First of all, reader, your writer has put so many dozens of hours into this website because he feels, intuits, observes that the reader could increase and deepen their happiness by taking a good look at this material, this material which embodies much of the genuine teaching, but covers just a few aspects of it. He has felt a deeper interest on the part of the reader partially because such feelings are common when a serious individual is faced with questions of Quantum Physics, Zen, Bushido, or other varieties of philosophy. He has also sensed that You feel a little anticipation regarding the possibility of a recreational excursion into this stuff. Know, then, that the first-hand experience of the feeling-spoils that so many people derive from even a small study can be life-changing, but sometimes a little intimidating because of the strength of the inspiration it sometimes generates. So remember that this is natural and that even a Brown-belt feels it when he thinks of facing a Master Teacher in training. Hence the advice, take it easy!

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This writing's content represents the way to go if: one, you have, at first exposure to it, one or a small handful of memorable, or even a little bit confusing, insights that feel or seem totally new to the looking party and that can only be explained by the presence of what just must be some kind of magic; two, if you discover a desire to create a couple of occasions for some recreational practice - some testing and learning, some resonating with and from, this unique variety of internal life-source; or, three, if you find you prefer just to read a friend/neighbor's letter when it is given and consider its contents. From these motivations, many visitors generate surprise at the measure of compatibility, life-enhancing power, valued psycho-emotional and/or psycho-somatic return from the injected material, and from the penultimate gratefulness that often happens there - the latter being perhaps the most important thing in this Karate-do recreation.

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Also, and moving forward, it is especially after a couple of phases of any sample practice of moderate seriousness - not necessarily having much length - that a bit of this magic begins to become an important agenda to the looking party; and it is at that point that it can begin to turn out bigger rewards. Many such curious parties come to feel that life's hardships become easier, that its joys become purer and more abundant, and that its self-guidance becomes clearer - all at least during a period of meaningful duration, even just a couple or a few days. And it could be said, and should be said, in fact, that the whole teaching of more experienced devotees is based on an expansive, free, and always evolving, and returning, mystical superconscious - one that is sometimes the same as the Lesser (as written elsewhere in the website). While teachers talk and write about transcendence, or other similar experiences, and how they are somehow beyond words, it seems that in a very large and significant sense, there is little comparison as far as everything that describes a beginner and everything that describes a Master or near-Master. Anyone that has felt moments of this briefly described wonder - even in small measure - definitely knows that this applied Eastern wisdom is in fact an art that can very easily be cast as often essential to the life or wellness of just about any curious party.

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Here it is necessary to make an aside about one kind of danger that comes with such a bit of philosophical recreation. For some people - especially over-extended individuals, lost souls, or immature young folk - the feeling that happens as a result of what, to others, could be considered impulsive, confused, forceful, or misdirected mind – can breed a strong arising impression that the material is urgently important. This kind of interest is dangerous because it can create more than a little bit of stress or even traumatic shellshock. In this case, then, of course, any practitioner that has sense would sadly recommend to this unfortunate type of individual the cessation of involvement or the taking of raincheck/s of moderate to longer duration. Onward, while some beginners unintentionally hurt themselves in this way - occasionally severely, as your writer did a long time ago - it sure seems that the circumstance of the reader's having of a moderate or greater measure of life experience and having of any of the virtues that generally come with it - that having some of this virtue makes for the best kind of positive outcome to this recreation to take place. It is in this case, then, perhaps, that the looking party delivers to him/herself the most benefit!

 

In other words, change of the right kind is bound to happen after raincheck/s of the right kind, or at least it is certainly so given enough time. And these rainchecks could be of greater length - and inadvertently of greater benefit - than a misdirected individual could ever suspect they should be. And it is not to mention here, to be a little bit more specific, that letting go of the prospect of rigorous training, or that letting go of enlightening practice, or of fantasies of leaps of status -  that letting go of such a misdirected effort itself is a kind of wisdom and practice. In such a case, for several examples, relaxation, the valuable appearances of numbness (this being comparable to peacefulness, or having emotional armor), and letting go are incredibly important tools. Having a moderate to greater measure of life experience, then, or a greater measure of rainchecks - such a period of time always contains learning of some kind that, later on, comes to have more value than many individuals in that circumstance would ever expect. And, indeed, many practitioners are happy they took some time away from it and later on would say that they, wouldn't have had it any other way!

 

Next, it seems to be virtuous to briefly discuss a couple of the stronger kinds of adversaries. Is it just, then, in every case, to recommend that a reader or interested party have faith? Isn't it true that some varieties of doubt and pain are two of the strongest virtues that one can have, especially if it means forgetting all about it, then coming back to it at a later time if one wishes it. That is, your writer, having had quite a bit of challenge, himself, would mention it. And if the doubt is too much, and the practitioner keeps coming back to it, it will undoubtedly fade after time.

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Further feeling about the described, visitor parties is that after such a one has derived something valuable from their episode of recreation, whether in feeling, mind, body or greater superconscious – your writer would say that they have seeded what will, already with certainty, unfold in the future as: an occasionally arising, but fondly considered and moderate passion, a gently radiant gratefulness, and even a little awe. And these joys especially arise in the case of the visitor's full witnessing of the very spirit of the much later-phase practitioner, a thing which is so often amazing and wonderful. Most importantly, then, as part of the like of such a witnessing, there is a gratefulness of deep, pure, activating, and very satisfying and peaceful joy toward any superconscious and perceived source, whether Teacher, circumstance, or spiritual influence. Often this penultimate experience is translated in Bushido as, Delightful Sadness, and is just one instance of, Crying for Joy, or of true Compassion. And such inspirations are incredible and can help, as powerful allies, by doing wonders for all of our Teachers' followers and his/her curious parties.

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Having written a little about the visitor's virtues, the agenda of discussing more of them is important because it gives way to further introductory, and generally essential, knowledge of the Way to Wellness that is intimately associated with Eastern religion. In fact, being keeper of as few as a couple of these virtues, which describe a Black-belt, too, is enough for potent thoughts of healing to arise and dwell in the mind, then blossom into that which can be thoroughly characterized as, often, long-lasting wellness. And this Happiness is constituted and somehow directly created by these virtues, by these things that are little observed/noticed and little utilized, but that are also often powerful, ever an advantage, and thoroughly commonplace. Thus, someone who has felt the undeniable, inspirational, always remembered, and lasting joy that is originated by just a little bit of practice, it seems that a recreational excursion into this mindful wisdom is unquestionably the thing to do!

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To discuss virtue more, it would seem this way - that it is just the thing to do - not just to one type of visitor, but to many types of visitor-parties, let alone to many types of genuine member-parties. That is, to use only a spontaneous, but definitely somehow relevant, sample list of insights of the member-party: for example, one, it would seem this way, to anyone that understands that there are a diversity of methods that can be applied by Teachers, or by more mysterious influences, in the act of beginning and moderating the earlier-phase budding processes of just about any  earlier-phase party; it would seem this way, two, to anyone that can expect or see the involvement of some or another part of their mind in his/her own spontaneous attraction of, even his/her own deliberate and direct creation of, moments and short periods of increased wellness that make such recreation worth it; it would seem this way, three, to anyone that somewhere, somehow feels that the insights herein are actually a proven, powerful, and coherent set of martial arts of the mind, ones that wax and wane, stimulate measures of wellness, recreate themselves, destroy anger, delusion, and greed, inculcate virtue, and that can stem from tradition, or from creative practice; and, four, it would seem this way to anyone that knows that these arts are very much of such a type so that a visitor, always working out of attentiveness, often knowingly or unknowingly engages in psychic combat with some circumstance, some influence, and most importantly, perhaps, with his own mind and psyche. And so you see, the list of virtues is endless and there is a place for very many readers in it.

 

And here, as the Black-belt seems to be forever full of easy, common, but highly-valuable and magical insights - in the form of endless lists, made a couple times per every so often - many of which are transmitted by presence and feeling more than speech, it is important to repeat that those all over this website have their origins in the study or mere spontaneity of your writer, just a Brown-belt. But why include so many lists of virtue? Because the beginner - and the intermediate student - and the advanced student - has to start somewhere. And because the fuel for the growth of the plant of Happiness, Enlightenment, Wellness almost always has water, sunlight, nutrients, and co-dependent, symbiotic creatures. That is, this plant can only grow in the presence of certain virtues. Hence the question, What could a Black-belt do if he/she trained the reader by means of writing? What could a Black-belt do if they trained the reader directly?!

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Of course, the medicine of Bushido - and perhaps some of the writing in this very piece - haha! - is sometimes too esoteric, inaccessible, serious, philosophical, or even boring for some minds! And its ethos has some pieces that even relatively long-time, devoted practitioners find not to be compatible with things. From this very same part of your writer's own experience, then, this very same feeling, this practitioner wants to be sure to add that he has learned that he is not a groupy, but is much more like a hybrid who plots out multi-dimensionality, who values well-adjustedness, who doesn't have the benefit of a serious, stable group of practicing comrades in any of the several largest areas of Eastern wisdom, who is less gifted and more ordinary, all of these, for just a few, being things that contradict some of the material that starts with the Black-belt.

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Thanks for reading! So long.