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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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Control

I just posted a short on control at my karate-do blog site but realized that it relates to the ken-po goku-i as well. If you read it as follows:

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.

You will find that many actually require a person to find self control within themselves in order to control the outside influences we encounter be they difficulties at work or conflict with some poor soul who flips you off and they cut you off on the road to work. There is the connections within alluded to in both the first and second references of Heaven-Earth: Sun-Moon.

As you continue it is control that allows you to choose between either hard and soft, to learn and maintain balance of mind-body-spirit, the ability to control the directions your body moves in relation to specific stimuli from an opponent/attacker, the control one needs to apply martial techniques such as strikes or blows or kicks and to learn and maintain an awareness using the senses with specificity to both eyes and ears. This is a literal reference to martial systems such as Isshinryu.

It seems that in order to participate in an acceptable and moral fashion in society it requires a person to learn control of the self so they can know and act accordingly. To do otherwise creates "friction" and friction causes heat and heat tends to be volatile in human interactions.

Isshinryu's Megami after all represents many facets of the system where the two hands denote a modicum of "control" a practitioner of karate/karate-do MUST find to apply it judiciously in self protection. Considering all the variables of fighting and society this becomes more important.

Yes? No? Maybe? Your thoughts and Idea's?

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