When you praise worthy people, you make other people envious and quarrelsome. When you value rare things highly, you turn honest people into...

Look at life as a "collection of energies" which travel various paths, meridians, and/or strings/wires through out the cosmos/univ...

When people see beauty, they think, "that's beautiful". Thinking of something as beautiful makes you think other things are ug...

(1) Chapter One The "Tao" is too great to be described by the name "Tao". If it could be named so simply, it would not b...

Greetings and Salutations All: In the next series of postings I want to explore the connections I can "see" in the Tao Te Ching as...

We speak of "heaven and earth" as well as the "sun and moon". Many talk of various ways this applies to practice and lif...

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump Both Tom Hanks...

As I practice the "Way" I seem to "notice" more than I did before. I have noticed that we as a "species" are ...

"The eye must see all sides." - Kenpo Gokui We see this as a practical aspect of the fighting arts. To see in the fighting arts me...

I was data mining today when I ran across a slightly different interpretation of the second "tome" of the "Kenpo Gokui"....

A person blood is the sun and moon with the heart being heaven and earth. Is the blood that circulates within us effected by the cycles of t...

If I say that my way of practice is the "one true way" am I not stifling my own way, am I not stifling my ability to expand and gr...

"A crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives." - P. M. Forni A maxim to live b...

[...an act of aggression; ferocity: the property of being wild or turbulent; a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.; V...

Vagueness can lead to misunderstandings and misuse of knowledge. Remember that knowledge is power yet of what kind is the true question. So ...

Resistance is futile! So say the "borg" of the Star Trek series. The gokui speaks of balance in all things, it speaks of the sun, ...

[cognitive] position: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; the choice of a or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which...

Defined : "a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways" The "at...

What the gokui adds to our practice is the method of creating a "true" and "moral" character than transcends the need to...

"the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions" Good or evil; positive or n...