A Question

Tsujigiri literally means ‘crossroads killing’ and is the Japanese term for a very dishonourable practice whereby…I remember one night I had a chance to see Karl’s Ninja combat abilities displayed in a rather impressive way. We were outside a nightclub and a fight started. A bouncer had seen his ex-girlfriend with her new man. The bouncer hit him so hard he was knocked unconscious and he had started to kick his victim when he was down. The girlfriend lay on her downed lover to try to prevent him from being attacked. Then to the horror of all assembled, the bouncer began to hit the woman. No one did anything. I think we were all in chock. karl, however, took action and in one swift motion he stepped on the bouncer’s knee from behind. This took him by surprise and dropped him to one knee. In that moment, punching from his left hand from the waist, Karl delivered the most shocking and penetrating punch I have ever seen, which connected directly to the jaw of the bouncer. He was stunned but not out and as he fell he grabbed Karl’s shirt, which ripped. At that moment back-up arrived from inside the nightclub. Two men, tie-less suits, appeared and charged towards the scene, totally misinterpreting the situation; after all, Karl was standing upright , with a ripped shirt, over three injured people. As they charged him, Karl did something truly amazing-he threw what was left of his shirt in the face of one of the oncoming men, then picked up and did the same with one of the high heels of the lady beneath him, which had dislodged itself in the scuffle. In the time it took them to deal with these make-shift missiles Karl was off into the night-a hero with no reward.
-MARTIN FAULKS, Becoming a Ninja Warrior

>>>Most are easy to spot because they require a lot of
>>>emotional attention and support, but provide none in return.
>>>You’ll notice being tired and drained of energy after
>>>dealing with them. If you remain centered, and do not
>>>engage them, they will lose interest in you and find
>>>another willing victim.

Anyway some spiritual paths are exactly based on exploitation and that path at human level starts from learning to see weaknesses in other people and learning to enjoy from seeing others suffering. If one follows this kind of path one must clean any possible residue of compassion from one’s being.

>>>Personally, I would steer clear of any “tradition” or “path”
>>>that has the energy of exploitation of another for one’s own
>>>personal gain. It is not the type of energy I want to
>>>align myself with.

That’s what human life is about. It’s constant competition. It’s same whether you are an American or Finnish, only difference being that Finland is very safe, liberal and democratic country (as a society) to live and if somebody has problems he or she is looked after at every level.

HOWDY

I stumbled across this recently and it looks pretty legit: http://www.healingtaomassage.com/. I don’t really know anything about the White Tigress/Jade Dragon but thought I would share and see if anyone has any thoughts. This Arorah Hsien Tao seems to have been trained by Hsi Lai and speaks of the White Tigress and Jade Dragon.