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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