CLUB MASTER HOANG: POST 713 13June2025- Lungs Exercise- Stance 07 and 08 -Pictures Petrie Island

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POST 713 13June2025-

Lungs Exercise-

Stance 07 and 08 -

Pictures Petrie Island

The Sacred Seal

Various pictures and items

EXERCISE FOR THIS WEEK: Deep 13

POST 2025

Linda’s Thursday Quotation

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

No 07 - T-STANCE: Fighting and winning by Courage and Strength

The T-Stance reflects the balance between courage and strength. This stance offers a strong, stable position with the potential to launch powerful attacks. It signifies that victory is achieved through a combination of confidence (courage) and physical prowess (strength). Be courageous and face challenges head-on.

No 08 - TOWER Stance: People can trust you but you do not have to trust everyone

The Tower Stance represents the idea of stability and trustworthiness, but it also teaches discernment. Just as a tower stands tall and unshakable, you must develop a reliable character that others can trust. However, it’s important to exercise caution—trust must be earned, not given freely. Learn to discern who deserves your trust.

Extract from

VISION and ACTION / The Sacred Seal Story

By Charles Phan Hoang

(Amazon Publishing, ISBN 9798338428948)

POST 713 (continued)

POST 713 …

Thu-Lan started her story: "In 1407, the Chinese Ming army began to invade Vietnam and in 1414 the country was occupied. Resistance to this occupation was organized, so, in 1418, Le-Loi, a rich farmer in the village of Lam-Son, in the Thanh-Hoa Province, raised an army. According to the legend, a fisherman found a sword in his net. Believing it to be of celestial origin and sacred, he offered it to Le-Loi for use in the war against the invaders. During the same period, Le Loi had found a Seal fallen from the sky in his garden. Those facts had been understood as the will of Heaven, thus, without questioning, Le-Loi had been recognized as the chief chosen from the Gods. After ten years of fighting, on 29 December 1427, the Chinese Ming capitulated and withdrew. Le-Loi became king and ruled over Vietnam under the name Le Thai-To. This is the legend, but according to the interpretations of historians, the Seal and the sword had been handed over to Le-Loi by the Thuan Thien Secret Society that had supported him.

Clara: "All this confirms the information about the Society for national protection, which is in the document given to me by my Master with some explanations when we met in Tokyo.»

Thu-Lan continued: "Then shortly after this, while Le-Loi was in a small boat on this lake, known in those days as Thuy-Luc, the Green Water Lake, a giant turtle appeared on the surface of the water. The king drew his sword and pointed it toward the turtle. The turtle took the sword into its mouth and disappeared under the water, into the depths of the lake. According to popular belief, the sacred turtle reclaimed the sword because the king had fulfilled his mission of liberating Vietnam and didn't need to possess it anymore. Since then the lake is called 'Lake of the Restored Sword'. It is believed that the sword is still there in the custody of the sacred turtle which keeps it safe for the next time Vietnam might have to defend its freedom. For a long time there was a doubt about the existence of giant turtles in the lake, but as you can see around 1968 a giant turtle died in the lake and is now exposed on the temple site. Also, recently, a giant turtle has been seen several times in the lake. This gives credence to the legend and you can really believe that the sacred sword is still at the bottom of the lake.

Clara: "So until that day, after the death of Quy-Su, nobody has managed to fulfill his sinister project of collecting one hundred swords, earned by winning combats, and place them in the lake. Quy-Su believed that the turtle would come to the surface bringing the sacred sword and then it would transform itself into a fighter. This fighter would have been ready to fight against Quy-Su for the liberation of the one hundred souls of the brave Trang-Si who perished by Quy-Su’s sword. Quy-Su was ready to win this last combat using as usual some subterfuges to possess the sacred sword. However, he did not know that members of the Thuan-Thien Secret Society had established a discreet surveillance close to the lake to prevent anyone from taking the sacred sword. Bao-Dan saved the country by killing Quy-Su during his combat at Nui-Hu. We have to continue to search for documents which could give us information about Bao-Dan and the Sacred Seal."

After visiting this magnificent temple, built on an island in the middle of the lake, they came back across the red wooden bridge The-Huc, to return to the city and end the evening in the famous Cha-Ca-La-Vong restaurant. The night had fallen. While walking in Hang-Ngang Street and preparing to go to Cha-Ca Street, a van stopped abruptly next to them. Before the two young women could be aware of any danger, the side door opened and a muscular man who was standing on the sidewalk, grabbed Clara from behind and jumped with her into the van, which quickly disappeared into a small side street. The man who had followed them, began to attack Thu-Lan to prevent her from intervening. Surprisingly, the man collapsed on the sidewalk, inert, with no obvious signs of injury. Quick as lightning, Thu-Lan “borrowed” a young man’s motorcycle arriving on the scene, jumped on it and chased after the van.

(to be continued)