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Rare these days, this was an old tradition that became a common feature of email clients, particularly from the pre-internet (BBS) days. Blue Wave had a feature to collect them.

It was for wisdom and wise racks.

There was a generally accepted practice to have taglines fit within 70 characters (Some say that it’s 74), influenced by screen width for text terminals, but that ended up getting regularly ignored.

Aikido terms: Hara (腹) is one’s center of mass, located about 2″ below the navel. Traditionally this was thought to be the location of the spirit/mind/(source of ki).

Zen: Hara or tanden is the lower dantian dantian. It is the area a few inches below the navel. It is where one focuses awareness in much of zazen practice.