Life In 19x19

moboy78 wrote:Back to the original topic, am I the only one who, when I see my opponent play 3-4, gets this sick feeling in my stomach and the idea that my opponent will play some chinese variation?

When my opponent plays 2 4-4 stones, I get the same thing with sanrensei. I just don't like games where I have to reduce too much, which is ironic since I like to play territorial games.

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About meditation:
Mindfulness meditation is what Gautam Siddharta taught. You don't count your breaths or breathe deeply or anything. You simply watch your breath going in and out, you can feel your stomach rising and falling and focus on that sensation, or you can focus on the feeling of air rushing in and out of your nostrils. In any case, your mind will wander, when it does, just acknowledge that your mind has wandered off and lost focus, and then come back to watching your breath. Don't berate yourself when your mind wanders, just come back to watching the breath when you notice. That's the most basic and essential form of meditation and I believe it has been touched upon in this thread before.

On discipline itself, I watched a documentary about Fujisawa Shuko on youtube somewhere, though I can't quite find a link to it right now. The documentary mentioned that Fujisawa lost alot of won games in his youth, by making mistakes later on in the game due to lapses of concentration or whatever it was. He believed that go was about character and that he lost those games because of his weak character. From then on, he got up every day at 5am to study go and improve his character and discipline. Another sentiment is also mentioned, that of only studying one thing. He said that this was a bad thing and that one should endeavour to study many different things to enrich oneself.