Zen and the art of interstellar genocide.

[Saxon]

Speaking of ancient memorization, did you know that to gain admission to the University of Cairo during most of the Middle Ages you had to pass an entrance exam. The exam was to orally recite the entire Koran to a panel of judges. It usually took a few days. Bit tougher than getting a B average in high school.

[capnq]

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Just for grins I looked at copies for sale on some book sites. Some were as small as 130 pages, and that's with pictures and other annotations, examples etc. I don't know exactly how much of that is Sun Tzu's words...

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My copy of _The Art of War_ is 172 pages. The actual text by Sun Tsu doesn't start until p. 41, and his own words tend to run less than 20% of each page, with the rest being commentary from other interpreters.

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I'm particularly interested in any kind of speed meditation, which could be practised in periods of, say 6 or 7 minutes spaced 15- 40 minutes apart, with occasional short breaks for tactical combat.
"Speed meditation??!!" LOL! That is SO typically American.

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Check out the book _Zen to Go_ by Jon Winokur.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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[geoschmo]

It's amazing how someone can say so much, with so few words.

It's also an amazing thing that it has Lasted thousands of years and is still required reading at military academies all over the world. There are even buisness schools adapting it as curiculum for their students.

Geo