Citação de Livro - Estado de espirito e habilidades.
comentada em 14/01/2024 11:10

"So, from the beginning, using the bow and arrow also meant or demanded getting into one’s inner balance. That is the case even with shooting, which is why before shooting contests there are all the magical fusses which participants make as to special food and diet and all the rest of it. They talk of a good day, a lucky or unlucky day and some even, without knowing anything about psychology, watch their dreams and when they get up say, “Today I shall have an unlucky day and miss.” They become involuntarily aware how much the whole thing also depends on one’s inner balance. So you can say that hitting the target with bow and arrow means an exceeding concentration of intelligence and intuition out of an attitude of complete inner balance."

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"In Zen Buddhism in Japan, shooting with the bow and arrow has become one of those practices that have the symbolic meaning of measuring how far the novice has come into contact with the Self in himself, for according to that he will be able to shoot, and not according to his technical ability. As with all these things the original meaning has sometimes been lost and it has become a kind of technical sophisticated art in itself. When practiced with the real idea, the hitting of the target means only a symptom, and measuring from that symptom how far one has gotten into balance with oneself."

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'Individuation in Fairy Tales', by Marie-Louise von Franz.