Dot A: Each of us lives in and as a manufactured existence. We literally make ourselves up. We name ourselves. We label ourselves. We limit ourselves. We idealize ourselves.
Dot B: We are our favorite product. We kiss ourselves on our lips. We are absorbed in our own manufacture.
Dot C: Dots A and B are not wrong or bad. Dots A and B are part of who we are. Part.
Dot D: It is possible to see through our manufactured existence.
Dot E: Seeing through our manufactured existence allows seeing through our material existence.
Dot F: Not only have some of our ancestors (and contemporaries) that we categorize as "spiritual" seen through the material world and the manufactured world, some of those we categorize as warriors or martial artists have done the same.
Dot G: This seeing through by martial artists can be seen in their writings and in their lives (the way they move and stand and talk). They are embodyings of the soul and spirit of the universe itself.
Dot H: The martial arts and its artists are an example of the capability of “seeing through.” Seeing through can and does occur in many other practices.
Dot I: Seeing through, in the way I am using it here, means deliberately allowing the frame of mind of manufactured existence one habitually entertains to dissolve, to dissipate, to vanish.
Dot J: This is not an intellectual exercise. It requires one's whole being. Nothing held in reserve.
Dot K: Do it.
Dot B: We are our favorite product. We kiss ourselves on our lips. We are absorbed in our own manufacture.
Dot C: Dots A and B are not wrong or bad. Dots A and B are part of who we are. Part.
Dot D: It is possible to see through our manufactured existence.
Dot E: Seeing through our manufactured existence allows seeing through our material existence.
Dot F: Not only have some of our ancestors (and contemporaries) that we categorize as "spiritual" seen through the material world and the manufactured world, some of those we categorize as warriors or martial artists have done the same.
Dot G: This seeing through by martial artists can be seen in their writings and in their lives (the way they move and stand and talk). They are embodyings of the soul and spirit of the universe itself.
Dot H: The martial arts and its artists are an example of the capability of “seeing through.” Seeing through can and does occur in many other practices.
Dot I: Seeing through, in the way I am using it here, means deliberately allowing the frame of mind of manufactured existence one habitually entertains to dissolve, to dissipate, to vanish.
Dot J: This is not an intellectual exercise. It requires one's whole being. Nothing held in reserve.
Dot K: Do it.
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