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Thursday, December 11, 2025

POST 739 13Dec2025 Exercise SPLEEN- Various items- MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

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POST 739                        2025-12-13

from g.m phan hoang

 

 

May this season of wonder guide your heart toward peace, kindness, and renewal.”

 

 

 

 

POST 739 13Dec2025

 Exercise SPLEEN-

 Various items- 

MERRY CHRISTMAS


EXERCISE FOR THIS WEEK : Deep 12


 

 

 

 

    POST    2025                                 

  Linda’s Thursday Quotation   

 

 

 

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

 John Tukey

 

 

 

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Bill Bradley

 

 




 

 

 

Extract from

VISION and ACTION  / The Sacred Seal Story

By Charles Phan Hoang

(Amazon Publishing, ISBN   9798338428948)

 

 

POST 739

19 - A FEARSOME MARTIAL ARTS MASTER

 

 

 

 

POST 739

19 - A FEARSOME MARTIAL ARTS MASTER

While Mr Nam was sitting in the back seat of the taxi taking him to the police station, a text message came from his superior Nguyen Luc ordering him to return to Hanoi immediately.

Mr Nam turned to the taxi driver: "Drive me back to the railway station, please."

Taxi driver: “Yes, sir! I'm going to turn back over there.”

The driver turned into a side street. About a minute later, the taxi stopped in front of an empty warehouse. The driver quickly got out and opened the rear door pointing a gun at the face of Mr Nam.

In a low and threatening voice he said: "Your wallet and your cellphone, quick!"

Calmly, Mr Nam began to follow the order, handing him his cellphone. The taxi driver, his gun in his right hand, still pointing to Mr Nam, held out his left hand to take the phone. Suddenly, he let out a howl of pain. His right wrist was twisted back and controlled by the left hand of Mr Nam. His gun instantaneously landed in the right hand of Mr Nam. It was not the first time Mr Nam used this very effective technique, called don tuoc sung, to disarm an attacker. Mr Nam then delivered a sharp blow to the back of the driver’s head using the gun’s handle to knock him out. With an exceptional strength, he pulled the inert driver onto the back seat of the taxi, like an ant pulling a big load. Slowly, he put his cellphone back in his pocket. He had applied to the driver the same secret technique that the police officer Nguyen-Luc had used to keep Lam-Tieu asleep for several hours, in the shop in Hanoi. The driver unable to fight back, Mr Nam began to search his clothes. He found a piece of identification inside his wallet. With his cellphone, he took a photo of the ID card and sent it with a text message to Nguyen-Luc. For safety, Mr Nam handcuffed the unconscious driver and then closed the rear door of the taxi. He got behind the wheel and took the road toward Hanoi.

Under a fragile and insignificant appearance hid a man endowed with a flashing swiftness, an almost supernatural strength, an iron will and an absolute determination for the respect of justice and freedom. Mr Nam is a master of martial arts from a school once renowned, but now operating underground due to the political circumstances of the country. His real name is not Tran Van-Nam. His birth name and his social origin had been kept secret until he was old enough to understand and protect himself.

In the 1940s, Mr Nam’s grandfather, a landowner in the district of Dai-Tu, Thai-Nguyen province, about one hundred kilometers north-west of Hanoi, was a fervent patriot who answered the call of the underground movement of Ho Chi-Minh to engage in the struggle for independence of the country, then occupied by the French. He had brought financial and logistical support to the Viet-Minh movement during this period of struggle on a regular basis, until the declaration of Vietnam's independence proclaimed by Ho Chi-Minh on September 2, 1945, and during the Indochina war against the French that followed. He was considered a benefactor of the Viet-Minh party led by Ho Chi-Minh. His son, the father of Mr Nam, was also involved in the Viet-Minh movement early in his youth.

 (to be continued)

 




























 

 

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END       POST 739       13 December 2025

Thursday, December 4, 2025

POST 738 06Dec2025 Exercise Deep 11 The Heart - Enjoy the Christmas season- Various items and pictures

 WELCOME TO POST 738 

 

 

 

VIETCHIDAO

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POST 738                        2025-12-06

from g.m phan hoang

 

 

May serenity find its way to your home and spirit.



 

 

 

 


POST 738 06Dec2025 

Exercise Deep 11 The Heart 

 Enjoy the Christmas season

 Various items and pictures







 

 

 

 

    POST 738     2025                                 

  Linda’s Thursday Quotation   

 

 

 

 

 My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

— Isaac Asimov

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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

 

 

 



 The Sacred Seal Story

 

 

Extract from

VISION and ACTION  / The Sacred Seal Story

By Charles Phan Hoang

(Amazon Publishing, ISBN   9798338428948)

 

 

POST 738  (continued)

 

 

 

 

POST 738 …

In the meantime, in Hanoi, over seventeen hundred kilometres from Saigon, Thu-Lan and Clara continued to read the documents of the genealogy of Master Dinh-Mai. Clara was reading a document which gave some details on the link between the Nguyen family and the Dinh family of Cam-Giang.

Clara said to Thu-Lan: "This is a document written under the reign of King Le Huyen-Tong."

Thu-Lan, giving precise historical details: "This means that it has been written between 1663 and 1671, the years of the reign of this king. During this period, the general Dinh Van Ta, an ancestor of Master Dinh-Mai, won the famous victory against the Mac in the province of Cao-Bang in 1667."

Clara: "Here is what was written by a member of the Nguyen family, from the district of Cam-Giang":

From the origin to the beginning of the reign of King Thieu-Binh (1434-1439), our Nguyen family was living in the village of Dung-Tu near Lam Son, in the province of Thanh-Hoa. Then, our ancestor Nguyen-Thi left the village to settle in the district of Cam-Giang, in the province of Hai-Duong, to live close to the Dinh family, fulfilling the wishes of his father Nguyen-Tham. Since then, Cam-Giang is considered as the place of the new origin; however, we continue maintaining relationship with our cousins in the area of Lam-Son.

Thu-Lan: "Leaving permanently the village of ancestors was not a decision that could be taken lightly. This could happen against the will of somebody for serious reasons. It was a voluntary act to fulfill the wish of an ancestor that his descendants decided to live close to another family. This is unusual and what is even more important is the fact that the new place is considered as the origin of the Nguyen family."

Clara: "Yes, you're right. What could be underneath such a motivation? This might be related to an important historical event."

Thu-Lan, "You just said that the original village is the village of Dung-Tu near Lam-Son, isn’t it?"

Clara: "Yes, that's what is written here."

Thu-Lan: "The village of Dung-Tu is also the village of the famous national hero Le-Lai. The anniversary of his death is celebrated on the twenty-first day of the eighth lunar month. According to official history, in the year 1419, the future king Le-Loi, leader of the resistance, was fighting against the Chinese Ming army. One day, he and his army were encircled by the enemy. Le-Lai, one of Le-Loi’s generals, had the idea to run the following subterfuge: he disguised as Le-Loi by wearing Le-Loi’s armour and took his place in the command of the royal elephant to trick the enemy to believe that Le-Loi would fight in a suicidal combat. Thus, through the sacrifice of Le-Lai, the future king Le-Loi, disguised as a peasant, was able to escape the enemy and continue to lead the resistance until the final victory in 1428."

Clara: "Both names, Le-Loi and Le-Lai, are very similar. Were they relatives?"

Thu-Lan: "No, not to our knowledge. For Le-Loi, this is his real name, but for Le-Lai, it is the name that was attributed by Le-Loi. According to Vietnamese tradition, it was common that the king gave his family name to very close and loyal people around him. Thus, the king considered them as part of his family. This tradition still exists in the martial arts world. The master can include his family name in the name given to his disciples." 

Meanwhile in Thanh-Hoa, about hundred and fifty kilometres south of Hanoi, the very banal trip by taxi from the train station to the police station down-town of Mr Nam, the insignificant-looking man who had been tailing Lam-Tieu on the train, took an unexpected turn.

 (to be continued)

 
















 

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END   POST 738  06 DECEMBER 2025