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Grieving For The Beauty
Sports train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life.
The root of martial arts is not there.
- Taisen Deshimaru
…this statement to me by Deshimaru advises to maintain a respect and balance of mind and body in one’s study and practice of the martial arts so as to maintain the correct path and not just be ruled by the competitive mind…
— Bushinden Tasmania Budo Dojo
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Eurydice
Eurydice went to hell.
What was difficult
was the travel, which,
On arrival, is forgotten.
Transition
is difficult.
And moving between two worlds
Especially so;
the tension is very great.
A passage
filled with regret, with longing
to which we have, in the world,
some slight access or memory.
Only for a moment
when the dark of the underworld
