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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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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

INEFFECTIVE

“Punching is one of the most INEFFECTIVE ways to stop a threat. The hitting part of the brain is different from the killing part the “Lizard” uses for hunting and survival. It is the social order part of our brain that punching seems to reside.” - Marc MacYoung, Getting Hit and Hitting


Comments: A reason to justify why it is imperative to study, study and study some more. Those types of self-soothing myths of martial arts self-defense, fighting and combatives would be extremely dangerous if not for the fact that most violence encountered is social in nature where the goal is not grave bodily harm or death but communications. The one spot where there is crossover is the required “Rules” that exist in social violence or conflict and the “Rules” that exist in all martial arts practices and training (except in those rare cases where reality based adrenal stress condition training exists, etc.). Asocial violence also has rules but those rules are, “Different.” Knowing and accepting the truth of reality in conflict and violence is the very first step anyone takes for self-defense, there is no other path. Our need and instincts take us to the part of the brain that deals with the relative safety of a rule based social conflict and violences where, except in cases of accidents, grave bodily harm and death are off the table. It is often the “Accidents” that end up taking it to the world of self-defense and whether you are still in the square or not. It is about how the legal system will still take you to the wall because of that accident. As Marc MacYoung, and others, say - its complicated. Yes, it is and the processes we take define how well we reach toward reality over the self-soothing delusions we build instead. 

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