No-Self, No-Mind

Didn't get to mess with my rings today but had an amazing training anyway.

Started off like any other, we did laps of balance, Devin and I counted our falls and did Up and Downs (Dyno and Lacher), think we did around 70, then we worked drop rail precisions, with a gradually increasing drop. We did 3 between each space on the bars, there were around 9 spaces, lowest being around 2-3 feet lower, all of them being around 4 feet in distance. On the last one I suggested we make it only count if we did 3 in a row. Devin gets to there before I do, starts being self deprecating announcing that we will be here all night because he "knows" he will keep choking once he gets to the third. He ends up doing around 10 precisions, not in a row in the last spot before I catch up. I stick the first one, miss the second, then I feel it for a second, that feeling where my body and mind just kind of clicked, stuck the 3. The thing I read about in all my Samurai philosophy books, what we all strive for where "Disciplined training internalizes the practice to the point that it becomes completely natural and can be executed with no interferences from the mind" was just able to not think about how it feels, but just feel and finish. Devin did 22 precisions before he listened and got a glimpse of it, listened and stopped thinking about how it felt to do it right and just felt it. Rest of it was good as well. Repetitions of level cats and ones with varying hand/foot placement. Kept getting glimpses of that utter trust in oneself where you just go, felt great, and even though Devin thinks he had a horrible training for that brief second he felt it too, was a great lesson for him today and I am glad to say I think I may be beginning to understand what I've been reading for the past 5 years of my life.

Also got my first rip in about a year ;)