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Zen Koans as they originate from Zen masters testing or challenging Zen students with parables, i.e., simple stories used to trigger a sudden realization in the student of a moral nature. Martial (Zen-like) Koan (or parable like quotes) studies are taking the practice of Zen Koan’s to trigger on-going realizations in the study of martial quotes that will lead toward martial enlightenment - toward a spiritual state of mind that allows for change. It is through such changes that both the discipline and the student can achieve higher levels of understanding through acquired knowledge and experience. Welcome to the “Martial (Zen-like) Koan Studies!”


“Koans, or parables (a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson).”


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Monday, June 1, 2015

prepared, or not prepared

“How one is prepared, or not prepared to handle the adrenal stress effects of combat is often more important and decisive than one’s skill with one’s weapons.” - Peyton Quinn, Book of Five Rings: Explained in Plain English


Comment: Practice, practice and more practice is not enough. When time comes to apply skills in combat the mind-state will encounter the effects of the adrenal stress conditions, the chemical/adrenal dump. When they hit, especially for the first time, the effects will most times obliterate those skills leaving the lizard to pull up the ancient freeze, flight or fright response. In modern parlance that equates to the OO bounce where your mind is blasted by the chemical dump cutting off its connection to all that training and practice, practice and more practice so that it locks up in the loop trying to find some semblance of an actionable item to implement in the fight. Bummer.
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