In the second precept of the ken-po goku-i the I Ching provides more on the reference to the "moon."
K'an in the I Ching represents water, rain, danger, abysmal, pig-ear, and hand. Its element is water and it deals with spiritual cleansing. In man's world it represents the "heart," the soul locked up within the body, the principle of light enclosed in the dark - that is, "reason."
It also represents the recent past and the present when interpreted for divination purposes. It tells us to act with persistence, to successfully overcome difficulties and hardships. It refers to a persistent individual who overcomes; has high ideals; is a benefit to all things; to teach others; to increase their own knowledge.
The moon as seen within the symbol and character representing K'an when followed leads to calm; leads to a peaceful place.
Harry Frankfurt wrote, "Becoming wholehearted, a state not unlike stoic resoluteness." It is to eliminate conflicts in which one physical process interferes with others and undermines equilibrium in which health consists." - The Stoic Warrior author.
Wholehearted is to seek to overcome or to supersede a condition of inner division and make the self into an integrated whole. Fight it as an enemy, banish it, resist all alliances with it. Build gates to keep from entering.
MOON!
The depth and breadth Bushi Tatsuo Sensei went to achieve this level of enlightenment is astonishing or if you are of this mind then maybe he was just lucky and these connections are just the stories we tell ourselves to make what sometimes is a mundane practice into something much more much like those who "see" secrets in practice.
Look within, see the truth, stop the stories and allow Tao to provide for us. Seek knowledge, true and accurate knowledge, or only the facts.
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