海洋the SEA

在训练中放慢节奏，能让你更广泛地感知环境中的细微变化，并提升对周遭事物的敏感度。我们不仅可以通过「十法節制」（Juppou Sesshou）来协调自身与空间的关系，还能借此洞察身边人的特质与动向。

在大光明祭（Daikomyosai）上，宗家曾提及一则武士典故（虽记忆模糊，仍尽力复述）：一婴儿坠入池塘，家臣急呼施救，将军却命人静观其变。他说：“若能幸存，方配成为勇士。” 婴儿最终得救，后来被将军培养为一代名将。

在道场中保持中立与警觉，即是守护生命的根本。

我们在学习如何生存：

知游泳之道，即知生存之道；

知何时不入水，亦是智慧。

但若选择踏入这片海洋，就必须承担一切后果。

《神奈川冲浪里》的启示

这幅又名《大浪》的浮世绘，是葛饰北斋《富岳三十六景》的巅峰之作，原作藏于日本箱根美术馆。画面中，汹涌的浪涛如利爪般撕扯渔船，远处的富士山在浪谷间若隐若现。北斋以动态的水势展现自然的 “阴” 之暴力，又以渔民沉稳划桨的 “阳” 之从容形成平衡。尽管风暴肆虐，阳光却穿透云层 —— 这暗示着：若无法洞察 “入海” 的双面性，便难以承受未知的磨难。

「凡念不御」的警示

被欲望与执念束缚者，终将沦为困兽。若不 “空杯入门”，便永远带着过多的自我走进道场，难容真正的学问。思想过于沉重者，入水即沉；而看似 “沉重” 之人，若失去方向，也只能随波逐流。

唯有携手守护，方能让这门艺术纯净如初，代代相传。

Slowing down in your training gives you the ability to gain a wider perception and sensitivity of what is occuring in your environment. We can use juppou sesshou to negotiate our space but also to gain a working knowledge of the type of people that move around us.

We are all learning to swim in the dojo. Some eventually learn to swim enough to stay a float and even ” play ” in the wake of Soke and the Shitenno. But, many also flounder ( or become one ) by those that drown and sink to the bottom.

Even people that get skilled at swimming, it doesn’t mean that they will become enlightened or spiritually awakened. If we cannot cleanse the water we swim in, we will forever be lost in a mist of murky water.

Soke doesn’t dive in and save these people. He watches them. If you have what it takes to become a bugeisha, then you will find the way yourself. Budo is not about being “taught” or “saved”.

At the Daikomyosai, Soke again mentioned a famous story about a Samurai. I can’t recall exactly, but I will do my best to tell it.

There was a baby that fell into a pond. One retainer yelled to help the child. However, the General said to not help the child and just watch what it does. If the child could suvive, then it is worthy of being a great warrior.

The child survived and was raised by the General to be a great Samurai warlord.

Even if you think you can swim well, you better watch out where you swim. The sea changes and is largely affected by the elements surrounding it. The bottom can become hazardous from sharp coral and, the sand can move and change to create rips and under currents that can sweep you away, never to be seen again!

There are many dangerous things in the sea. And, many of these things cannot be seen until it is too late. Sharks attack from below with skillful suprise. We can also be set upon by a school of piranah!

Through our desire to experience new things, we may unknowingly step forward onto a poisonous octopus or with lack of awareness of the environment, become painfully entangled in the tentacles of a box jelly fish!

To remain neutral and aware in the dojo is to remain alive. We are learning how to live. To know how to swim is to know how to live. To know when to not enter the water is, aswell.  However, if we do enter the sea, we must consider the consequences.

The Breaking Wave Off Kanagawa. Also called The Great Wave. Woodblock print from Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Fuji, which are the high point of Japanese prints. The original is at the Hakone Museum in Japan.

Hokusai’s most famous picture and easily Japan’s most famous image is a seascape with Mt. Fuji. The waves form a frame through which we see Mt. Fuji in the distance. Hokusai loved to depict water in motion: the foam of the wave is breaking into claws which grasp for the fishermen. The large wave forms a massive yin to the yang of empty space under it. The impending crash of the wave brings tension into the painting. In the foreground, a small peaked wave forms a miniature Mt. Fuji, which is repeated hundreds of miles away in the enormous Mt. Fuji which shrinks through perspective; the wavelet is larger than the mountain. Instead of shoguns and nobility, we see tiny fishermen huddled into their sleek crafts as they slide down a wave and dive straight into the next wave to get to the other side. The yin violence of Nature is counterbalanced by the yang relaxed confidence of expert fishermen. Although it’s a sea storm, the sun is shining.

If we cannot see both sides of what entering the sea can bring,  than we will be suprised and not be able to endure the hardships that come from unseen places.

” Banpen Fugyo “

To fall prey to your own desires and get captured by your own thoughts and beliefs is to become easy prey. If we do not empty our cups at the door, we will forever enter the dojo with too much of ourselves, and not enough room for true learning. We will be too heavy in our minds, and just sink to the bottom when we dive in. However, it is known that heavy people can float quite effortlessy. But they generally just drift in a direction with no focus.

Soke steps from the sea and observes from the safety of the shore. At times the sea becomes rough and out of control. It becomes dangerous for those training. People start to flounder, and forget the rules and guidelines. They forget the basics. Many start trying the butterfly before they can tread water. And when they eventually get tired, they just dissapear below the surface.  

Soke is like a life guard. But he is a life guard that knows that one person cannot dive in and safe a hundred.

From the shore, he can also see those that are listening to the sea, or respecting it. He can see them taking the time to feel the currents, and move according to the winds. These are the people that are absorbing the nutrients of the sea. Soaking in the vitamins and minerals that have created and continue to sustain life as we know it for millions of years.

There are people that take from the sea, but don’t give anything in return. There are also people that pollute the sea with their own desires and lack of appreciation for the wonderful treasure that they are allowed to be a part of.

But again, Soke cannot dive in and cleanse the sea. It’s too large. He has therefore entrusted those that ” can swim freely ” to swim together in a school of their own and minimise this pollution.

The responsibility is great. The sea is big, but so are the hearts of the Bujinkan Budoka around the globe. Together we can help Soke treasure this art and keep it pure and clean for the generations to come.

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