Emotions are feelings: negative emotions like sadness and fear cause suffering; positive emotions like happiness and gratitude cause joy. They appear when you are aware of yourself in relation to your surroundings. They change according to changes in that relationship and your intention. Everyone has their own way of using emotions as a tool for
Desire is the power of wanting. The power itself is neither good nor bad. It can be the cause of unlimited joy, but also the cause of a black hole of suffering. Blindly following your desire will cause your life to swing between joy and depression, pleasure and pain, without any control. Desire is a
Discipline 1: Pose and Feeling Control Start with the pose, as if being eternal, ending with silence, as if there is no time. Beginning with any pose, you must concentrate fully, without fear, and feel as if the whole universe is focused on you as its centre. Trust yourself as if you control the entire
Let’s first compare martial art training to driving a racing car, before explaining the top secrets of self-defence. A well-trained martial art body (strong bone density, well-developed muscles, and flexibility) is the high-tech design of a racing car’s shape. The force of martial art (energy and speed) is the engine. The fighting technique (ability to
