I've trained for years in Shito-ryu Karate, and recently switched to Jeet Kune Do. I never got much Eastern mysticism in either, certainly not anything that concerned me as a Christian.

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Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.