“Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
So I took “All techniques are one technique” to mean that the techniques share the same goal, and that it can be useful to think of them as a unified whole to facilitate moving between one and the other (see also his part about rationality being a “dance”.)
How do you interpret it? Is he just trying to sound cool, and not actually communicating anything of value?
(That’s a genuine question, and I’m open to the possibility of it being true. I just need a little convincing.)
Eliezer quotes Musashi:
“Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
So I took “All techniques are one technique” to mean that the techniques share the same goal, and that it can be useful to think of them as a unified whole to facilitate moving between one and the other (see also his part about rationality being a “dance”.)
How do you interpret it? Is he just trying to sound cool, and not actually communicating anything of value?
(That’s a genuine question, and I’m open to the possibility of it being true. I just need a little convincing.)