[47MartialMan]

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

You only honor yourself and your art. Your method of argumentation, your lack of pride in the community of MA on the whole, and your pride in your conceptualization of the truth shows your self-centered egotism.

I think as humans, we all possess a degree of ego. Lack of pride in the MA community? Hmmmnn, I dont go around stating that CMA illumines all. MMA is like a sewer drain, which sucks at the radiance, yet is never fulfilled......

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

What reality? The reality of cage fighting? The reality of medieval feudal battlefields of Japan and China? Which reality? What time period? What tradition? What religion? With your clearly non-Buddhist/non-Taoist perspectives, which you may be vaguely familiar with through Western translations in Penguin Book format, you might have an idea of what these constitute, but your culture is the culture of capitalism and western philosophy and religion. Try discussing improvement and reality with the Dalai Lama, and walk away a humbled man.

Hmmmn, I see where you may be getting into the subject of Buddhism here.

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

I don't know, what's your rank on here? Why do you feel the need to comment on EVERYONE's comments as the voice of skepticism and denial? Well, because you have no self-confidence. This will come with wisdom, however. And you will realize you have no power, no value.You think you have power over yourself, but it is the SELF, this self-conceiving phantom of the mind, that you are enveloped in. Perhaps you should start meditation.

Sounds more of Buddhist overtones....

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

I agree. Clearly all of our modern ideas popped into our heads out of thin air.

Looks like your'e trying to be a poet....

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

Improvement.....nope. There is only change in nature. You trade one path for another. You lessen suffering if you choose the wise path. This is not an improvement over the other path, increasing suffering. Yin and Yang. Just different paths of change. But when you become wiser, you will realize that the paths didn't change, and you didn't change--rather, you realized there was no change, because your Identity, as you know it, is a self-conceived (rooted in the mind by relfection on a manufactured ego) phantasm with no concrete existence.

More Buddhist related....

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

Seek the Buddha mind, and perhaps you'll understand.

Per above....

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

And this is why many traditional martial artists look on the West and say--they have no sense of themselves. They chase food, luxury, cars and clothes, commodification, easy-fixes to complex problems, and everything they can buy in their supermarket culture. We would call that the "backwards values of capitalism".

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

One gains information from books. One gains knowledge from reflection and meditation.

Another atttempt of procuring Buddhist ideas....

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

But, they must first overcome themselves--their own personal limitiations in thought, action, endurance, and coordination, by training. Overpowering someone whose ideology is one of self-defeating skepticism and egotism (yours, I say with regret), is no hard feat.

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

Is this what your capital culture has informed you of? Pick up Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and see if you agree with what you've just stated.

As I thought........

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

I don't bend out of shape. I am formless. I welcome differing opinions when stated in respect. For your disrespect, I will direct you to your Dim Mak thread, and your position, which is stated out of ignorance for the art altogether, and moves "Forward?" from there......

Originally Posted by John Takeshi

Samsara is not all it's cracked up to be. Why not open your mind, rather than closing it and taking delight in the crashing of the gates?

Why will you not open your mind and see the many fable and untruths in many (not all) CMA/TMA?


Your posting seems to be of the poetic sense along the lines of Buddhism. However, depending on the school, you may have a large misunderstanding of it. I know many people who seek the path of Buddhism, only to misunderstand the subject in whole.