Whales, Martial Arts and Meditation
If you have ever looked for anything on the open sea you know how difficult it is The ocean is alive and in constant movement with waves cresting and chopping continuously. Add to that clouds, sun, wind and a lack of perspective due to the shear enormity of the ocean and spotting something becomes difficult to say the least.
People kept yelling “There’s one there” and everyone would run to that spot. It would turn out to be only a wave but this continued over and over again in the beginning. To me it was like a beginner in the martial arts trying to force things to happen.
Watching this go on I tried to react the other way. I just looked out to the sea with no focus and let the waves go by like thoughts when meditation. I did not try to find the whales, I just observed the sea.
Then they were there. The tell tale spray of water and air as the whale surfaced. I calmly pointed and said there.
As the day went on I and an older gentleman, who I later found out was in the navy, spotted almost all the whales as they surfaced. It was interesting to see people’s confusion as to why the two of us kept finding them.
Again our training goes way beyond physical self-defense. Ninjutsu really is a way of being.
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