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Number of words: 130<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shikan-taza is a heightened state of concentrated awareness wherein one is neither tense nor hurried, and certainly never slack. It is the mind of somebody facing death. Let us imagine that you are engaged in a duel of swordsmanship of the kind that used to take piace in ancient Japan. As you face your opponent you are unceasingly watchful, set, ready. Were you to relax your vigilance even momentarily, you would be cut down instantly. A crowd gathers to see the fight. Since you are not blind you see them from the corner of your eye, and since you are not deaf you hear them. But not for an instant is your mind captured by these sense impressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from Page 40 of \u2018The Tao of Physics\u2019 by Fritjof Capra<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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