Editorials
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Aug/29/2006"Si-Fu, you seem to be doing exactly the same with everyone!"
Grandmaster Kernspecht on the different criteria he uses when conducting grading examinations.
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Jul/28/2006Let us begin with ourselves!
"Please tighten the reins and increase the demands on grading candidates", Oliver Hagenau, 3rd TG WT writes to his Si-Fu, Grandmaster Keith R. Kernspecht ...
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Jun/30/2006Hopefully the frustration will never end!
Guest editorial by Sifu Roland Liebscher-Bracht,
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5th PG WT, EWTO Chief Instructor for ChiKung -
May/31/2006In this school we are all students!<br>Bishop von Hippo
“Dont be so bloody rigid (so that I can hit you)!“
Have you ever heard this said to you (without the bit in brackets of course), or perhaps shouted it out yourself in a fit of barely concealed frustration? This is an admonition which will hopefully have its effect on the user of an internal or soft style, whose stated aim is to borrow the strength of the opponent, recycle it and use it for his own purposes.
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Apr/30/2006Let us rid ourselves of the idea that we already have a free will
Anyway, according to our WT understanding, the will is something quite different from the perception of most people.
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Mar/31/2006From a Zero to a Hero
How Keith R. Kernspecht rocketed up the pecking-order of our infant school class 54 years ago.
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Feb/28/2006Is the converse (also) true - Can the search for self-knowledge be harmful?
It seems to me that personal change, i.e. the ability to see situations differently and respond to them differently is the most valuable thing we can acquire through correct WT over the years.
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Jan/31/2006There is no must if you do not want it
There is no must for any man, why must a Dervish?
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What must he do?
Lessing (Nathan the Wise) -
Dec/30/2005“Finding lost arrows, of how faith can move mountains
In my early years, between the ages of 8 and 13, I used to spend every day out in the countryside climbing trees, wrestling and practicing the Asian martial arts, axe-throwing and doing archery, without anybody ever having shown me how.
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Nov/30/2005Dont let us confuse studying with the actual work!
Everything you read about the human psyche in my editorials is merely information. You can read it and nod sagely, but this does not change anything – not a thing.
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