Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate:
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Succinctly and beautifully written, Richard, thank you. On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:52 PM, "'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner. > A white belt is the belt you get when you buy a karate uniform. The first class I attended was when my parents were stationed in Japan in 1959 in the USAF. What is important in martial arts isn't the clothing you wear or your rank at a dojo - what is important is self control which begins in the mind. An effective self defense is greatly a function of our awareness of the surroundings in the outside world; our ability to control the content of our mind under stress; and our ability to remove ourselves as a "target" by our behavior and mindset. Most instructors only give lip service to mental preparation such as meditation and spend more time discussing physical tactics. Self defense is as much mental as physical. This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
