Nomi Master - The Ten Paradoxes: The Science of Wheres My Zen?

The Ten Paradoxes
The Science of Wheres My Zen?

The Ten Paradoxes is a landmark program that combines a unique six-part training and educational system for achieving peak performance and enlightenment or what Master Nomi calls Total Mental Fitness. Using the ancient power of No Mind which has been clinically proven by top university and medical centers, it actually changes neural pathways to restructure and improve awareness, enabling you to do better and feel better in every aspect of your life. You'll attain peak performance and flow in sports, business, academics, relationships, and stress management, along with health benefits and deeper spiritual understanding. You'll be more playful and tranquil, have greater compassion and a clearer perception of reality, and become a better communicator with your colleagues and loved ones. With continued practice, you can even come to terms with death, the most feared aspect of our humanity.

The Ten Paradoxes, through extensive research and case studies, leads you on a journey to the secrets of the ancient masters. First, it reveals the basic functions and mechanisms of the mind, beginning with the way we filter and interpret our perceptions, which then limits and restricts our actions and reactions. Finally, we will see how the mind defensively creates the self that we know as the "I"the ego, or personality. This is the ultimate illusion that we all need to come to grips with. And when we do, our intuition and creativity blossom, and we become fully alive and open.

The practice of No Mind will actually un-train your thinking and teach you how to achieve Total Mental Fitness by transcending the very structure of the mind. As long as we live in a dualistic reality, we keep searching for what we think will complete us: material objects, relationships, achievements, spirituality, etc. But, The Ten Paradoxes program frees you from the limitations of these perceptual and ego defense mechanisms and allows you to control your thoughts and desires. You will respond to a new, open set of categories ultimately learning to act without trying. We therefore act in harmony with our essential nature.

And we can truly be in control of our destiny, decisions, and responses, without the troublesome emotions we normally face, such as fear, worry, anxiety, prejudice, and greed. The practice of No Mind not only brings freedom from our automatic actions, reactions, and perceptions, but the ability to make maximum use of our inner potential through realization that awareness is the only universal constant.

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Dedicated to Chelsea and Allix for
listening to the inspired and sometimes
uninspired wisdom of Master Nomi for so many years.
As they listened to the countless hours of
talking about confusing paradoxes and No Mind,
it suddenly became worth it all, when they said,
Dad, there is no real answer to Wheres My Zen?

And for all those who have yet to uncover the magic and
understanding of finding their own answer.

And to my mother, Sylvia, who encouraged
and motivated this mission for the past 28 years and
finally sees it published.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain
But at the peak we all gaze at the
Single bright moon
Ikkyu (13941481)

Index

I discovered the ancient stone in 1979, while working as a carpenter in the city of Shikoku on the demolition of a very old Japanese temple. It was hidden under the floorboards above a utility basement. Buried along with the stone were scrolls of Japanese characters, as well as fragments of other stones. Wrapped around the scrolls were six equations scribbled on paper. It appeared that these equations were done recently by someone trying to decode the stone or the scrolls. At the time, I had the sense that this could be an important discovery. But I didnt know that it would take me on a long journey in search of ancient knowledge that brings enlightenment, health, and peak performance in any life domain. I was about to be entangled in a web of paradoxes and ancient mysteries that began when I started deciphering the first scroll, whose title I translated as The Power of No Mind.

The original ancient stone

The equations I discovered were later translated as the six factors of No Mind, which I will define and describe in detail in this book; the core message of the scrolls is what I called The Ten Paradoxes, which I will describe in No Mind 301. Some were ancient philosophical teachings that I traced back 2,500 years to the Tao Te Ching, or The Book of the Way and How It Manifests Itself in the World. The Tao Te Ching was written by Lao Tzu, who was a hermit searching for the meaning of life. His understanding of the fundamental principles of No Mind underlies most of his writings. If he were alive today, he would be able to apply the notion of No Mind to explain how an athlete, for example, enters the so-called zone or flow by performing without thinking. By surrendering all thought, person and action become one; there is no self and the athletes motions require no sentient effort. This is related to the ancient Taoist principle of