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Re: there can be only oneFrom: Plato
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-03-11 00:54:20
Remote IP: 66.65.185.128
MessageI think #2 is pretty funny.
Hey, this board is supposed to be offensive and juvenile. It has always been that way so you don't have to apologize. I love the constant flames.
You are also correct that I am writing this to help you guys and gals. Believe me, there is nothing I would rather do then never return to this board. It is an utter waste of my time when I take into account that I have a business to run, and a ton of other goals. Posting tires me out after all these years.
Thing is, I view you all as my responsibility. I have spent so many years on this board learning and growing and that doesn't give me the right to abandon you all and say "hey, they don't get it and it is a waste of my time to try and convince them so fuck them." I have to give it a fair try, and so I will be back again and again over time.
We are the future of Taoism.
I know this will piss people off and they will say "who is this arrogant person talking like this" and "who does he think he is?"
Story time:
I trained for one day with Vladimir Vassiliev and I asked him how he could move the way he did. I told him I thought it had to do with the spaces in his joints. He looked me dead in the eye, smiled and said "I trust myself."
I thought he was keeping secrets.
Only a few years later do I understand his genius. From studying with Scott Sonnon I know I was right--it is about the joints, but in order to open up the joints you need more then the Body Flow course. You need to trust because lack of trust was why your joints locked in the first place. The exercises give you a window to restablish your trust in yourself. Once you have done that, then trust keeps it that way. So from Vladimir's point of view the answer was indeed "trust yourself."
Furthermore, it was obvious to him that I would have figured out the technique, but the thing I would never have figured out was the trust part.
So this is why I don't care if I sound arrogant to someone. Responsibilty lies with those who know. Blame lies with the ignorant. That's why blame is useless.
Those who know have to find a way, for if they don't, then who will?
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