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xxxx xxxxxxx wrote in message <_eOt2.293$oV.411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> Zen is the foundation of all martial arts and found in Lao-Tzu's
Tao te
>Ching (the Way of Power.) Trading is a dualistic exercise since results
are
>thought of as winning and losing, but to think solely on this level is
to
>never pass from the level of sensory perception dominated by ego-based
>perceptions.
>
>A higher plane exists without right and wrong, without winning and
losing.
>The Spiritual plane of doing the right thing without attachment to any
>results. The Zen archer strings his bow while counting his breaths. He
>withdraws an arrow from the quiver and takes his sight on target.
>
>At the moment of release the master closes his eyes- his breaths from
>beginning to end are always the same. His task is completed by
repeating
his
>discipline to control his breath and release the arrow. Hitting the
target
>is of no importance.
>
>Doing the right things before the arrow was released is his only
purpose,
>the target does not exist. It is an illusion created by his perception
of
>time, place, and dimension. It is not reality. His spiritual
relationship
>with himself and his discipline are the only reality. So it is with
trading.
>
> Using a mathematical apporach to quantify price action analysis and
>volatility, taking the correct steps according to his discipline- with
no
>attachment to profit or loss- one free one's self from the ego based
>perception of right or wrong, win or lose.
>
> Mindfullenss is the number one quality Zen Masters teach.
Compassion
the
>highest good to which one may strive to live life.
>Wang Wei and Basho, Buson and Issa are my favorite poets.
>
>To would-be traders- Basho penned
>
>"Learn about the pines from the pine, and about bamboo from bamboo.
Don't
>follow in the footsteps of the old poets, seek what they sought."
>
>No doubt idiots will laugh and condemn to define themselves. Poets
place
>their heart as a doormat inviting them inside.
>
>Zeus wrote in message <34Lt2.1701$fd.1571@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
>>On believing in mind...
>>
>>The perfect way knows no difficulties
>>Except that it refuses to make preferences,
>>Only when freed from hate and love,
>>It reveals itself fully and without disguise.
>>A tenth of an inch's difference,
>>and heaven and earth are set apart:
>>If you wish to see it before your eyes,
>>Have no fixed thoughts either for or against it.
>>To set up what you like against what you dislike -
>>This is the disease of the mind:
>>When the deep meaning (on the Way) is not understood,
>>Peace of mind is disturbed to no purpose.
>>(The Way is) perfect like unto vast space,
>>With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous:
>>It is indeed due to making choice
>>That it's suchness is lost sight of.
>>Pursue not the outer entanglements,
>>Dwell not in the inner void;
>>Be serene in the oneness of things,
>>And (dualism) vanishes by itself.
>>And when oneness is not thoroughly understood,
>>In two ways loss is sustained...
>>
>>Wordiness and intellection -
>>The more with them the further astray we go;
>>Away therefore with wordiness and intellection,
>>And there is no place where we cannot pass freely.
>>
>>The moment we are enlightened within,
>>We go beyond the voidness of a world confronting us.
>>
>>Try not to seek after the true,
>>Only cease to cherish opinions.
>>Abide not with dualism...
>>
>>Quit it, and thing follow their own courses,
>>Obey the nature of things, and you are in concord with the Way.
>>
>>If an eye never falls asleep,
>>All dreams will by themselves cease;
>>If the mind retains it's absoluteness,
>>The ten thousand things are of one suchness.
>>When the deep mystery of one suchness is fathomed,
>>All of a sudden we forget the external entanglements:
>>When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness,
>>We return to the origin and remain what we ever have been.
>>Forget the wherefore of things,
>>And attain to a state beyond analogy...
>>
>>The ultimate end of things where they cannot go any further,
>>Is not bound by the rules and measures:
>>In the mind harmonious (with the Way) we have the principle of
identity.
>>In which we find all strivings quieted.
>>
>>There is nothing left behind,
>>There is nothing retained,
>>All is void, lucid, and self-illuminating....
>>
>>In the higher realms of True Suchness
>>There is neither 'other' nor 'self'.
>>
>>Seng-Ts'an. 606
>>
>>This poem has some serious implications towards trading.
>>Can you see them?
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
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