To think only of winning is sickness. To think only of using the martial arts is sickness. To think only of demonstrating the results of one’s training is sickness, as is thinking only of making an attack or waiting for one. To think in a fixated way only of expelling such sickness is also sickness. Whatever remains absolutely in the mind should be considered sickness. As these various sicknesses are all present in the mind, you must put your mind in order and expel them.
A monk asked an ancient worthy, “What is the Way?” The worthy replied, “Your ordinary mind, that is the Way.” This is truly profound. Expelling all the sicknesses of the mod, engendering the ordinary mind, and yet abiding amidst sickness...this is the state of being without sickness.
Ibid.
Commentary: I see this in the martial/kinesthetic context as acting without conscious censorship of your action, using the skills you have leaned through conscious censorship; and similarly in a LW context of approaching questions in Near Mode, without consciously adjusting for bias.
Yagyu Munenori, The Life-Giving Sword (translated by William Scott Wilson).
Ibid.
Commentary: I see this in the martial/kinesthetic context as acting without conscious censorship of your action, using the skills you have leaned through conscious censorship; and similarly in a LW context of approaching questions in Near Mode, without consciously adjusting for bias.