"'The right art,' cried the Master, 'is purposeless, aimless! The more
obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of
hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the
other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too
willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.'
. . .
'It is all so simple. You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what
ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow.
Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred.
Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from
you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall,
it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even
thinks it.'"
- Eugen Herrigel, "Zen in the Art of Archery," 1953
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