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The Warrior Scholar's Journal
Saturday, 18 April 2009
Kung Fu
Topic: Ving Tsun For those who study Kung Fu, consider the following... Is your skill at the level you would like it to be? If not, how much time do you spend perfecting your Kung Fu? How far past your comfort zone do you push yourself? Do you stop when your mind tells you to stop or when your body tells you to stop? Many spend a lot of time practicing "intellectual kung fu" and very little time practicing actual kung fu. -Sifu
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Impulse Power
Topic: Metaphysics “I have no doubt that the evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—is not merely a random, meaningless event. If one stands back and takes a good, hard look at the entire sweep of the process, all the way from its earliest beginnings, one can see undeniable direction and even, I dare say, purpose in its majestic unfolding. But who or what initiated that process? What energy or intelligence made the choice to take that first miraculous leap from formlessness to form, from nothing whatsoever to energy and light to matter to life to consciousness to self-reflective awareness? Such an audacious move, that instantaneous leap from nothing to the beginning of everything, could only have been made by a force that was nothing less than Godlike. That impulse, that evolutionary impulse, is what I call God. That same impulse is not separate from the most important part of each and every one of us, from our uniquely human drive to create and innovate and, most significantly, from our will to consciously evolve.” – Andrew Cohen
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Monday, 16 March 2009
Mysteries
Topic: intelligent living enjoyable reading... https://www.angelfire.com/wi2/ULCds/mystA.html -Sifu
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Monday, 9 March 2009
Moy Yat Ving Tsun DVDs
Topic: Ving Tsun -----Original Message----- From: myvtmi@gmail.com [mailto:myvtmi@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Moy Yat Ving Tsun Martial IntelligenceSent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:42 PM To: Moy Yat Ving Tsun Subject: Sigung on DVD Dear Moy Yat Kung Fu Family, I am pleased to announce that we have copied several of Sigung Moy Yat's videos to DVD form and you can order them online and have them shipped directly to your home. Here is a link to the ordering page: http://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=110379 The current selection of Sigung Moy Yat's videos (which will be expanding shortly) is: Siu Nim Tao What is a Special Student? Self Defense Moy Yat's World Massage How to Save Time Gerk Jong A Reminder Chi Sao III Also available are Sifu's 2005 Seminar on Chi Sao (2 discs) and Sisuk Leo Imamura's seminar on Ving Tsun Geneology. Soon we will also have Sifu's Muk Yan Jong series of lessons as well as the following additional videos of Sigung's: Center Line Chi Sao I Chi Sao II Chi Sao On The Centerline Chum Kiu Details Dummy HowToTeachVingTsun Stories of Zen The Look Of A Kick Trace Of Ving Tsun Roots Tsui Ma Unstoppable Ving Tsun Essentials We Are From The Red Boat YipMan
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Thursday, 19 February 2009
Will Power
Topic: intelligent living "It is will power that has to act when we want to achieve something that requires going against our instinctive appetites or impulses, or on those occasions when we set out to do something that is dispensable and does not relate to any imperious vital need, for example, the case of an individual who can survive perfectly well with his current salary but aspires to earn double, or of a mediocre citizen who tries to become an important person, but who would have no serious problem in remaining as he is at present. " From "Morals for the 21st Century", by John Baines (Dario Salas Sommer)
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Monday, 9 February 2009
Metaphysical Kung Fu
Now Playing: silence Topic: intelligent living Metaphysical Kung Fu Metaphysics: a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being and that includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology (from www.m-w.com) Your understanding and experience of your place in the universe and concept of God is something you have to discover for yourself. What has worked for me and what I recommend is that those so inclined seek out a method that is a “spiritual discipline” as opposed to a “belief system”. What I mean by spiritual discipline is a method and practice that fosters spiritual growth and self knowledge as evidenced in the way one relates to himself and others. This method also engenders mental, physical, and spiritual well being. Another quality that characterizes a spiritual discipline is that practice leads to deeper understanding, which leads to improved results, which leads to better practice, and the cycle continues. There are a variety of practices that fit this definition; the challenge is to find one that works for you. Kung Fu = Skill acquired through hard work. I am of the opinion that healthy living is a skill; although we live we are not born knowing how to live. Physical conflict studied within the context of Kung Fu is a microcosm of life. How do we master what is under our control (mind, body, spirit) in a way that allows us to deal in a constructive way with things that are not under our control. In studying Kung Fu we are training to realize an optimum way of being. In this way Kung Fu can be considered a form of metaphysical study. -Sifu
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Updated: Monday, 9 February 2009 3:53 PM EST
Friday, 30 January 2009
An Excerpt from ElightenNext Magazine
Now Playing: silence Topic: intelligent living The Enemy Within For EnlightenNext magazine's classic “Ego Issue,” one of our editors traveled to a remote Greek Orthodox hermitage to speak with Archimandrite Dionysios, a revered elder from that ancient tradition, about why the narcissistic ego has always been considered the great nemesis of spiritual life.
Read our full interview with Father Dionysios here, or listen to the audio here
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Friday, 12 December 2008
The Inconscient
Out of a seeming void and dark-winged sleep Of dim inconscient infinity A Power arose from the insentient deep, A flame-whirl of magician Energy.
Some huge somnambulist Intelligence Devising without thought process and plan Arrayed the burning stars' magnificence, The living bodies of beasts and the brain of man.
What stark Necessity or ordered Chance Became alive to know the cosmic whole? What magic of numbers, what mechanic dance Developed consciousness, assumed a soul?
The darkness was the Omnipotent's abode, Hood of omniscience, a blind mask of God.
-Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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Friday, 5 December 2008
on being a Sifu...
Topic: intelligent living "No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind" - from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
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Updated: Friday, 5 December 2008 6:05 PM EST
Monday, 1 December 2008
Martial Intelligence Lecture
Topic: Moy Yat Ving Tsun Event Dear Moy Yat Kung Fu Family, -Sandy
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