Eyes and Ears

"The eyes must see all sides. The ears must listen in all directions." In the "Writings of Chung Tzu" it is said, "When men possessed and employed their (natural) power of vision, there would be no distortion of the world. When they possessed and employed their (natural) power of hearing, there would be not distractions in the world."

Ahhhh, ken-po goku-i, our ability to open the mind to allow truth to be seen and heard. Distortions of truth come from the refusal to truly see and hear. This is the minds pension to allow the ego to instill the stories of comfort, the stories we tell ourselves to accommodate that which provides us comfort and distance from stress/fear and those myriad things that bring them about.

Tatsuo provided us the key, we must be willing to accept all we see and hear when we open the gate to truth and reality. We decide to remove the ego's distorted view of the Universe and to allow our natural ability to see and hear in the present moment. We take this on wholeheartedly bringing us to a "oneness" that is the system of the physical and spiritual, Isshinryu karate-do.

A clever and inspiring soul this person called, Tatsuo!