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 ?