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Old 01-17-2004, 08:05 PM   #24
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Re: Ki

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George S. Ledyard wrote:
...If we allow our opponent to grab our attention with his attack, we are invariably defeated...
"But even before he attacks our mind goes there (the area of the attack). That is because we are conceited. Not conceited as I'm so great! but conceited as being aware of one's self."

That's a paraphrase of what one of my instructors' take on this is. And yes, he also read Spiritual Foundations and went to a Gleason seminar.

It is not practice that makes perfect, it is correct practice that makes perfect.
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