“The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.” DoeMomentsWaitingFailureLetting GoShotsFulfilmentRight MomentBraces Book:Zen Source: Zen
“You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.” ThinkingHappensFallOughtHighestOrdinaryShotsWeightSnowTensionSlipsFulfilledLeafsArcherBamboo Author:Eugen Herrigel
“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 shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.” ShotsSurpriseCraftsArcherArchery Author:Eugen Herrigel
