The sword is used to cut, to end, to close. The sword closes the cycle of the seasons. It's the wave that, after crashing on the shore, disappears. Of course, in the movements are also contained other parts of the cycle, but the sword is the last piece, the last breath, the subtle cut - cutting is a fundamental energetic condition.
The essence of the sword is here summed up, it's water in movement, like the wave that crashes and returns, this is the way in which you must move in the sword form more than in other forms. The broadsword is burning fire, it attacks all that it meets. The barehand form is earth, it fades, it calms and placates itself, and vanishes into nothingness.
The fingers of the left hand are a sword as well and they can cut, they balance the sword, and they must be there because of the duplicity of the sword - the two cutting blades that the sword has - two fingers point out, forward, two point backward, the thumb completes the circle with them.
In the sword form everything is perfect, round, each thing is a cycle and this Mudra of the left hand is the "mudra of the perfect cut", even stronger than the sword itself, it's the power of action, the point of balance, that always balances motion. You have to remain here, in this point,where this mudra touches the sword or the wrist in different ways, according to the action or position. 'To have the pulse of the situation', or like a doctor feeling one's pulse through the wrist to determine one's condition.
The essence of the sword is here summed up, it's water in movement, like the wave that crashes and returns, this is the way in which you must move in the sword form more than in other forms. The broadsword is burning fire, it attacks all that it meets. The barehand form is earth, it fades, it calms and placates itself, and vanishes into nothingness.
The fingers of the left hand are a sword as well and they can cut, they balance the sword, and they must be there because of the duplicity of the sword - the two cutting blades that the sword has - two fingers point out, forward, two point backward, the thumb completes the circle with them.
In the sword form everything is perfect, round, each thing is a cycle and this Mudra of the left hand is the "mudra of the perfect cut", even stronger than the sword itself, it's the power of action, the point of balance, that always balances motion. You have to remain here, in this point,where this mudra touches the sword or the wrist in different ways, according to the action or position. 'To have the pulse of the situation', or like a doctor feeling one's pulse through the wrist to determine one's condition.
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