Quotes by Eugen Herrigel - Page 1

You must learn to wait properly.
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
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Art
Men
He Man
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You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.
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Goal
Ifs
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
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Archer
Crafts
Surprise
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In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
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Archery
Reality
Two
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
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Buddhism
Insecure
People
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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .
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Leaving
Letting Go
Tension
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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.
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Failure
Letting Go
Waiting
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
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Assuming
Danger
Lying
Mastery
Strain
Ahead
Increasing
Lies
Pupil
Scarcely
Survive
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He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
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Capable
Effort
Following
Grows
Inspiration
Meticulous
Observation
Daily
Letting
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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Hitting
Sake
Succeed
Arrow
Further
Shoot
Recede
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
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Teacher
Artist
Sovereign
Wish
Artisan
Awaken
Considers
Craft
Prematurely
Pupil
Skilled
Task
Wishing
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The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
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Perfection
Self
Trying
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This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
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Independent
Lightning
Needs
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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.
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Hands
Mind
Two
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.
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Mean
Mind
Mobility
Reflection
Related
Anywhere
Attached
Nowhere
Cling
Object
Thus
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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.
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Archer
Cutting
Thinking
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The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.
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Archer
Knowing
Lying
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
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Learning
Success
Perseverance
Persistence
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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.
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Archer
Fall
Thinking
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."
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Teacher
Loneliness
Teaching
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.
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Art
Archer
Country
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