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Old 10-27-2003, 02:47 PM   #4
Don_Modesto
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Re: broken mushin

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Paula Lydon wrote:
~~My query then: Does anyone have pracices for shutting the mind up or increasing those moments when things just happen? Is it just more years on the mat? Meditation? Being exhausted when training?
The best analysis I've seen of it is Susan A. Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow in Sports (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...lance&n=507846)

Unlike Plato, Takuan, and Choisai, they not only describe it, but offer conditions for facilitating it. Excellent.

Don J. Modesto
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