Originally Posted by
pgsmith
Nice blog post Peter, I enjoyed it!
One of my favorite articles about fudoshin was "Fudoshin and Its Continuing Relevance", written by Stephen Fabian in Wayne Muramoto's Furyu journal. He started out by describing the taking over of the Japanese ambassador's residence by guerillas in Peru. It always struck me as a very relevant example of the concept in my mind. I'll have to see if I can track down a copy or a link to it, or maybe we can get Wayne to post it for us.
Hello Paul,
Fabian's article was quite interesting and I suppose "unmoving / unmoved / unmovable mind" is a reasonable enough translation of 不動心. However, I think it unwise to rely too much on Nitobe's concept of bushido or on Suzuki's views on Zen. An article will appear soon on AikiWeb.
PAG
Peter Goldsbury,
Forum Administrator,
Hiroshima, Japan