CLUB MASTER HOANG: POST 714 21June2025 SOLSTICE-

WELCOME TO POST 714

ENJOY A GREAT DAY

POST 714 21June2025 SOLSTICE-

TRAINING:

Summer Solstice

The practice of Ha-Chi reminds us the Harmony in the Universe, the Strength of our Inner-Energy, the Power of Persistence, the Value of Knowledge, and the Happiness of an unaffected Mind.

Charles Phan Hoang, June 20, 2020

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Linda’s Thursday Quotation

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.

Leonardo da Vinci

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This is an interesting invention over 100 years ago:The Louis Brennan gyroscopic monorail!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M

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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

No 09 - HORSE Stance: Fighting and winning by Skillfulness and Patience

The Horse Stance is traditionally used for building strength and endurance. It is a stance that requires patience, as practitioners must hold it for extended periods, slowly building power in the legs, hips, and the center of body. In combat, the horse stance represents stability and a grounded approach, where victory comes not through hasty action, but through skill and the ability to wait for the right moment. Patience and skill are often more valuable than brute force.

TRACKING THE SACRED SEAL

Extract from

VISION and ACTION / The Sacred Seal Story

By Charles Phan Hoang

(Amazon Publishing, ISBN 9798338428948)

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10 – TRACKING THE SACRED SEAL

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10 – TRACKING THE SACRED SEAL

While Thu-Lan, astride the motorcycle, was chasing the van with Clara’s kidnappers, she realized she had previously seen the man who had attacked her on the sidewalk. The day before, when she consulted documents with Clara at the National Library, she noticed that man sitting at a nearby table, often cast furtive glances at them and he also seemed very interested in their conversation. They had before them several ancient documents of different historical periods. These documents were very diverse, but, with their expertise, they had managed to establish a link between them. With Clara's sound knowledge of Japanese Kanji they could read and understand documents written in ancient Vietnamese Han-Viet, which is very close to Kanji. With the expertise of Thu-Lan in the history of Vietnam, they found historical facts that had been neglected by historians of the past, but that allowed a new interpretation of important historical figures such as King Le-Loi and Le-Lai.

Thu-Lan had noticed the great interest of their neighbor at the library while they were trying to decrypt a document describing some facts of the fifteenth century. The document was about a man named Nguyen-Tham and the Sacred Seal. They exchanged information and comments:

Thu-Lan: "Regarding the Seal, according to what is recounted in the book of the history of the Le dynasty, ‘Le Trieu Ngoc Pha Ky’, of which I have a personal copy, Le-Loi’s Seal had fallen from the sky into his garden in 1414, the sixth day of the first month of the year of the Horse. This golden Seal, measuring as described twenty-one by thirty-one centimetres, bore the inscription ‘Thuan Thien Le Loi’ meaning that Le-Loi had been appointed by Heaven. In the book, it is mentioned that the day Le-Loi found the Seal there was the imprint of a giant foot, more than a meter long, in his garden. In my opinion, this popular version is in the field of legend."

Clara: "You're right, this document describes here the presentation of the Seal to Le-Loi in 1414, the year of the Horse. Nguyen-Tham, one of the dignitaries of the Thuan-Thien Society for national protection, had the mission to hand in the Seal to Le-Loi. From what I read, the Seal was much smaller in size. Its base was a square of about four by four centimetres. A dragon sat on the top of the Seal to a full height of about eight centimetres. This gold Seal bore the inscription ‘Thuan Thien Bao Quoc’ which means ‘in accordance with Heaven to protect the country’. It is written that the nine dignitaries of the Thuan-Thien Society met to decide whether to support Le-Loi. During this meeting, they solemnly printed the Seal in the middle of a sheet of paper. It is also written that the nine dignitaries printed their own personal Seal on this sheet to ratify their agreement and that this operation had been repeated nine times, in order to have a copy of the agreement for each of them."

Thu-Lan: "This helps explain why Le Loi, when he was king in 1431, the year of the Dog, ordered the making of a twenty-one by thirty-one centimetre gold Seal with the engraved inscription ‘Thuan Thien Le Loi’. He later used this Seal on official acts, as it is written in the book. It was done to confirm the legend that he had previously spread on the dimensions of the Seal and the inscription on it. Le-Loi was very skilful in spreading extraordinary information."

Clara: "What did he do with the Seal of the Thuan-Thien Society?"

Thu-Lan: "According to the book 'Le Trieu Ngoc Pha Ky' on page five it is written that he kept the Thuan-Thien Seal in a golden box, so we can assume that the Seal given by the Thuan-Thien Society was also kept in a golden box."

Clara: "In this document here, it is also written that the Thuan-Thien Society did not approve of the dictatorial methods employed by Le-Loi when he became king. He had several of his combat comrades imprisoned or killed. The Society then decided that the king no longer deserved to hold the Sacred Seal and wanted to have it back. Secretly, a member of the Society, in the inner circle of the royal court, replaced the Sacred Seal with a replica which did not confer any legitimacy to the king."

Thu-Lan: "One can understand these precautions to protect the lives of members of the Thuan-Thien Society. If the king had discovered the disappearance of the Sacred Seal, he would immediately have taken steps to suppress the opposition."

The insistence with which their neighbour watched them and tried to listen to their words started to be a nuisance. Thu-Lan could not stay in the library any longer. They returned the documents and agreed to meet the next day.

(to be continued)