After an extremely frustrating experience of kyudo this morning, there’s really nothing you can do. You show up, do the best you can, listen to others, and what happens happens. Part of it is what you want, part of it is all the other stuff going on. What you see in kyudo is honesty, whether… Continue reading Don’t Keep Your Hate
In kyudo there’s a lot of talk about one arrow, one perfect shot, and that is special, but if you get stuck in that obsession with the one perfect shot, then you’re in for a real rough time. It’s also about pacing. I thought about this while watching a baseball game. The pitcher is there… Continue reading Kyudo is Like Baseball
Just one. Only one. If you end up with more in the end good for you, but there’s only one. I’ve talked in the past about all the millions of things we’re trying to do in one single shot of an arrow in kyudo, and I’ll reiterate again, you can’t do them all. The world… Continue reading One Thing at a Time
Don’t make your kyudo perfect. Don’t try to be perfect. Trying to do all the things you’re trying to do, all at that same time in your mind when you’re using your body to express an art, it’s not possible like that. But that’s a tricky subject. Because the purpose of it is striving to… Continue reading Don’t Be Perfect: Kyudo
It doesn’t matter if you suck. That’s OK. Make it interesting, which doesn’t mean being deemed “the best” or “successful”, no matter how much you think you want it. Just be yourself because that’s more than enough, and even better than anything else. And don’t die. That’s it. Which means in the realm of kyudo,… Continue reading Sucking at Kyudo
I don’t have 36 views of Mt. Hachimen here, but somebody would definitely do well by painting 36 views of the iconic mountain of Nakatsu. Looming over the town it is everywhere the same, its shape unchanging from every view, and yet completely different with each disparate foreground. Today May felt like unarguably the best… Continue reading 36 Views of Mt. Hachimen & How to Deal With Kyudo
Kyudo aslo needs cute things. It needs light small fluffy things that don’t matter, and people laughing about things that don’t matter. Small soft flowers. Humming dragonflies. Bumping into a wall. I spend so much time in kyudo fighting against the entire universe. I want to do it perfect, electrifying the world with thunder and… Continue reading Kyudo Also Needs Cute
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