campus parties. Mike.
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From: Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, 11 September, 2008 21:48:27
Subject: Re: [Zen] JUDO
Hi Mike, and Bill too,
I think the problem you and Bill are having is in thinking of chi as something
in par
From: Bill Smart
Chi is an illusion anyway, so why not qualify your illusions. After all,
they are part of the real world and thus there are all kinds.
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> technique
> > > > which allows a person to feel chi and so feel somewhat
> > > > spiritualised and 'connected'. I've felt something very
similar
> > in
> > > > my Vipassana meditation (Vipassana uses a technique which
> > generates
&
> > > > spiritualised and 'connected'. I've felt something very
similar
> > in
> > > > my Vipassana meditation (Vipassana uses a technique which
> > generates
> > > > a lot of chi and this is then used to 'scan' the body to feel
> > the
&g
gt; are a bad thing - after all zazen meditation is a technique .
What
> > I am saying tho' is that ultimately ALL techniques are just
rafts
> > which need to be discarded after reaching the other shore (the
> > shore we're already on, of course). Zen is just
; which need to be discarded after reaching the other shore (the
> > shore we're already on, of course). Zen is just simply living
life
> > fully in the moment and doesn't require anything extra in the
way
> > of 'energy currents', God, or listening
ning to our 'inner-dolphin'. Mike.
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From: Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, 11 September, 2008 7:41:41
Subject: Re: [Zen] JUDO
Hi Mike,
An excellent post from someone who obviously has direct experience
of what he&#x
moment and doesn't require anything extra in the way of 'energy currents', God,
or listening to our 'inner-dolphin'. Mike.
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Subje
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From: Fitness63 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 12:26:56
Subject: [Zen] JUDO
By the way, I learned a lot from that old Judo instructor. He is a
very nice guy and now he is in his 80s.
I think
arses kicked by fighters who wouldn't know their chi if
it jumped and bit them on their [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike.
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Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 12:26:56
Subject: [Zen] JUDO
By the way,
Yes, chi is important to judo. Judo was also very influenced by Taoist and
Shinto ideas.
I found the best judo I ever did was when I wasn't thinking about it.
JODY
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By the way, I learned a lot from that old Judo instructor. He is a very nice
guy and now he is in his 80s.
I think that he felt that Judo and Zen were intertwined and that zen helped him
focus his CHI to be better at Judo.
I think that is why the samurai also were devoted to zen. It was not b
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