Tuesday, 14 November 2017

SHACK 180 THE WAY

The Tao Ba gua


Tao Tao or Dao (/daʊ/ChinesepinyinAbout this sound Dào (help·info)) is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', 'key' or sometimes more loosely 'doctrine' or 'principle'. Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao is the intuitive knowing of "life" that cannot be grasped full-heartedly as just a concept but is known nonetheless through actual living experience of one's everyday being. The Tao differs from conventional (Western) ontology in that it is an active and holistic practice of the natural order of Nature and its universal awakening, rather than a static, atomistic one.[citation needed]
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching explains that the Tao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non conceptual yet evident' in one's being of aliveness.[citation needed] The Tao is "eternally nameless” (Tao Te Ching-32. Laozi) and to be distinguished from the countless 'named' things which are considered to be its manifestations, the reality of life before its descriptions . (COURTESY Wikipedia).
JUDO;Dr Kano believed that "jūjutsu" was insufficient to describe his art: although Jutsu (?) means "art" or "means", it implies a method consisting of a collection of physical techniques. Accordingly, he changed the second character to dō (?), meaning way, road or path, which implies a more philosophical context than jutsu and has a common origin with the Chinese concept of tao. Thus Kano renamed it Jūdō (柔道?, judo).[19]((Courtesy Wikipedia)

 Dr Jigoro Kano was the founder of Judo---good reading.  He was caught in a snow storm on his way back from China and went into a cave to shelter. He observed a cherry tree branches snap under the weight of the snow and force of wind, while a willow tree branches bent and returned hence the ‘Gentle Way’ not the monstrosity and barbaric modern Olympic games Judo.  Giving way to defeat an opponent, avoiding.  Refer to SHACK 178 AND 179.

Neither of these two explanations above satisfied what Sensei and Sifu had explained and taught me.  They both called it the ‘Way less Way’.  It was the way of the Universe, Sensei described Ju as an implementing Do the way of the Universe. Sifu said the Tao was the same as Do and that the Universe worked as an intelligence that was beyond logic and understanding, that we had to be quiet and still even in action to ‘feel it’.  Both would say that explanations were useless and that if pressed would just say ‘this is the way it goes ---this is the way of things ---this is the mystery--- there is no logic it is as it is until it isn't'.  If pressed again for an answer they would walk away or say things like ‘ stick your head in the fridge’, ‘go play with the traffic’.

Again here we see the development of all the senses combined into one Radar type focused alertness a super fine awareness, which is dynamic, moving yet still and honed to ‘feeling’ as a quote from the famous Bruce Lee ‘Feel don’t think’

From another film the first Karate Kid with the famous Mr Miyagi ‘Mr Miyagi how you do that?’ ‘ Don’t know first time’


When is the way not the Way only when it is the Way. So what then is it?.

Be still quieten the raging storm in the mind, do not strangle thought or block it, neither let it take over--------the stateless state.

SHACK

 When I spoke to Mr Koizumi he was very despondent and he said that Olympic Judo was a monstrosity, weight, groups grappling, muri ni waza (unreasonable use of physical strength were not his way of Judo. (SHACK)

Gunji Koizumi (小泉 軍治 Koizumi Gunji?, 8 July 1885 – 15 April 1965), known affectionately by colleagues as G.K.,[1][2] was a Japanese master of judo who introduced this martial art to the United Kingdom,[3] and came to be known as the 'Father of British Judo.'[4][5] He was the founder of the Budokwai, a pioneering Japanese martial arts society in England.[2][6][7] Koizumi helped establish the British Judo Association,[8] and founded the European Judo Union.[2] He held the rank of 8th dan in judo.[1] Koizumi's apparent suicide in 1965 shocked the worldwide judo community.[2]



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