Eugen Herrigel: Zen in de kunst van het boogschieten * Uitgeverij De Driehoek, ISBN 978 90 6030 386 6
Kenneth Kushner: Een pijl, een leven * Uitgeverij Synthese, ISBN 9789062717897
Hideharu Onuma: The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery * Uitgeverij Kodanska International, ISBN 4-7700-1734-0
Peter Fokkens: Yumi Care * Handbook on the yumi and its care. Available in English and French Self-published, ISBN 987456838254, available at info@barakokyudo.nl
* Present in the Barako library and available to borrow by members of Barako kyudo group.
Articles
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Under personal stories, several Kyudo practitioners write about their personal relationship with Kyudo, why they practise Kyudo and how Kyudo helps them in everyday life.
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As long as I can remember, I am perceiving everything around me with wide open senses. Everything is just as impressive. This can be very strenuous, confusing, sometimes cumulating to panic – but also wonderful, giving me deep joy and gratefulness.While practicing Kyudo, this empathic and perceiving state makes sense, seems to be useful. The clearness and strength in the form gives me space and helps to contain the perception – bringing body and mind together. To me, kyudo often […]
“To be on the spot,” it’s called. To face every situation tailored and adequately, to observe it open and alert – this way of being is easily lost in every-day routine, but it can be practiced…Kyudo, the Japanese way of the bow, is a wonderful method, rooted in ancient samurai tradition. The perfect control of the bow was regarded to be an art, meant to experience every moment just as it is, away from rational strategies an concepts, beyond hope […]
and the Art of Dying Without looking for it, life offered me several opportunities to practice the art of dying.And everytime that such a chance appeared, I took it with both hands.I don’t refer to the moments in which you inadvertantly find yourself in a life-threatingsituation, where your life flashes in front of you, or where you see a bright light at theend of a tunnel. Those kind of situations I’ve known too, although I ‘ve never seen thelight, and […]
For experienced Oko students, ‘taste’ is a word with a special meaning. Kanjuro Shibata XX Sendai every now and then referred to ‘the five tastes’, but was never clear about their nature, and how one could experience them during practice.So the five tastes are kind of a ‘best kept secret’ of kyudo. Only just before he passed away, Sendai gave a hint that the five tastes might be connected to the energy of the five Buddha families. For some of […]
