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The Phoenix's avatar

Excellent article!

I practiced Shotokan for a number of years and a bit of Judo. Can’t say I’m good but it helped in some situations 😉

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Occupy Schagen's avatar

A GREAT Article Julian !!

Sorry i have been too busy lately...

So i'll take some time on this important topic...

I hope you'll like it...

"THE WAY !"...

Moody Blues "The Best Way..." July 1968...

->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEsO4_Y1Ck

The Best Way To Travel...

And you can fly

High as a kite if you want to

Faster than light if you want to

Speeding through the universe

Thinking is the best way to travel

...

It's all a dream

Light passing by on the screen

And there's you and I on a beam

Speeding through the universe

Thinking is the best way to travel

...

We ride the waves

Distance is gone, will we find out

How life began, will we find out?

Speeding through the universe

Thinking is the best way to travel

...

And you can fly

High as a kite if you want to

Faster than light if you want to

Speeding through the universe

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- "I wasn’t enlightened either. So I fail on all counts."... ?

You are wrong in essence... "I" has a body it thinks...

Zen: "When there is nobody to be enlightened, enlightenment has happened."

So first you gotta get rid of the "I", the body.

As in Zen Martial Arts: You need "Distance" from the "I-Body"...

Being Autistic, you know how to "do" that:

Hyperfocus (or "Flow") is called: "Transient Hypofrontallity", meaning: the Frontal Lobe to be temporary switched off. As we know that is where the "I" (Ego), the Will, Time, Group-think and other Social communications are located.

And yes, as you experience in Hyperfocus, or Flow there is no one doing anything. All happens, but nobody is there doing it... You just go with the flow... YOU EXPERIENCE the flow. ALL of it.

Then you have distance: From "The Outside looking in". Distance to the world, which is an illusion anyway. "A dream". Maya...

"The Eye that sees, but cannot see itself" is NOT part of the world. Wittgenstein calls it "A limit of the World". Greater distance than being outside (or at the limit or the Edge as Caitlin calls it, of) the World is not thinkable.

Here i have Robert Crumb explaining it without words...

To start klick the bottom right arrow. From there it works automatic (Java script).

->https://www.ardjoena.nl/Ardjoena/Crumb/Crumb-intro.html.

Sander

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Longtrail's avatar

Julian, you wrote a great post. Again I agree wholeheartedly. I am an acolyte of COL John Boyd and a student of his Generations of War. We all studied Sun Tsu as well. It's evident.

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CI Carlson's avatar

I find this interesting, as a discussion of bodily strategy. But Putin avoiding casualties? Early reports were Putin used recruits as cannon fodder, into a meat grinder. And Putin defending anyone against genocide? Nah.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Thanks for the comment.

I have seen those reports about Putin throwing recruits into the "meat grinder". They all originate in Kiev. The initial force Putin used were all volunteers such as the Chechens or contract soldiers like the Wagner people. Other than Kiev and Mariupol most of the fighting was actually done by the forces of the LPR and DPR. However, the Russians DID take their heaviest casualties in the first two weeks of the war -- which Russian reports say upset Putin. As for "genocide", Putin has maintained all along that that UAF's intention in Donbas is "genocidal". Hence, his "invasion". Agree to disagree? LOL

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CI Carlson's avatar

I believe parts of eastern Ukraine speak Russian and identify as Russian, so it seems tragic that diplomatic efforts didn’t redraw the boundaries to prevent bloodshed. Perhaps that is a fantasy. Even if redrawing the boundaries to more accurately identify “Ukraine” versus “Russia” regions were a just and accurate solution, I would find the language of “genocide “ “rhetorical “ ( in the worst sense ) at best, and cynical and self-serving at worst. I seem to distrust Putin more than you. Perhaps you will say that is due to media framing.

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Nelson Betancourt's avatar

Hi Julian: I bought three coffees last week to receive your report and have not received it.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Hi Nelson. It was sent. But there seems to have been a server error. I have resent it. Please let me know if you get it. If you don't get it, I will send via Large Mail Transfer. Apologies!

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