Format: Paperback, 94 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2009
Publisher: Accarias\/L\u2019Originel
ISBN: 9782863161678
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\u00abFor me, p\u00e9tanque is more than a game, more than a sport and more than a competition. It is a fabulous opportunity to develop exceptional qualities as a person and allows players to communicate better with the world and, above all, with themselves.\u00bb
Sando Kaisen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France currently has 400,000 licensed p\u00e9tanque players and just as many Buddhist practitioners. What is the connection between these two disciplines? Sando Kaisen, a French Zen monk, provides the answer to this question in this original book.
A supporter of top-level players whom he considers to be true artists, and a keen observer of major national and international competitions, Sando Kaisen has developed an original perspective on this popular game, which originated in La Ciotat at the beginning of the century.
In light of the great teachings of Zen Buddhism and his personal experience, Sando Kaisen introduces us to the main aspects of the \u00abbody-mind\u00bb that manifest themselves in the p\u00e9tanque player: emotions, stress, mental disturbance, desire to win... However, it is through proper concentration (both peaceful and dynamic), forgetting the \u00abbody-mind\u00bb, making it lucid by entering into the great Presence, focusing on the inner breath, that the p\u00e9tanque player \u2013 like any human being \u2013 becomes alive, creative and spontaneous, drawing on the natural momentum that dwells within each of us.
Sando Kaisen develops these different aspects: attention, lucidity, presence, posture, breathing; all words familiar to boules players and Buddhists who, without knowing it, come together in the field of self-knowledge.
In the tradition of Eugen Herrigel's famous book Zen in the Art of Archery, Sando Kaisen's treatise elevates p\u00e9tanque to the rank of an ethic and reveals the astonishing parallels between the arena of the game and that of our own minds...
Sando Kaisen, Alain Krystaszek was born in Noyon in the Oise region in 1952. In 1968, he became a disciple of the famous Zen Master Taisen Deshimaru, from whom he received ordination in 1979 under the name Sando Kaisen (\u00absolitary hermit in the deep mountains\u00bb). Passionate about martial arts, he decided to undertake a trip to China. He has been playing p\u00e9tanque for nearly 30 years. He now lives in France in his monastery in the Dordogne.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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