h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Straight line to objective. Awareness of centreline, non telegraphic, economic movement.

Whatever comes out of you has to be automatic.

One must have already experienced severeemotions in order to draw strength from them

One must have practised Often enough that oone cn act despite oneself in an 'automatic' and spontaneous flow of action. The 'freeze or flail' response has to change into a 'no mind' fighting mental poise.

If you deny even the classical or traditional approach you one again will have created another pattern in which you are trapped. The classical styles teach you all the basic precepts that will serve you well. Jeet june do is not slapdash almalgamation of styles. No is it a rigid doctrine. Rather it encouraged the practitioner to learn the basics and then learn about himself first so that he/she can take or discard the style/moves/ disciplines that suit him best.

Man is a violent animal. The ideal of Non violence is an immature approach to violence. What is important is to face the violence understand it and go beyond it, and not invent an escape, an ideal of non violence which has no reality whatsoever.

Research your own experiences for the 'truth' Absorb what is usefull, reject what is useless. Add what is specifically your own. Man the creative individual is more important than any style or system.

You DO nees forms however. We are born without knowledge. You have to aquire it before you can apply and subilminate it.
Each must learnthe fundamentals first of music or fighting out of which he can progress andwhich he can then use as a basis for improvisation and creativity.

My truth is not your truth.

To wander in a circle with no circumfrance is not to be free but to be lost. Learn to function in a small well defioned circle, until it may eventually be enlarged a little at a time until it 'seemingly ' has no edges.

The key to learning by repetition is never to allow it to become stale or mechanical but to practice with awareness- like a sculptor who chips away at a block of marbel to reveal the form within.

Having no form = slap dash and incompetant. luck may save hi/her one or twice

Having 'no fixed' form = Not restricted by form but able to use it without being tied to it.

N.B. This freedom can lead to a narcissistic personality for its own ends or it can be a vehicle for spirit and for truth.

Knowledge is built on experience of the past.
Undestanding is built on the experience of the present

Organised dogmatic religion betrays its original visionary.(christ-follow me and you will lose me. But Follow yourself and you will find both yourself and me.)
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