Please don’t offend my students or my readers. They’re not gullible. Many are well-read scholars. Many are dedicated, skilled, classy martial artists. And all are smart enough to have strong opinions.

While I won’t BS you or any readers or students, I will occasionally make mistakes, write inaccurately, be too vague, or use ridiculously intellectualized words…that’s just the way it is here. Please enjoy that stuff or don’t waste your time here if you don’t enjoy my writings.

Judging by your website and because you have experience as a martial artist, scientist, and teacher, I’d welcome your participation here. Just be nice.

For several years, I was a regular invitee at an annual science fair in Tucson demonstrating how martial arts applied basic laws pf physics. So I am well aware of the difference between the woo and the wow.

Nor have I ever taken advantage of the gullibility of students to promote my teaching, nor have I ever taught anything that I didn’t would work for them.

Rather than be defensive and point you to some burlier visions, statements, and demonstrations of something worthy of your years of experience…I’ll accept your vision of me. I suppose, after all, something like compassion is woo-woo. Sensitivity, however powerful and important it is, is also pretty darn woo-woo. Besides: I like the word woo-woo.

I’m not very good at BS though; try as I might. And, as I twist my mind, imagining your intentions to insult (is this what they mean by “troll” on the internet?), I can consider making “nothing real” or bringing “emptiness to life” a task worthy of only the Great.

I’m working on Nothing. But I’m not there yet

How we know what we know is a different level, sort of…we could consider it the next layer of sorts…epistemology. Though I consider that a bit too heady too. Phenomenology might be more fundamentally important in terms of using the body to understand, rather than the thinking-process that philosophy tends to emphasize.

See: if we think too much about philosophy at least 2 things happen: we leave behind people who could care less about all this intellectualizing and, second, we get it wrong. Thinking is only a tiny portion of our total capacity. Feeling, sensing, moving: all these deserve more attention. Martial arts, meditation, and the like, attempt to put thinking in its place…take it out of its dominating role in our lives.

So: good. This is a child-like level of philosophizing.

We’re in the World. That’s amazing.

he “had” Experience in Aikido & WinG Chun, *ironicaLLY*

when he “did” a Biu Tze *Finger Thrusting* attack on mi “neck” but “stopped” Short of “going” fuLL:

*Blast* I Just “stood” there, in mi Wing Chun “on guard” position:

I was “stiLL” as a Feather, no “Response” no “Reason” 2 React* ja ja?

))))))))))))) thankS, but SometimeS* methinkS u n’ I:

We* r both on da “same’ Wave-Length, afteraLL: