Intent of training
I'm not too sure if this is the right place for these few questions, but is seems to me that they touch main upon the shin(kokoro) of budo/jutsu training. And probably others have asked the questions before hand, though I don't want this to come off as a effective or ineffective training debate. Doesn't matter to me at this point.
With what intent does one approach the training within Koryu, and what intent strives to which goal?
In this I mean, what is it to come into practice and use the kata as moving meditation, or having the intent to kill the other person, and also have the intent of defending yourself. How do you recoincile(sp?) the intent to kill or hurt with partner-training, am I to stop the intent of attack?
I feel as though I understand (not fully of course) some of the esoterics involved with the Mind/Intent/Martial connexion, yet sometimes it seems to me, this knowledge, to be only a materialistic manifested understanding of the philosophies (as strange as it sounds).
With what intent do you go into training?
-Amir Barak
"You get what you pay for, But I had no intention of living this way" - Adam Duritz