ghp
14th March 2001, 23:50
I wrote this about two years ago and thought I'd share it now (you lucky people, you). Please feel free to add to or change it. No attempt to be cheeky toward anyone's religion, so a preemptive "gomennasai" if I do step on anybody's toes.
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OUR Sensei, who art at Honbu, honored be Thy Ryu.
Thy waza are fun, and shall be done
In Gaikoku as they are at Honbu.
Give us this Way, our daily shugyo.
And forgive us our mis-translations (from the original),
As we forgive poseurs who've never lived in Nippon.
Lead us not into creating our own "ryu,"
but deliver us from self-promotion (to 10th dan).
For Thine is the Dojo and the waza and the kata, forever.
Gassho
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OUR Sensei, who art at Honbu, honored be Thy Ryu.
Thy waza are fun, and shall be done
In Gaikoku as they are at Honbu.
Give us this Way, our daily shugyo.
And forgive us our mis-translations (from the original),
As we forgive poseurs who've never lived in Nippon.
Lead us not into creating our own "ryu,"
but deliver us from self-promotion (to 10th dan).
For Thine is the Dojo and the waza and the kata, forever.
Gassho
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