{"id":5285,"date":"2019-10-07T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2019-10-07T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:06:41","slug":"musashi-and-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/art\/musashi-and-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSASHI AND ZEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5285\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5285-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5285-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5285-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Question:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> It is said that Miyamoto Musashi achieved a \u201cunity of sword and zen,\u201d and that he did not have to kill an opponent or protect himself, that he had freedom from all ideas with perfect serenity. Are there such effects?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Meishu-Sama:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"> Yes, there are, but they differ from \u201cfreedom from all ideas with perfect serenity.\u201d Human beings cannot reach such a state. There were no other words to describe such effects so they used these words. In any case, his soul reached a very high level. Musashi was greatly helped by the priest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/meishu-sama\/authors\/takuan-soho\/\">Takuan Soho<\/a>. He was continually taught by Takuan. But Musashi was born with his soul already on a very high level. That\u2019s why he could paint such wonderful paintings. One excels in all endeavors. Even with the sword, he could attain such distinction. Such a principle works in all matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-font-width: 104%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">Record of Instructions, Issue 24<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-font-width: 104%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">September 15, 1953<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-5285-0-0-1\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\">&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jinsai.org%2Fen%2Fteachings%2Fart%2Fmusashi-and-zen%2F&width=450&layout=standard&action=like&size=large&show_faces=true&share=true&height=80&appId=171964893011161\" width=\"450\" height=\"80\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.3&appId=171964893011161&autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/art\/musashi-and-zen\/ data-width=\"\" data-numposts=\"100\"><\/div><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0&appId=171964893011161&autoLogAppEvents=1';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: It is said that Miyamoto Musashi achieved a \u201cunity of sword and zen,\u201d and that he did not have to kill an opponent or protect himself, that he had freedom from all ideas with perfect serenity. Are there such effects? Meishu-Sama: Yes, there are, but they differ from \u201cfreedom from all ideas with perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-art","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}