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[wolven7]

David Bowie - [Little Wonder]--- "How can anyone choose to reason falsely? It is simply the old yearning for impermeability... there are people who are attracted tby the permanence of stone. They would like to be solid and impenetrable, they do not want change: for who knows what change might bring?... It is as if their own existence werre perpetually in suspense. But they want to exist in all ways at once, and all in one instant. They have no wish to acquire ideas, they want them to be innate... they want to adopt a mode of life in which reasoning and the quest for truth play only a subordinate part, in which nothing is sought except that which has already been found, in which one never becomes anything else but what one already was." - Sartre

David Bowie - [Looking For Satellites]--- We search for perfection, but I don't think we should ever think we've found it. (David Bowie - [Battle For Britain (The Letter)]). If we think we've found it, then we've lost the point, entirely.

If we're perfect, complete, total, with nothing left to learn, then we have nothing left but to be destroyed. We have to relearn Nothing.

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[momentai.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much exactly how my sensei approached teaching us shuri-ryu. He always stressed that practice does not make you perfect but perfect practice does and that we never truly "knew" any of the forms or moves he was teaching. He would always try to catch us saying we did. No matter what level you were he would react by either verbally harrassing you about it or by calling you out on the mat, making you perform whatever it was you thought you knew, then after you did so poorly due to nervousness, have another student attack you to see just how much you "knew". Good times.

That's where I get my outlook that you don't know anything about defending yourself until you've lost a fight. Winning just means you fought someone who understood less than you. Losing means you are now aware of s/t new to practice.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Very good way of looking at that.

I want to... dance!

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Wait, I already do that.

I want to know what the rules and tools are, so I know with what I can build and how I can build it.