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Post by John Green on Nov 13, 2014 21:54:58 GMT -5
I will make this easier...remember...looking in the "Mirror?"...when you do this...all of this...your are looking at your "Enemy"...and how to "Kill" them...so do not see this as a craft, to master, or impress others,... see it as a means of survival...you can only understand "Jokyo," when your ready to take "Human" life...until then, it is always going to be perceived as an "Art Form."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 13:55:48 GMT -5
Thank you for the reminder John! It is important that we remember what the ultimate purpose of Jokyo was and is: to take a human life. Ultimately, when everything is said and done, Viol Sensei said it in Shidoin: "This is about killing." This is why a martial attitude is serious and consequences are ever kept before our awareness. Jokyo was codified so that human beings could more expeditiously kill another human being and so that you (the Jokyo) could survive to teach and instruct more people in Jokyo so that more and more of you could survive.
Survival is the ultimate goal and the ultimate extreme is that we may have to kill another person to facilitate that survival.
I recently saw a Facebook comment from someone saying "What style of martial art did the samurai practice?" And I just shook my head. Jokyo is not an art. The samurai didn't practice "arts martial." They trained long and hard so that they could kill the enemy and not die themselves. Period.
Thank you Sgt. Green for this sobering reminder. For all the "coolness" going on in Jokyo, do not forget that this is about killing.
Living in the battleground,
Alex Lanshe
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 12:19:56 GMT -5
Good point, Alex.I think one of the issues some of the people in Jokyo have is they have never even been in a fight. I'm not talking sparring, I am talking a real fight.I don't know all of you personally, so don't take this the wrong way.Some of the people I do know personally, Johnny Linebarger, Mike Dunphy,and Alan Pelletier, have been in numerous fights and life threatening situations including war.That being said, as Sgt.John Green stated, we look at things in a different light.How many of you remember Viol Sensei saying when he looks at someone, he is looking at how he can kill them? How many of you do that?How many of you actually practice what Viol Sensei is teaching? I know I do!
See you on the Battleground,
Bryan
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