No excuses....No explanations....No second chances... Years ago this was part of a dialog, an unquestionable aspect of a realm of training that was brutally unforgiving.. Yet it set a tone different than what can happen without it being close to ones soul. A way to approach... A way to hold..this life..this moment... So much talk of presence of being present So little demonstration of it actually manifesting itself beyond a thought.. Or worse..an emotion. I emoted.. No excuses..No explanations...no second chances.. Self-generated urgency... Because if one waits for life to bring urgency to the show.. Its already over... Possibly no better physical, tangible representation than the realm of Ichi-go ichi-e.. What a practice of the tenet looks like, visible..tangible... Ichi-go ichi-e (一期一会 one time, one meeting) is a Japanese term that describes a cultural concept often linked with famed tea master Sen no Rikyu. The term is often translated as for this time only, never again, or one chance in a lifetime. However, ichigo ichie was actually coined much later by Ii Naosuke (1815 -1860) who was chief administrator of the Tokugawa Shogunate and was also a tea master. Rikyus phrase was ichigo ni ichido (once in a lifetime) – the complete phrase seems to have been ichigo ni ichido no e no yō ni.[1] Ichi-go ichi-e is linked with Zen Buddhism and concepts of transience. The term is particularly associated with the Japanese tea ceremony, and is often brushed onto scrolls which are hung in the tea room. In the context of tea ceremony, ichi-go ichi-e reminds participants that each tea meeting is unique. The term is also much repeated in budō (martial ways). It is sometimes used to admonish students who become careless or frequently stop techniques midway to try again, rather than moving on with the technique despite the mistake. In a life-or-death struggle, there is no chance to try again. Even though techniques may be attempted many times in the dojo, each should be seen as a singular and decisive event. Similarly, in noh theater, performances are only rehearsed together once, a few days before the show, rather than the many times that are typical in the West, this corresponding to the transience of a given show.
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