Auntie’s teaching method. Find someone with a passion to learn the sword. Kick the disciple in the head till you have a god idea of their unarmed combat stats. Refuse their passion to learn your greatest techniques. Build their core strength until they can bend steel with it. Practice punching until they can obliterate boulders. Discuss philosophy they have little understanding of.
Then attempt to slay them. If you succeed start over with a new disciple.
12 Shadows On The Wall Dance in the Light of a Dying Star
Isn’t this the opposite of what her aunts teachings were from the last book? It seems like in the lesson about saving or killing the rat her point was that there was no choice – if you want to save the rat you have to strike down the one who wants to harm it. Maybe I misunderstood the meaning but I thought the ‘secret of swords’ was that the only choice is to accept violence happening to you, or to use violence to stop the perpetrator. I would have thought the answer Maya was looking for in response to her questions of “Can you answer now? Can you really choose?” would be “No” not “…Yeah”. Still Loving the work and keen to hear others opinions and insights.
If royalty is a continuous cutting motion, it seems that one who has attained it would always have a choice — and would always choose “Yes”. I.e. would always choose to embrace the situation and completely open up to it. So there’s a choice there, and saying “no” or rejecting the situation isn’t an option if one wishes to continues the cutting motion. This may appear contradictory at the level of language, but would perhaps make sense at the level of direct experience.
Thanks for the reply. “So there’s a choice there, and saying “no” or rejecting the situation isn’t an option if one wishes to continues the cutting motion.” I think this is the crux of the thing – if saying no to a situation isn’t a choice if you want to continue ‘the cutting motion’ (living) then there really is no choice. Especially in terms of lived experience, which would end if you “chose” not to engage in the violence.
going back to this page, i think it’s interesting that she doesn’t have that big atum halo when she decides she’s alive. it has nothing to do with her power, it’s who she is as a person that lets her survive
Only noticed this now: two of the most prominent statue hands near Allison. One points up, the other down, and the bell behind her head is shining like a halo.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say someone’s trying to slip some traditional symbolism depicting Enlightenment in there.
Can anyone translate for me what AL-YISUN is trying to say with “gob uh shob”?
My best guess? The mush mouth was meant to be “Got a shot.”
You think I got a shot? You think I got a shot after all?
Do not straddle the wheel, break the wheel, reforge the wheel into a spear that pierces karma and releases all from it.
Auntie’s teaching method. Find someone with a passion to learn the sword. Kick the disciple in the head till you have a god idea of their unarmed combat stats. Refuse their passion to learn your greatest techniques. Build their core strength until they can bend steel with it. Practice punching until they can obliterate boulders. Discuss philosophy they have little understanding of.
Then attempt to slay them. If you succeed start over with a new disciple.
Auntie Maya is most certainly not a spectacular teacher. Fortunately, she makes excellent noodles.
You know she’s an experienced noodle seller when she can clearly understand Al-YISUN’s noodle filled words.
Isn’t this the opposite of what her aunts teachings were from the last book? It seems like in the lesson about saving or killing the rat her point was that there was no choice – if you want to save the rat you have to strike down the one who wants to harm it. Maybe I misunderstood the meaning but I thought the ‘secret of swords’ was that the only choice is to accept violence happening to you, or to use violence to stop the perpetrator. I would have thought the answer Maya was looking for in response to her questions of “Can you answer now? Can you really choose?” would be “No” not “…Yeah”. Still Loving the work and keen to hear others opinions and insights.
If royalty is a continuous cutting motion, it seems that one who has attained it would always have a choice — and would always choose “Yes”. I.e. would always choose to embrace the situation and completely open up to it. So there’s a choice there, and saying “no” or rejecting the situation isn’t an option if one wishes to continues the cutting motion. This may appear contradictory at the level of language, but would perhaps make sense at the level of direct experience.
that’s my read of the philosophy of KSBD.
Thanks for the reply. “So there’s a choice there, and saying “no” or rejecting the situation isn’t an option if one wishes to continues the cutting motion.” I think this is the crux of the thing – if saying no to a situation isn’t a choice if you want to continue ‘the cutting motion’ (living) then there really is no choice. Especially in terms of lived experience, which would end if you “chose” not to engage in the violence.
YS ATUN VARANMA PRESH! Even reading these chapters I still get giddy. What a series
“Nah, I’d win.”
going back to this page, i think it’s interesting that she doesn’t have that big atum halo when she decides she’s alive. it has nothing to do with her power, it’s who she is as a person that lets her survive
Only noticed this now: two of the most prominent statue hands near Allison. One points up, the other down, and the bell behind her head is shining like a halo.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say someone’s trying to slip some traditional symbolism depicting Enlightenment in there.
She look like a cyborg , i like it