@Mantra_4SZ Ty for the source. I am aware of Deshimaru controversy but this book catches my attention as I am into martial arts as well.
What are your thoughts on it and what would you recommend to someone who is newly interested in Zen?
Considering the endless list of factors required for anything to happen, one can only admit that everything is responsible for everything, however remote. Doership is a myth born from the illusion of ‘me’ and ‘the mine’
Do whatever work you have to complete, but avoid new obligations; keep empty, keep available, resist not what comes uninvited. In the end you reach a state of non-grasping, of joyful nonattachment, of inner ease and freedom indescribable, yet wonderfully real.