Peace and Tenkara

High in the Colorado Rockies
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There is a peace found in nature that cannot be found indoors no matter what we think. People are on the eternal path to find this peace yet many only get glimpses of this their entire lives. Sadly, a vast majority have given up the search for this natural harmony with the world and have gone inside to seek a semblance of peace.

I believe that inner and outer harmony can be achieved through practices such as meditation, yoga, and the martial arts. In the past, even I have used these techniques to attain a personal harmony with the world. In each and every practice I have attained tiny segments of this overall harmony, although I have not been able to bring these pieces together until recently, and it is because of tenkara that I have accomplished this.

 I did not start practicing tenkara as a method of finding this peace yet it did become a tool in my spiritual bag of tricks. Through my practice of tenkara I have found that my search for internal and external peace with the world has finally come together. Because of what might be considered a chance encounter with an individual I met while working my belief in tenkara as a gateway to spiritual bliss was awakened in me.