Chapter 3: Moving on!

This is about how we modern folk defend and protect ourselves, our family members and our clan or tribe, I.e., tribe and clan symbolic titles to denote those we hold as friends such as neighbors, folks in our neighborhood and people who live in our close knit city, town or social circles who have a cultural belief system similar to ours and our cultural belief system similar to those folks we feel strongly to defend and protect. 

This is about how our clan, our tribe, in such modern governmental controlled times, can achieve the type of security and safety necessary to survival. It is hoped that through this effort folks can begin to know what they currently don’t know along with developing a mental-state that will allow them to believe that there are things they don’t yet know they don’t know so they may continue the effort to seek out the very things they don’t know to ensure survival of self, family and clan/tribe (I will use tribe now and as we move along to denote family, clan and other social constructs for inclusion throughout the book).

In this book people should remain open until the entire circle, symbol used is the “Enso circle” by building each “Arc” until the circle is almost complete. Almost because nothing is every complete much like the symbol of the Enso itself that although an artistic rendering of a circle, it as such has a small gape between where it begins and where it is supposed to end meeting up with the beginning - a philosophical thing in martial disciplines. 

The Enso when superimposed over another symbol from our Chinese Martial heritage is the, “Yin-Yang.” Yin-yang, to be fully explained in later arc’s, is a complimentary and yet opposite symbol denoting the all sides regardless have an opposite side to counter balance the whole. There is a dark side and a light side making a whole, there is a hard side with a soft side making a whole and when the symbol is applied properly it guides the practitioner toward a whole, wholehearted, singular one that makes the martial discipline whole. 

In the arc’s or chapters to follow we will discuss how the practitioners of the disciplines can achieve a whole, singular, wholehearted system of methods to achieve through the entire system of defense-protection toward the safety, security and, most of all, the survival of self, family and tribe.