Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Kouk Sun-Do Practice


Sun-Do, the Korean traditional way of Breathing and Meditation. All I can say is, I whish I had started earlier. Following every session I feel re-invigorated, relaxed and physically stronger.
Kouk Sun-Do is the Korean traditional method of training the mind and body which has descended from the Korean founding fathers going back 9,700 years.. It is the secret of preserving one's health, remaining free from disease, in good health, and in full vigor. Find more about it here http://soback.kornet21.net/~jendori/English/eng01.htm
1st set of special postures

Subject Cup of coffe

Subject: Cup of coffee
Thanks to my friend in LA for sending me this…
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor
said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.
- Author unknown
Agora em Portugu
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Assunto: Copo de café Agradecimentos a meu amigo no LA para me mandar isto… Um grupo dos alunos, estabelecido altamente em suas carreiras, começadas junto visitar seu professor velho da universidade. A conversação girou logo em queixas sobre o stress no trabalho e na vida. Oferecendo a seus convidados o café, o professor foi à cozinha e retornou com um potenciômetro grande do café e de uma variedade dos copos - porcelana, plástico, vidro, cristal, algum olhar liso, algum caro, algum exquisite - dizer-lhes para ajudar-se a ao café quente. Quando todos os estudantes pegaram um copo do café à disposicão, o professor disse: “Se você observou, todos os copos caros e bonitos foram escolhidos primeiro, saindo atrás os lisos e baratos. Quando for mas normal para que você queira somente o mais melhor para yourselves, aquela é a fonte de seus problemas e stress. O que você quis realmente era café, não o copo, mas você foi consciously para os mais melhores copos e eyeing cada um - outros copos. Agora se a vida for café, então os trabalhos, dinheiro e posicionam na sociedade são os copos. São ferramentas justas para prender e conter a vida, mas a qualidade de vida não muda. Certas vezes, concentrando somente no copo, nós não apreciamos o café nele. “ Assim, não deixar a movimentação dos copos você… apreciar preferivelmente o café. - Desconhecido do autor