- Shoshin: beginners mind
- Mushin: no mind
- Fudoshin: immovable mind
- Zanshin: remaining mind
Ancient, sort-of, concepts for the explanation of mind work in dojo. Concepts not so easy to explain in more modern terms … but doable. Now, how many dojo adequately “splain” such things?
Where dojo commit the act of divergence in regard to these concepts is defining vs. teaching and practicing. Like so many techniques, when training and practicing mind stuff the latter is so much more difficult because it is a solitary endeavor of each practitioner.
It requires, critically mandated, using in every moment of waking moments and not just dojo work. This is applicable to the fun physical stuff but different as you already know from experience.
Being in the present moment pretty much would be done if it were that easy and that little monkey brain makes it most difficult 😥 I would say. At sixty-seven I still consciously work on it every day with both success and monstrous failures 😨.
As you already know or have discovered I have a bit of info on these mind concepts on my Isshindo blog: https://isshindo.blogspot.com/?m=1
Thanks to Karate Nerd whose article, most excellent I might add, on these four mind concepts inspired this one.
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