You, who are on the Road of Martial Arts have had had an
Experience. Sometimes it seems that people will try to steal your experience,
will tell you how to tell your story when they weren’t there. This inexorably
leads to a combative kind of verbal exchange whenever we try to explore our
ideas, assumptions and Ideologies and sort them out for the Better.
To those who think this is headed toward Gestalt therapy or
something I will steer you back on course. This is basic Humanity. We have all
been somewhere and it cost something and we gained something and we lost
something and it mattered. It was important. It’s up to those on that Path to
take care of each other. We brought such a high standard to it and some of it
was met and some of it was not, that is a burden for some and a bitter pill for
others. The very fact that is mattered so much is what fuels the endless
bickering and perceived disagreements when we discuss our points of view.
Nobody is trying to make some rules that bind us here; nobody has
taken anything from any of us. Everyone is telling their story and describing
the area of the Mountain that they are currently engaged with and that makes us
the same, not separate. The world in general requires many competing and
Mutually Exclusive theories to describe it and why would the complex world of
Taiji be any different? To me the subtext of these little skirmishes is a
chance for various folks to step up and describe their field of study with the
passion that a tale like this needs to be told.
We are all fellow travelers on a Mythic Quest to obtain the Golden
Fleece and to make the rarest of all mythic quests - The Return Home.
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