Are you a one-hundred-day man?
Intellectually it looks easy.
One hundred sword curt a day for one hundred days.
A form of tanren.
A type of shugyo.
A requirement of total honesty.
In practice it is simple: do 100 perfect sword cuts
for one hundred days and complete the purification. In that set if you miss
one, or the cut is not correct, you start over at zero.
Miss a day of practice and the days get reset to
zero.
One hundred days can easily become two, three, or
four hundred.
This practice is only undertaken when the
fundamentals have taken hold, the kihon.
When one understands how to hold the sword, how to stand with it, cut with it.
To try for one hundred days in full honesty and transparency with self won’t
work.
When is the time right to try it?
When your teacher asks if you are a one-hundred-day
man yet?
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