Last week I had the opportunity to write about my favorite trigram, the fire trigram, so it seems only fitting that this week my post gets to be on its partner, the trigram representing water. Everyone seems to know that fire and water are opposites. This, as a concept, is cross-cultural and has been expressed […]

Lao Tzu is known as the author of the Tao Te Ching, a mysterious book of philosophy from China that has been around for 2,500 years, and inspired the philosophy of Taoism. The name Lao Tzu is also translated “Laozi” as well as other variations of spelling. The word “Tao” translates literally to a “way” […]

Today I found two new books at my local used book store, Autumn Leaves, that I am looking forward to sharing in this and future blog posts. One is an ancient classic that Master Shaffer recommended; The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. This Japanese script dates back to 1643, the year the undefeated […]

Previously, in my weekly post #20 [http://insidetiger.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/doll-weekly-post-20-tao-in/] I began writing about Masters Mantak and Maneewan Chias’ video Tao-In; Regaining a Youthful Body. That post shares a summary of the beginning of the video, which is footage from a workshop, explaining the reasoning behind the exercises shared later in the video. Briefly, these include strengthening the […]

Greetings… First let me just say I am blown away by the fact that this week is our 20th weekly post!  Amazing!  I know I say it all the time but I am so happy I happy to be a part of this community.  Hagsaeng Naebu has become such a comfortable, welcomed, addition to my […]

In my last post I explained a rather new idea about becoming a well-rounded martial artist in terms of knowledge. In that post I also explained how it would govern my weekly posts, but I will not begin that posting system until next week. I’ll probably begin with a couple of books on history and write down whatever […]