Shodai's Log: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Shiken haramitsu daikomyo!

It is one day from my birthday! And I wrote this a few weeks ago in Spanish and today I translated it to English for you and for your brother Jimmy; it is the Declaration of the MAMBA Master and you must memorize it. All MAMBA Ninjas must memorize this declaration. At the end it is a mystery for you to understand.

The Great Understanding

I have no future and no past, I make of my Vision my future and my past;

I have no time; I make the inexorable moment my time.

I have no strategy; I make the Tao of my enemy my strategy.

I have no enemies: ignorance, apathy, and self-righteousness are my enemies.

I have no body; I make of the Five Spheres my body.

I have no spirit; I make my body and mind in action my spirit.

I have no mind; I make water and the moon my mind.

I have no being; I make the Tao of MAMBA and my discipline my being.

I have no religion; I make compassion my religion,

I have no victory; I make absolute abnegation my victory.

I have no defeat; I make my great fall my defeat,

I have no war; I make the existential condition my war.

I have no peace; I make the Mission my peace.

I have no inspiration; I make perseverance my inspiration.

I have no illusions; I make my Enlightenment my illusion.

I have no intentions; I make my duty my intention.

I have no beginning;: I come from nothing and to nothing I go: nothing is my essence and my destiny.

I have no ending: I come from the Tao and to the Tao I go; the Tao is my essence and my destiny.

The eye that sees itself;

The blade that cuts itself:

I need no shield.

This is the Declaration and I am making everyone memorize it and we are going to start saying it at the beginning of class.

I am making this also a big poster to put in the entrance of the Institute. Look! It's on a TURTLE SHELL! Do you like it?

Love you guys!