Meditation and the Martial Arts Kathryn A. Blair collages and prose-poems

collages and prose-poems

human beings are becoming more and more different

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and a member of the National Academy of Sciences

" in Joshua Burton's extraordinary debut volume

Rachel Potter

Meditation and the Martial Arts Kathryn A. Blair collages and prose-poemsThe relationship between meditation and the martial arts is a multifaceted one: meditation is one of the practices in which martial artists engage in order to prepare for combat, while the physical exercises constituting much of the discipline of the martial arts might well be considered meditative practices. Michael Raposa, himself a martial arts practitioner, suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat,