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Old 11-21-2005, 07:09 AM   #3
Erick Mead
 
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Re: Experiences with Fudoshin - Suigetsu?

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Doug Wiley wrote:
Erick:
I don't have any experience with this, but I'd be very interested in exploring it. Do you have any resources (web, book, etc...) that I could check out? Anyone else have any? Thanks!
-Doug
The most classically applauded writer on fudoshin is Takuan. He wrote two works, extensive letters really, the T'ai-a Ki "Spirit of the T'ai-a" (a mythical sword that cuts anything) and the longer Fudochi Shinmyo Roku. " Divine Record of Immovable Wisdom." The last was written to Yagyu Munenori, head of the Shinkage sword koryu.
A translation of these two (although the chapter headlinks are not all properly titled) may be found here:
http://www.cjp.fi/liikan/liikan-jits...d/takuan1.html

There is also a fascinating ethics treatise by Takuan on the same site: "Clear Sound of Jewels"

Cordially,
Erick Mead
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