Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-29684190-20191104163451/@comment-35434444-20191104170344

Two days ago, at least in my timezone, was the day V7 episode 1 aired, so I'll consider it done.

If you really want to celebrate, take a couple minutes out of your schedule and engage in what the Taoists call, "The fasting of the heart."

You don't have to do anything in particular as long as you don't make any obstructions to your thoughts while you do it. It's basically meditation only without any kind of formal rules.

Think of Nighteye from MHA. He's a fairly uptight guy and yet he's completely spontaneous. During his hero work, this makes him seem collected, self reliant, and prescient even without the use of his quirk. When not called upon to give his attention to any particular task, this can sometimes cause him to do things most people regard as strange and abrupt because he lacks the self consciousness that would otherwise prevent him.

This is the principle that was inherited by   the Zen Buddhists who subsequently disseminated it throughout Japan to the point that some indication of Zen can be found in almost every discipline.

That is fasting of the heart and real life corollary to Maria's preflexes.