From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #33 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Thur, 20 Jan 2000 Vol 07 : Num 033 In this issue: eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #31 ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. ~1100 members strong! Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry, Martial Arts Resource, and Inayan Eskrima Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe eskrima-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a plain text e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and online search the last four years worth of digest issues at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mikal Keenan" Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:21:51 -0600 Subject: eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #31 > we become out of center with ourselves whichever of these > two responses we take. This is a pivotal point in my opinion. Very pivotal idea ... emotion, motivation and action are inseparable. Sometimes the action(s) are not visible, for example physiological changes, but action is always a potential in the process of what we do once an emotional response gets initiated. The key is understanding and recognizing more about the mind itself ... particualarly the physical aspect(s) involving the brain. The parts of the brain that motivate us are old and have fewer contacts with the new brain (cortex) than our "drivers". They are also arranged in a loop kinda. As a result, once an emotional response begins the emotional centers stimulate themselves as well as other parts of the brain that they'r connected to. When this exceeds some threshold, the cortex loses ability to inhibit the process and we cut loose :-) Our training must take this into consideration, i.e., seek composure along with our slam'n'jam ... and seek that composure in the midst of our slam'n'jam sometimes. Not only can it help us get better control of our fight response, it can also help our fight performance. A little bit'o ethics and morality can help too. Oh yeah, and then there's trained reasoning. Ey, self mastery is not about being ba-a-a-a-ad. Temper is good only if we can manage it, otherwise it may cost us more than it costs the assailant that we might put down. Yo, Roan ... relax muchacho ... don't doubt that many here and elsewhere (including this one) feel the same as you do about the "dregs" of American society ... both the high and low class dregs, eh? What we have to be careful of is what I think of as the "Falling Down" syndrome. Seen that flick? Our society needs to have a coordination of intentions like yours that will move for and through the general society. Humble Opinion: If we can't maintain ourselves and start flippin' out on creeps in our solo trajectories through time and space it ain't gonna help nobody, it ain't gonna help no thing except our own sens of indignation ... and that won't last because VERY soon thereafter we'll be amongst the low class dregs of society with no vacation time, know what I mean? Nobody special Mik has had to deal with a lot of crap, threats, insults, galore ... racism, "weirdies" (that's my PC term to cover various deviatn "lifeways") ... man, I've lost sleep many nights working to keep my mind occupied (I know somebody out there knows what I mean :-) I'd like to tell you more but won't because it might mess up any day in court I might have to manage in the future (don't wanna go there). I can relate to your seriousness ... but would like to share with you this thought: It is the time when we are close to losing tolerance when we realize just how much tolerance we need. That's worth more than $0.02 muchacho. Tolerance not in the sense that we rest in tolerating things that we should not, but tolerance such that we do not perform actions without governing our choice(s) of action with reasoning ... which results in outcomes that we cannot change. How do we make the BIG picture of societal decay move in a better direction? I don't know ... maybe start by finding/talking with others who feel the same ... real community is based on shared values. Why? because when we know that the neighbor won't sodomize our little kids we can rest easy knowing that he lives a few feet away ... we have some measure of prediction of the behvaior of those around us ... we don't have that in general America anymore. People do not genrally congregate into communities based on shared values. The nation's set of shared values is supposed to be summed up in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federal Laws, etc. ... so to the individual states ... and I think I'd better close here and get back to work. Be well, Mik ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #33 *************************************** To unsubscribe from the eskrima-digest send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY of an email (top line, left justified) addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry, Martial Arts Resource, and Inayan Eskrima Standard disclaimers apply.