Suffering Pain

We may not like it, but we know we need to feel pain. In fact, pain is used to protect our body from harm. It is a warning system. When our body feels pain it is as if to say: “Warning! Warning! … Stop what you are doing right now. Change it. Do something,...

Who Is Your Opponent?

From the smallest scope, like personal martial arts practice, to the widest possibilities, such as national military exercises, all types of training need to have an imaginary opponent. I have come to realize, after many years of martial arts training and life...

No Obstruction or Anxiety in Our Mind

While we live our lives we all experience some obstruction. Regardless of whether our focus is on wealth, status, work or family, we often feel anxious about it. Actually, no matter which kind obstruction we have, we also have the means to deal with it. The point is...

Enjoy Loneliness

As a slogan “Enjoy Loneliness” seems to be ridiculous and absurd. It seems a perversion of the senses and directly opposite to our humanity. Many people find loneliness difficult to accept. They feel loneliness as a blank, a wasteful feeling to be avoided, or a...

Destiny and Lateral Thinking

There is a joke that goes like this: Once there was a successful, middle-age business man who had been suffering from migraine headaches for many years. He went to see many doctors, who carried out a variety of health checks. Eventually one doctor gave him a...

Fish Or Bear’s Paw?

From Mencius (Selections) Mencius said, “I like fish and I like bear’s paw, but if I have to choose between them, I will let go of the fish and take the bear’s paw. I like life and I like Rightness. But if I have to choose between them I will let go...