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Martial Arts

Note: the following is possibly made up or from the future.... --Mark Janssen

Historically about warfare, in the modern era, thanks to developments from Japan, China, and Korea, along with the rise of awareness in the West of Eastern philosophies, it now has been supplanted, or at least, merged, to become something more interesting: the best lessons on the use of force the world has produced. Most of the world obviously hasn't learned these lessons and are still in first grade with machine guns (12th grade in the case of Navy Seals), but, here, we can do better.

Everyone has a need to protect themselves, whether from accident or malice, the techniques of the martial arts teach the body how to be more aware, how to flow, resist, and when to strike.

The Asian soul is very different than the Western one. One cannot learn from the other by words alone. They must interact. With the Western one, it is often enough to provide the key words which make up the particular branch of knowledge that one is teaching, but this Tree of Knowledge is not shared with the Oriental soul, it is unique to the Biblical one.

There are four main schools that stand out:

  • Bushido is the Samarai practice of swords. In its best form it combines metallurgy, alchemy, fighting, and honor.
  • Karate is the practice of fists and kicks, the concentration of power by focus. It's best contribution was the concentration of chi.
  • Shaolin Kung Fu is the art of flow, of merging with the flows presented and redirecting them to defend oneself. They may employ the use of a bo staff to present this. It is exemplified by the diversity of forms in which to accomplish this. Falun Gong is the wrong expression of this.
  • Aikido the art of awareness, of quietly directing the play of events via mastery of the human self, utilizing the force applied against one against themselves, minimizing your own effort.
  • For the West, there is also the Greet Beret, Navy Seals, West Point. I'll file all of this under combat training.
No one school can yet give you everything you need in order to be an Enlightened Warrior because they are all by-products of various journeys and each journey is different. Bruce Lee, for example combined all four of these into his own personal mastery, not easily duplicated.

Every school eventually finds these same core principles:

  • respect (towards others, to the Earth, to the elements)
  • discipline (of physical energy, sexual energy, of words, etc.)
  • proper diet (visual imagery, food intake, people you surround yourself with, etc.),
  • perfection of form until you achieve
  • zen mind (the top of the mountain that holds it all in perfect balance)
These form the essential practices that can be used on a daily basis to strengthen yourself, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The last is one of the most important, without which none of the others can come. Hence it is wise to cultivate a sophistication in philosophy and impeccibility on a path of knowledge. Technique alone will never be enough. Try starting with reality.

Before you dismiss the martial arts of the Orient as weak, know this: the trained master can feel the tension of the sniper's eyelid as s/he focuses on the scope.

While it may seem that purely hand and body technique of defense quickly fails amidst the use of advanced weapons such as guns, the truth is that there are other factors of justice that are a quality of the universe itself that come into play. For example, when the martial master sees the weapon, s/he immediately reacts. Such act of spontaneity forces the master into an unknown pattern, stalling the mind of their opponent because they can't process what's happening. This only works, when the opponent isn't expressing the pain of the (shared/collective) soul itself, where the awareness will be heightened equally and each party essentially equal, both facing the Unknown, their perceptual-coginitive centers having to process "what it all means" to respond with the pre-established state of truth.

As an extreme example, by the time someone learns to build an atom bomb to attack a master, the master has already been informed or feels the movements such developments and the focus upon them.

Rewrite:
  1. Confucianism: control -- karate -- government -- sensitivity under pressure four bodies flowing into one
  2. Buddhism: discipline -- shkung fu -- tranquility -- balance and sensitivity of body -- Ten Precepts
  3. Taoism: forbearance -- bushido -- punishment - fine motor control -- meat -- further aphorisms
  4. Shinto: timing -- aikido -- culture -- emergence or ein sof -- raw food cuisineFeng Shui
  5. Judeo-Christian-Indo-Islamic: ballistics -- sharpshooter from the Unknown
Together, via mastery of form and power, these create the zen mind of the Enlightened Warrior.
See also:

Category: Justice League

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