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To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
Don’t be attracted only to powerful techniques within a martial art you do see, but more in the peaceful path of what you don’t see.
To hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.
Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
To train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!