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Zazen...how to use it for Kendo
My wife was telling me yesterday that my Skill level improved dramactically but mentally I had regressed. This really confused me.She said that my mind was too noisy & kendo was about Silence. anyway she went on to explain that a quiet mind can hear his opponent speaking. And that Kendo from a noisy mind tends to be quite ugly. this also confused me because i thought you needed to be threatening to create doubt.when I asked her what she thought I should do all she said was Zazen. She said that most Americans she see doing kendo has very noisy minds & have left out a very big part of discipline training. I know that Zazen has something to do with Zen, but isn't that what Mukuso is for?I will probably google some information on zazen, but does anyone here know how to use it in training? How do you be aggressive while having a silent mind? And how does doing Zazen help that?

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