The Secret of the Fifth Element!
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Underlying Japanese philosophy and military strategy are the five elements. These five elements, earth, water, fire, air and void, are concepts that can destroy or generate each other. It is believed that understanding these five elements is key to understanding war on a grand, or on a personal, level.
The first thing to be understood is the arrangement of the five elements. In proper arrangement, it is believed, can be found their true value. Unfortunately, as there are different arrangements, and arguments concerning those arrangements, it can be said that nobody has truly discovered the true value of the elements.
In researching the elements, and in applying Matrix theory, this writer believes he has found the true value of the five elements. This is a matter not of de-mystifying mysticism, but rather of defining the value of the elements from the point of view of their source. In accomplishing this one finds that physics, not mysticism, is at the core of the matter.
The first element to be considered, when placing the elements in their proper order, is air. The secret of air is breathing, is life. Analyzed form this point of view air gives rise to further elements and permeates our very being.
The second element in this grand sequence is fire. Air generates fire, and thus, if one breaths down 'to the Tan Tien,' one is building the exact spirit of fire that one needs if they wish to become a grand warrior. It is fire that is most used in combat, and fire must be tamed and aimed all at the same time if it is going to be used properly.
The third element in the correct arrangement of elements is earth. A warrior breathes and creates fire, and he must control that fire so that it creeps down the legs and into the very earth he stands upon. A warrior who can tenaciously hold to his position, no matter how vicious the attack, is indeed a superior warrior.
Water is the fourth element in this arrangement. When a warrior is attacked by superior forces, he learns the correct procedures to be followed to give way, and in this manner preserves himself, and eventually washes back over the attacker. This is a fundamental beginning of the transition from youth to wisdom.
The fifth element is the void, and it has the appearance of being quite mystical and unexplainable. In the absence of elements, however, spirit can grow, and since spirit is awareness, the mystery is solved. Ultimately, awareness rules the other elements, and it is awareness that determines the eventual outcome of conflict, be it on a grand, or a personal, level.
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