I used to train in a martial art, called Hapkido. I have never met a man that I respected more than Grand Master Choi.
Not only did he have his 10th degree black belt, he also had seven University degrees in The Healing Arts. He was from Southern Korea, and a Kinder man I have never met
He could read you like a book, size you up at a glance, but he was always very kind and his purpose was to help. When I first struggled with the onset of schizophrenia, I went to him to train me further in a focus meditation he had taught me years earlier.
It must have been the look in my eyes, because he simply turned me one day and said, “The Heart is more important”. The smile in his eyes could light up the sky
When you consider this to be true, as I do, I have yet to meet a a single person on this board that is not better than their mind will allow them to believe
@Loke Yes, Master Choi is still alive. But he is retired from the dojo. He’s probably getting into his late sixties, early seventies. He has done his time and Duty
I had to cry just now, writing this story out. Part of it is Longing To Be involved in something like that again, but mostly I think it hit me so hard because kindness is so rare sometimes it seems