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posted June 19, 2002 06:25 PM         

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As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

A very wise master of the 20th century

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posted June 20, 2002 12:50 AM         

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Indeed!

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"He who knows how to live can walk abroad without fear of rhinoceros or tiger. He will not be wounded in battle. For in him rhinoceroses can find no place to thrust their horn, Tigers no place to use their claws, And weapons no place to pierce. Why is this so? Because he has no place for death to enter."

- Lao Tzu

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posted June 20, 2002 04:54 AM         

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Mambo, that quote is AWESOME and so appropriate for me right now! And Greg, all I can say is

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posted June 20, 2002 04:58 AM         

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Sounds like a very wise man, similiar to what Ueshiba used to teach. Thses days there are alot of politics involved in Aikido, and there are some Sensei who don't believe in everything that O Sensei taught, from the bios I've read he seemed to possess the knowledge of altering his bodies vibration so he could disappear from physical vision and then reappear in before his students but also added that everytime he did this it took five years of his life. It was also written that after training in his backyard one particular day, he was enveloped in a golden aura eminating from the earth and from then on could communicate with the Birds and Animals and knew the Plan of the Universe.
Was this Lao Tze the author of the Art of War or am I getting confused with someone else?

Cheers Mambo

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posted June 20, 2002 08:42 AM         

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Hi Mambo, yes it's odd isn't it? O Sensei was devoted to Oneness and Harmony ... but when he passed on his son and his senior disciple fought over leadership, and the battle has persisted and spread ever since! Must be a lesson in there somewhere, huh?

That was Sun Tzu who wrote the Art of War. Lao Tzu was the founder ot Taoism and author of the Tao Te Ching.

Randall

Love,
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posted June 20, 2002 05:55 PM         

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Greg, you are a veritable plethora of wisdom concerning martial arts and related facts.

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posted June 21, 2002 12:25 AM         

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To Randall and Greg

Both of your have pearls of wisdom!!

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posted June 21, 2002 10:15 AM         

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Aw, shucks, Mambo, Greg is the one with all the pearls.

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posted November 04, 2002 12:10 AM         

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