It has been a while since I last posted here. So sorry for my negligence. I came across something which may be of casual interest to the community. Yes, I swear that this post eventually has to do with Kyudo.
I was reading the other day a fascinating book on the interpretation of Fairy Tails by the Jungian Psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz (personal hero of mine). She was talking about a motif in a fairy tale where a girl, to prove herself worthy for marriage, jumps through a hoop. Dr. von Franz was speaking of the circle (in this case a golden hoop) as one of the symbols of the Self and the relevance of aiming for the centre, when I came upon this passage:
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Though it seems rather remote, a connection can also be made with the Zen Buddhist art of archery, where the idea is to aim at the center, not in the extraverted way that Westerners would do it, by physical skill and conscious concentration, but by a form of deep meditation by which the archer puts himself inwardly into his own center (what we* would call the Self), from whence, naturally, he can hit the outer target. Thus, in their highest performances, with their eyes shut and without aiming, Zen Buddhist archers can effortlessly hit the target. The whole practice is meant as a technical help to find the way to dwell in one's own inner center without being diverted by thoughts and ambitions and ego impulses."
-Marie-Louise von Franz,
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. copyright 1996, page 92
*= In this case "we" refers to Jungian Analysts
Just thought that some of you might find this passage of interest.
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