Non-sense

The problem with surrender is that it doesn’t make sense. To wit: Resist nothing. Make friends with what happens. Say “yes” to what is. I mean, c’mon.

Discipline

Resist not evil. This means, everything that happens in life, happens for the best. It means that the distinction between good and evil is a false distinction. Taekwondo makes this teaching less abstract.

Words

Words are just words, of course, but a few seem to roost at a higher elevation. “Yield,” for example. We’ll get out the binoculars for that one.