From: silatman@hls.com
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: The Spirit of an Encounter
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:29:33 GMT




                       The Spirit of the Encounter:


   I consider all real education to find its way into the internal.
In fact, the realization of the internal which is the Spiritual Heart,
or the Essence of a human being, and the removal of any blemishes
that may be existing on this Spritual Heart, is a real challenge,
and it is all within the person.

   I see martial artists obssessed with external tools. Those tools
are good as far as bringing information into the internal is 
concerned. But, if a martial artist does not recognize his or her
internal self, and his or her motivations, the hidden reasons why
he or she wants to do anything, or reacts in the manner that
he or she does to certain situations, than all external training
is wasted.

   A human being has a dual reality, with dual identities:

       1. The Soul [spiritual].
       2. The Body [material].

   The soul was created before, and now is existing in 
the material body on this earth, in order to undergo a test.

   The body is, while in the "conscious" mode, under control
of the brain. The brain recognizes and understands this world
only, most of the time. The connection with the soul takes
effort to establish, unless you are gifted from God.

   The brain is affected by schemes of ambition for status
in this world, and by thoughts of fears of different kinds.
Unless these thoughts are brought within control,
these same thoughts may result in actions which will 
leave blemishes on the soul. The soul is a house of knowledge
and it receives its information from the experiences of
the body. The hands, the feet, the brain, the eyes, etc. are all
tools for inputting this information. When these external tools
are allowed to engage in bad acts, the soul receives 
blackness onto it. That same blackness may reflect back
to the physical of the person, to one who has the seeing.
This blackness can be cleansed thru recognition of it
and repenting from bad acts, but if left for a long time,
it may become permanent or require a lot of effort for
its cleansing.

   Thus, the soul is a mirror. Turn this mirror towards badness
and the 'bad' will be reflected in it. Turn this mirror towards
goodness and the 'good' will be reflected in it. 

   The curse of modern education is that it divides ultimate
truth into bits and pieces, so that every person perceives only
the immediate truth close to him/herself, on a very low level
of truths. In order for all the souls to vibrate with one
single vibration, a recognition must be brought about for
a single truth. 

   In the existing system of rule in the world, the ruling
class encourages a doctrine which cuts up truth into
bits and pieces so that a ruling system can be established.
All modern education is not education in a real sense,
but an endoctrination. 

   The truth of any physical act is the spiritual driving
force behind it. Thus, a man may show a punching move so
that he can show you a mechanical truth, but if his spirit
is that of personal ambition or personal fear, then he
actually wants to impress you with his own superiority,
his own Ego, and the subject at hand is himself rather
than the correct method of punching. 

   When you spar with anybody, try to recognize this spirit.
Between any two persons there is always a spirit that
exists during their meeting, and that spirit can be recognized
as a blessing or a curse, dependent upon if you have 
the seeing. This seeing is not physical seeing from the eyes,
this seeing is from your own Essence. In order to develop
this seeing, one must cleanse one's own Essence first.

                         salam alaikum!

                                         Khalid Khan
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