“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.” IfsThinkingHandsPurposeCuttingShotsSurpriseThumbsArcher Book:Zen Source: Zen
“The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the two-mind or hand -was responsible for the work.” KnowsMindTwoEndsMomentsHandsFormResponsibleCaughtGuidesBrushesPupilsTwo Minds Author:Eugen Herrigel
