Month: July 2025

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What Are Immortals?

Steve Rowe

What Are Immortals?Immortals are not humans that live forever.They are humans that have discovered their consciousness.They are ‘stream enterers’.Immersed in universal consciousness.Knowing what they were before they were born.What they will still be after ‘death’.What gives their body life.What is looking out of their eyes.Listening through their ears.Smelling through their nose.Tasting with their tongue.Understanding that they are an aperture.Through which the universe experiences itself.From a sea of consciousness.That has no beginning or end.From which everything rises and falls like waves.Where the shape changes but not the form.We are all immortal.If only we knew it. Continue reading What Are Immortals?

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The Observer Effect

Steve Rowe

In quantum physics, the observer effect describes how the act of observing or measuring a quantum system inevitably alters that system’s state. This is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, where observation is not a passive act of simply noting a pre-existing condition, but rather an active interaction that changes the system being studied. This is the magic that happens in mindfulness. In a mindful state we are able to observe our thoughts and emotions from a dispassionate state and by merely observing them, they change. We get to understand that anger, anxiety, desires and associated feelings and thoughts are … Continue reading The Observer Effect

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Bond Between Teacher & Student

Steve Rowe

I was reading an article on new research that said that when a baby is formed in the womb the exchange of cells with the mother’s body leaves many of the child’s cells in her body after birth, changing her cells permanently forming a life long bond between mother and child. A traditional martial arts teacher over time forms a relationship with a good student that creates a fundamental change in the student’s psyche forming a life long bond between them that can never be changed. Wherever they go, whatever they do in life they remain bound by the teachings. … Continue reading Bond Between Teacher & Student

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Teaching Children Martial Arts

Steve Rowe

How to teach children, by Steve Rowe 9th Dan, gleaned from 50 years experience of teaching successful children’s classes. Control them before a class, when they enter the hall they must either sit down with arms and legs folded, be practising their techniques or sitting with their parents. If you let them run around or be silly before a class you will never control them in it. They must be following instructions ALL the time. Either sitting with arms and legs folded, standing to attention or at ease or performing a technique. They must always be looking at you and … Continue reading Teaching Children Martial Arts

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Tai Chi Does Me

Steve Rowe

My morning training sessionI think I’ll work on this or thatThe moment I drop into ‘the zone’Everything changesTai Chi does meInsight and wisdom arisesWay beyond what normal me could think ofIt’s wordless, full of understandingsThat would be impossible to describeI’m in awe of what comes throughThis morning it showed me the yinHow all the yang outward techniquesHad had an inward yin expressionStrikes gouges and pushes outwardHad strangles, chokes, throws and pulls on the insideBoth could co-exist at the same timeAnd be trained at the same timeLike in the yin/yang symbolWhile one was being expressedThe potential for the other always existedHow … Continue reading Tai Chi Does Me