Shu Ha Ri Мethod

How one becomes so good that he invents his own art style, for example?

On paper, it’s not that complicated.

Shu Ha Ri is a Japanese martial art concept that can explain how a single person can master a particular discipline and eventually create a new movement that is profoundly different – e.g., Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism.

The premise of the concept is the following, as explained by Aikido master teacher Endo Seishiro:

“When we learn or train in something, we pass through the stages of Shu, Ha, and Ri… In Shu, we repeat the forms and discipline ourselves so that our bodies absorb the forms that our forebears created. We remain faithful to the forms with no deviation. Next, in the stage of Ha, once we have disciplined ourselves to acquire the forms and movements, we make innovations. In this process, the forms may be broken and discarded. Finally, in Ri, we completely depart from the forms, open the door to creative technique, and arrive in a place where we act in accordance with what our heart/mind desires, unhindered while not overstepping laws.”

In simple terms, the Shu Ha Ri method is a philosophy of growth and transformation. It recognizes that true mastery is not just about learning a set of rules or techniques and mindlessly repeating them. It’s about innovation. Trying different methods. Restructuring the known, so you can create a better method of what you’ve been originally taught.

 
Worth thinking about:

 
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

-Jacob A. Riis

 
If you are in a hurry to reach your goals… Slow down. Don’t try to end the journey fast. “Better if it lasts for years,” says C.P. Cavafy – the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century – in his mesmerizing poem Ithaka

 
As fulfillment is not found at the end of the destination. Rather, it’s something we get along the way. During the process of striving to reach our destination.

 
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