Monthly Archives: February 2007

Websurfing – Results

Some cool posts around the web -
11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations
Throw a lifeline to your future

Video Games are Not Always Bad for You

John August had a GREAT post on his site that hit home for me on a multitude of levels, Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft.
I’ll repeat his bullet points here, but you should go to his post for his detailed expansion of them. Well worth your time if you are into [...]

LIMITATIONS – Chosen vs. Given

I’d like to consider the nature of limitations. One thing I find useful is to make a distinction between the limitations we are given and the ones we choose. In my life, much confusion and suffering has been caused by not understanding the distinction. Limitations that are given are the ones that nature has hard-wired [...]

The four levels of Martial Art

There is an old theory of the levels of the development of martial art skill in the Japanese martial arts. My specific understanding of it comes mostly through the filter of O’Sensei, founder of Aikido, who spoke on the theory. Basically the theory posits four levels of martial art mastery -

You attack me, [...]

We are water

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the [...]