Wing-Chun concepts

I get this quote form here :

It’s not possible to pass knowledge from one generation to the next, then to the next, then the next, without losing something along the way. Documents can be used to preserve teachings but contradictory documents will always appear. It’s not even possible to retain knowledge pristinely within one person’s mind without decay.

It may therefore be necessary for people to think for themselves – to feel the truth – to see it for themselves without needing to be told of it. Great knowledge has no origin – it’s not one person’s invention nor another’s – it’s simply observed by anyone with a clear enough mind – a mind free from unnecessary knowledge – a mind that appreciates the value of memory loss. Those who know, know you can too without needing to hear their words. Those who know don’t profess. That’s a good guess.

Is it a matter of co-incidence. I have been through up and downs in my life and this is one of the most important lessons I have learned, its is based on my experience, my ability to analyze and deduce truth of life’s facts. How come that Wing-Chun Masters already knew it thousands of years ago. I can’t remember the time or the exact experience on the basis of which I deduced this quote All I remember is, It only happened when I started to think about Why rather than how life is lived, why we get the misery, happiness or why some people remain corrupt and others remain honest, why people are different, why one has to grow old and dies. Why some Martial-Artists are better than others, Why some became monks while others evil. Why Martial-Art is so much connected with the nature, Why the kind of thing which is designed to be deadly, to break bones and kill people has so much peace inside of it. Why it is so. Its the Why that started it all and then after 8 years in 2009 a man named Lawrence Tan advises the same to me.

I was quite surprised to see the Why everywhere.

 

 

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I am a corporate man, I am an educated and civilized man

I have spent last 7 years of my life in corporate culture, different companies I have worked with and I have these observations on so called educated people or civilized society (fake words for corporate employees with an ignorant lifestyle).

• At the age of 40 or 45, a CEO or a even a simple corporate employee gets a permanent disease like diabetes, heart-problems, kidney problems and blood-pressure. Then this disease will remains with him till he dies. This happens due to 30 years of stupid way of living, life of zero exercise. It means, man is just another species and like other species he has to use his body like an animal. Since corporate people go opposite of this natural construction, they are bound to have the result of their wrongdoing to the natural piece of matter (the body).

• In year 2005, I was working as an insurance salesman and my company handed me a data of 400 local doctors, to whom I have to sell the insurance. I took this opportunity to learn something. I got 80 appointments and out of those 80 doctors, 20 were diabetic. It kind of disturbed me: [b]A Doctor has Diabetes ?[/b]. They take tea without sugar and in 10 cases, I got the wrong cup of tea . [b]Every[/b] single doctor told me that Diabetes and Blood-Pressure are not diseases but lifestyles (except if some child got it from his parents, genetically).

• I, myself, was constantly falling ill and used to visit doctor 3-4 times a month, spending 2-3K of rupees every month on medication. My muscles were dead. The day I started exercises videos of TanDao.com, that illness vanished, I am practicing since April the 3rd of this year, and since then I have not seen any doctor a single time.

So this is the experience of mine, humans are just like animals, we have physically use the body, to keep the diseases away. This is the way of the nature, From my side, That is the only answer to “Why”.

Though my father used to do a lot of Yog, I never liked it. As a kid, whenever he asked me to do Padmasan, I pointed my finger at Bruce Lee’s poster and said: “I want to be a Kung-Fu Master”. Yog is very rooted in our culture, Hath Yog (a kind of difficult type of Yog) seems to protect a practitioner from some very serious diseases like Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Nerve Problems and even some types of cancer. Because of some weird timings of his job my father stopped doing Yog a decade ago. Now he has gotten both Diabetes and Blood-Pressure problems and I am sure he will soon get cholesterol problems. He started job at the age of 23 or 25 and today he is 59, 37 years of anti-nature lifestyle has killed his body. My colleagues and millions of corporate people doing the same today. I don’t want to do the mistakes they do everyday, I don’t want to repeat the mistakes my father has done. I knows it takes pain to change habits, I know its takes pain to take time out of your busy lives but that pain is much worth than having a fatal diseases, than to know that you have lived a stupid life by being ignorant of your own nature.

• I don’t take tea because everyone around me takes tea in the morning and evening. My colleagues feel less active and boring without a cup of team on their desk.

• I don’t read newspapers because almost everyone takes a sip of tea form the cup and then reads the newspaper in the morning.

• I don’t drink and smoke. Educated people drink and then talk and behave like fools after they drink. This is not the way of the nature.

• I don’t eat non-veg. I have found a vegetarian lifestyle to be natural

• For your information,I have tried all of these: drinking, smoking and non-veg. I used to do them once.

• These are the habits that most of population posses and they feel unable to change them, leaving their lives on the mercy of general natural weaknesses, when a man is capable of achieving nearly every impossibility in this universe .

Its the way of the Martial-Arts that taught me that the greatest fight is not with an opponent but within oneself, winning over your own weaknesses and inabilities. Martial-Arts is the way of the nature, its the path I have chosen to follow and no amount pain can stop me from being a Martial-Artist.

 

 

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The Birth of JKD

I guess, TanDao has quite an impact on my thinking by showing me the traditional way of Kung-Fu. After investing a heck lot of time in reading about history of Chinese Martial-Arts and the great Martial-Artists of times and doing lots of search and research on Kung-Fu, I came to know that Bruce Lee’s thoughts were actually rooted in traditional Chinese arts. He did learn from a genius (Yip Man) who was master of a traditional art Wing-Chun. As per my thinking, Bruce Lee could never possess the ability (both philosophical and physical) to create an art ike JKD if he could have trained under a poorer master. It was the imprint of a genuis master who created the Bruce Lee. So, in fact, Bruce Lee’s JKD, actually mirrors the masterty of ancient Chiense Kung-Fu thought. He did not invent but discovered the art which can only be discovered if one has mastered the classical way of Kung-Fu, which required a good master’s hand. Yip Man once said: It is difficult for a good master to find a good student but it is more difficult for a good student to find a good master. I think Bruce Lee really got lucky in this regard.

The people who will disagree with me should read about both Huo Yuanjia and Yip Man. Though it may look pointless (but it is not), I really doubt if Bruce Lee could ever defeat a man like Huo Yuanjia. If Huo Yuanjia can die undefeated and Bruce Lee have died undefeated, it only means, the truth of combat lies neitehr in JKD not in Mizongyi but in the the way of the Martial-Artist (The Dao, as Chinese people call it). Hence, I think JKD was not an invention in this regard, all of the Bruce Lee’s fans and lovers miss this part (even I did), Bruce Lee discovered something which was already there, ignored by general practitioners , only understood by a very few who accepted the pain (both physical and psychological) while on their path to the tower of wisodm. Hence I can say that its the path that leads to the Tower of Wisom that is important, it is that path that creates a great Martial-Artist, its not the JKD or the drunken style or the karate, its the Path, the way of the Martial-Arts that one needs to explore. Bruce Lee, Huo Yuanjia and all other great Martial-Artists share one thing in common: their belief and Martial-Arts was the expression of that belief. Was Bruce Lee a great Martial-Artist , undoubtly yes, did he invent JKD .. no, he discovered it.

 

 

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Its the individual, not the Style

I apologize for what I have said earlier that Judo and Karate are kid’s play. I found out that they are actually not. Japanese Karate are as dangerous and deadly as Chinese Kung Fu. The only thing that I should have been more clear and explicit is, I have seen Judo-Karate Black-Belts and so called experts in India and I have not seen anything in them, anything in their eyes or in their movements or in their personality as a Martial-Artist that I can call deadly. They just look like sportsmen, better than a average man on the street when it comes to fighting and except that specific thing they not good fighters at all. From my perspective, they are a disgrace on the art of Karate.

I watched this video on YouTube and I came to know I was wrong. The ability to win or loose a fight does not lie in the style but in the individual. Its the individual who is responsible for his own fate in the combat. This post may look small but this caused a very fundamental change in my approach to Martial-Arts. Rather than blaming a style for losing or winning a fight, a man should look deeper into own soul, into his daily training routine and his practice and his dediation to Martial-Arts. If you loose, you have just shown your own inability to train yourself harder in your style, its not because your opponent was stronger, its because you did not train harder and better. So, from my perspective you are the one who is to blame, not the style. Anyone who thinks a style wins over the other needs to watch this video.

 

 

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The Spirit of a Martial-Artist

I keep on looking for schools of Martial-Arts here in India and I have seen some Karate champions, some Judo experts and I found out these things (be warned that this is not a global observation of mine but only of Judo-Karate experts and black-belt holders in India):

• All of them practice some movements, some pre-formed attack strategies. When enviornmet changes (I mean when they go from their ring/school to the street), I don’t see their way of practicing Karate was much useful than 20%. Its not because Karate is bad, its because their way of thinking and practicing Karate is not good. It means their way of understading Karate is not what Karate is all about.
• These experts focus primarily on techniques like how to kick, where to punch etc. Very few do weight-training. I also observed that they don’t focus much on stamina. Like when you practice in a dojo/school , you get chance to relax, think etc and your attack movements are defined by your practice with your fellow team partners, your wear a freely-moving dress, the environment is friendly and kind and you have an instructor but when you get in a real fight on a street with thugs or people who don’t look like your fellow team-partners from any angle, and you don’t have that kind and frinedly atmosphere and your sweet instructor and you are in your shirts and jeans which don’t move freely… do you have any idea what will happen in that case ?

  You don’t get time to relax and think, you will not be able to move your leg as high as your did with your nice team partners because your jeans are tight and your shirt, tucked inside your blue jeans restrics your movements, at that point, yes, at exactly that point, you come to understand the truth of the real life fighting and how your training fits into that. You have to have that force in your punch, you have to have stamina to keep on fighting for next 30 minutes at least. I think (for stamina) doing running for 1 hour a day and practicing in front of Muk Yan Jong or like Master Tan’s spring-training or using punch-bag to train both your pucnhes and kicks for around 1 hour at a stretch is what is needed. To get the force in your fist (fist of fury ?) you need training like Punch-on-Wall or traning using punch-bang.

• All of these so called Karate experts (and they are practicing for 10-18 years) have closed-minds. I mean, when I try to ask some of them that I want to practice in my casual dress, they looked at me as if I have broken some law

I have seen all these Karate experts focussing too much on techniques while less on force of punch/kick and stamina to fight for longer hours. This is what exactly Bruce Lee showed in Way of the Dragon in the final fight scene with Robert Wall (before he fights Chuck Norris). His opponent gets tired, looses more than half of his strength after he has kicked around 20-30 times in flat 3 minutes, Bruce Lee remains calm and okay only because of his hard training and his emphasis on developing power and stamina. Most people think that developing muscle mass, making big biceps will give them power and scare the shit out of the opponent but my friend real-life is different. The reality of combat is stranger than any art. When you will have a fight, you will come to know how much of your big biceps help, they will not help, they will only restrict your movement. The Fist of Fury has nothing to do with the muscle mass but with the muscle strength, if you want to joina gym then use machines of gym to increase the strength and power of your muscles and keep on practicing running for 1 hour with that. Everyone around me wants to have muscles like Amir Khan has in Ghajini and I observed how his great muscle size made him punch the bag like a kid. I am not against developing muscle mass, I am just against the way people think that muscle mass should be highest priority when joining a gym while stamina and force of hit are on the the lowest part of their priorities.

Bruce called it participation of the individual, I call it the spirit of a real-life Martial-Artist.

 

 

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Being a Martial-Artist

Sometimes I wonder what if I could be practicing Martial-Arts since my early childhood, what I could have become by this age, the dawn of youth and the rise of manhood. Now since such kind of life never came to me, what if somehow I got enough money so that I can quit my job and practice Martial-Arts whole day and night. What if I get enough money from my job and also get 2 hours to practice Martial-Arts everyday ?

I will take the last one, that seems possible. I can’t go back to my childhood, no one can. I can’t get enough amount money out of nowhere. So, 3rd option of practicing Martial-Arts with the job itself looks possible. I don’t have a Master who can teach, not nearby anywhere but I can ask some man who is a real Martial Artist to become my Master (though only online).

What if I become a hard to defeat Martial-Artist, I mean in real, not in sports. There are rules in sports: you don’t hit there, you don’t use your hand like that, you have to wear a proper dress… blah blah blah… but in real-life there are no rules. Reality is painful, unconventional and fundamental, any Martial-Artist needs to accept that and if he does not then thats his problem. Whatever he believes or not is not going to affect the reaility of fighting, the universal truth remains the same no matter what an artist thinks about Martial-Arts. So, what if I become a hard-to-defeat, born-to-fight Martial-Artist by the age I will be still young (next 10 years) ? What will I do then ?

First thing I need to do to become like what I dream always is to break the pattern of physical and mental pain. Practicing kung-Fu for hours and hours, thinking about it at every moment no matter at what place you are, takes a lot of pain on both physical and psychological level. Physical pain belongs to the hard practice and psychological pain belongs to the changing habits. Man is a creature of habits, so when you want to be undefeatable, you have to change the way you live life, slowly and slowly you have to change you daily-routine, you have to change the things you think about everyday. Becoming a real Martial-Artist means not only physical practice and fighting with the opponents outside but the hardest and most demanding fight is with one’s own inner demons, one own’s inner opponent. When you fight with someone and you loose, its not because he is better than you, its because you have some limitations, in your habits, in the way you live life. The gretest fight that ever happens when two men fight each other to win, is not between them but within themselves. When you try to go beyond an average man’s capabilities, your inner opponent pulls you back to your old meaningless but enjoyable and full of fun life. That inner opponent tries to pull you out of your new track of pain and tears to your old track of happiness and joy. Now everyone wants to enjoy (yeah, me too) and no one wants pain but why then being real, being natural, being going beyond the average, being fundamental means inviting pain and tears into your life ?

I think there is a mistake, there is complete mistake in being able to identify and define what is pain and happiness. When I try to go beyond my current physcial capabilities. When I try harder and harder to become real, to become a born-to-fight Martial-Artist, what I am doing is following the long-term happiness rather than what my current life has or what everyone wants. What everyone wants is short-term-gratification, a short term happiness. when I try to break my current patterns of life, it means I am trying to put my foot on long-term happiness. After 10 years from now, will I be happy if I keep on living with the short-term happiness ? Will that be a meaningfull life ? I don’t think so because I will always know in the corner of my heart that I could try hard but I did not, that I could have become what I wanted but I just chose to live with short-term happiness rather than ibnesting my tears and pain. Will I be happy when I have put 10 years into conditioning my body and making myself stronger ? what is more practical, doing what is everyone is doing or being able to defend myself and my loves ones and being a stronger man at mental level. I think I have chosen the 2nd option because I feel it is the truth, that it is what I am , I feel that it is in my nature.

So being a Martial-Artist does not mean punching the bag for 30 minutes and then practicinig some moves for 30 minutes and then you go home and enjoy what you do everyday. Being a true Martial-Artist means having a way fo living life, a way of life that connects you with the nature itself, that helpes you win over you inner enemy, that makes you a man who accepts his inner limitations and then does not fear or hesitate to overcome them. The greatest fight, is within one’s mind, is winning over your mind, is to rule your brain to make it do what you think is truth, what you think is long term happiness. Either you inner demons and limitations will drive you or you will drive them out. There is no 3rd way to this. Its hard and painful but it is the truth, either you remain an average man devoid of fundamantals or you connect with the Nature. I decided to be with the Nature, always.

 

 

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The Dao

As explained at Tan Dao that Bruce Lee actually modernized the ancient Chinese thought. Majority of Martial-Arts practinoners are impressed with Bruce Lee’s “Be Like Water” approach. Now being like water is just the tip of the iceberg. I think “be like water” is actually the result of something more fundamental, something more basic. Bruce Lee also talked about these fundamentals (which I myself found even before hearing them from Bruce Lee or anywhere):

• Absorb what is practical, discard the rest.
• You know I can pull out some fancy hand-movements and stunts. I can be cocky but that is not the truth. To be true to yourself, not lying to oneself , to be true to yourself is the expression of human body. To be true to yourself is hardest thing to do my friend.

These words were spoken by Bruce Lee himself. You can listen “Bruce Lee – The Lost Interview” on YouTube.

Now I have also found the same thing, before I heard Bruce Lee and these 2 things came from my own personal experience as a growing man in this life. But from where these words are getting generated, what is the source of this thinking. The source is being Natural. You don’t be true to yourself just because Bruce Lee said it or your JKD instructor told you so. You follow it because you believe in Nature, you believe in the path that follows Natural Laws. What is JKD ? and what is The Dao ? They all stress the originality.

The true essence of JKD, the true essence of “The Dao” is when you learn JKD (or any Martial-Art) you don’t duplicate Bruce Lee ( or the Master of that art), you try to be true to yourself. You try to put that training into you and become fluid with the core of that art, you become one with the extract of that art and you can only do that when you will follow the Nature, laws that govern the birth, that create this life and other lives. Why you try to be true, because you found that following the true you, the Natural you, removes any arrogance and self-glorification form you, being the Natural you, being true to yourself, liberates you from this artifical world and its phenomenon and puts you in one with art itself. And when you find this truth, you no longer bound to any art or any law but to the Natural Evolution of your as an artist, the transcendence of one by hard training.

Now what I explained is what I have experinced myself but this is also explained in ancient Chinese thought as “The Dao”, so I guess Bruce Lee took it from there and put it in real-life perpective along with his own experience in Martial-Arts and result was JKD.

I really wonder why Bruce Lee did not adapt any of the animal techniques in JKD. May be this was because of his background in Wing-Chun (not in Black Tiger Kung-Fu, of which I am impressed very much). Bruce Lee adapted ideas from western boxing and fencing instead. If you look at how Tommy Carruthers practices JKD, all you will see are these words “Pure and Practical Practice” and nothing else. Evrything else which is not useful in real-life is completely discarded.

 

 

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The anti-Nature Lifestyle

Reading post on Art of War at TanDao had made me realize something. I dedicate this post to TanDao.

Actually, the first principle listed there “Challenge Yourself” is also experienced by me on personal basis. I am trying to do the same. Its much more difficult to dedicate your time to do anything else when you are doing a corporate job/business. You don’t have enough time and resources. By working hard on your daily-routine you can take out some time out of job and resources are straight near to impossible. People who do jobs in private corporations have one typical lifestyle, which is anti-Nature: zero exercise, nutriously empty foods, imporoper times of sleep, wearing improper clothes. These are the facts of corporate culture. I live it everyday.

Now do I need to spend my whole life doing meaningless jobs ? Is there any meaning to my life at all. I am asking myself this question from many days. Who I am basically. What I was when was 16 ? What I wanted to do at that age. What I have become now ? What things and incidents in life have shaped me to what I am today. I no longer like what I am today, why ? What I am in context of my birth. What natural skills I have ?

By birth, as a natural phenomenon, my body is much animal. My physical body is much more animal than my friends, than anyone in my family. Why it is so. When my friends or my family live a lifstyle of zero exercise they are fine, nothing happens to them. When I live a lifestyle of zero exercise, I start to fall ill every week. I have to take medicine every week, 4 times a month. if I try to avoid medicine then I have to fall sick, I can’t help it. If I don’t fall sick then my muscle start to pain, then you can make me unconcious by jusy pressing my thigs or biceps because they are so weak that they can not stand anything. Now if I start running, start doing push-ups and abdominal exercises, the sickness disappears. The muscle pain disppears and I never ever have to take any medicine at all. My body is much more animal than I think. It was designed by nature to work like an animal. To run, to hit, to practice hard all of which belongs to the Martil-Arts way of life. I was born to be a Martil-Arts practioner and I am living a lifesyle totally opposite to it. No wonder my body reacts to that. My physical condition is damaged but doign exercise requires you have necessary energy in your body which I lack. I don’t have that amount of money that I can eat protein, fruits and cheese, butter everyday. Now to do that I have to earn much more money, which means more work, which means more lifestyle of zero exercise. It is circular-problem. It is fundemntally wrong. I was traind and taught and my youth was spent on how to earn money, not on what I am really. If I was supported as kid to be Martial-Arts practioner then I could not have facing these problems and this shortage of money. But life has gone fundamentally wrong.

So now I am trying to make it right. I am trying to build a health-plan. I am trying to live the life of a Kung-Fu man. In the little personal life I get out of my job I am trying to live like a Martial-Arts lover. I am trying hard and harder everyday to make sure my time an money are not spent anywhere else except Kung-Fu. I have stopped trying to spend time with girls, I have stopped any of my acts to have a Girl Friend. I have stopped watching movies (except of Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa as they teach me the Kung-Fu). I have stopped thinking about getting a motorcyle but a cycle instead. A cycle is cheap to buy and will work as an exercise to my thighs and calves. I have stopped eating Pizzas, Burgers, artificially flavoured juices, instead I have started drinking Soyabean Milk and Juice without any artifical flavors and preservatives, no matter how bad it tastes. I have a very slim body (as slim as Bruce Lee), so I have started doing exercises on alternate days: 1 set of 15 push-ups and then another set of 10, 2 sets of 20 crunches (abdominal exerise), I learned both of them from Scooby . I will stop readig about politics and watching documentaries of real events (they were my favorites). All I will do from now on is Kung-Fu, I will eat for Kung-Fu, I will live for Kung-Fu, I will breathe for Kung-Fu and I will talk Kung-Fu.

Next step is to stop wasting my energy by going into arguments with others on Kung-Fu and Judo-Karate because I am the one who (by search) strongly feels that Judo-Karate are just a kid’s play. I want to be practical, the real Martil-Artist and prcatical means when you get fight on the sreet, you don’t run home and wear your uniform and black-belt and theh come back, you fight there with whatever you are wearing and whatever the shoes you have and whatever the enemy has in his hands (unless he has a gun and standing at some distance, then you have to run no matter how good your Kung-Fu is ). So whole idea of wearing a white-dress for practicing Martial-Arts is stupid, its not real, any art who stresses this is fundemantally flawed. so If you want to practice Martia-Arts, do it in your current clothes. I plan to do it in my formal clothes I use to wear at office: full sleeve shirt with trousers, a belt, uncomfortable leather shoes and with a mobile and wallet and handkerchief in my pockets. If an art can’t help you being practical, throw it away, you don’t need it. Practicing on Muk-Yang-Jung is highly practical and thats why it is not present in the Japanse Martial-Arts. As usual, I think Aikido is the only practical art Japanese have ever developed.

So, lets come back to the orignal point. I have found, if I want to be good Martial-Artist I need to be 100% dedicated to it. I need to take the whatever pain I get, whatver I loose by giving up my other habits and thoughts. I have to understad that there will be a Martial-Arts practice or not. There is never a thing like I 20% did it, I did it 80%. Either you do it or you don’t and that takes pain on a psychological level. In anyway, you loose something of your daily-routine and habits to get something as special as the love of your life. You have a choice, you decide. I have found what my Love is.

 

 

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America after 8 years

I was reading this blog post and came to think of something about 8 years of Presidency of Georgw W. Bush.

The author says that Invasion of Iraq was not necessary, I say it was “not required at all”, there was no point in attacking a country that never attacked any American citizen in last 20 years. If there was a point then it was control, George W. Bush wantd control of coutries rich in natural resources in his hands. I don’t see any Weapons of Mass Destruction, as claimed by Bush in every speech before invasion. American army has no right to stay there, American soldiars have no right to fly to another country and shoot people there or even tell them what kind of government those people need. Iraq possesses large amount of oil reserves and that makes people think it was Petrodollar warfare. I don’t think it was only Petro Dollar Warfare. Well, if it is, then its not going to stop and invasion of Iran will happen.

America boasted of its economy before the depression began. A country where marijuana sells like mineral water, a country where kids are drug addicts, calls himself a stable and developed country, seems like a joke to me. A country where every one carries guns and pulls the trigger when he likes is developed .. ? what a claim ..

Americans voted for George Bush 2 times. They don’t even care what George Bush did after 9/11, Department of Homeland Security, War on Terror (disguised form of taking control of other countries). Even after 8 years, very few Americans care. Americans are the ones who are responsible for the destruction of US economy. As I see today, I don’t think majority of Americans love their country anymore. I can picture a 15 years old american kid with Gun in his one hand and Pot in another while a (nutritiously empty) Hamburger in his mouth. Thats makes a true picture of a typcial American. Thats the true America as of today. 95% of American people have have forgotten their history, they have forgotten why the first amendment was brought into constitution.

One last thing, the power to grow, the power to have competent and honest people in govermment, the people who can see the problems before they arise, the people who understand the responsibility and are not biased about their views, such kind of people can be found and recruited only if the leaders of that country have the ability to see through the people. Such kind of skill requires some basic and natural habits to exist in the recruiter, the habits like being unselfish, have the brain to understand the reasoning, have the brain to understand the difference between personal opinion and the truth, have the brain to not to confuse the “my man for the job ” with the “right man for the job”. I don’t think George W. Bush and his team (Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice) ever possess that part of brain. In fact I think they possess exactly opposite kind of brain. See where is US today after 8 years of Gerowge W. Bush’s presidency ?. Georgw W. Bush and his team thinks that money, army and intelligence agencies are power. They have confused the power with control. In fact, the P in Power actually stands for People.

George W. Bush has sold his country to Private Corporations. I read on BBC that Microsoft is going to remove 11000 people from its workforce. People say its because of recession. Well, it is because of recession and they don’t see the benefit the company is making out of recession. After 2-3 years the same company will open an office in country like India, China, Taiwan or Korea and will be recruiting 20% of the removed numbers from there. Because there are not much concerns about human rights in these countries, the corporation will make those 20% as productive as 100% (which was 11000) and will also pay them just 25% of what they pay to an employee in America. That Corporation will make hell lot of profit out of recession.

Reminds me of a joke that a typical American wakes up in the morning, he brushes his teeth with toothbrush and toothpaste, Made in Austria, then he wears his official dress, Made in Canada, and then he picks up his mobile, Made in China, and wears his shoes, Made in Korea, next he picks up his car, Made in Germany and then he wanders whole day on streets, from companies to companies, dropping copies of his resume and in the end he wonders why he still does not get a job. At the end of the day, he turns on his computer, Made in Taiwan, and then emails his resume and then he thinks again before going to bed, why he does not get a job. I am waiting for the day when court cases will be run for-profit and Internet connection come directly from Japan, rather than from some US company.

Shouldn’t I call this man a Stupid Fellow, the one who chose to be selfish rather than being a man of common-sense ?.. well, thats the typical American of today. Can you doubt this statement ?

Happy Birthday

I got my Happy Birthday wishes 2 weeks ago, one more year is blackholed into compromises.

I am 28… I wonder where those 28 years are gone, what pains me most what if I was lerning kung-Fu. I could have been practicing for almost more than 13 years by now. It takes 10 years to master some skill (if you are dedicated enough and strong enough to take all the mental and physical pain required to achieve that level). I could have crossed that level but I did not and that what pains me the most. That was not my fault. when your are separated form yor love against your intentions then its never your fault. Sometimes I think Why I am living a life without my love. Why I am living each and everyday without getting any time to spend time with my love. Why things has to go this way ? Why things can’t go the other way, the way I want. Bertrand Russell once said ..

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

I have found that ideal life is defined by an individual on the basis of what he believes in through his heart and hence everyone has different interpreation of this word: “ideal life” and all of those interpretations have one common factor, the thing you truly believe in. I know what I believe in, I believe in something and still then I am living a compromised life. I am totally puzzled by Bertrand Russell’s statement. I can’t find any time or money to live my ideal life. My life is full of compromises and I and you both know millions of people living compromised lives, compromised days and helpless moments every single minute on this planet.

I want to life my ideal life. Where to start what to do ..I only know that I want to do it, I deeply want it and what to do to get it back, I want to to get my ideal life back..

Why I am living a life full of compromises. When I not born in Uganda, nor I am in a Nazi concentration camp, then is there any reason for me to live a compromised life ? Bertrand Russell was no average man, he knew somethings I don’t know yet and he knew something I came to know only at age of 23:

About two years later, I became convinced that there is no life after death, but I still believed in God, because the “First Cause” argument appeared to be irrefutable. At the age of eighteen, however, shortly before I went to Cambridge, I read Mill’s Autobiography, where I found a sentence to the effect that his father taught him the question “Who made me?” cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question “Who made God?” This led me to abandon the “First Cause” argument, and to become an atheist.

—Bertrand Russell, Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, pg. 36

 

Life is still lost in the mist of questions.

 

 

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