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Wu-Chi KAN-KANSample Lesson
This is one example of how we use martial art
lessons to bring identity to moral principles.
We selected this particular lesson because it
shows how we bring a student to see the
realities, and question the underlying issues,
involved in any violent or anti-social
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The Four Levels of Ethic
The purpose of this lesson
This lesson portrays four different levels of
ethic in action, in four different scenarios,
which we use to draw a student's attention to
the use of conscience and the development of
ethical conduct.
The Four Scenarios
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In SCENARIO 1, the
bully is revealed. |
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In SCENARIO 2, the
instigator is exposed. |
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SCENARIO 3, the self-righteous are
brought
to judge their motives. |
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And in SCENARIO 4,
nobility and personal refinement
come to light. |
Please note: These
drawings have been readapted from an Aikido
publication
and re-drawn by us to tell our
story.
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COURSE
PORTFOLIO PAGES:
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| SCENARIO
ONE |
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| Unprovoked attack
- A swordsman, when coming upon a harmless villager,
draws his sword and for no reason kills him without
mercy. |
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| SCENARIO
TWO |
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| Provoking another
to attack - A swordsman, when coming across another
swordsman, uses offensive gestures and words of insult
to get him to attack first. As the provoked swordsman
reaches for his sword, he is beaten to the draw and
quickly killed by the provoker. |
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| SCENARIO
THREE |
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| Self-defence
against an aggressor - An unarmed villager is confronted
by an aggressive swordsman who is trying to kill him. In
self-defence the villager uses all his skill to disarm
the swordsman . . . then using his attacker's weapon, he
kills him, saving his own life and arguably the lives of
many others. |
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| SCENARIO
FOUR |
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| Neutralising an
attacker - A swordsman, while in his own village, is met
with a hostile attack by a swordsman from another
village. He disarms his attacker, using such skill and
control as to not even hurt him. Then, instead of
killing him, he carefully thrusts his attacker's weapon
into the ground and without looking back, he peacefully
walks away with his own sword still safely sheathed in
its scabbard. |
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In this lesson we have used swords to show the reality
of using low levels of ethic. Once the students grasp
the moral issues involved in each scenario, they are
quickly brought to the point where they cannot deny that
any action which is NOT founded upon moral ethic is as
brutal as those portrayed with the sword.
We use martial art object lessons like this to make the
issues involved in personal development very plain and
easy to understand. Ultimately, these lessons teach the
student that it is in their own conscience where their
choices are known to be based upon, or not based upon,
the highest principles they know. This gives them an
internal measure for trueness - or in other words, it
enables them to bring to light their own personality.
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Time has been
taken to ensure that the detail in these
illustrations is especially appealing to
those who romanticise over combat skills
and weaponry. By captivating their
imagination with the body language and
dynamic actions of each figure, we are
able to draw their attention deep into
the story.
As well as the classroom lessons,
students are given this story to take
home in the form of a wall chart which
they can refer to time and time again –
always able to identify their own level
of interactive skill with one of the
levels shown in this story. |
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For example:
We teach that the tongue is just as
powerful a weapon as a sword:
When the tongue is used with
the level of ethic portrayed in SCENARIO 1, we
see innocent people being verbally 'stabbed in
the back' for no reason other than the abuser's
own self-aggrandisement or lack of restraint.
Likewise, SCENARIO 2 shows someone provoking
another into a quarrel so they can cut them down
with a better argument just to prove their own
superior wit.
And again SCENARIO 3, shows the unassuming and
apparently friendly person, who, when offended,
will take the insulting aspect of their
antagonist's argument and deliberately use it
against them, to needlessly put them down.
But when the human tongue is used with the level
of ethic portrayed in SCENARIO 4, we find a
person who cannot be drawn into an argument. Even when someone who dislikes them holds a
contentious point of view against them, they are
able to carry on a caring conversation with
them, keeping any of their own possible points
of dispute safely out of harms way.
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