Budo {G}aiku Shishō XXIX

武道 詩抄 

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

free your mind

end matrix control;

flying butterfly 🦋

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

live well for

experience counts; 

beware reality

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control your mind

control the matrix;

finally awake 

ZEN-ISH KOAN

clapping loudly

with one hand;

minding businesses 

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gumming up the works

goes the monkey chatter;

apply some lubricants 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

wanting it badly

leads to dissonance; 

failure to communicate

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

said often

false can become;

careful dude

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

love is transitory 

hate fits snugly; 

love hate thing

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

churning waters

once settled; 

see the moon 🌙 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

legally speaking 

luck is poor fense;

avoid conflicts 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

self-defense square 

in state of flux;

learning to dance 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

avoid idiots 

especially being one; 

build a personality 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

brushing the edge 

darkness of the abyss; 

deep dark fall

ZEN-ISH KOAN ✋ 

little blue rock 

vastyness of nothingness; 

hurtling along willy nilly

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

shivers and quivers

deep to the bone;

light that fire brother 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

fanning the flames

fire in the hole;

duck and hide

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

fanning the flames

damned qualifiers; 

be kinder my friend

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

a long time

need start afresh;

good luck

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

to change your life 

change your mind first; 

poke at your ego

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

excess emotion

clouds our reasoning;

beware anger

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

primordial nothingness

affirming void;

great tai chi

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ - CHUJŌ

remain professional 

and always polite; 

maintain boundaries

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

sunshining

off icicles; 

winter stories

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

making impressions 

dictate violent behavior;

beware the tell

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snow falling

on cedars;

white covered leaves 🍃 

ZEN-ISH KOAN ✋ 

when the shade drops

we enter final darkness;

death knocks loudly

THOUGHT 💭 POLICING

never back down

just shift tactics; 

fluid is fluid

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

unraveling mysteries

of the karate way;

be the koan

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

understand the normal 

to see the abnormal; 

train triggers and responses 

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

hey fat man

hey little boy;

this dog bites

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

silver bullet

under his wing;

shock wave tsunami 

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCE

cruising terrain

sudden climbing;

let loose dogs of war

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

chop chop chop

set and block;

moving always moving 

MARINE BROTHERHOOD 

devil dogs

belleau woods; 

OOHRAH!

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

state of mind

matters most in conflict; 

what the flock

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

eyes must see

all sides;

do the three sixty

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

posturing is 

a sure sign;

beware interpretation 

SUBLIMINAL 👁️ INFLUENCES

hey pops

hello sonny;

if wishes were fishes

MARINE BROTHERHOOD 

it was tun tavern

was it Conestoga wagon;

legends live on

MARINE BROTHERHOOD 

beefsteak house

also tun tavern; 

medium rare sir

MARINE BROTHERHOOD 

borrowed from british 

to protect the neck;

hold heads erect

MARINE BROTHERHOOD 

leather stock

around our necks;

leathernecks 

KARATE 🥋 KOAN

always on the move

stationary is stagnant;

be fluid like water 💦 

KARATE 🥋 KOAN

being like water

creates a whirlpool; 

suck adversary in 

BUDO GAIKU SHISHŌ ☯️ CHUJŌ

light rotates round 

fog horn blows;

seas lash the bow

KARATE 空手公案 KOAN

fragrant grasses

falling flowers;

sundown at kayo bridge