Sorry agent 007, you got owned by a penguins. Tough Luck.
Animated comedy Happy Feet has held off Casino Royale at the North American box office for the second weekend in a row.
Its dancing penguins stayed at number one, taking $37.9m (£19.6m), compared to $31m (£16m) for the Bond thriller.
Happy Feet has now earned $100m (£52m) in a fortnight, a period which includes the annual US Thanksgiving holiday. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go catch Happy Feet and Open Season. Suddenly feel like I'm in the mood for cartoons. Seriously, I saw the trailers for the 2 of them I thought they were not bad. Take a break off killing, bloodshed, explosives and sex for a while. Sorry Bond, but I'd take Revy over you any time. You can take your martini on the rocks, shaken not stirred to the Penguins. Revy! Absolutely love you, Bitch!
Damn, I really need to spend more time shooting. I totally lost my instincts for shooting. All this time, I was shooting without my instincts. No wonder I kept fouling up my shots and end up getting so frustrated. I forgot what it really means to aim. What its is to shoot with the heart.
Pardon me if I use this cheesy "Zen" philosophy. Before the arrow can pierce the target, heart must pierce the target. The Chinese Martial arts novels got one thing right when they came up to the theology of swordsmanship, I now apply to archery. The first level of mastery is, “心中有剑，手中有剑，目中有剑.” The swordsman is able to overcome his enemies because his sword is in his heart, the sword is in his hands/body, and the sword is in his mind.
The second level of weapon mastery is, “心中有剑，手中无剑，目中有剑.” The swordsman is able to overcome as he weapon is in his heart, and in his mind, though his hands do not hold the weapon. Even without the physical weapon, he is able to overcome as though he has the weapon.
Finally the 3rd level, and the hardest, “手中无剑，目中无剑，心中有剑.” Without a state of consciousness, without the physical weapon, the pure passion and instinct of the heart leads the weapon master to overcome.
Its then, and only then, the weapon master is at one with his weapon. And the first level will become the level of true mastery. "心中有剑，手中有剑，目中有剑."
The ＂手＂represents our hands, our body parts. To have the weapon in your hands is to practice, to hone and refine our muscle memory of using the weapon.
The ＂目＂represents our mind. The consciousness. It keeps track of where the enemy is, and where your weapon is, and keeps everything in relation. Its the feel of every part of your body, that mental awareness. To the Chinese, to be in ones view ＂目＂ is also to be in ones' mind.
The ＂心＂represents our instinct, the 6th sense. It is the hardest refine as it is often clouded out by inputs of the above 2. One is not able to master one's potential of weapon mastery unless his is able to master his instincts. Mastering not in a sense of control. But to allow the instinct to align the alertness of the mind, the familiarity of the motion. However, it must not be allowed to OVERCOME the mind and body, or one will lose control of his art completely, and shoot entirely only instinct and imaginations of instinct. Hence the Chinese coined the term, ＂走火入魔．＂
The path to weapon mastery is a long and tedious. Many hours must be spent in practice, refining the body, mind and instinct. And it seems that I've neglected my training too much. As a result, I forgot to listen to my instinct, instead, focusing on aligning the target to sight pin. An advice an old fart once gave to me on marksmanship. The alignment of your weapon is but the first step to aiming. There must be an alignment of the heart, the instinct to the target. You must feel the heart reaching out to the target, like an invisible trajectory. That invisible trajectory may bring the sight off the target a little, but that is fine... allow that "reach" to feel around for its what its trying to grasp. And when it has grasped, that is the time to shoot. To release.
Don't know what I'm talking about? I don't blame you. Its one of the amazing paradoxes in life. Its complicated yet its simple. Just like the human heart. So it seems that the saying is true. The Heart of the matter, is the matter of the Heart.
listening to the rain...
11:40 PM
