breadfly (asker) Oct 12, 2010:

thank you for your feed back hannah
i am glad for it
jiri

Hannah Geiger (X) Oct 12, 2010:

Jiri, as you know, a colleague raised a question today about your grading. Earlier there was someone else, as well. To be quite honest, if one ‘plays the game’ so to speak, here at Proz., one has to accept all sorts of ‘things’ - one of them even being (not too often, however) the fact that something totally strange gets selected. Frankly, I do not care if I get a 1 point or 4 points for an answer – it is just not that important to me to think about it. However, this particular answer was very unique…..I was actually quite excited about Elizabeth’s posting. I do not know why you gave her a ‘2’ though. Maybe she is like me and doesn’t care that much either; yet perhaps you can give us a reason……when you get a chance. This was by all means a difficult question and should have been given a full ‘appreciation’, I think…

Hannah Geiger (X) Oct 4, 2010:

Here it is http://shitokai.com/newsletter/mokuso.php
OK it comes from Zen Budhism from "mushin" for "empty mind"
http://www.bournemouthkarateacademy.co.uk/info_item.php?info...

Hannah Geiger (X) Oct 4, 2010:

Eizabeth I find your answer absolutely fascinating, it would have never occurred to me because I tend to go to Indian and Chinese sources, and we do have very little context from Jiri. However, if it exists like this in Japanese, I am sure the Chinese word won't be far away, this sounds great......