Zen & Archery

I think part of the 'bow cutting through him' means that he has let the practice influence or affect him. The article shows that his practice of archery wasn't just some activity he did. Instead, he learned about the practice, his mind and his spirit. By allowing the bow to cut through him, it means that he has allowed himself to fully submerge his entity in the practice. He tried to understand it all but only seemed to get more confused, but this in itself means that he was learning something.

I think that because my daily practice involves drawing one card randomly everyday, that there is already a certain amount of this "it doing me" instead of "me doing the daily practice" thing going on. There is a certain amount of trust that I embed into the cards every time I use them. There is a specific practice, too, like he had to go through, that I have to do before I can draw the card. Most of the time I feel like I am just interpreting what the cards are doing on their own.