless of how triggered to manifest as something with the something being a product of, not chinkuchi.
Chinkuchi is the energy that allows the door to open and close and yet is NOT the door nor the door chinkuchi. Like a garage opener that pulls up and runs down the garage door with triggering the energy or electricity that results in the garage door opener to operate, the garage door is a garage door that in inanimate until the energy is applied to operate to tools to open and close… it is not the door and the door does not make the others operate or exist for the door is just a door.
Contemplate this, mull this over and let the mind that is the mind come to a conclusion and then let the mind, the door, trigger impulses or energy so that the body manifests the products of the mind… mind is still just the mind regardless; the mind triggers the energy to manifest work; the energy is chinkuchi yet not the work nor the mind.
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