Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Fall down seven times get up eight....




It's useful to have one of these around when you want to teach your kid the values of 持久 (じきゅう), "jikyuu" or persistence despite how you may feel about your efforts.

Especially when your son is taking martial arts and you explain to him that this figure, which does not tip over easily, represents the guy who taught Zen and martial arts to the Shaolin monks...

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