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Ch’an Dao: Confucian Lineage! (8.11.2024)

Click the above link to read the latest article regarding the Chinese (Confucius) principle of “Lineage”. Alternatively, please click below:

Confucian Lineage: Explaining Expulsion & Exclusion!

This information is important given that Sensei Higaonna Morio has issued the Japanese “Hamon” on a number of Japanese and Western Students who have treated him with (possibly “racist”) disrespect. This Kabel has deprived Higaonna of the organisation he found, he leads, and he owns! This is an incredible act of derision and disrespect! However, people need to understand the Chinese origin of the Japanese “Hamon” – and exactly what it means to “cut” individuals off from a Lineage they were once a part! Of course, the modern world is a very different place to the ancient (feudal) world from which Confucius lived, but nevertheless, so much of modern Chinese culture is premised on just this type of social organisation and spiritual coordination. This is true even when gongfu Styles are accessed through “money” – rather than through “virtue”. This attitude of “Respect” and “Harmony” has permeated the culture of Korea, Japan, and Okinawa – with the latter once being a distant part of the Chinese Empire. By issuing his “Hamon” – Sensei Higaonna is proving that his Style of Goju Ryu Karate-Do is “Chinese” in origination – as indeed it is (premised upon the White Crane gongfu of Fujian province).