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This blog is a personal memory repository mostly. There are not any secrets of Ba Gua or super fighting secrets in it. Nor will their be. The blog should stay the way it is. Recounting my experiences in the class.
That is not to say there is nothing to be gained by reading this blog. When you have been in martial arts for awhile, you will learn that the actual fighting is a small part of kung fu. Martial arts is only for making your body strong. Once that takes place, the real kung fu begins. You take what you have learned and apply it to the mental arena of life.
All kung fu moves have their equivalents in the verbal, mental and body language arena. A verbal discussion is just as intense as any real kung fu battle.
This is where this blog might be of use. A clever person will read the accounts of the characterizations of the men involved and their actions. They will use those accounts as insight into the people in their own life around them. They will learn some of what power games and manipulating other people are all about.
For the people who are not clever, I am getting soft in my old age. It is my opinion that people are being purposefully turned into unthinking and lazy animals. The people of today are not like the people I met when I was young. People today have no curiosity, no patience, no belief, no respect.
This is not just the judgement of a crotchety old guy. This has a real impact on my life. In the old days, the ways of teaching were developed with a certain type of student in mind. A student who was respectful, would listen, was inquisitive, bright, clever, patient, willing to study, able to make logical or reasoning jumps, insightful, tolerant etc.
Those methods do not work today. Trying to teach an impatient rude person with a method designed for a quiet attentive person is folly. It only leads to frustration and ill health.
Because I am getting soft in my old age, sometimes I will just plain spell things out for the people who are too lazy to, or unable to read between the lines. This is one of those things.
A favored tactic of elevated people to get rid of someone they do not like is to manipulate them until they become angry and leave of their own accord.
It is the nature of elevated people that they do not wish to be outright rude to people. They would avoid at all costs saying to someone "Go away, I don't like you". There are many reasons for this. One of which is that it hurts the elevated person to be negative in that way.
What the elevated person will do instead, is find something that angers the person they want to be rid of. They will then purposefully make comments designed to elicit the person's anger. When the person get's angry, they can easily be pushed into leaving.
For instance. Let's say a person liked bannanas. Let's say an elevated person is teaching a group of men and women. The man who likes bannana is interested in one of the women. That is bad for him because the elevated person has an interest in the woman too. The elevated man can not drive off his rival. He will not say "Go away and leave the group. You are unwelcome here". It goes against his nature to say that.
So what the elevated person will do is say something like "People who like bannanas are losers". The man who likes bannanas is likely to take umbrage at this. Once he becomes angry or unhappy, it is much easier to manipulate him into saying "You are a jerk, I am leaving the group".
Exactly what the elevated person wanted all along.
If you have experience with evil people or women, this probably does not seem like much of a lesson. It must seem obvious.
If you are an innocent, naive or trusting person, this lesson should open your eyes wide. Why?
Being a kung fu man means being alert all the time. Every minute of every day. Every single word uttered by every single person you encounter must be analyzed for hidden meaning like the hidden meaning behind saying "bannana likers are losers".
You must analyze every single event in your life. Nothing happens according to chance. Every action of every moment of your day happens for a reason. To teach you something or to show you something.
You have a choice. You can be a blind person. Only listening to exactly what people say, or knowing exactly the meanings of the words spoken to you. Or you can be a kung fu man who looks behind the words to what the person is really trying to say.
Words are lies. Unintentional or otherwise. When you reach some point in martial arts, you never even listen to people anymore. All you do is watch their body and feel their emotions and energy. You don't need anything else to know the people completely. What they will do, what they think, and how they will react in any given situation are clearly revealed by their body language, their emotions and their energy.
Words are a diversion to make you look the other way so they can stab you in the back or punch you in the face.
That is not to say there is nothing to be gained by reading this blog. When you have been in martial arts for awhile, you will learn that the actual fighting is a small part of kung fu. Martial arts is only for making your body strong. Once that takes place, the real kung fu begins. You take what you have learned and apply it to the mental arena of life.
All kung fu moves have their equivalents in the verbal, mental and body language arena. A verbal discussion is just as intense as any real kung fu battle.
This is where this blog might be of use. A clever person will read the accounts of the characterizations of the men involved and their actions. They will use those accounts as insight into the people in their own life around them. They will learn some of what power games and manipulating other people are all about.
For the people who are not clever, I am getting soft in my old age. It is my opinion that people are being purposefully turned into unthinking and lazy animals. The people of today are not like the people I met when I was young. People today have no curiosity, no patience, no belief, no respect.
This is not just the judgement of a crotchety old guy. This has a real impact on my life. In the old days, the ways of teaching were developed with a certain type of student in mind. A student who was respectful, would listen, was inquisitive, bright, clever, patient, willing to study, able to make logical or reasoning jumps, insightful, tolerant etc.
Those methods do not work today. Trying to teach an impatient rude person with a method designed for a quiet attentive person is folly. It only leads to frustration and ill health.
Because I am getting soft in my old age, sometimes I will just plain spell things out for the people who are too lazy to, or unable to read between the lines. This is one of those things.
A favored tactic of elevated people to get rid of someone they do not like is to manipulate them until they become angry and leave of their own accord.
It is the nature of elevated people that they do not wish to be outright rude to people. They would avoid at all costs saying to someone "Go away, I don't like you". There are many reasons for this. One of which is that it hurts the elevated person to be negative in that way.
What the elevated person will do instead, is find something that angers the person they want to be rid of. They will then purposefully make comments designed to elicit the person's anger. When the person get's angry, they can easily be pushed into leaving.
For instance. Let's say a person liked bannanas. Let's say an elevated person is teaching a group of men and women. The man who likes bannana is interested in one of the women. That is bad for him because the elevated person has an interest in the woman too. The elevated man can not drive off his rival. He will not say "Go away and leave the group. You are unwelcome here". It goes against his nature to say that.
So what the elevated person will do is say something like "People who like bannanas are losers". The man who likes bannanas is likely to take umbrage at this. Once he becomes angry or unhappy, it is much easier to manipulate him into saying "You are a jerk, I am leaving the group".
Exactly what the elevated person wanted all along.
If you have experience with evil people or women, this probably does not seem like much of a lesson. It must seem obvious.
If you are an innocent, naive or trusting person, this lesson should open your eyes wide. Why?
Being a kung fu man means being alert all the time. Every minute of every day. Every single word uttered by every single person you encounter must be analyzed for hidden meaning like the hidden meaning behind saying "bannana likers are losers".
You must analyze every single event in your life. Nothing happens according to chance. Every action of every moment of your day happens for a reason. To teach you something or to show you something.
You have a choice. You can be a blind person. Only listening to exactly what people say, or knowing exactly the meanings of the words spoken to you. Or you can be a kung fu man who looks behind the words to what the person is really trying to say.
Words are lies. Unintentional or otherwise. When you reach some point in martial arts, you never even listen to people anymore. All you do is watch their body and feel their emotions and energy. You don't need anything else to know the people completely. What they will do, what they think, and how they will react in any given situation are clearly revealed by their body language, their emotions and their energy.
Words are a diversion to make you look the other way so they can stab you in the back or punch you in the face.
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