Just Goes to Show

You can turn anything into the thing you want it to be. Look how easy it was to take a small part of a post and turn it toward my favorite subjects, i.e. martial arts and self-defense. Just goes to show that almost anything can be shifted and molded and adjusted to fit someones personal perceptions and beliefs. Isn’t that the dangerous parts alluded to in the original post?

Look to the gokui as an example. There are few actual in-depth interpretations of what the short and terse koan means but when you do find them they are different as night vs. day. Take for instance what I created in the eBook PDF I feely gave out long ago vs. the book titled, “The Last Lesson (The Go-kui of Isshin-ryu) by James C. Burris, jr.” There is one that is day and one that is night and neither actually relates to the other in content and/or meaning.

It helps us explain the many factions of the system as well. Each has their own perceptions and interpretations of what was taught to the early pioneers and each adamantly and completely believes what they practice, teach and preach is the true Isshinryu system. So much so that none in the factions can achieve détente when dealing with the other factions. 

It also just “goes to show” that even when referencing the same sources each comes to differing conclusions and then wholehearted believes what they interpret is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Just goes to show nothing is without question without questioning. 

Note: still editing this eBook but hope to be done soon :-)