SxMo

“When you are on the way of the Martial arts, you may perform this way as a warrior, but if you are ignorant of the Warriors practices, you will not abide in emptiness. You will be confused and will not do the things that you should. Though you term this “emptiness,” it will not be the true emptiness.

While you are yet ignorant of true emptiness, you may think through your own way, relying on neither Buddhism nor the laws of society, and think this is good. But when you see things from the straightway of the mind, taking in the world at large, you will see that each person will have the preferences of his own heart, and each eye will have its own distortions. This is turning your back on the true way.

Know the meaning of this, and make the straightforward your foundation. Make the heart of truth your way, practice a broad spectrum of the martial arts, and understand the expansive correctly and clearly. Accordingly, you will make emptiness the way, and see the way as emptiness.

Winold Reiss (1886–1953), Drawing in Two Colors or Interpretation of Harlem Jazz I, 1915–20.

Elise Ferguson

NE, 2014