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another hara note.
I was perusing the glenn morris books that have just been returned to me by
cornax, and came across a description of hatsumi soke showing off some of his weirder
martial arts. The student was to start attacking him from ten feet away. hatsumi just
focussed on him intently, and the student suddenly loses all the strength in his limbs
and passes out on the tatami, coming to several minutes later.
"how did you do that?" the bewildered student asks.
Hatsumi's one word reply: "Hara".
My experience with this kind of thing tells me that sometimes it is more effective to overload
than to drain, though. Overload is maybe more painful sometimes (like a lightning bolt
in your brain), but the resulting awakening will have you contemplating the folly of violence
as a means of solving conflict, and thanking the compassion of teachers.
I hear that Tibetan Monks used dorjes and large temple keys on ribbons to attack bandits'
dim mak points. This seems to me to be a very compassionate way to deal with an attacker,
because you don't end up damaging them, but healing them. this way they will wake up and
change their lives, hopefully. of course you can totally kill someone with dim mak, but I doubt the compassionate buddhists did this without having their hands forced.
:)
cornax, and came across a description of hatsumi soke showing off some of his weirder
martial arts. The student was to start attacking him from ten feet away. hatsumi just
focussed on him intently, and the student suddenly loses all the strength in his limbs
and passes out on the tatami, coming to several minutes later.
"how did you do that?" the bewildered student asks.
Hatsumi's one word reply: "Hara".
My experience with this kind of thing tells me that sometimes it is more effective to overload
than to drain, though. Overload is maybe more painful sometimes (like a lightning bolt
in your brain), but the resulting awakening will have you contemplating the folly of violence
as a means of solving conflict, and thanking the compassion of teachers.
I hear that Tibetan Monks used dorjes and large temple keys on ribbons to attack bandits'
dim mak points. This seems to me to be a very compassionate way to deal with an attacker,
because you don't end up damaging them, but healing them. this way they will wake up and
change their lives, hopefully. of course you can totally kill someone with dim mak, but I doubt the compassionate buddhists did this without having their hands forced.
:)