POST 702 29Mar2025 - Qui Linh Cong Turtle- Chart FIVE ELEMENTS - Pictures- The collector of heads

 

Welcome to Post 702

POST 702 29Mar2025 -

 Qui Linh Cong Turtle-

 Chart FIVE ELEMENTS 

- Pictures-

 The collector of heads

EXERCISE FOR THIS WEEK

 

POST    2025                                    Linda’s Thursday Quotation    “Execution without a proper strategy is aimless, but strategy without execution is useless.”  – Morris Chang ====================   Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully. Freeman Dyson

 

    4 - THE COLLECTOR OF HEADS

         (CONTINUED)

	Extract from VISION and ACTION  / The Sacred Seal Story By Charles Phan Hoang (Amazon Publishing, ISBN   9798338428948)
	POST 702 (continued)   4 - THE COLLECTOR OF HEADS
	POST 702 Quy-Su was very cruel, but intelligent enough not to attack local people. He set up a legal way to satisfy his obscure desires, filled with superstition. He put a large sign at the side of the path that said that travelers passing by, who were swordsmen, had the choice to submit themselves to his protection by accepting him as their master, or challenges him in a fatal combat. Of course, no respectable swordsman would accept the authority imposed on him by any unknown person without fierce combat. That way the fight was legal and the winner would not be considered a criminal by the law. So far, Quy-Su had won all fights, but it was not because he was very strong and could not find a stronger swordsman. He was winning thanks to a dishonest secret received from his own master. He needed to provoke his opponents into combat and achieve victories all the time to accomplish his obscure desire: "the collection of one hundred heads and the capture of one hundred swords". Five years after the day he had arrived in Nui-Hu, he had cut ninety-nine heads and amassed ninety-nine swords. Impatiently, he was waiting for his last victim to show up on this lugubrious passage.   (to be continued)

 

 

 

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POST 701 22MAR2025 Equinox, Ngu Bo- The Collector of Heads- Various pictures

 

WELCOME TO POST 701

 EQUINOX!

Enjoy your great day

POST 701 22MAR2025

 Equinox, 

Ngu Bo

- The Collector of Heads

- Various pictures

         EXERCISE FOR THIS WEEK

 

		POST    2024                                    Linda’s Thursday Quotation
		When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. Lord Kelvin =============   “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” — Saint Augustine

 

                       THE COLLECTOR OF HEADS

   

	Extract from VISION and ACTION  / The Sacred Seal Story By Charles Phan Hoang (Amazon Publishing, ISBN   9798338428948)
	POST 701 (continued)   4 - THE COLLECTOR OF HEADS
	POST 701   4 - THE COLLECTOR OF HEADS Clara began to read the ancient document written in Chu-Nom that master Steve Hogan had given to her. After a few difficulties, because some characters in the document were almost faded, she managed to reconstruct the whole story and she was immediately captivated. The story began as follows: Year 1583, Province of Yen-Bai, Vietnam In a rainy autumn day in 1583, year of the Goat, a stranger arrived to a small hamlet located in the far northern part of Yen-Bai Province. No one knew from where he had come with a handful of henchmen to this distant and desolate place. He then established his mysterious headquarters there. He called himself Quy-Su, the ‘demon-master’ and the local people were also pleased to call him by this name although he had not done any harm to them so far. However, his face with a bulky forehead, large white teeth, bright eyes full of envy and cruelty, showed his dark inner soul. He was tall and fast-moving. His slashing long sword seemed invincible. From his arrival this place bore the name of Nui-Hu, the ‘howling-mountain’ because of the dreary sounds people often heard at night. This place was not really a high mountain, but constituted by several hills. Narrow gaps in between them offered passes from the plain below up to the higher mountains ahead, and down to the other side as a short cut. The isolated path going to the mountains was crossing through Quy-Su's place and now was under his control. The narrow road passing there was frequented only by poor travellers and fearless ‘trang-si’, those strong men who wanted to get through the mountains by this shortcut and save two days against those who took the easier lower way.     (to be continued)

 

 

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POST 700 15Mar2025 Exercise LOI HO TIGER - various items and pictures, Sacred Seal Story, continued

 

Welcome to Post 700 

Spring is coming soon

POST 700 15Mar2025

 Exercise LOI HO TIGER

Various items and pictures

Sacred Seal Story, continued

EXERCISE FOR THIS WEEK

 

		POST    2024                                    Linda’s Thursday Quotation
		It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. Richard P. Feynman

 

                  The Sacred Seal Story

 

Extract from

VISION and ACTION  / The Sacred Seal Story

By Charles Phan Hoang

(Amazon Publishing, ISBN   9798338428948)

 

 

POST 699 (continued)

  THE MISSION

 

 

 

POST 700

Clara, with sparkling eyes: “Master, this is all very exciting! From the day I’ve had this ancient document, I've had a strong desire to find the first part, because obviously the document we have here is the second part of one single document. I also want to identify the seal which is affixed on it. What you just told me makes me think it could be the Sacred Seal, but we must prove it. Also, it would help a lot if it were possible to know at what time the book has been written.”

Master Hogan, sure of himself: “I have already determined the period during which it certainly was written.”

Clara: “Master, I was sure you could help me. How did you find it?”

Master Hogan: “At the beginning, the author indicates the unit of measurement of time he uses in his poems, that is about a hundred years which was considered to be the maximum length of human life, and he used the Vietnamese calendar years in his predictions. Here are some examples of prophecies written in the document:

        ‘In a half-life when the Monkey arrives, the light will go off and a blue dynasty will begin in the northern country'

"I could interpret that it as 1644, the year of the Monkey. During that year, in China, the Ming Dynasty (meaning 'light' in Vietnamese) was overthrown and the Qing Dynasty (meaning 'blue' in Vietnamese) took power. By calculating the half-life, this prophecy was made in 1600.     

"Another example:

        ‘In three lives, the Cat will help men to fly in the sky and the small Eastern Snake will defeat the Northern Bear.’

I interpreted that as the year 1903, year of the Cat, during which one of the first aero-planes flew. 1905, year of the Snake, marks the end of the Russo-Japanese war - Japan defeated Russia.     

"Another prediction:

        ‘In three and a half lives, Rooster pours thunder that destroys entire cities.’     

"This is the year 1945, year of the Rooster, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

"These excerpts of predictions prove that this document has been written around 1600. We can suppose that the seal affixed at the end of the document is that of the Thuan-Thien Society.”

Clara, enthusiastic: “My decision is made. I'll go to Vietnam to research the matter. Right now, I have some ongoing business I have to attend to. Then I can be away for a few months.”

Master Hogan: “You are full of dynamism and competence to undertake such a mission and I am supporting you for your project. However, you’re going to need local support. I have a cousin in Hanoi whose daughter, Thu-Lan, is about your age. She is a university professor in History. She is very knowledgeable in her field and she will help you find the ancient historical documents. In addition, she shares something with you because she is also an expert in martial arts.”

Master Hogan gave a document to Clara: “I have prepared for you this copy of the ancient document in my possession. In a few days, I'm going to Tokyo where I shall stay for a month.”

Clara, taking the copy of the document and bowing: “Thank you master. In about two weeks, I'll go to Hanoi.”

(to be continued)

 

   

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POST 700 15Mar2025

 Exercise LOI HO TIGER

Various items and pictures

Sacred Seal Story, continued