> stumper wrote:

>> liaM wrote:
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>>> Awaken21 wrote:
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>>>> liaM wrote:
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>>>>> i.e. centered on the tan-tien, the locus of the reservoir of Qi
>>>>> in the human body, etc..

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>>>> Yes. tan-tien and Qi are chinese, yes?
>>>>
>>>> Japanese is Hara and Ki.
>>>>

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>>>
>>> Until the Japanese confess and repent their war crimes, I boycott
>>> anyhthing to do with their "culture". That includes all of zen
>>> except for its americanisation embodied by Shunryu Suzuki.

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>> Have the white Americans confess and repent
>> their ethnic cleansing of native Americans?
>>

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>
> That too would be a worthwhile cleansing. I've come to admire
> the Germans who have publicly and politically acknowledged their
> collective guilt, thereby defining a new soul for their country. I
> wouldn't put it past the Germans to teach the short signeted Americans
> a thing or two about collective shame and redemption..
>
> As for the Japs.. let'em rot amidst whale carcasses and slimey
> worm infested raw tuna !