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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider..." - Francis Bacon

"What is true today may be reevaluated as false not long after. Judgements are frequently based upon a set of "temporary" circumstances surrounding them. Conflicting ideologies can exist simultaneously. Antagonistic dualities are complementary aspects of a unified whole: are seen as mutually dependent mirror images of each other." - Nahum Stiskin

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Note: I will endevor to provide a bibliography and italicize any direct quotes from the materials I use for this blog. If there are mistakes, errors, and/or omissions, I take full responsibility for them as they are mine and mine alone. If you find any mistakes, errors, and/or omissions please comment and let me know along with the correct information and/or sources.

Kenpo Gokui

The lines of the ken-po goku-i are set from an atomistic aspect simply because it is the manner in which the brain learns. Its nature is completely holistic and like the I Ching must be in a form that promotes learning and understanding so a person can see, hear and grasp the nature of a holistic system. The gokui is a method to teach us how to be holistic. Its terseness is the best that can be done to convey its holistic meaning.

A person's heart is the same as Heaven and Earth while the blood circulating is similar to the Sun and Moon yet the manner of drinking and spitting is either soft or hard while a person's unbalance is the same as a weight and the body should be able to change direction at any time as the time to strike is when the opportunity presents itself and both the eyes must see all sides as the ears must listen in all directions while the mind must grasp all the tactile, olfactory and gustation data not seen on all sides and not heard in any direction


Master Zeng said, "Am I preaching what I have not practiced myself?"

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Sequence Three

method | hard | soft | drink | spit

method - what method? the method used in a technique; a method of living our lives; a method of connecting to nature or the universe or a description of the following words/characters.

hard - hard what? hard body; hard mind; hard technique; a reference to a state of mind, being, or the state of our life; is it related to method and soft, method or soft, or the others.

soft - soft what? soft body; soft mind; soft technique; a reference to a state of mind, being, or the state of our life; is it related to method and hard, method or hard, or the others.

Does either hard | soft relate to water since the reference to drinking a liquid and/or spitting the liquid out. Is it symbolic to a way to think, breathe, interact, etc.

drink - could this be in reference to actually consuming the liquid or is it symbolic.

spit - could this be in reference to actually eliminating something from somewhere or is it also symbolic.

Here again we have to find the source and its function in the translation or original writing. This theme seems to be the same through out the entire gokui be it the Chinese characters or the English translations.

The manner of drinking and spitting is the same.

How can this be true since drinking may refer to the slow rhythmic consuming of a liquid which the actual act itself is no hard if we think of the other parts of the translation especially when the act of spitting is more of a hard act in the literal view.

Do they want us to think of the two manners in which the act is performed to decide that some balance needs to be achieved or is it so simple that the author does not want us to be bogged down in the comparison as it might translate to practice or life.

Maybe this is why all of them are convoluted in its purpose so we simply have to learn to constantly think and change with the daily life encounters be it in practice or just living our lives.

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