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 "Focusing Emptiness is about how the significant choices we make in life can be colored by the trauma we experience in childhood.

          It is about how we split off our most vulnerable parts, and how these parts can sometimes fall into a fantasy world where real world choices become entangled with the fantasy world designed to protect us.

          If you have ever looked back on your life, and wondered why you made that particular decision, that decision which turned your direction at that critical fork in the road, then this book will touch something of deep recognition inside you."

http://focusingemptiness.com/index.php/about-the-book

 

My first CMA teacher wrote a book explaining the start for many peoples journeys  in life. 

some of which I outline in my own journey to emptiness.

https://journeytoemptiness.com/2017/05/10/beginnings/

 

thought some might enjoy the reading,,,

 

 

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10 minutes ago, windwalker said:

 "Focusing Emptiness is about how the significant choices we make in life can be colored by the trauma we experience in childhood.

          It is about how we split off our most vulnerable parts, and how these parts can sometimes fall into a fantasy world where real world choices become entangled with the fantasy world designed to protect us.

          If you have ever looked back on your life, and wondered why you made that particular decision, that decision which turned your direction at that critical fork in the road, then this book will touch something of deep recognition inside you."

http://focusingemptiness.com/index.php/about-the-book

 

My first CMA teacher wrote a book explaining the start for many peoples journeys  in life. 

some of which I outline in my own journey to emptiness.

https://journeytoemptiness.com/2017/05/10/beginnings/

 

thought some might enjoy the reading,,,

 

 

Curiously, I had that Hop Gar book pictured (and I later studied a Northern Praying Mantis style for several years).

 

I am adding Focusing Emptiness to my near-future reading list!

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44 minutes ago, Brian said:

Curiously, I had that Hop Gar book pictured (and I later studied a Northern Praying Mantis style for several years).

 

I am adding Focusing Emptiness to my near-future reading list!

 

Hop Gar, was very cool in many aspects, Mike has many stories about his use of it.

Our training in the style was very severer, it among other styles was/is billed as a fighting style.

The mantis style as taught in Korea, seems to be a little different then those lines from HK  reflecting IMO

more the flavor of Shandong  the origin of the  mantis  style. talks a little bit about my teacher in this 

style http://www.oocities.org/mantiscave/parkchil.htm

 

Mike, is very  accessible by email, should some be interested in corresponding with him. 

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For those interested, Mike, might address comments here.  If posed to him directly. 

I'll forward the links to him, ya never know he is busy but enjoys working with people and 

sharing things he's found along the way.

 

I like this site,  the high level of discourse and the many varied conversations. 

My hope would be that maybe he sees the site and joins the bums,,,,another bum walking 

on the path of the dao....life is good.;)

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Mike seems to have found his way here, becoming one of the "bums"  ;)

he's been walking the path for quite a while...

 

Some  thoughts on his book.

 

In some ways its a strange book in that one can not read it right a way.  

like a fine wine one has to savor the taste allowing it to seep in quietly.

Although it does have chapters and such.  Each can stand on its own

complete within its self, and yet part of a greater whole. 

 

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 It is about how we split off our most vulnerable parts, and how these parts can sometimes fall into a fantasy world where real world choices become entangled with the fantasy world designed to protect us.

 

 an insightful work.

 

hope others take the  time to read the book, any questions privately or publicly

Mike, is very approachable. 

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