While practicing shodo you concentrate on breath, posture and the movement of the brush. Shode exceeds 'nice' or 'beautiful' writing: One communicates in a natural and involuntary way with brush and paper. The ink on the paper reveals the writer's personality – not solely the ego but a personality beyond the ego, an open spirit movable like water. Like Zen Master Taisen Deshimaru said: Unconsciously, naturally, automatically... |

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