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Insights from the journey | Sharing thoughts on the martial path to mental and emotional wellness
Insights from the journey | Sharing thoughts on the martial path to mental and emotional wellness
Why I Created Jishudō?
Why I Created Jishudō?
Sometimes a story is the best answer to a question.
The starfish story (by Loren Eiseley)
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking up and gently throwing things into the ocean.
Approaching the boy he asked, “Young man, what are you doing?”
“Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die,” the boy replied.
The man laughed to himself and said, “Do you realize there are miles of miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make any difference.”
After listening politely, the boy bent down to pick up another starfish and threw it into the surf. Then, he smiled at the man and said, “I made a difference to that one.”
"When there is attention, there is complete stillness. In that attention, there is no exclusion. When the brain can be completely still but active, sensitive, alive, not asleep, in that state of attention, which is stillness, there is no fear. Then there is a quality of movement that is not thought, feeling, emotion or sentiment."
Krishnamurti - Paris, 14 September 1961
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