Every good attack move is also a good defence move. Better to attack while better defending. Every poor attack move is also a poor defence move. Better not to attack if it loses defence. (Any attack purely for antagonising another is senseless violence.)...

While in motion during sparring, your arms should never cross the virtual line the divides your left from the right, or it would become a weakness, easy to be pushed off balance. This is the physical Middle Path, not exactly there physically, yet to be noted...

The taller and slimmer use swords to extend their reach as their strength, The shorter and stouter use sabres to extend their bulk as their strength. The wise accentuate their virtues, while they limit their...

It is better to stand humbly low while moving stably than to stand tall and proud while moving rashly.

… The posture of the mind affects the posture of the body which affects the posture of the mind… (This applies to meditation too, as with every other...

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. - Stonepeace In the movie ‘Confessions’, a mother meticulously plots to exact vengeance on the two killers of her daughter. It is surely ...

Even as you think you are sitting still, wherever you are, You are moving at 1,000 miles per hour, as the Earth rotates at the equator, while also moving at 66,000 miles per hour, as the Earth revolves around the sun, while also moving at 43,000 miles per hour, as the solar system moves in...

Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions of his rashness and rage too. What claws do we have and use? Manjusri’s sword is the extension of his perfect wisdom in action severing ignorance out of...

Ubuntu (Zulu): People become people through other people. Humanity (English): Human beings are humanised through being humane to one another. Buddhahood (Sanskrit-English): Beings become Buddhas through helping other beings become Buddhas too. Paraphrased from a friend’s notes: Ven....

In ‘All Star Superman: Volume 1′ by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Superman tries to convince Lois Lane that he is Clark Kent, that he is not different from him. Just as Clark didn’t pretend to be Superman, Superman didn’t pretend to be Clark. They are one and the...

Explorers are discovering more and more wonderfully ‘weird’-looking deep sea creatures day by day. Reminds me of how the karma of countless beings take shape in infinite shapes and sizes. Beware! Karma will always find a way to manifest (if not changed in...

A Tit for a Tat (182) Tit: You should had said so more clearly! Tat: You should have asked me to say it more clearly! Tit: How would I know it wouldn’t be clear till you said it? Tat: How would I know it wasn’t clear to you till you said so? Next...