“It isn’t something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are ‘marked’ with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.”

— Guy Finley (via occult101)

Ain’t it the truth!

Riffing on a Fortune Cookie

It’s more than a cookie. It’s a conversation.

Pardon me While my Head Symbolically Explodes

Welcome to the Martial Mysteries

A Tarot Meditation on VII: The Chariot

Can you find seven lower Sephiroth?

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via occult101)

SLOW KICKS, MEDITATION

SLOW KICKS (100 ea. very slowly with perfect form, 5+ seconds per kick, 20 mins.); MEDITATION (15 mins.) * #cabalfang #WOD #hagakure

* If desired, try The #Hagakure #Meditation: Imagine that you are a tree, looking out at the world, which is obscured by your own leaves. Now picture your leaves falling away, each leaf an attachment, a need, obligation, or desire. As each leaf falls away your view of the world becomes more and more clear. Finally you are looking out past bare limbs. You have no attachments, no needs, no desires, and no obligations. Your view of the world is crystal clear and unclouded.

“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders’ that goes, "Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.” This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.“

~Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Karma and Advanced Metaphysics

Thad from Disinfo provides new perspective on an ancient concept.

The Order of the Third Wave, a new order of Cabal Fang, has just formed formed in New Zealand.  Get more info here:

https://www.facebook.com/OrderThirdWave

Fitness for Knife Fighters

Knife fitness drill with focus on retention, command, and mastery.

The Myth of the Blind Master

The Myth of the Blind Master:

Who is the “blind master?"  The blind master is an archetypal figure who, having lost sight has gained something more… http://wp.me/ppc1y-NY

The Cabal Fang Manual is in the iBook Store’s Top 5 in martial arts…http://remitchelljr.com/2014/10/02/how-to-get-into-the-ibook-store-top-5/

westernmystery:

The Art of Being Yourself: Caroline McHugh at TEDxMiltonKeynesWomen

“Most people don’t take up nearly the space the universe intended for them."  Outstanding stuff.

F=MA: The Secret to Success

There is a simple lesson that artists of all kinds can learn from Applied Physics. Believe me when I say that, whether you are a writer, a painter, or a martial artist, the equation “F=MA” is directly relevant to you.