no sword mind | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Sun, 21 Jul 2019 03:03:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/wallstreetdealmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pitbullgif.gif?fit=32%2C22&ssl=1 no sword mind | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com 32 32 155119938 Experiment is the “middle way” https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/06/experiment-is-the-middle-way/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/06/experiment-is-the-middle-way/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 04:36:47 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=1701 What I put up here you will not find it in any other men’s blogs. I find great value in the talks and lectures of Alan Watts (1915-1973). If you have 45 minutes, here is one of them. Quotes from Alan Watts: “You don’t aim and then shoot: it’s all … Continue ReadingExperiment is the “middle way”

The post Experiment is the “middle way” first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> What I put up here you will not find it in any other men’s blogs.

I find great value in the talks and lectures of Alan Watts (1915-1973).

If you have 45 minutes, here is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilVwL7JkU0

Quotes from Alan Watts:

“You don’t aim and then shoot: it’s all one action. Not to decide and then act, but to act and decide all at once.”

” Live in such a way that nothing is advantage nor disadvantage.”

Practice fasting of the heart.

“Knowledge is much like the expansion of a flower from the stem to the bud.”

“I don’t know whether I was walking in the wind or the wind was walking on me.”

Most people live in assessment-hope living.

The invisibility of one’s head is the secret of being alive or Mushin = “no head” [Chinese]. If you want to see the inside of your head you keep your eyes open.

When your shoes are comfortable, do you feel them ? You don’t ! -That’s living.

And not you and “your life” -it’s the process. There’s nobody in the trap -it takes something trapped to make a trap.

Alan Watts
The post Experiment is the “middle way” first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/06/experiment-is-the-middle-way/feed/ 1 1701 A few thoughts on “no mind” https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/02/a-few-thoughts-on-no-mind/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/02/a-few-thoughts-on-no-mind/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2019 03:16:27 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=1393 A had some fun earlier going through the tweet notes of someone known as Siddha Performance. Unlike most people on Twtr who are plain time-wasters and cretins, this account engenders followers to reach “no-mind” and the “truth”. But it doesn’t tell you how to do it. “When misery is a… … Continue ReadingA few thoughts on “no mind”

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The post A few thoughts on “no mind” first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/02/a-few-thoughts-on-no-mind/feed/ 1 1393 Attaining great function in life https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2016/11/attaining-great-function-in-life/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2016/11/attaining-great-function-in-life/#respond Sat, 05 Nov 2016 20:16:00 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2016/11/05/attaining-great-function-in-life/ The great book “The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War” by samurai Yagyu Munemori gives a shrewd account of what attaining great function is: “When marvels come forth immediately and naturally at the appropriate time because the potential is always there within, this is called great function.” … Continue ReadingAttaining great function in life

The post Attaining great function in life first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> The great book “The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War” by samurai Yagyu Munemori gives a shrewd account of what attaining great function is:

“When marvels come forth immediately and naturally at the appropriate time because the potential is always there within, this is called great function.”

“Encountering someone with the great potential ia like a mouse running into a cat.” In the warrior’s view, the mouse is mesmerized by the cat.

Have you ever encountered someone with great charisma, with stalking power?

Not talking about physical beauty and prominent features here, but that someone with an aura of seducing strength, warmth and comfort. Someone that’s still in your mind long after they’re gone. Where does that come from ? That comes from “great functionality” and the samurai tells us “All the great positions, grabbing a blade, kicking someone down, are great function when you attain independence, beyond what you have learned.” 

In the battlefield,  “It is the swordless art of not getting killed when you have no sword.”

If you have no sword, than what do you have ? You do have your mind, presumably. What kind of mind ?

“It is the mind,
That is the mind,
Confusing the mind,
O mind,
To the mind.” -P. 101
This riddle of “no mind” can also be described as the flow mind or non-attached mind. “If your mind stops and stays somewhere, you will be defeated in martial arts.”-page 105 

Do you have the “quiescent” sword ? 

“When you stabilize the spirit in situations where swords are quiescent, thereby all sorts of marvels appear in the hands and feet, causing flowers to bloom in battle.
The spirit is the master of the mind. The spirit resides within, employing the mind outside. This mind, furthermore, employs psychic energy. Employing psychic energy in external activities for the sake of the spirit, if this mind lingers in one place, its function is deficient.
Therefore it is essential to make sure that the mind is not fixated on one point.”

 It seems the mesmerizing mind is the “no-mind”, not fixed to any particular destination, outcome or spatial thing. Can this be applied in today’s world ?

If you read Jeffrey Pfeffer book “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t”, power in the corporate world needs to be taken decisively, with self promotion and engaging networking effects as tools. Since we live in an ultracompetitive world, I tend to agree with that. The question is, can the “mesmerizing”, unmovable mind of the samurai help to attain that power in society and life in general ? Moreover, since [most] people are not trained in martial arts and are certainly not living in the killing fields of ancient Japan,  is it possible to develop the “no mind” functionality described in the ancient text ?

I want to have that “no mind” power if it can advance my career. More on that: Part 2 is for email subscribers only: subscribe to my newsletter to get it.

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