I was inspired to write this piece after reading a post
about how absurd it is that some people are turned off by
women fighting in the Olympics…
Yet,
Yet they don’t seem to raise their collective voices about the
horrendous abuse women endure from domestic violence….
At first, I was like…
Yea man, right on.
But
Then, as began to write a comment
with that perspective…
It dawned on me…
Yea,
fucking right!
That, yes, collectively
we don’t give a shit about a lot of things…
We don’t give a shit about senseless gun violence and
Certainly women getting abused…
And,
I can tell you,
I personally know a gal that became a 10th black belt, then later became a ‘Master’…
just so she could defend herself and their two kids.
She became ready, willing, and able to take this guy out…
But,
Other bad guys got to him first.
He died miserably in the desert sun
after being injected with a lethal dose of bleach.
But,
Not everyone’s story ends with such fairy tale enchanting ways…
Sure,
None of those challenges are…
Flattering for humanity…
But then…
That’s life.
It’s often harsh.
So,
Why would we even want to be in a sport that
it’s sole purpose is to damage someone else?
And,
Know that the training one undertakes to master
many various marshal art forms train one to be
completely capable of taking someone out
in just a very short well placed moves…
One would have to be an enlightened monk
to maintain the equanimity to kill
without effecting one’s well-being…
But,
Most of us are not enlightened warrior monks.
We will have bad dreams.
And,
When we wake up…
We’ll go through our waking hours with this dark cloud…
But,
To an aspiring warrior monk…
It’s all part of the practice…
And it becomes exciting.
An additive adrenalin rush…
But
Practically …
Those monks will abide in the dark side of humanity…
With the hopes it will force their attention to become so
‘one-pointed’…
That this will help manifest the next higher stage of consciousness…
The “Flow” states…
These ‘Jhana’ states of higher consciousness
will offer the ‘Insights’ through long practice of
post after glow contemplations…
Since,
No thinking is possible during these ‘Insight meditations’…
~
The Buddha stated that one can achieve the ‘final fruition’ of ‘the Path’…
By
any skillful means.
I find that training to be competent in killing…
Is a defilement and a detriment to abiding in Loving Kindness.
The final states of consciousness a human can achieve
involves the complete surrender to
love…
Love is…
Ineffable.
Love becomes the ‘objectiveless object of meditation’.
When from your first ‘sit’…
Most focus on their breath.
~
You may deepen that awareness with the breath’s subtle aspects
of the energy that flows into and out of our being…
Prana…
Chi- or Qi
Focus your awareness on the energetic sensations of prana
as it flows through your various chakras…
Have fun with that…
But,
When ‘the Practice’ deepens…
There comes a point when …
It seems natural to drop the effort to stay ‘one pointed’ on the breath…
A
Materialistic, ‘object’…
That keeps the mind from straying…
At a certain point…
This requirement for ‘effort’… dissolves… floats away.
~
You sincerely ‘let go’… surrender… float off…
As if a cosmic raft is effortlessly taking “you”…
Away.
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Look…
If you find yourself requiring a lethal marshal arts training…
Then,
You life must already be a nightmare of chaos…
Or
Your challenges require such training…
Then,
“it is… what it is”…
If your calling is fulfilled with such trainings…
Then,
You will likely feel inspired to follow those desires.
But,
For everybody else…
Practice meditation…
Not training to kill.
Use the qi (chi) as an effective ‘object of meditation’…
Not
So you can flatter your ego and break things…
Sooo childishly naïve.
