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 a nice 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 conscious
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 meditationâ
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 … and 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.
