Stillness
Securing stillness of the in-breath builds strength. Securing humble restraint of the out-breath builds character. Not knowing allows purity.Dakkuan
Stretching is very, very important, because, not only does it help to prevent you from injury, but it also conditions and readys the muscles for excretion, growth and physical trauma. Stretching After strenuous activity not only strengthens and conditions the muscles further, but stretching lessens your body’s recovery time. … One of the Key proponents to getting and staying fit is understanding and utilizing your body’s recovery time (mental recovery time is something to explore when more advanced methods and exercises are introduced). After all, recovery time is what we Live for… (explanation- we don’t workout just for the act of working out. We do it so we feel good for the duration of the time when we are not working out.) In other words: any time you are not working out is “recovery time”. The amount of recovery time you take always determines your body’s needs in conjunction with your physical self expectations. Wake it, Breath it, Eat it, Sleep it, Live it; Be It!
Find it within culmination.
The first way to practice peace
is to breath it inwardly.
Second, breath it outwardly.
From there, you can exude peace.
Readily see it in others and their actions.
“When the outer self appears to be at peace,
the inner self is calm.
When the outer self is aggressive,
the inner self is defensive;
thus, make the outer self
and the inner self opposites
and both selves will become one.”
Yagyu Munenori
The beauty of not knowing neutralizes any commentary the ego might have.
Regulate the Breath.
Regulation of breath,
and success are attained
by diligent practice.
If development slows,
or if success is not attained,
Start with the breath.
No need to alter your muscular tension in reaction to the presence of other people.
Non-action and motion are integral.
You must practice peace diligently when your Kung Fu has become superior. There is a reason for peace.
The chronic muscular tension that is “you” is a mixture of your expectations with the presumptions you decide to think other people think of you.
“When profound, open clarity has no change and is consistent at all times, only then can you be at peace. “
(translated by Thomas Cleary)
When your practice of the way has melted into your practice of the way, no further effort is needed. But further study is naturally required in order to advance towards being no different.
Immersed myself away from society.
In what, I will not tell you.
Training under water helps technique,
strength and breath control.
Directly after water forms,
practicing solid stance
becomes a timely experiment.
Do nothing in the midst of adversity to allow your training and instinct to engage. Intervene when focus is skewed.
The beauty of not knowing neutralizes any commentary the ego might have.
Prefer what is within as opposed to what is without.
Zen Story
A monk was being chased by a ferocious tiger through the forest. When be came to the edge of a cliff, he stopped. As the tiger quickly approached,
he pondered if he should wait to be killed and eaten by the tiger, or to jump to certain death.
Just before the tiger reached him, he jumped. As he fell, he reached out and latched onto a tree branch which broke his fall.
He looked up at the tiger who was waiting at the top to kill him. And he looked down at the long fall to his death.
At that moment, he noticed a strawberry growing out of the side of the cliff in front of his face. He plucked it and smelled it.
He looked up at the hungry tiger and back down at the ground, then ate the strawberry.
It was the sweetest strawberry he’d ever tasted!
From Alan Watts
When asked to answer a Koan, a young monk bought back a frog to his master. (Frogs are tame in that country; people don’t eat them.). When the monk presented the frog as an answer to the Koan, the Master shook his head and said, “No… No. Too contrived.”A zen story
Let the mind be like water and your thoughts like driftwood. No resistance.Dakkuan
…Mental Plateaus…
Vocabulary Word
Areanum
1. A deep secret or mystery
2. Knowledge that is mysterious to the average person
3. A secret Essence or remedy; an elixir
The Constant Battle
Was Buddha’s Basis Correct?
Buddha’s question about human suffering must first be understood by recognizing where/who this question was coming from. Most people imagine Buddha’s question of suffering from the standpoint that Buddha was a man who witnessed suffering all around him, then, one day, questioned, “What is the cause of human suffering?” STOP
Harmony
The Lost Bartender
The evil that propels people intrinsically bequeaths them to blame others, (or feel jealousy,) for short comings which they fluidly fabricate.
This, “evil,” (this lower level of existence,) is a common human paradigm which compels a man to feel inferior to another man, then, aggressively, physically act-out as a result of such fluid, self-creating assertion.
The Force
Light
Grace
Riders’ Mantra
On the Road to Shangri-La
The Surf Is Up
Guitar String Ramblings
Rebuild
The “Throat/Root/Triangle” Exercise:
“It is an Art, indeed, for it requires imagination before any physical components by deed arise to fruition.”
End Of The Road
At times, a man must alter the expectations of himself.
Chip Van Hassel
Ribbons
Daily mantra
Crane
Inner Dialogue
Ominis in Numeris Sita Sunt
Black and White Keys
Physical Obedience
Click
“Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God”
Being Michelle: Deaf and Autistic, Wrongfully Imprisoned!
Deaf and Denied an Interpreter in Florida State Prison
I love Michelle. And I believe her story empowers all of us to recognize our own strengths and innate abilities even when our surrounding culture and systems do not. The systems must change in the United States and globally to support everyone.
BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism.
Continue reading “Being Michelle: Deaf and Autistic, Wrongfully Imprisoned!”
Day In Dallas
“…Texas is the reason…”
Keynote 13
Black Keys
Keynote 12
Conversations with Fritzinger
“That site is called internet sacred text archive. I think there are links to other archives of books on different subjects there as well. If ya get bored”
-Richard
A Chance to Grow
When to let Go
None for the Weary
Tic Tac Tow
On June 23, 1983, “Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel ran the first successful test of the distributed Domain Name System (DNS). This automated process was to take over failing Arpanet and CSnet protocols because those relied on address books.
DNS uses a hierarchical distributed naming system for the Internet or any private network. It associates the domain names with numerical IP addresses.”
Greetings, Professor Falken.
Keynote 11
Oath
to defend widows and orphans
Keynote 10
Everybody NEEDS One!
Keynote 9
“Mission Accomplished”
“We don’t need guns to stand for Freedom.”
Edges
Keynote 8
Do Something New.
How much longer
shall we traverse this rock?
I don’t mean,
How long shall we Live;
But,
how long must we perpetuate,
therefore, formulate
this common-consensus-paradigm?
‘Tis archaic, at best
and counter-productive,
this result of Stagnation-Of-Consciousness.
Sometimes
True Love
Yearly mantra
Keynote 7
Everything Changes
Be It
Dig Deep
ISAIAH 65:1-5
Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
Power is invisible.
Imagery can summon it.
Imagery and Action.
Muscular Tension
Stir it Up
Dynamic Tension Apparatus
To Increase Your Power, watch this short clip:
Keynote 6
Motherly Love
If You’re not Improving Somebody Else’s Life Today, You are not making a Difference.
Action In Stillness
…
That has become the life experience: watching everything- feeling speed, but slowing it down to slow/guide-by-way-of-control in order to preform focused stiles.
Intuition.
Get Into The Line-of-Fire.
Keynote 5
Monthly Mantra
Re-chamber. 3 second rule:
Breath IN Deeply and HOLD.
Stillness
JAMES 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Keynote 4
Be Spontaneous
Keynote 3
Keynote 9
Keynote 2
Happy Lunar New Year!
There are 364 days this year.
Keynote 1
Quote:
Anxiety Relief
Monthly Mantra:
The Perfect Ride by Gary Stevens
True Northern Ammo
Now, This:
“Don’t Be The Nice Guy.”
“A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man.”
The Two Gates of Benjamin
Theory
Pressure exists before Mass.
Clock-Out.
Do Nothing
Path of Spirit
Moral Compass
Play Clip:
Squeeze;… Squeeze Harder.
Solfeggio Frequencies
Solfeggio frequencies make up the ancient 6-tone scale thought to have been used in sacred music, including the beautiful and well known Gregorian Chants.
The chants and their special tones were believed to impart spiritual blessings when sung in harmony. Each Solfeggio tone is comprised of a frequency required to balance your energy and keep your body, mind and spirit in perfect harmony.
The main six Solfeggio frequencies are:
Be You Own Parent.
Wisdom from an Angel
Along the journey, I asked her if spirit is a constant, and she said that,
“Spirit is always changing. People have a change in spirit all the time.”
I asked her what the constant is, and she said,
The Question
Who Did; and Why?
Political Correctitude
Tornado Kick
Good execution of the tornado kick:
A lot of the time, when you land his kick, you end up on the ground, like this guy.
“If your mind is like an open hand, you will adapt quickly. If your mind is closed like a fist, you can only punch, and you cannot climb the cliffs. Train the mind as you train your fists: condition them so they are not easily injured upon striking the target, but allow them to open quickly in order to grapple your opponent.”
Dakkuan
Reality Check On Your Face
Instinct to Transcend
Short Sword
Zen Story
Ore Well 2084
“Group mentality is the monarchy of the new era, and freedom is the new terrorist against consciousness expansion.”
The only danger we face in life is acceptance of any way other than the way of the individual. As a doormat cannot wipe its own feet on itself, the common man can only be common when he accepts the norm. Group mentality is the monarchy of the new era, and freedom is the new terrorist against
Haiku
Rimonabant
1.2.3 The endogenous opioid and the endocannabinoid system
Besides endogenous opioid and cannabinoid receptors, endogenous opioid and
cannabinoid ligands (or endocannabinoids) have also been identified (Fig. 5C and D).
Kung Fu
Non-action and motion are integral.
Dakkuan
Hope
She asked me, “How could disillusion manifest hope?”
Whether false or probable, hope is a phenomenon that facilitates us to function within our Uncomfort Zone.
Earth Wave
“This Planet breathes deep, once. In; then, Out.”
Chip Van Hassel
Expanding Crane
Last First Breath
Neutral Mind
The Overly Zealous
Inward Dynamic Tension
Watch the Readiness.
Dakkuan
Condense Your Breath.
Muscular Tension is Not Controlled through Breathing.
Dakkuan
Increase your Cardiovascular Pressure and your Muscular power separately, but together.
At Peace
Some Zen
How free a fly is!
How solid the rock is. How fluid the mind…
How wordless the water!
Paradigm
Opposites
Enoch’s Twice.
Chi Peace
Being is Perceiving.
Simeon Said
(source)
Ego
“…man must forfeit his selfish actions and thoughts…”
The Answer
Building Muscle
Create the void using your imagination; then, fill it using hard work and determination.
“Mind to muscle connection“
Dakkuan’s Notes
Stillness
Securing stillness of the in-breath builds strength. Securing humble restraint of the out-breath builds character. Not knowing allows purity.Dakkuan
Revelation 1 :19
“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.”
The Book of Change
Found Peace
Peace is not something found. Peace is cultivated, though always apparent.
Time
Put all of your focus into what, or who you want to experience, for a certain amount of time.
One thing about time, there’s no telling how far it will stretch. Maybe just a dancing moment, maybe a day or a week or a year, or just a split-second.Chip Van Hassel
Dakkuan
“I know very little about kung fu, but I can teach you a few breathing techniques that, after you’ve mastered them, you will find your power increases.”
Amy At Carollos
Freedom
The Builders
Read a PDF version of this inspiring book, (Published in 1973,) written by Joseph Fort Newton, HERE:
Mount Moriah
-Ride tightly.
Welcome Home, Poor Fellow-Soldiers!
ACTS 15:16