In 1978 Peter Ralston became the first non-Asian to win The World Championship Full-Contact Martial Arts Tournament in China.
In an interview afterwards he said winning the tournament was easy (this was also the general consensus of those who witnessed it). ........ He said: I did it for two reasons. It was to complete something for me, and to begin something new. ........People listen to me now who wouldn't before, yet I'm saying the same thing. from Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power, pg XV (In which he explains how he won the tournament).
Peter has written several books about the whole person, not just the martial arts.
Has anyone heard of him?
sdpilgrim
Now it is perfectly true that the Cogito allows me to reach being, and even, in a sense, an absolute being, since it is not because I think that I am but because I am that I think. However, the heart of the problem remains untouched: namely, if the being I grasp is only through and in my thought, how by this means shall I ever succeed in grasping a being which is anything other than that of thought? Etienne Gilson
Now it is perfectly true that the Cogito allows me to reach being, and even, in a sense, an absolute being, since it is not because I think that I am but because I am that I think. However, the heart of the problem remains untouched: namely, if the being I grasp is only through and in my thought, how by this means shall I ever succeed in grasping a being which is anything other than that of thought? Etienne Gilson
