Newsletter 784
The Truth!
Good morning!
Every work out you do
produces more of you.
Well, well.
I’m going to tell you the truth today.
and there is a question in it for you.
It’s funny,
only about 50 people will read this.
I’ve got over 1600 on the newsletter list,
but only about 50 of them open their email.
The rest just wanted the free books,
and then consigned my newsletter to the junk lists.
That’s the internet,
you know.
Guaranteed anonymity.
A chance to ghost through life
without any commitment.
And,
I’ll be honest,
I do the same thing.
I’ve got different reasons,
but I do the same thing.
Oh, well.
Are you ready for the truth?
(Quote Jack: ‘You can’t HANDLE the truth!’)
Okay,
here it is.
I was reading the Patanjali,
this was some time ago,
and the point was made:
we are bound by our desires.
Which is to say:
We are trapped by our fantasies.
We are imprisoned by what we want…
and have lost sight of reality.
Sounds like I’m going egghead on you,
eh?
Well, not really.
When you do the martial arts
you are training to defeat hordes of home invaders,
slaughter gangs of street thugs,
maybe even defeat the government
which came to take away your 2nd amendment.
How many of us have used the martial arts?
In that sense the number is low, low, low.
So the martial arts are good for discipline.
For lifestyle and health.
And all of us get that,
in spite of our fantasies.
So let’s look a little deeper.
Let’s go spiritually egghead.
According to the Patanjali
you made this universe to have a place to exist.
Heck,
look at the universe,
it’s mostly nothing.
But you made it a long time ago,
so long ago that when you did
you could imagine anything,
and make it real.
Nowadays,
except for a lousy novel or painting,
you can make almost nothing real.
You wish you had a fast car,
a beautiful woman,
a job where you traveled the world
and made zillions of dollars.
Yet,
you don’t have the power of imagination,
you don’t have the discipline behind the imagination,
to make this happen.
This is the truth.
I didn’t say it would make you comfortable.
In fact,
it’s guaranteed to do the opposite.
So you live a life where you have little money and desire more,
where you have a lousy job and desire a good one,
where you are low man on the totem pole.
You pay rent,
you pay tickets,
you listen to the Bushwah coming from your politicians,
and nothing changes.
Death and taxes, baby.
The secret isn’t to have all those things,
it is to have personal responsibility.
You see…
it is not those things that are your prison,
but your desire to have them.
And a lot of other desires, too.
Now,
here is the trick,
if you can give up your desires,
all those things will come to you easily.
You can have anything you want,
you can make anything in the universe real,
if you can just relax,
and find the truth of yourself.
This is the truth.
But how do you give up desires?
Colleges tell you you must desire a position
in a high paying company.
Welfare institutions pay you money
to stifle your initiative,
and to keep your desires strong.
Police give you tickets to keep you
enslaved to the judicial system.
And,
here is the truth…
everybody is in cahoots to keep you…desiring.
Heck,
you can’t turn on the TV,
or the internet,
or even drive down the street,
without being overwhelmed
by ads that feed your desire.
Ads pouring liquor,
inflating your groin with beautiful women,
offering counseling for addictions,
advising you to fight other races,
threatening you with poverty
and disease
and loneliness.
All designed to keep you in the rut,
in the ratrace,
desiring things,
trapping you
even while offering
enlightenment.
The truth is that you won’t become enlightened,
you won’t break free of your desires,
through ANY of these methods.
You will only become enlightened
by achieving personal responsibility.
Here is the question I promised you:
are you the kind of person who seeks
to be entertained?
Or are you the kind of person that seeks?
To be entertained
is to be victim,
to be victim to your desires,
to be manipulated by those who would entertain.
Many people who study the martial arts
do so to be entertained,
to be titillated in their desire
to be tough.
To be unbeatable.
To have a swagger in their walk
to know they can slaughter hordes,
even if that knowledge
is a fantasy.
You can recognize them
because they earn their black belt,
and quit.
They just wanted the belt,
the symbol,
the fantasy.
They desired a meal with no meat.
Here’s the sad thing:
even if a person is a true seeker,
desiring to break free of desire,
he is trapped in inefficient systems.
Here is the truth.
I studied the martial arts in the sixties.
Back then you could tell the difference
between the belts.
Green belts actually had the tools to defeat white belts.
Brown belts actually had the tools to defeat green belts.
Black Belts actually had the tools to defeat brown belts.
But,
as time passed,
other arts came along,
some good…some bad.
the original teachings of karate were diluted.
Tournaments became a key to promotion,
as did ‘how good you could fight.’
When I pass schools these days,
when I look in the windows,
perhaps sit and talk with teachers,
I don’t see the same principles.
People are doing the kicks mindlessly,
or concentrating on how hard they can kick,
instead of what is required for perfecting the kick.
They do the exercise with no idea
of searching for the correct angle, tilt, line of thrust,
and so on.
The forms are no longer repositories of working techniques.
I can’t tell you how many people have told me
they had no idea there were even techniques in the forms.
So how can you achieve enlightenment
if you can’t seek perfection of character
because the method has become so imperfect?
So the truth is that what I am doing
is trying to bring perfection to the martial arts,
by offering education
as to perfection of form,
of motion,
of the mental apparatus behind motion.
And the truth is that the fifty people
who actually read this,
have already ordered courses,
have already started their path to perfection,
are already breaking through the fantasy
and achieving the personal responsibility
that is at the core of enlightenment.
What I would really like,
what I desire,
is for 5,000 people to matrix.
For 50,000,
and more,
to matrix.
Not for the money.
Money doesn’t mean much.
It is just the coin of desire.
But for a better world.
A world not confined by desire,
not ruled by people who sell desire,
who imprison by desire.
The most capable person in the world
the happiest person in the world
is that person who is free
from all desires
but the desire for personal responsibility.
Okey dokey,
here’s the link for finding personal responsibility,
and the enlightenment and perfection
that goes along with it.
http://monstermartialarts.com/martial-arts/4-master-instructor-course/
Now,
a simple word…
we’re all going to desire some turkey next week,
and then we will make deals with our mind
to go on a diet,
or some other such frivolity.
And,
right after that,
we will stuff ourselves for Christmas,
or some other holiday,
like a pygmy trying to eat The Hulk.
And that is when I start shouting
Hanakwanmass!
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukah
and Krazy Kwanza
A chance to say howdy and good wishes
to everybody.
Or,
at least insult everybody equally.
Think about this,
if you don’t do something for the fellow
who’s family sits down for a can of beans,
then someday
you will find yourself
in reversed positions.
You will be eating from a can
while those with more ability
will be ignoring you
as they cut into succulent dishes.
So do something.
Toys for tots,
boxes of food to your fire station,
or just helping out the family down the street.
Change the way this world has trained itself.
Hanakwanmass
and have a great work out!
Al
http://monstermartialarts.com/martial-arts/4-master-instructor-course/
http://www.amazon.com/Matrixing-Tong-Bei-Internal-Gung/dp/1507869290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423678613&sr=8-1&keywords=tong+bei
A Truth not shared is No Truth at all!
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