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Ha, I meant that particular hangup, not the entire ego. Good luck on that one.
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DavidA human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First NationsVeteran
i've trained so much in fighting and martial arts... I understand it's uselesness now. I work out at the gym and practise yoga and meditation at home.
If you weren't meditating in the first place, how were you practicing martial arts? That's just fighting. Of course that's useless.
That's why I had to leave Tae Kwon Do actually. My grand master was only teaching fighting. He is very good... At fighting.
He didn't like that I was Buddhist and would try to convert me to Christianity and one time I decided to have a couple of beers with him at his request and the conversation headed down a slippery slope.
He backed me into a corner and I was forced to tell him why I don't regard Christianity as following the teachings of Jesus. During that explaination I told him of the atrocities commited by the Church onto the natives of southern and northern America and how it was disgracful in my opinion to see so many Christian Aboriginals considering how the dogma was forced onto the people by threat of personal injury. My so called "master" then lost his cool. He stood up and said "David! So you want to fight me?". So I stood up and said "Sure... I'll even put my hands in my pockets... But I want you to look at our positions and ask yourself who's showing a better understanding of the teachings of Jesus!"
He sat back down and I studied for a while longer but decided his way is very not for me.
I didn't give up on martial arts completely but I so know what you mean between fighting and the martial arts.
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He didn't like that I was Buddhist and would try to convert me to Christianity and one time I decided to have a couple of beers with him at his request and the conversation headed down a slippery slope.
He backed me into a corner and I was forced to tell him why I don't regard Christianity as following the teachings of Jesus. During that explaination I told him of the atrocities commited by the Church onto the natives of southern and northern America and how it was disgracful in my opinion to see so many Christian Aboriginals considering how the dogma was forced onto the people by threat of personal injury. My so called "master" then lost his cool. He stood up and said "David! So you want to fight me?". So I stood up and said "Sure... I'll even put my hands in my pockets... But I want you to look at our positions and ask yourself who's showing a better understanding of the teachings of Jesus!"
He sat back down and I studied for a while longer but decided his way is very not for me.
I didn't give up on martial arts completely but I so know what you mean between fighting and the martial arts.