The story above is based on true events, and the state our fellow salesman is experiencing, is called “flow state” in our modern times in the West. But this phenomenon is been known to expert exponents in martial arts for thousands of years. And, to those who practice meditative practices.
The emptiness or “being empty” is letting go, learning to release tension. On a fighting aspect this allows you detect your opponent’s intent. This is called, “ting jin” or listening energy. The one who is defeated would be the one who is less empty and connected.
“Nobody is strong and nobody is weak if he conceives of the body, from the head to the sole of the foot, as a unity in which a living mind circulates everywhere equally.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five Rings
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