Very interesting oh cult leader - cannot think of the book however, the guy had a major knee injury and every night envisioned a small army of rebuilders on it a sort of visualisation apparently it healed far faster than expected …..interesting :)
Oh, wow. You're getting it! Maybe a little too much. I remember Wim Hoff was told they'd have to amputate a part of his foot from frost bite. I think he imagined things too, also breathed and also put a cow dung ointment. Or something like that. Now we've really left normal :P But normal is overrated.
Thank you, Charlotte. Reminded me of this book: "Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West" by Shoji Yamada. Academic, deadpan, hilarious. It's about how the West got Zen wrong in everything and how it did so from the very beginning, basically this German guy Herrigel (who later went full Nazi) rushing to Japan hell bent on making a name for himself by introducing Zen to the West, rushing through things and not getting anything because it was all through a translator from an archery teacher who was... shall we say... eccentric... yes... "Zen in the Art of Archery" started it all... Zen and the Ar of Everything not Zen.
Understood at all - the intricacies of the Japanese culture. Not sure if you’ve heard of the,’karate nerd’ Jesse Enkamp (I do hope my spelling is correct there!). He said even though he’s fluent in a Japanese and has lived in both Japan and Okinawa (one place I really want to go : birthplace of karate 🥋), he said with the best will in the world us as westerners may never entirely understand the culture truly - funny as I’ve mentioned ,’zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance’ which at the time really twisted the brain cells in every direction 🥴🥴🥴I’m not sure I’m recommending that one 😝🧐🤨🙏🏼.
Me too! (Okinawa). Had no idea it was the birthplace of karate. Fun fact. Okinawans are said to be much friendlier and easygoing than Japanese, culturally different a bit as they only became part of Japan very recently and had their own kingdom which for 4 centuries did its best to maneuver independently between the bigger powers. They've had a really good run and then just folded with no resistance because they realized it would be just pointless bloodshed...
Ah yes quite quite unique I think. The story goes the old karate got together with some ancient Chinese influences and whoosh a few unique styles and eventually something similar to what we see today (I’m fairly certain there’s a lot more too it!!( but interesting nonetheless.
Their traditional dance is markedly different ave may even have the odd martial arts thrown in - interesting:) .
One slight thing the giant snakes 🐍 habu, but I expect they do their thing we can do ours so :)
Well said oh Cult Leader🤣
Very interesting oh cult leader - cannot think of the book however, the guy had a major knee injury and every night envisioned a small army of rebuilders on it a sort of visualisation apparently it healed far faster than expected …..interesting :)
Oh, wow. You're getting it! Maybe a little too much. I remember Wim Hoff was told they'd have to amputate a part of his foot from frost bite. I think he imagined things too, also breathed and also put a cow dung ointment. Or something like that. Now we've really left normal :P But normal is overrated.
And if the title of the book ever comes to you, let me know.
It just has !!!! ‘Zen in the martial arts’ let me just google the author : Joe Hyams😀🙌🏼must fish it out small book but really good 👍🏼
Thank you, Charlotte. Reminded me of this book: "Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West" by Shoji Yamada. Academic, deadpan, hilarious. It's about how the West got Zen wrong in everything and how it did so from the very beginning, basically this German guy Herrigel (who later went full Nazi) rushing to Japan hell bent on making a name for himself by introducing Zen to the West, rushing through things and not getting anything because it was all through a translator from an archery teacher who was... shall we say... eccentric... yes... "Zen in the Art of Archery" started it all... Zen and the Ar of Everything not Zen.
Ah yes not easily
Understood at all - the intricacies of the Japanese culture. Not sure if you’ve heard of the,’karate nerd’ Jesse Enkamp (I do hope my spelling is correct there!). He said even though he’s fluent in a Japanese and has lived in both Japan and Okinawa (one place I really want to go : birthplace of karate 🥋), he said with the best will in the world us as westerners may never entirely understand the culture truly - funny as I’ve mentioned ,’zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance’ which at the time really twisted the brain cells in every direction 🥴🥴🥴I’m not sure I’m recommending that one 😝🧐🤨🙏🏼.
Me too! (Okinawa). Had no idea it was the birthplace of karate. Fun fact. Okinawans are said to be much friendlier and easygoing than Japanese, culturally different a bit as they only became part of Japan very recently and had their own kingdom which for 4 centuries did its best to maneuver independently between the bigger powers. They've had a really good run and then just folded with no resistance because they realized it would be just pointless bloodshed...
Ah yes quite quite unique I think. The story goes the old karate got together with some ancient Chinese influences and whoosh a few unique styles and eventually something similar to what we see today (I’m fairly certain there’s a lot more too it!!( but interesting nonetheless.
Their traditional dance is markedly different ave may even have the odd martial arts thrown in - interesting:) .
One slight thing the giant snakes 🐍 habu, but I expect they do their thing we can do ours so :)
I have to look into those snakes. But if they are giant, then maybe at least they're not venomous...
https://www.google.com/search?q=okinawan+habu&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari highly venomous eeeek
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