Kindle Notes & Highlights
Haratsuzumi wo utsu means "to beat the belly drum," meaning to live a contented and happy life. (This usage may refer to a famous ancient Taoist treatise which referred to the "original men" living in the state of nature who did nothing but "wander around happily drumming on their bellies.")
Scrap everything, every thought and every inclination, drop it all into the Hara with total resolve and visualize it as being obliterated. Then go even further -- drop your whole experiencing mind and the whole universe into the Hara and see it all as instantly obliterated. “Start from zero every time.”
You've tried in the past to master reality by deliberating, anticipating, reflecting, projecting, obsessing -- in a word, thinking. Drop all that, seeing that your instinctive reactions to events are always finer, fresher and all around more effective ("wiser") than your considered ones.
"Exhale to the ends of the universe; inhale to concentrate the universe in the 'one point' in your lower abdomen." (Inoue)
